It is nearly for several decades that Salman Rushdie has been raged and hated by the Muslims across the world due to insulting the holy prophet (peace be upon him). What does bestowing the sir medal to him by the British court, mean? According to the British common law, the sir title and the knighthood one is being bestowed who to those has done prominent and valuable actions and services for the British for government.
Question:
What have Abbas Effendi (Abdul Baha) and Salman Rushdie done for Britain that are merited to receive the sir medals and been praised and appreciated?
Another example of bestowing this medal in the past:
At the midst of World War I, the British government bestowed the knighthood and the sir medal one to Abdul Baha, the leader of the Baha’is. Exactly when the British Colonial troops were destroying the Muslim Ottoman government and capturing Palestine lands in order to provide the opportunities of establishing the Israeli government, the leader of the Baha’i community was considered to be bestowed the knighthood and sir medals.
It is interesting to be known that one of those who received this medal was a bilateral spy called Oleg Gordievsky who was spying for both Russia and England.
The shameful and ignoble receipt of this medal from the occupying corps of England in Palestine under the British flag by Abdul Baha and comparing it with the free port from India called Rabindranat Tagore who wrote a letter for the British regent in India called Lord Chelms Ford when he was going to be bestowed: “I don’t want this medal which you are going to bestow to me. Pain and suffering are boiling from each line of the letter and will make your fibers fire.”
However; at that time, Abdul Baha wrote a letter to George V, the British emperor and prayed for him and asked God for his confirmation in order for his shadow to be expanded and continuous forever.
At the midst of the World War I, when usurp British troops encountered the lack of food supplies and were to be defeated entering Haifa city to overwhelm the Muslim Ottoman government in the Middle East, Abdul Baha figured out the issue and said to the British officers: “I have food supplies for your army.” Then he opened the doors of his warehouses in which he had stored a lot of food supplies before.
This issue caused the British corps to win in Palestine.
It is important to be noted that Abdul Baha has considered the dominance of the usurp British troops as setting up justice tents in the Palestine land and he thanks God for this great blessing !!![1]
Abdul Baha has issued a letter for the British emperor:
اللهم ايد الامبراطور الاعظم جورج الخامس عاهل انكلترا بتوفیقاتک الرحمانيه و آدم ظلها الظليل على هذا الاقليم الجلي
This issue caused Jamal Pasha, the ruler of the Ottoman government to be really furious, So he said: It depends on Abbas Effendi’s will to be hanged or killed.[2]
Source:
Dr. Moballeqi, Sima, Bahaism special issue periodical, 1st year, No. 7&8, Island 1387 S.H.
[۱] Narrated by the book Makatib, vol. 3, p.347.
[۲] Habib’s memoirs, vol. 1, p. 446.
