Adnan Rashid – The British Raj #01

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			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu lillah wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah Mabon our Adobe live
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Ameen.
		

			Bacala also Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa salam, Bolivar new Elia respected brothers. And those
sisters who will be listening to this later on Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
		

			I welcome you all to this very important topic. The topic of the day is the British Raj, Pakistan or
India. How did we get here? How did we get here? Okay. History is a very important subject which we
have collectively neglected criminally. The Muslims have today neglected the history to the extent
that most of us, the overwhelming majority of us are not aware of our basic history facts. If you
were to walk into a masjid, and ask people questions about basic history of Islam, including the
life of the prophet Sallallahu sallam, most Muslims will struggle to answer the question. And the
irony is, our entire faith is based upon history. Our entire faith is based upon history and
		

			appreciation of history, our studying of history and learning history. Because what is Islam? Islam
is based upon precedent. precedent, what is precedent? precedent is an example. This what he means
precedent means an example, something that's happened before. And when we look at the life of the
professor Salam, it is a precedent for us. Allah tells us in the Quran, how do we learn chatango
regimes flaticon the Rahim locket Karnala computers will Ilahi also atone Hazara in his life you
will find a good model sallallahu alayhi salam in the life of the Prophet salallahu Salam. So Allah
is telling us to study his life. In other words,
		

			then Allah tells us the stories of the prophets in the Quran repeatedly. Some say 30 to 40% of the
Quran is the Stories of the Prophets to set a precedent for people like us that we can learn the
histories and take lessons then Allah tells us in the Quran repeatedly see you will art from Guru
cave akana aka butter Mocha, demean go into line and see what happened to those who came before you.
And then we cannot know anything about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and his companions
and their followers and followers. Unless we studied the history, which which is what we call Elmer
Hadith, and then followed by Elmer, Rajon, or Elmet hadith is actually dependent on Elmer ritual,
		

			your Hadith science, your history of the prophet comes through men, and these men, even these men,
we have to study. So the point I'm trying to make is that history is life. It is identity, it is
your faith. If you don't study history, you are cut off, you are like a lost child in a great desert
without any navigation without any tools for you to find the way and what happens to such a child.
Even adults don't survive in such circumstances. So that's why we have to study history. I keep
emphasizing this, you want to rise again, you want to taste the glory of Islam. You want to see
Islam flourish, as a global power, as a civilization as a torchbearer of education as a torchbearer
		

			of morality and ethics. You want your people to be great your scholars to teach once again in global
libraries and universities and institutions, then you have to know what happened before you were
born. What were the Muslims doing before? In that light? We will conduct this lecture today? Why are
we talking about the British Raj because it is directly relevant to the history of your ancestors,
your ancestors? When I say your I mean, the majority of you majority of you are from the
subcontinent the Indian subcontinent right, what we call the Indian subcontinent. Collectively,
		

			the subcontinent consists of three countries, Pakistan, India, and
		

			English. So, your history your ancestors
		

			lived under the British rule in India for nearly 200 years. So what is the British Raj? The British
Raj is basically to simplify is the period when the British rule India Raj means rule in simple
terms, Raj means rule the British rule in India. So, the British ruled India from the mid 18th
century, to the mid 20th century for at least 200 years. In the first 100 years, parts of India,
significant parts of India were ruled by the British
		

			by a company called the East India Company. And it is a misconception that people think that this
company was ruling independently without the British government or the ruling establishment of
Britain at the time behind it. No, that's a misconception. Because the East India Company was no
doubt a business establishment, it came to trade in India as a company
		

			as a trading entity. But later on, it became a ruling entity. It had a private military of its own.
It was directly supported by the British government of the time, British MPs, the British ruling
class in Britain, were directly involved in the profits of this company. In fact, 24% of the shares
of this company at times different times the amount fluctuated, of course, but an 18th century, in
the late 18th century, late 1700s 24% of the shares of this company were owned by BDM. Beasts, this
is why it took so long for slavery to be abolished in the West Indies. Why was slavery not
abolished? Earlier is a very good question. Atlantic slave trade, one of them was one of the most
		

			brutal episodes in human history, people talk about the Holocaust. People talk about other
catastrophes, people talk about the one that that I want and genocide and things like that. But do
you know one of the greatest catastrophes in human history, one of the greatest injustices
		

			one of the greatest disasters in human history was the Atlantic slave trade, whereby close to 100
million human beings were kidnapped from West African coasts, taken across the Atlantic Ocean, put
into slavery and killed off, only 6% went to North America. 94% of them went to Central America and
South America, they trace cannot be found, okay, for 400 years from the year 1450 to 1850. This
trade continued. There are estimates that close to 100 million people were taken across the Atlantic
in these four centuries. The minimum number is 11 million, the maximum number is 100 million anyway,
between 11 to 100 million people are taken from the homes and the afro Americans you see today in
		

			the US fighting for the rights to this day. Under this movement, called Black Lives Matter are the
descendants of those people taken by force against the wishes, they lost the identity. The history
was cut off completely. Some of them are Muslim scholars. By the way.
		

			Some of the all Muslim scholars taken from West Africa from places like Senegal and Gambia they were
Muslim scholars. There is a book I highly recommend for you all to study in this regard. It is
titled servants of Allah, servant of Allah. It is authored by an American
		

			Afro American scholar. Her name is Sylvia and
		

			ad off. She has authored this book. That's not my topic today. By the way, the reason why I
mentioned that was that the British MPs were already debating in the late 18th century to abolish
slave trade. The reason why the abolitionist were finding it so difficult to do so because many of
these MPs had stakes in West Indies. In those plantations, they were making a lot of money from
sugar plantations in the West Indies. And that's why slavery was absolutely instrumental to keep
that trade alive.
		

			This is why people like William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson and the list goes on, foreign
founded so difficult to abolish slave trade. Likewise, the East India Company in its atrocities,
were kind of, you know, tolerated because many of the British MP
		

			at the time had stakes in this company. So this company was established in the 16th century, late
1500s. In fact, in the year 1600, Queen Elizabeth the first officially, basically, you can say
initiated this company and gave permissions for this English company to trade. These were basically
merchants using ships and vessels to go around the world to do trade. So this is how colonialism
actually started.
		

			Okay, it started with trade. These European explorers, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and the
British, they went out, traveling through the seas. And they found their way into these lands. They
established colonies, they started trading with the locals and they realize the locals are not being
ruled by strong entities where they found the locals to be weak, they overpower them militarily and
occupy the territories. Hence, these colonies like Australia, South Africa, South Africa, much of
East Africa and Central Africa, okay. And India later on, not initially because when the British
came into India in the early 17th century,
		

			they had realized that the Mughals are far more powerful than they had encountered any other power
around the world. The Mughals were a central Asian dynasty established in the 16th century. In
India, the first Mughal emperor, the European barber defeated, the already existing Muslim dynasty
called the daily Sultanate, okay are the remnants of it. The Lodi dynasty was removed by the
Mughals. cut the long story short, he comes to power and then sport, the Mughal dynasty was
established. The topic is not the moral dynasty so I'm not going to go into the details just know
that the Mughal dynasty was established in 1526. When they Rudy Muhammad Baba, the first Mughal
		

			Emperor took Northern India or much of northern India from another Muslim dynasty called the Lord
ease.
		

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			they came to power and they became more and more powerful.
		

			The third Mughal Emperor Akbar, gelato Did Muhammad Akbar who was a very controversial figure no
doubt, he expanded the mobile territories. Then, his grandson Shah Jahan also expanded the
territories, then the son of Shah Jahan, orange Zavala give the most powerful mobile emperor to sit
on the Mughal throne, expanded the territory as far as Southern India, he ruled 95% of India, he was
the only Muslim king to rule that that much territory in the the Muslim history of India oronsay
Varlaam Gi, who ruled from 1658 to 1707, when he died in 1707, as an 89 year old man, having ruled
for nearly 50 years, he left behind a very powerful India, even though it was weakened by continuous
		

			war. In the south, he fought rebels in Southern India for nearly 25 years. And that weakened state
no doubt because the territory was too large. He never came back to Delhi, the city of Delhi for 25
years, he remained in the south, fighting all these wars, trying to subdue Murata rebels.
		

			He died in 1707, when he died, India was one of the richest countries in the world. His treasury
		

			was bigger than all the European kings put together, all of the Treasury's put together, the
Treasurer of oronsay Bottom gear, his progressions, the wealth he had, and the military prowess and
all things necessary to rule. His ability is capacity was bigger than all the European kings put
together. And India had 24% of global wealth. India, basically offered 24% of global GDP. This
origin there was, it was a powerhouse. It's very powerful. Very, very powerful. A lot of people ask
this question that if any of us are rich and powerful, why didn't they lead the world in technology
like the Europeans did during the Renaissance?
		

			The answer to this question is
		

			that when empires are powerful when they possess so much gold that they don't need to produce
scientists to invent things for them to go and start looking into
		

			prospects or making money or bringing money or bringing provisions they just
		

			by things. For example, you may be thinking, why don't the country's produce scientists, or the
Sultan of Brunei and these people are so rich, they just go and buy the latest technology, the best
cars, the best jets, the best devices, the best phones, you name it, they have the money they're
going by it. So as they say, necessity is the mother of invention. Europe was very poor. Europeans
were struggling. They were very, very poor in the 15th, and the 16th century. This is why they
produced many thinkers and scientists who were experimenting so that the people of the land can find
ways to manufacture things to have some kind of industry whereby they can become rich and
		

			prosperous. The Mughals are already very rich. So that's why they were buying European technologies.
They had European guns. They bought many, many European items, whatever good or handy came from
Europe. They possess them because they are so much money, and they produce their own stuff. They are
their own technologies, local technologies. India was supplying cloth to the whole world. The best
cotton was coming from India in the world.
		

			As early as the Roman period, there are Roman historians Pliny the Elder, he mentions that there was
a debate in the Roman Senate, that Roman Roman women are so fond of Indian cloth that a lot of Roman
gold is being shipped off to India to buy this cloth. So Indians were supplying cloth to the world
up to the point when the Mughals were ruling