British Government in the Eyes of the Ahl-E-Hadith and Diyubandi Ulama

The Ahl-e-Hadith and Diyubandi are in fact in the forefront of opposition to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama‘at at the present time, and they are the virtual arms and instruments of the present government. Their highest ranking scholar and a distinguished elder, Shams-ul-Ulama’ Maulana Nazir Ahmad Dihlwi said:

‘It is essential for the peace of entire India that a foreign ruler continues to govern over it: one who is neither a Hindu nor a Muslim— someone from the European monarchies. [So, it doesn’t have to be necessarily British; it may be anyone as long as he is European] But the limitless beneficence of God necessitated that the British became [our] monarch.’1

Again he said:

‘Is this government repressive and high-handed? Oh, no! God forbid! [She is] even more benevolent than one’s mother and father.’2

‘In the light of my knowledge I used to cast my glance over all the contemporary ruling chieftains of India. I would even let my roving imagination go far afield [and extend my imaginary search for an ideal monarch for the whole India] to include Burma, Nepal, Afghanistan—I even compassed Persia, Egypt and Arabia—but from one end of the spectrum to the other, I could not come up with a single soul whom I would have made the Monarch of India. [i.e., whom I would have made a monarch in the realm of my own imagination]. There was no other aspiring group of hopefuls whose status as heirs to the throne I could have evaluated. So at that time my conclusion was that only the British were the rightful heirs to the Indian throne. Governance is their right, and they must continue to hold sway.’3