PZ 5013/40 'Propaganda among Shi'ite communities in Iraq and Persia' [‎37r] (73/196)

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a missionary and I have carried out many controversies
with Christian missionaries. In other words I have worked
against the religion of the State. Other missionaries do the
same but British Government have never tried to stop us. It
is this Christian Government which has given its subjects
liberty to follow Islam. On the other hand in Muslim countries
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religion is not safe; for example -
(1) There are restrictions against the performance of
religious duties in Iran where mata* (tanporary marriage) is
now an offence under the law.
(ii) Turkey. - Prayers are now said in the Turkish language,
(iii) Heiaz.- The structrues over the shrines of Prophet
and other holy personages have been destroyed.
( iv) Afghanistan. - No Shia can say his prayers according
to the Shia religion.
(v) In India before the British arrived, hundreds of
Ulemas were executed in xi gra and Delhi. No hhia could express
his faith openly. 3yen today in Agra and Dplhi the shrines of
Shahid-i-Sails and Shaid-i-Rabi, (the 3rd and the 4th
Martyrs) speak of these acts of tyranny which still make one f s
heart shudder.
(vi) Iraq. - T 7e Indians come to Iraq because the shrines
of our religious heads are situated here who were mercilessly
slaughtered by the Iraqis.
All these instances show how cruel and merciless the
Muslim Governments have been to their fellow Mussalmans an 1
how the children of the Prophet were ill-treated. The British
have, on the other hand, never done such a thing.
(2) During the incident of Kerbela an Englishman arrived
in the court of Yazid and when heard about the butchery of
Kerbela he called Yazid had names for allowing such acts of
cruelty to be practised on the children of the Prophet. Yazid
ordered him to be executed and we still sing the praise of
that Englishnan in our religious sermons.