The policy of the British.

A general review of the British policy in Sudan. The Khedive Isma'il was preparing to annex Sudan, but there was no mention of this to the English, as if they were unaware of it.

It is said that the Wali of Egypt, Isma'il Pasha, visited Sudan in 1870. He announced in Khartoum that he intended to withdraw his armies and government officials from that country. The tribes and Sudanese notables from all directions implored him not to do so and dissuaded him from his resolve, the reason for which has not been revealed to us until today. Is there not in this evidence of the Sudanese's inclination and eagerness for Egyptian rule over them?

Isma'il Pasha, after the request made by the notables and dignitaries, appointed the Coptic Aristeed Effendi as governor of that country. So the notables went to complain and to stir up sedition. To the extent that they said to him: "We do not want a Christian to rule our country."

So Aristeed did what Gordon and others did. Rather, he sat and said to them: "If you have risen against the government of the Wali whom I have appointed, then spill my blood." And they spilled it.

A spark of anger and they turned sedition into obedience and pledged allegiance to the government, and security and comfort were established throughout Sudan.

And this is the extent to which they acted when the revolution broke out in all parts of the country. If we take its history, we know that it was like those who claim to be reformers in this era. Since Kitchener entered Sudan until today, these reformers have been in charge of that country, and each of them has gathered a group of people around him, not because they are righteous, but because some of the Sudanese were able to take them by the forelock and confront the Sudanese officer whom Ruf'i, the ruler of Sudan, sent to Jihd Ahmed when he rose up and called for his support. So the Sudanese officer arrived at the place where he was with his companions, and he despised him and left him. Or if he wanted to punish him or retaliate, the matter would not have been difficult. But the sedition that began with...

We saw it and the Sudanese scholars rejected it, and it turned them all into a fire.