An article entitled " Allame
Islam Mein Isaiyat Ki Khufia Surang" by one Muhammad Asif Dehllavi published in
"Huda Digest" of April 1993 has quoted Nawab of Chhatari as revealing dreadful
and astonishing vicious plan of anti-Islamic forces, The articale pointed out to
the way in which the Westrern forces are secretly engaged whole-heartedly in
disintegrating the Islamic unity , The entire eprisode is ireproduced below by
Mr. Dehlavi himself.
During the journey I enquired a person whether he had seen the "Satanic
Verses"of Salman Rushie, What was there to be so vehemently critcised and
opposed, The fellow replied that he had not happened to go through the book but
had heared that it contained extremely derogatory remarks (Dust be in my mouth)
about the Prophet (peace be upon him), That was the reason, he said, Muslim were
furious and so much agitated against the said book,
As we talked with each other that gentleman narrated to me the following
incident;
"One of my friends emplloyed by the Nawab of Chhatari on a respectable position
who was very intimate to the Nawab told me that before the partition of the
country the Nawab was among the distingiushed well wishers of the British
Indifferent to Muslim League and the congress. The Nawab fully supported the
British in political sphere in recognition of this service the British appointed
him the Governnor of Uttar pradesh. Once it so happened that all provincial
governors were invoited by the British authorities to visit England for
important consultrations and deliberations. The Nawab also was among the
invitees. Earlier, every newly appointed collector of Aligarh district used to
frequently visit the Nawab. The commissioner of Agra also visited him casually.
In short, the Nawab had good relations with the British officers. Now when the
Nawab reachrd London his British friends had retired and opted to reside in
London . On hearing about the Nawab's presence there thay all came to pay a
visit to him. One of them who had previously served in India as a district
collector offered his company to the Nawab for a trip to what he termed as a
museum containing strange things that the Nawab might not have seen so far. The
Nawab said that he had seen all such museums as a royal guest as it was not his
maiden vist to London. However he desired to see what the other Indian visiter
might have missed. The collector replied that he would think over what might
have escaped the sight of earlier Indian visitors. The collector turned up again
after two days and told the Nawab that he had found the things worth seening by
Nawab and had collected required information about them. He again claimed to
lead the Nawab to see what others would have never seen. As the Nawab was
pleased, the colector asked him to hand over his passport as it was needed to
obtain a permit card for the Nawab to visit the place refered to by the
collector. He was perfectly right. A few days passed and he reappeared holding
permit cards for himself and the Nawab. He advised the Nawab to be ready, the
next morning, for a ride in a private vehicle to which the Nawab agreed. The
next day the Nawab set off accompanied by the collector. Having driven along the
city roads they took to a pathway through a jungle which gradually thickened as
they drove on. All along the way there was no other vehicle or pedestrian.
Having driven straight for about half an hour the Nawab enquired the collector
if it was an animal or a forest pond with rare species that his friend wanted to
show him. How long more they would drive on along that deserted pathway, he
asked. The collector removed his inquisitiveness by saying that they were just
approaching the destination and he did not want to show him an animal farm.
After a while they were in front of a huge gate resembling the entrance of a
grandeurous fort. There was militaary security all around. The collector got
down of the car to show the permit card and passport to the gatekeeper who kept
the documents with him and allowed them to enter the premises. However, he asked
them to leave their vehicle at that point itself and to pick up one of the cars
parked near the gate. Meanwhile, the Nawab noticed that the main gate was not of
a building and had no walls behind it but, instead , there stood on the two
sides thickly shrubs and thorny bushes. They drove on amidst the sight of thick
forest and array of dense trees. The Nawab startlingly asked as to when they
would reach the place they wanted to. The collector told him that they did not
need to drive further as the building they were upto was before their eyes. Then
he exclusively advised him to refrain from asking questions, from any person
while inside the building . He had to observe complete silence. However, he was
free to ask his guide any questions he liked. The Nawab agreed to follow his
advice. They parked the vehicle at a little distance from the main building and
walked on foot towards it. It was an enormous building with a corridor at the
entrance and a number of rooms behind it. The moment they entered the corridor a
moustached and bearded youth dressed in Arabian grab covering his head with a
scarf came out of one of the rooms. Subsequently, two other youths popped out .
The latter saluted the first to appear by pronouncing . Assalam Alaikum to be
responded with ' waAlaikum Asslam ' How are you ? The Nawab was astonished to
see this. When the three youth passed by him he felt a keen desire to converse
with them but the collector immediately reminded him of the instructions to be
followed while inside the building. Then the collector made the Nawab stand at
the door of a fully carpeted room where a group of students dressed in Arab
style was sitting. The teacher sat before them to teach the same as we see in
Islamic madrasahs. The students asked questions and aought clarifications from
the teacher on certain assues both in Arabic and English. The collector let him
take a round of all the rooms and explained the nature of education imparted to
students in each of them. The Nawab observed that it was a centre of knowledge
of all Islamic disciplines such as Quranic recitation and phonetics, semantics
and interpretation, books of traditions like Bukhari and Muslim, jurisprudence.
Philosophical terminology and logical debates. The Nawab was so baffled that he
desperately wanted to converse with a student who happened to pass by them but
for the promise made to the collector. Having seen this wonder the duo returned
to the city. The Nawab conveyed his impression to the collector that it was a
great religious institution where hidden and delicate aspects of Islam were
finely taught to the students. He asked the collector why the Muslim students
were kept in seclusion away from the civil life. To add to 'Nawab'satonishment
the collector told him that none of the students was a Muslim, they were all
Christians. Asked about the secret of this deception the collector revealed that
after their studies are over, those seemingly Muslim students are despatched to
the Muslim states, particularly the Middle East. They join prayers in a mosque
of a big city and inform the Muslms that they are European Muslims educated at
Al-Azhar University of Cairo and so are well versed in Islamic sciences. As
England lacks in Islamic seminaries and mosques where they could impart Islamic
education to people, they have taken to exile, they do not want a salary for the
time being but only two times daily bread, a shelter to live in and a pair of
clothes. They are ready to serve as Muazzin or Imam in a mosque or a tutor to
help children read the Qur'an, they can also serve in a larger institution as
teachers. When some of them are employed in a mosque or a madrasah the local
residents seek help in religious matter just out of trial to which they
satisfactorily respond. When there emerges a dispute over some religious matter
people stand on the side of such infidels. They divide Muslims on the disputes
matter and further heighten the differences so that Muslims could indulge in
quarrel among themselve. Therefore, the basic motto of this insitution is to
cause dissension among Muslims so that they may indulge in fist fighting among
themselves. This is evident from what a priest named Zavyar declaredin his
presidential address delivered before an annual meet of priests in middle
eastren churches. He said that christians could not defeat Muslims in religious
debate and, hence , they have given up the Idea of continuing the prectice of
debating. They have rather adopted the tractics of causing them to indulge in
fighting among themselves. This method is working well and, therefore, should be
carried on regularly. The establishment of this seminary is aimed at
undermining, all measures, the status of the prophet of Islam (peace be upon
him) so that the love and veneration which Muslims have for him in their hearts
recede, as it is impossible to win over the Muslims without achieving success in
the mission of eroding out the love for the Prophet (peace be upon him) from
Muslims' hearts. Differences among Muslims themselves alone can not give a death
blow to Islam.The Nawab was stunned to hear this evil design of treachery from
the collector who had hosted the trip to the unique Madrasah.
The relvelation made by the Nawab of chhatari gives a clear background to the
basic and motivs behind writing Satanic Verses and vicious intentions of the
author Salman Rushdie.
ref. The Final Verses