According to one source (Yoginder Sikand), from the 1970s onwards, as Ahl-i Hadith began to access to funds from Saudi Arabia, it began to be transformed and doctrinal differences with ‘Wahhabis' began to disappear so much so that the Ahl-i Hadith came to present itself as a carbon copy of Saudi-style ‘Wahhabism', with nothing to distinguish itself from it and upholding this form of Islam as normative.