Adnan Rashid – The British Raj 7 – Sacrifices of Muslim Scholars

			This rebellion failed in the British took the full wrath revenge. The East India Company they went
on a massacring spree. They started killing especially specifically Muslim scholars that targeted
Muslim scholars. It is said that there was not a tree from daily to shower on which a Muslim scholar
was not hanging
		

			one of them for example, is William Muir. William Muir was a very important figure in British India,
the mid 19th century. Why is he important?
		

			Does anyone know who he is? William Muir. He was one of the orientalist who wrote an entire
biography of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam in four volumes. He wrote a biography of Rasulullah Salam
in four volumes, right. Then he wrote other histories of the Muslim like the history of caves, for
example. And he was a Christian missionary. The peak of all of this took place in 1854, when a
Christian missionary named founder, a German Christian missionary, was preaching in the streets of
Agra. Agra was the Muslim capital in northern India, he was preaching openly against Islam,
challenging Muslim scholars, you know, your faith is a lie. It's all this. It's all that he wrote
		

			even a book in the oral language called MacDonald. Challenging Muslim scholars, Muslim scholars at
the time in India, were not trained to deal with Christian polemics, they have no idea how to deal
with this, right. Okay. So while founder is going around doing causing these problems, backed by the
government, no one can dare touch him. You know why? Because the British government is behind him
directly. So the missionaries were sent into India all over India, trying to convert the Indians.
But these missionaries wrote specifically that Hindus, some of them from the lower classes, lower
costs, they may convert, but the Muslims Forget it. There is no chance they're not leaving the faith
		

			under any circumstances. So that's why they became more hostile towards the Muslims, the
missionaries, right. And they always cause problems, as you know, probably even social media today.
Nowadays, you can see what these missionaries are made off a bunch of liars, the jaws, okay,
manipulators, all sorts of things, right? So they were no different than in the 19th century. So
this guy called founder, German missionary, he started causing problems. But Allah when there is a
fear on or when there's a shaytaan, there is also people working for a Rama, right. So when I
shaytaan, like this is going around, there was a man called was econ. He went from India, I came
		

			from India to Britain to study medicine, to study medicine. Right? So when he's while he's studying
medicine, here, he starts collecting books on Christianity. He starts reading commentaries on the
Bible, when he's reading commentaries about look how Allah subhanaw taala you don't know how Allah
has people work, how Allah produces remedies when there is a disease alive, also, at the same time,
creating remedy. So it was recon out of the blue, he come in, come ready to study medicine, right?
And he starts studying Christian theological commentaries, and then he gets exposed to all these
catastrophes and disasters for the Christians, right, all the corruption of the Bible, and you know,
		

			the changes and changes in the Bible and all the theological issues that came up and Christians
themselves are writing books to highlight these things. So he brought all these books back to to
India with him. So he met a scholar Khalid Sheikh Rahmatullah Khurana and he went to the sheikh, and
he said, This shaytan is challenging Muslims. Why don't we debate him? The sheiks and I don't know
anything about Christianity is if I know about Christianity, you know about Sharia. You are a
scholar of Islam. I can deal with him on Christianity. Let's deal with him. So they challenge him
long story short, there's a big debate and, and, and the British colonial establishment is very
		

			confident all the judges, administrators, police IDs, you know, inspector generals, and people like
William Muir are present. They are like they are gonna watch Muslims getting devastated today in
this debate. Yeah, they're gonna be destroyed by the because he was very good. That guy founder was
very good evil, he couldn't find his match. So he was also very excited.
		

			But he had no idea that the pile of books they had brought with them. They're gonna pull the rug
from his feet. This is gonna get blown away. So debate starts, and was recon and Sheikh Rahmatullah.
They start to ask him questions about the Bible and hold on a second you're attacking the Quran no
problem. We're gonna use the same standard on you. So what about this this this this and find her
had no responses completely dumbstruck for boo hit Allah the cover
		

			Allahu Akbar, right? And then that's it. Those administrators, judges, all those British officials,
you know, they were completely blown away. There's a lot what happened there. And it became a huge
thing that it became a cause of celebration for all the Muslims throughout India, the Muslims really
pushed it in the newspapers, everywhere Muslim celebrated, that this debate was a disaster for them.
And it was published. And a lot of scholars have even written on that debate today. So three years
later, Indian Mutiny happens. This boiled, you know, things like this, the boil the blood of the
people, and they the British introduced new cartilages, you know, you know, when, back in the day
		

			when they used to use guns, they used to use these match locks, there was a packet for gunpowder,
they would put gunpowder in the muzzle and they would put the ball on top and they would press it
down. I don't know if you've seen it, right. It's one of those old movies, right? So they will used
to use those rifles those guns, so they gave them cartridges. So to Hindus, they gave cartridges
with cow fat to Muslim they gave cartridges with pig fat. So the Muslims realize what's happening
the Hindus realized for the Brahmins, those soldiers who were in the British military at the time,
and the Muslims, they both rebelled, it started in a place called Mira. In India, the rebellion and
		

			the rebellion escalated to the to a level where all of India nearly all of North India was taken in
it, right. And the British East India Company, they found themselves in a very, very difficult
situation, a very difficult situation. Okay. And then
		

			this rebellion spread all over my own ancestors. my great grandfather's grandfather was part of this
rebellion in a region called activa. In Pakistan, okay, he led a trial himself back with the
lottery. And he was captured later on in 1859. And he was put on trial and seven years he was put
under house arrest in chains. He was sentenced to exile for seven years of delay. So all of this was
happening in India at the time. And the British they were completely shaken by this experience.
Unfortunately, the rebellion did not succeed because it was not novel. These rebels were committing
a lot of atrocities many scholars of Islam opposed what they were doing right they were actually
		

			killing women and children. Right there are example like one of the scholars in Delhi ship so you're
gonna zero Sanibel me one of the other Hadith scholars on the he, he found an English woman in Bush
in a bush injured crying morning due to pain she was shot and she had some injuries. And he picked
her up she she couldn't speak the language the share couldn't speak a language the shaker the
students were picked her up the ship took her to his house kept her for three to four months under
hiding. And if they the rebels would have found our Muslim then Hindus then the Sheikh is hiding an
English woman the sheikh would have been killed with his family. So you have the zero Sanibel we
		

			have very big name a very big scholar in the School of atrocities. In fact, some people some
unfortunate people use this example to taunt him to use it against him that how can you start? What
would you do in a situation like that? The Sheikh was this is exactly what the Sheikh was teaching
these people that this what you're doing is not Jihad Usabilla you're killing women and children.
Now my own research when I did on that woman, because the woman's name was Miss Mrs. Neeson.
		

			Mrs. Neeson The name was I found the name and the sheiks biography. I went and did some some of my
own research on that woman, I found records that three of her children were shot dead in front of
her eyes. What she told later on, okay,
		

			her one of the children was in her arms when the child was shot with the infant shot and the bullet
went through the child and hit the mother as well. She couldn't tell all of this to the shape. The
shape doesn't mention this in his biography, right. This comes from the British records what I found
on that woman Hala so these are the kinds of atrocities these rebels were committing and not all of
them of course, there are some noble people outside of the daily area in the central Indian region.
But this failed, this rebellion failed and the British took the full wrath revenge. The East India
Company, they went on a massacring spree. They started killing, especially specifically Muslim
		

			scholars. They targeted Muslim scholars It is said that there was not a tree from daily to be shower
on, which are Muslim scholars not hanging.
		

			Okay. They blew people from guns, the tight people to the muzzle of the cannon, and they blew them
		

			to make them an example. And then Queen Victoria, who was the ruling
		

			monarch at the time she interviewed personally when she heard about the atrocities and she had to
stop all the atrocities. And it took two years for the British to subdue the entire
		

			out rebellion okay and since then from that that point onwards Queen Victoria took full charge of
India she became the Empress of India and East India Company was removed from the picture entirely
so India became a British Property