Nobody has right to alter injunctions of Islam: Siraj

LAHORE

Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has said nobody on earth has the right to alter the injunctions of Allah and His Prophet (PBUH), what to speak of Islamic scholars, no Muslim could even think of that.

Delivering Friday sermon at Mansoora Masjid, he said Islam has always been the religion of peace and love in all respects. He said if the prime minister announced withdrawing the government appeal in the Supreme Court against the Shariat Court's decision to ban interest/usury from the economy, not only terrorism and disruption in the country would come to an end but also country’s politics, economy and social order would fall back on the right track.

The JI ameer said Jehad was the struggle to free humanity from tyranny and oppression and to promote faith, peace and love. He said Islam termed the unjust killing of a single individual the murder of entire humanity, and conversely, saving a single human life as saving the entire humanity. Thus, linking Islam with terrorism and disruption was sheer ignorance. He said every Muslim was a Mujahid and was struggling for peace. Stating that the JI would continue its drive against interest, Sirajul Haq said the Constitutions of 1958, 1962 and finally 1973 had declared interest prohibited and called for its immediate end. The article 38-F of the 1973 Constitution provided for immediate abolition of interest-based economy. In 1991, the Shariat Court had issued a verdict on this issue but the government challenged the verdict by filing an appeal in the Supreme Court against it, and the Supreme Court issued a stay order, he said, adding that as a result, the interest-based system still prevailed in the country.