British Favours for the Ulama

Those ulama who accuse the Ahmadis to be ‘khud kashta pauda of the British’, their own sycophancy of the British government, as quoted earlier, was not without good reason. In fact, their praise earned them jagirs. For example, due to flattering the British government, Maulawi Muhammad Hussain Batalwi was allotted a parcel of land that was 4 Murabba1 in area. On the other hand, the fact is that the family of the Promised Messiah (as) was not granted even an inch of land, nor did the British government show any favour whatsoever to his Jama‘at. Nobody on earth can prove that the British government ever spent as much as a single penny on the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama‘at, or on the family of the Promised Messiah (as); or that they ever gave them any title. On the contrary, ‘Allama Iqbal was knighted and became a ‘Sir’ and other ulama were decorated with grand titles and continued to be awarded properties. They were granted their many wishes and enjoyed being on the payroll of the British.

How could all these be considered the adversaries of the British and the foremost among ‘freedom fighters’, whereas the Promised Messiah (as) and his Jama‘at–who, for the sake of Allah, have always given exemplary sacrifices and relied only on their own resources and funds and have never been the beneficiary of a penny’s worth of grant from any government—how on earth could they be called ‘khud kashta pauda of the British’?