Siraj urges ulema for unity against US, ‘colonial powers’

LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Ameer Sirajul Haq said the ‘colonial powers’ under the US umbrella had collectively invaded the Muslims all over the world and it was time the Ummah united to face the enemy.

Blood of Muslims was being shed everywhere like water but irony is that they were accused of terrorism. Conspiracies were being hatched to place the Qibla-e-Awwal of Muslims under permanent Zionists’ control, he said while addressing noted ulema and mashaikh at a dinner Thursday hosted in their honour at Mansoora. He said 57 Muslim states and more than one a half billion Muslims in the world were facing isolation as the Muslim rulers stood divided and majority of them were lackeys of the US. He said Bangladesh, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Pakistan were the target of the enemy forces. In such a situation, it was the responsibility of the ulema and mashaikh to set aside their petty differences, stand united to face the enemy and provide leadership to the masses. Sirajul Haq said it was high time that Muslim Ummah learnt a lesson from the Fall of Dhaka, the fall of Baghdad and Gharnata. He said a nuclear bomb or the politicians taking dictation from Washington could not defend the country which could be defended by the ulema and the mashaikh. He said colonial powers wanted to pull out the love of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) from the hearts of Muslims, adding that Muslims would have to safeguard the sanctity of Holy Prophet (PBUH) at every cost as this was the basis of their faith. He said country’s rulers working as US agents had mysteriously tried to change the oath related to Khatm-e-Nubuwwat in the law thus challenging the sense of religious dignity of the people.

However, he said the people had foiled their conspiracy by rising above their minor differences. He termed the factional and sectarian differences among ulema the biggest hurdle in the enforcement of the Islamic system. He said if the ulema and the khateebs gave the message of unity instead of dissent, the secular and liberal elements could not face the religious forces. He said the secular and irreligious elements were marketing falsehood and there was no reason why the Islamic and ideological forces should not stand united for the supremacy of truth.

He said nature had gifted Pakistan with unlimited resources and if the Islam lovers became one another’s supporter, the country could be freed from foreign pressure and the US slavery. He, however, said in order to achieve this goal, the ulema should consider themselves as Imams (leaders) of the Ummah instead of the representative of any ‘maslak’. He said the rule of Shariah and Khilafat system was the most important Sunnah of Holy Prophet (PBUH).

The country was being ruled by the slaves of the US and Britain. For the rulers, there was no difference between a mosque and a temple. They had been ridiculing Islam and termed the practicing Muslims ‘terrorists’ when they themselves were the biggest terrorists, he added. He said the rulers had put the future of the nation at stake by putting the objectives of the establishment of Pakistan on the backburner. The people were not free to live in line with country’s ideology. The masses could not escape from interest despite their ardent wish and the courts were deciding the cases under the tyrannical British law instead of the Quran and Sunnah. He said Europe, the US and the West, the so-called lovers of democracy considered ‘political Islam’ as a biggest threat to them while ‘sufi Islam’ was their best choice.

He said the Western powers had not allowed Dr Morsi’s elected government to function in Egypt nor could they digest the electoral victory of the Islam-lovers in Algeria and Palestine. As such, he said, the ulema and the mashaikh would have to unite to lead the masses.