It is, therefore, necessary to make the people of Pakistan understand what the status of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama‘at is. If you are inclined to believe in the one-sided false accusations, then you should know that these do not spare anyone. But if you focus only on the events of history, then the historical facts are telling you in very clear and explicit language that if there is anyone on the face of this earth today who qualifies as ‘khud kashta pauda of the British’ it is none other than the Diyubandis and Ahl-e-Hadith. That is to say, that faction of Ahl-e-Hadith which was an accomplice in the establishment of Najdi government and which is also known as the Wahhabi sect. This sect received help and support from the British and was able to establish a government. These are historical facts.
From my viewpoint, it is still unreasonable and unjust to label them as ‘khud kashta pauda of the British’ from a religious angle. So, these hard facts notwithstanding, I do not label them as a British plant. The reason for this is that it was an independent religious movement which was later used to establish a government which was under the tutelage of the British. Their bilateral agreement included a clause which stated that their foreign policy would not be independent and that they would be completely subservient to the British foreign policy in exchange for their freedom in pursuing certain domestic policies as set out in the agreement. This arrangement made them beneficiaries of pre-determined quantities of British defence supplies, such as so many rifles, and so many thousands of pound sterling. It spelled out, in detail, the respective rights of either side to this agreement.
So, despite the unreasonableness shown by our opponents due to their rash behaviour, we must watch our step and do not do the same. We must be fair and just even in our rebuttals. For that reason, my viewpoint is that even if they themselves admit that this was how their sect began, it would be untenable; because alien nations do not lay the foundation of religious sects among others in this manner. Their sect has its own independent history. Maulana Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab started Jihad against shirk [i.e., associating partners with God] but, in his relentless pursuit, he reached the other extreme. However, it is incorrect for his opponents to paint the Wahhabi Movement, in its entirety, as ‘a British plant’, just because in a particular era of history they enjoyed the support of the British. They are independent in their religious philosophy; though it is true that the British exploited them—they exploited them in the past, and they are exploiting them even at present.
The Indian Congress has also been using them. So these people did become their instrument and continue to do so. The conspiracy is the same as it was in the past and the people are the same people who had become, and continue to be, the instrument in the hands of the conspirators.