Wahhabis as the Khud Kashta Pauda of the British

The truth never remains hidden. God Almighty caused our opponents to use the same phrase, quoted above, to describe various sects of their own! Whereas the Promised Messiah (as), when he used that phrase in regard to his ancestral family, had made absolutely no mention of his Jama‘at, but our opponents started using this expression to describe various sects among themselves. It is an amazing instance of Divine retribution that the weekly, Chatan, Lahore, (15 Oct. 1963) wrote about the Barailwi sect as follows:

‘[they] declared the British to be the ’ulul amr [people of authority] and issued a fatwa that India qualified as Darus Salam [land of peace], where insurrection against the Government is religiously unlawful. After a while, this khud kashta pauda of the British became a religious movement.’

Now tell me if there is any doubt here: is this a reference towards an individual or a whole sect is being indicted? Let me quote from the editor of Tufan, in response to this rhetorical question:

‘The British employed all the guile and cunning to cultivate the plant of Najdi Movement [i.e., the Ahl-e-Hadith, who are also referred to as the Wahhabi Movement, or Najdi Movement] in India, and then nourished it to strengthen it with their own hands.’1

Behold! There are a number of ‘khud kashta pauday’ [of the British] which are cropping up, according to the foregoing!