ملف ٢٨٧/١٩١٧ "الجزيرة العربية: ترحيل الهنود غير المرغوب فيهم" [و‎‎٨‎٣] (٣٢٤/١٧٦)

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:'aulana. I ahmud Hasan. 11.12.17. (conic!)
in i ecca and turning them out. I refused. I said I was a
stranger doing the Hajj and was not qualified to sign. They believ
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ed I did not accept the fatwa and were angry. I do not know any
other reason. They arrested me and sent me t- Jadda. I want to
Taif. I saw Ghalib Pasha in ..ecca for a. few minutes, but had no
special conversation with him. He gave me no paper. t sent no
papers by Kuhammad .-‘ian. He was with me in the Haj j and went hack.
I met Anvar Pasha, and Jamal Pasha in Medi/^na in the Shrine, hut got
no paper from them. There was a big gathering. Hosain Ahmad
made an address, as did others. I had gone with Husain Ahmad.
A mufti introduced Hosain Ahmad to them and asked us to go too as
we were with Hosain. They came up to us. 1 did not get papers
fror: Anvar Bey or Jamal Pasha or give then, to Haji Shah 3o.kh%h or
Ha]i Hasan, I made no enquiries in - ecca about the oath oi obe
dience to the Turk taken by the Sharif, nor did I send any papers
about that by Haji Shah Bakhsh. I have heard no news of Ubaid
Ullah nor of Muhammad Mian, I never had any i idea oi going across
the frontier to Kabul. I have never been there, Sow nor even to
Peshawar. I do not remember seeing Abul Kalara. He came once to
the Deoband School to a gathering, but I was ill and did not go.
As people were going back to the station I saw Ajimal Khan with some
others . • y house is in the way. ■ . t. ■■ t may have been ti ere
but l did not know him. I did never heard of the amiyat Ksshullsh
nor of the Bar ul Irshad. T have heard of the Naxarat ul muarif
ul Quranin and have seen it. It was in the enclosure of the Patib-
puri Mssjid and I knew Kaulana Abdis Rashid of Gugoh. I signed the
fatwe that Indian Khfcammadans should be loyal to the iritish Govt.
I never declared India a Dar ul Harb. Dar ul Islam has two mean
ings. It may mean a country where the ruler is a Muhammadan and
it may mean one where Muhammadans are allowed to exercise their
religious