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File 3665/1924 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- situation 1924. H.M.Govt’s policy of complete neutrality regarding the future of the Holy Cities. Question of the recruitment of troops in the Aden Protectorate on behalf of the Emir Ali.’ [60r] (113/117)
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Telegram from Kiiilafat Committee (Delhi).
Q, 4th October, 1924.
K. 7tii Jotobor, 19: 4, 4.48 p.m.
y CO’nnittee lias passed following resolution and
daslras me communicate it to you. 4 uote ..or: log
Committee of Central Khilafat Committee has given its
moat careful consideration to fratricidal struggle now
going on in Hedjas and to statement of British Breder
in Parliament with regards to British Intervention stop
Coislttee is emphatically of opinion that in no case can
British or other nen-Huslia intervention in the sanctuary
of Islam be tolerated by Muslims of India and of the world
stop So interest of British Indian Muslims in Hedjaa nor
safety of pilgrim routes can equal suprems importance Of
kee jing Holy Band of Islam frae from nsn-Muslim interference
in any shape or under any pretext stop 'os itt
considers it to be its plain duty to-day to tell all vh m
it may concern that Muslims of India as of other places
will to a mm do whatever lies in their power to prevent
non-liuslim interference in affairs of Hedja* stop Commits
desires that it should be clearly understood that the right
and the duty to intervene therein cannot be shared with ary
non- ueiim and any attempt to do so is bound to be regarded
by Muslim world as an act of hostility towards Islam stop 4
Comiitittee therefore warns ritish Government to desist from
anything having remotest semblance of s ' Cu !,n ' _ ■ .
lin * uote - 0 U,/,
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Correspondence concerning the British Government’s policy of neutrality in response to the invasion of the Hejaz by Wahabi [Wahhabi] troops under the rule of the Sultan of Najd, Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]. The correspondence covers: responses to the invasion by the Muslim League of Bombay [Mumbai], the Khalifat Committee and its leader, Maulana Shaukat Ali, and the President of the Supreme Religious Court in Egypt; the question of the fate of Islam’s holy cities; reports of attempts by the King of Hejaz, ‘Alī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, to recruit troops in the Aden Protectorate; the British Government’s disapproval of King Ali’s attempts to recruit troops in a British territory; the enlistment of Palestinians, Trans Jordanians and Egyptians in to the Hejaz army.
The principal correspondents are: the Home Department of the Government of India; the Foreign Office; the British Consul at Jeddah, Reader William Bullard.
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