The Light March 2012

March 2012

March 2012

Editors: Shahid Aziz Mustaq Ali

Contents:

Page

Announcements and News

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The Promised Messiah speaks

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Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali

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Efforts at keeping the jamaat united

Proving Loyalty

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Sunni Muslims prove they were loyal to the British during the Raj

Announcements and News Friday

Prayers Dars/speech

12:30 12:45

Sunday

04-03-2012

15:00

Webcasts: Please note that the Friday khutba and prayers, the dars, as well as all meetings are broadcast over the Virtual Mosque (www.virtualmosque.co.uk) at the time stated above.

Maulana M. Kemal Hydal informs us that Bro Hanif Mohammad (Breds), a Senior Executive member of the Trinidad Ahmadiyya Anjuman and their former Treasurer returned to his Maker on Friday, January 13, 2012 while preparing for Jumuah prayer.

Qadiani Khalifa sahib picks out two Lahori’s for special treatment From http://thecult.info/blog/2011/05/07/ jamaat-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment24947; an anti-Qadiani web-site:-

Fair Mind on May 9, 2011 at 8:47 am said: @Findings, Dear sister,
As far as I remember, Qadiani Khalifa 4 Mirza Tahir Ahmad prohibited his Qadiani Cult followers from discussion with Shahid Aziz and Dr. Zahid Aziz (both brothers are Lahori-Ahmadis) way back in year 2000.
It is very much possible Qadiani Khalifa 4 may have stopped his cult followers from discussion with other Muslims too. And perhaps Qadiani Khalifa 5 Mirza Masroor Ahmad also stopped his cult followers from discussions with nonQadianis in 2004.

Note: This brings to mind an incident when Mirza Tahir Ahmad had first arrived in the UK. Shortly thereafter the Qadiani jamaat published the complete set of the Promised Messiah’s books under the title Rohani Khazain. The person I spoke to when placing the order explained that the postage will be prohibitive and instead he will find people living in Slough to bring me the books. I guess an underlying idea was to see who was buying these books and “convert� him.

The person who delivered the books spoke to me very nicely greatly praising my independence of mind and spirit of searching for the truth by reading the Promised Messiah’s books myself rather than rely on hearsay. You will find he announced proudly that Hazrat Mirza sahib did not claim to be a prophet, as people claim and he did not call anyone a kafir. I immediately noticed the words as people claim, which meant that later I would be told that the prophethood claimed was different from the one that people say he claimed and not that he did not claim prophethood.

However, I left that to one side and said : “What about you?� On being told that he regarded everyone who recites the Kalima as a Muslim I asked him if he was a Lahori and not a Qadiani. The man visibly recoiled with horror and said : “No, that was an unfortunate attempt

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2 by a man who lost his way and wanted to grab has done. But in the pages I showed him Mian khilafat” - referring to Hazrat Maulana MuhamMahmud sahib himself says that this explanamad Ali of blessed memory. I excused myself tion by Hazrat Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din that he had and got the book The Truth About the Split by used the word kufr in its literal sense is wrong Mian Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad sahib. I and that what he means that non-Ahmadis are referred him to the page where he says that all heretics. So the explanation by Mirza Tahir those who have not entered into the baiat of the Ahmad sahib must be wrong as well as it is the Promised Messiah are veritable kafirs and out of same explanation. “The author himself has althe fold of Islam and asked his opinion. This is ready rejected Mirza Tahir Ahmad sahib’s explawrong he said and asked me the name of the nation”, I said. And he left promising to get back person who wrote these words. I told him that it to me with a further explanation but I heard was the first Qadiani nothing more for months. khalifa. He refused to Production of Lahore-Ahmadiyya So, one day I rang him believe me, even with and asked him if I had literature in French has started. the book in front of upset him because he has The project needs your him, so I told him to stopped coming to see me go and talk to the contributions. to guide me on the right current khalifa sahib path. “You got me into and gave him a copy of the relevant page. trouble and nearly got me expelled ”, he told me.

The following week he returned smiling and “When I asked khalifa sahib what you said he said : “You got me confused but when I asked become angry and said ‘now I know why Allah Hazoor (the Qadiani khalifa) he clarified everymade me a khalifa, to answer that boy’s questhing.” I told him that I would be glad to hear tions as if I have nothing else to do, go and find that explanation because whereas I am a humout for yourself and any way why do you go and ble person khalifa sahib is a great scholar but see people who put doubts in your mind?’” more than that he is in direct communication I told him that I was a Lahori Ahmadi and with Allah. The explanation was that kufr is an asked him whether, in the light of what had hapArabic word and it means to deny so it just pened he was prepared to join us. “No, I just means that these people deny the Promised won’t talk to you anymore because you confuse Messiah’s claims and not that they are not Musme”, he replied. lims.

I looked at him with sympathy and asked Our Literary Efforts him whether he actually believed this explanaEnglish literature : The Promised Messiah tion as it leads to even greater difficulties! “I wrote a book in Urdu called government angraican’t see any”, said he. “The text says ‘those who zi aur jihad. This has been translated into Enghave not even heard his name’, now tell me how lish by Choudhry Masud Akhtar of the California can a man who has not even heard the name of jamaat under the title British Government and the Promised Messiah deny him?” I saw a puzJihad. We had made special efforts to insert the zled look on his face. “It also says : ‘out of fold of verses of the Holy Quran in the original Arabic Islam’, now ask khalifa sahib how someone can into the English text which caused many probbe a Muslim and out of fold of Islam?”, said I. lems which took time to resolve. We also had a “That is another problem”, he said. I then flicked cover professionally designed. We missed the a few pages further in the book I had referred to target we had set ourselves for printing the earlier. I showed him that when Mian Mahmud book but it does mean that it is printed in the Ahmad sahib first said non-Ahmadi recitors of best manner. The California jamaat is making the Kalima were kafirs, Hazrat Khwaja Kamal-ud separate arrangements for it to be printed in the -Din wrote a pamphlet in which he tried to exUS. plain away the use of the word kufr by Mian saFrench literature : The French translation hib in the same way as Mirza Tahir Ahmad sahib of the English book An Introduction to Islam has

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3 been completed. We are fortunate to have found a translator who is fast, accurate and communicates the sense of the work he is translating into French as well as the words. He made a number of changes to the text without altering its sense to make the book more relevant to the French reading public. It was proof-read in France and then checked again by two people in the UK. May Allah bless every one involved in this project.

By the time you read this the translator would have completed translating a second book. Having ironed out difficulties which delayed printing of the first book, this will be printed speedily.

Please make this project a success by your prayers and your financial contributions. It is costing the jamaat thousands of pounds.

The Promised Messiah Speaks A Request by the Promised Messiah O elders, O religious leaders, O elected ones of the people, may Allah open your eyes. Do not exceed the limits in anger. Read carefully both parts of this book1. There is light and guidance in them.

Be afraid of Allah. Hold your tongues from heresy.

The Almighty Lord knows that I am a Muslim.

“I believe in Allah, the angels, the books, the

messengers and life after death. There is no God but Allah and He has no associate. And I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His messenger. ” Moreover, if, even now, after reading this book you are in doubt then come and try and see with whom is God. O my opposing religious leaders, Sufis and sajada nasheens, who call me a heretic and a liar, I have been assured that, individually or collectively, if you compete with me in the heavenly signs which accompany the friends of the Beneficent, God shall humiliate you and expose you. And, at that time, you shall see that He is with me. Is there any among you to come to the field for this trial and by a general announcement in the papers compare the relationship of acceptance, which my Lord has with me to God’s relationship with him?

Remember God is the helper of the truthful. He shall help him whom He considers is truthful. Desist from cunning for He is near. Will you fight Him? Can one become elevated by arrogant boasts? Will you with sharp tongues cut the truth?

Fear Him whose anger is greater than all anger.

Note: The above is a short extract from the book Izala Auham by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad sahib which is being translated into English and will become available in 2013 C.E.

Muir Woods Redwoods National Park, California, USA 2011 What took nature 1938 years to create was destroyed by man in one day.

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Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali His efforts for unity of the Ahmadiyya Movement Compiled by Shahid Aziz (Note: Some Urdu extracts were translated by Dr Zahid Aziz) The Qadiani jamaat has always accused Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali of splitting the Ahmadiyya jamaat because he wanted to become the leader of the Movement. Here we look at the historical evidence to determine what the truth is.

Mian Mahmud Ahmad, the founder of the Qadiani jamaat, had started to split the jamaat during the life time of Hazrat Maulana Nur-udDin with a view to establishing a religious dictatorship. Just before Hazrat Maulana Nur-udDin’s death Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali published this plea: “I beg you, “ time has not slipped out of our hands. Do not waste the strength brought by unity….

Leave aside matters of disagreement and come to unity.

Do not lean towards this world, give preference to your religion....” (An appeal by Maulana Muhammad Ali published in Review of Relgions 1 Dec 1913) After Hazrat Maulana Nur-ud-Din’s death he proposed: “The same day after Asr, the five of us who were present went to Nawab sahib’s house (Mian Mahmud’s father-in-law) so that we may discuss the future of the Movement. Before we had arrived Mian sahib had gone for a walk towards the area Khara. I said to my companions that it may be better if I speak to him alone.

Thus I went after him. I said that at this time because of the issue of kufr and Islam the jamaat has divided into two parties publicly… We should think of some way to preserve unity.

Mian sahib replied to what I said by saying that a khalifa should be elected and both parties should take a pledge on his hand and do as he says. That is the only way to preserve unity. I replied that this is the problem, both parties cannot take the pledge on one man’s hand. Be-

cause, at least I can not accept a person as my spiritual leader who declares Muslims to be kafirs…. Similarly how can the other party take a pledge on the hand of a person who, in their opinion, is in error on such an important matter?... I said this difficulty may solved in two ways. One, let us elect some one but not make the pledge mandatory, a person who wants to make take the pledge and who does not, need not. Let some time pass and then both parties should put forward their arguments in this matter of kufr and Islam. It may be that when the jamaat sees the weight of argument the whole of it inclines to one view. Mian sahib replied that a person who does not take the pledge of the khalifa cannot remain in the jamaat. I presented my other proposal. A fortnight’s leave should be given and the learned people of the jamaat gathered to give their opinion about how to get out of this difficulty. Mian sahib said that we could not wait that long…. The following day the five of us went to Nawab sahib’s house again and tried to speak but to no avail.... Nawab sahib read the will (of Hazrat Maulana Nur-ud-Din) and Maulana Muhmmad Ahsan sahib proposed Mian sahib’s name for khilafat. I stood up to speak and tell people of the conversations between Mian sahib and me but some people leapt up and started screaming that they did not want to hear anything.... Mian sahib sat there and could not move his lips even to say let him have his say.” (Haqiqat-i-Ikhtalaf)

Do not waste the strength brought by unity” - Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali (r)

Treatment of Maulana Muhammad Ali at the meeting where Mian Mahmud was elected: a) Statement of Mirza Sultan Ahmad, brother of Mian Mahmud: “The way my brother (Mian Mahmud) ill-treated the old friends of his father, I have come to seek pardon for that. After seeing the humiliation meted out to you in the mosques I was buried in the ground with shame.” b) An article headed ‘A Sad Event’ published in Nur from Qadian dated 17 March 1904 commenting on how Maulana Muhammad Ali was

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5 treated at the ‘election’ of Mian Mahmud: “... Lo, today a child who has not the manners to speak even he does not hesitate in speaking ill of others....”

Maulana Muhammad Ali remained in Qadian until every time he went out people stoned him.

However, because of constant physical and verbal attacks he sent his family out. Then one night someone hidden under a cloak knocked on his door and told him that there were plans to kill two people that night in the early hours, one was Maulana Muhammad Ali and the other Maulana Sadr-ud-Din. The two left Qadian and the only thing they took with them were the notes of the English translation of the Holy Quran.

Another proposal On 22 March 1914, the proposal was sent to Mian Mahmud from Lahore.

“In accordance with the Will (of HMGA) the decisions of the Sadr Anjuman are considered binding and no one has the right to reject them.

“Those who are already Ahmadis should not be required to take the pledge on the hand of the elder considered as the amir of the Ahmadi jamaat.

“Because more than 40 people have entered the pledge of Mian Mahmud, he has the right to take the pledge from those wishing to enter the jamaat.

“If Mian Mahmud declares the decisions of the Anjuman to be binding and does not require those who are already Ahmadis to take a pledge on his hand again, he should be considered the president and the amir of the jamaat.”

These were sent to Mian Mahmud. A delegation of 15 people then went to Qadian to speak to Mian Mahmud on 28th March 1914. Mian Mahmud refused to speak to this delegation.

On 10th April Maulana Muhammad Ali and others again went to Qadian to take part in the meeting of the Sadr Anjuman. They found matters which were not on the agenda being approved and when they expressed the desire to have their dissenting opinions noted, this was refused.

On 12th April 1914, Mian Mahmud proposed to abrogate the Will of his father by changing

Rule 18. HMGA had the rule devised to say that In every matter the command of the Promised shall be absolute and binding on the Mautmadeen…. Sadr Anjuman and all its branches.”

Mian Mahmud changed it to say that Mian Mahmud’s command will be final and binding. This was done on 26th April. Around the same time Mian Mahmud announced that contributions from the members should not go to the Anjuman but should be sent to him personally. Thus destroying the Movement set up by the Promised Messiah.

Upon this, on 3rd May 1914, it was proposed to set up Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat Islam at Lahore while still remaining members of Sadr Anjuman at Qadian. On 12th May 1916 a resolution was placed before the Sadr Anjuman to expel Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Ali and five others from the Ahmadiyya jamaat. This resolution (number 213) was communicated to the five members on 22 June 1916. The six put in a written defence, which was ignored.

Of the 14 members of the Sadr Anjuman appointed by HMGA, seven supported Maulana Muhammad Ali. Six supported Mian Mahmud.

Three of these six were his maternal uncle, his father in law and his brother in law.

Proving Loyalty?

(Editor’s note: An article from the above booklet produced by the Muslim Council For Britain commemorating the Muslim contribution to the British armed forces. While maligning us for declaring that an armed struggle against the British was not a religious jihad our opponents acknowledge that they were themselves laying down their lives for the Britsh.)

Muslims and Britain’s Armed Forces

By Professor Humayun Ansari OBE Director, Centre for Minority Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London The British Army’s recent operations in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan raise important questions about the role of British Muslim service personnel in it.

Recent well-publicised threats to behead one of their number as a protest against their

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6 having enlisted have highlighted, for instance, the need for British Muslim soldiers to feel confident that their religion is not being compromised by them being part of the British Army.

Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq raise complex questions of national identity and loyalty; taking part in such campaigns can be quite challenging.

But, it is also increasingly clear that people have multiple identities and that at any given time one identity, and indeed one loyalty, may take priority over another. Thus, the commitment to fight for one’s country becomes above all else understandable.

This has certainly been the case historically.

We discover that in the armies of the British Empire, particularly in India, over a period of perhaps 200 years, there were literally tens of thousands of Muslims who fought on the side of the British. From the early Nineteenth Century at least, with British involvement in South Asia steadily growing, Muslim soldiers started to represent an important element in the ranks of those Indians who joined the various regiments of the British India Army, fighting on behalf of, first, Company and, later, Crown. The Punjabi and Pathan Mussalmans (Muslims) came to be recognised as the backbone of the British Indian Army; they made up about a third of that army.

With the consolidation of Britain’s empire, Muslim recruits continued to provide essential manpower, fighting in Twentieth-Century wars on Britain’s behalf. Indeed, between 1914 and 1918 the British Army was able to retain the loyalty and commitment of these earlier Muslim soldiers without any serious difficulty. It seems that it succeeded in doing so, at least partly, by incorporating elements of their religion into the rituals and ceremonies of the regiments concerned.

There is ample evidence to suggest that thousands of Muslims loyally fought and died on Britain’s behalf, but their sacrifice has been rarely acknowledged. Only now is the heroic story of how Muslims from Britain’s far-flung

empire held the line during the First World War beginning to emerge out of their letters written in the trenches of the Western Front in France.

We now know that at the start of the First World War, within the first months, the British forces took a pounding; reinforcements were desperately needed. Two divisions of the Indian Army were mobilized and Indian soldiers deployed on the Western Front. Though they played a crucial part in holding the line, displaying great determination, Indian soldiers received scant attention in accounts of the War. Why they fought so bravely was because they simply wanted to win honour on the battlefields. Honour – izzat – was very important to Muslims; it was deeply embedded in these soldiers’ psyche; one wrote, ‘you did things which were right in your point of view even if it meant death’; the British tradition of absolute loyalty to the regiment dovetailed with the value of izzat; loyalty to the regiment was paramount. And these Muslims were convinced that only in the army any izzat could be acquired (Mahamod Mazafar Khan, 19th Lancers – France, Oct 1917).

For izzat, if necessary, they were prepared to lay down their lives. To be sure, they were also motivated to join the army to satisfy their basic needs – many came from poor families. This gave rise to a relationship with the British often referred to as ‘tasting the salt’ – the salt of Britain. So, when wars broke out, it was time for them to repay; for Jemadar Shamsher Ali Khan (34th Poona Horse) in April 1917 in France ‘it is time for showing valour’; this value of loyalty was greatly appreciated by the British officers who led them – indeed, those who led the Indian regiments immersed themselves in the cultures of India and every effort was made to facilitate Muslim troops in the fulfillment of the requirements of their faith – for example, ‘which direction to pray in and bury the dead’ (Dafadar Fazi Khan, 19th Lancers – France, Oct 1916). British officers were careful to observe arrangements for key religious rituals like Ramadan (or Ramazan) – Havildar Ghu-

“These men died fighting defending British rights and liberties and the nation’s most cherished values.”

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7 While largely forgotten until now, at the fran Khan of the 129th Baluchis, wrote to Subedar time, Muslim sacrifices were acknowledged Zaman Khan (4 August 1915), ‘arrangements to with gratitude. Wounded Muslim soldiers fightkeep Ramazan are excellent’; In August 1917, Abdul ing in France were treated in special hospitals Ali Khan (6th Cavalry in France) informs how Eid along the south coast in Brighton, Bournemouth was celebrated on the battlefield –‘all the Muslims and Brockenhurst. Those among them who died of their divisions have their prayer together; about received burial rites according to their religion.

1,500 hundred men assembled and offered their The first burial in this country of an Indian Musprayers for the King’. lim soldier who succumbed to wounds received There developed a tremendous bond, attachwhile serving in France took place in the Brookment, between officers and their men, further reinwood Cemetery in December 1914. forcing loyalty. The real test of Muslim loyalty to Floral tributes were placed on the coffin by Britain came when, in November 1915, the majorlocal Muslim converts. In 1915 the burial of an ity of the Indian Army was withdrawn from France Indian Muslim officer took place. At the request to fight in Mesopotamia - Germany’s Turkish ally, of the imam of the Woking Mosque, the local the Ottoman Khalifa (Caliph), presented fundamencommanding officer detailed fifty soldiers, tal dilemmas – Muslims troops arriving there had headed by an officer, to attend the funeral in to face Turkish Muslims in combat. What must have order to pay military honours to this gallant Incaused them deep anguish was the fact that a year dian soldier. Three rounds were discharged and, earlier, on 14 November, 1914, the Sheikh-ul-Islam in a fusion of Muslim practices with British miliin Istanbul had declared Jihad on behalf of the Ottotary traditions, the “Last Post” was sounded by man government, urging Muslims all over the the bugle boys. The Chairman of the local Urban world – including in the Allied countries – to take Council deemed it ‘an honour to have men who up arms against Britain, Russia and France – ‘when fell as a result of the war buried in the district’. the 15th Lancers reached Basra they were ordered to fight [against the] Turks…[. T]hey, however, deThe scale of the sacrifice By the end of the clined to take up arms against their brother MusFirst World War in 1918, India had sent over lims and one milasked to While largely forgotten until now, at the time, [Sunni] Muslim sacrifices lion volunwere acknowledged with gratitude. be sent t e e r troops to to some other theatre of war; orders to fight near holy sites fight side by side with the British. Muslims were disproportionately involved. They saw action in of Karbala and Baghdad were too much for the France and Belgium; in Gallipoli and Salonica; in Muslim members of the 15th Lancers, almost the East Africa; in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia. entire regiment refused to march’ (Fateh Ullah, Over 47,000 were killed and 65,000 were June 1916). wounded.

However, even at such challenging times many During the Second World War over 2.5 milMuslim soldiers in the British India Army did take lion men and women from the Indian subpart in those battles. British Muslims supported the continent, formed the largest volunteer force war effort in quite rational terms: a resolution, proever seen in history. They served in Africa, posed by a leading Muslim convert Lord Headley, seconded by the imam of the Woking Mosque, Burma, Malaya and in the Middle East. Again, Maulvi Sadr-ud-Din and unanimously passed by the over 24,000 were killed and 65,000 were British Muslim Society in September 1914, exwounded. As in the First World War, hundreds pressed ‘delight to find that their co-religionists in of military awards were won. These included Islam were … carrying into effect the principles of thirty Victoria Crosses, the highest award for Islam as inculcated by the holy Prophet Mohammed bravery. … freely pouring out their life blood in defence of As Remembrance Day approaches our honour and for the love of truth and justice’. thoughts turn to observance of commemoration of

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8 all those members of the British armed forces died fighting defending British rights and liberties who lost their lives during the wars. Special serand the nation’s most cherished values. Their ultivices will be held and wreaths laid at war memomate contribution reflected the commitment and rials throughout the country and at London’s unity of heroic proportions and deserves to be honCenotaph. But how many of us will be aware of oured in a fitting manner. the magnificent role that thousands of Muslims And one particular Muslim woman’s contribuplayed in those wars? How widely, for instance, tion symbolises this heroism more than anything is it known that more than 1.3 million Indian solelse. Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) – daughter of diers served during the First World War, a large Inayat Khan, a sufi musician from Bhopal in India proportion of them, Muslim? That they suffered joined in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) heavy casualties – 53, 486 died, 64,350 wounded in November 1940. Later she was recruited by the and 3,769 were missing or taken?

Special Operations Executive during World War II. The contribution of the InShe was dropped in occupied dian army to the Second World Non-Ahmadi Muslim France in 1943 to gather military War was even greater. By 1945, Betrayed to the Gerwomen fought for the intelligence.

2.5 million men had fought in mans she was arrested in October the war. Again, a substantial British.

1943 and transferred to the Danumber were Muslim. The price chau concentration camp. There paid was heavy – 36, 092 volunteers were killed she was tortured, but showing immense courage or reported missing, 64,354 were wounded, and refused to divulge the secret codes. Having atalmost 80,000 had to endure captivity as PoWs. tempted escape twice, she was declared ‘highly danMoreover, Muslims employed in the British gerous’ and shackled in chains. In 1944 she was merchant navy, over 50,000 by the beginning of transferred to Dachau Concentration Camp and exeWorld War I, also took a heavy toll. During the cuted. She was one of the few people to be awarded First World War 3,427 Indian crew members in the George Cross as well as Croix de Guerre with British merchant ships were killed and 1,200 Gold Star, the highest British and French awards for were taken prisoners. In World War II – 6,600 noncombat gallantry. killed and 1,022 wounded, plus 1,217 PoWs. Sources At Tower Hill, half a mile from Aldgate, the Caroline Adams, Across Seven Seas and Thirteen Rivheart of the Bangladeshi community in Britain, ers, London, 1987. there is a poignant monument to the men of the Humayun Ansari, ‘The Infidel Within’: Muslims in British merchant Navy who lost their lives in the Britain since 1800, London, 2004. two World wars. Among the names of the 26,833 Humayun Ansari, ‘Burying the dead’: making Muslim merchant seamen killed in the 1939-1945 war, space in Britain, Historical Research, vol. 80, no. 210, there are names of Muslims: Miah, Latif Ali, UdNovember 2007, pp.545-566. din.

Nile Green, Islam and the Army in Colonial India, SeJust a few of the 6,600 lascars and 1,022 poy Religion in the Service of Empire, Cambridge, wounded working in the most dangerous part of 2009. the ship. Their sacrifice for ‘King and Country’ is India Office Records, The British Library, London. recorded and honoured in bronze. These men ‘The Muslim Tommies’, BBC 1, 2 September 2009.

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