[Reader-list] Tableeghi Jamaat leaders denounce gunpoint Sharia

[yasir ~يا سر]

it was a little slow in coming. but condemnation of taliban has come
across the board, religious apolitical as well as secular
quasi-religious political



On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Vikhar Ahmed <vikharjnu at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very interesting development because as the journalist points out
> - the TJ's venture into anything controversial has no precedent. I have
> always been curious as to what would happen if TJ started taking a prominent
> and active stand on political issues. The strength and the amazingly wide
> network of the TJ rests on the fact that they have been purposely apolitical
> with an obsessive concern with the private religious sphere of an
> individual. While I don't agree with this parochial obsession, it is obvious
> that they have spread so wide because of their complete disassociation with
> developing a perspective on any political issue.
>
> - Vikhar.
>
>
> On 5/9/09, M Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Tableeghi Jamaat leaders denounce gunpoint Sharia
>> By Inamullah Khattak
>> Monday, 27 Apr, 2009
>>
>> ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented move, top leaders of the Tableeghi
>> Jamaat have denounced enforcement of Sharia at gunpoint, religious
>> extremism, militancy and terrorism.
>>
>> Leaders of the Jamaat, who scrupulously avoid speaking on
>> controversial issues, also called for promoting inter-faith harmony,
>> tolerance, human rights, social justice and peace.
>>
>> They were speaking at the conclusion of a three-day congregation near
>> here on Monday. ‘Shariah cannot be enforced at gunpoint,’ declared
>> Haji Abdul Wahab, Amir of the Tableeghi Jamaat, Pakistan.
>>
>> Had that been the case, Allah Almighty would have sent fierce angels
>> to protect prophets and enforce their faiths, he said.
>>
>> The 90-year-old scholar, who left his job as sessions judge in
>> pre-partition India and joined the Jamaat, cited the example of
>> Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), said the Holy Prophet never used force.
>> Instead he spread the word of God only by peaceful means.
>>
>> Haji Abdul Wahab also condemned extremism and militancy in the name of
>> Islam, apparently a reference to the growing trend of Talibanisation
>> and enforcement of Shria in Swat and other areas in the NWFP.
>>
>> The congregation of tens of thousands of people was also addressed by
>> Maulana Jamshaid, Maulana Mohammad Ahmed and Mualana Fahim.
>>
>> ‘Muslims should preach peace, brotherhood and tolerance across the
>> world, including Israel. They must avoid imposing their creed or faith
>> by force because Islam is a religion of peace and promotes
>> tranquillity,’ another scholar told the mammoth gathering.
>>
>> Maulana Mohammad Ahmed, a former educationist, said that Muslims
>> should inspire adherents of other religions by their good moral and
>> social behaviour. People who thought that Shariah could be imposed by
>> force were simpletons, he said.
>>
>> ‘We should reach out to all human beings and guide them out of
>> darkness. Before the advent of Islam, people were so inflexible that
>> they used to bury their daughters without remorse. (But they changed.)
>> Remember …human beings are above other creations of God,’ said Maulana
>> Ahmed, the custodian of the largest seminary of the Tableeghi school
>> of thought in Raiwind near Lahore.
>>
>> The main message of the gathering was that Islam could not be confined
>> to Pakistan or any other geographical area and there was a need to
>> spread the religion of peace in every corner of the world.
>>
>> People from across the country who had converged there pledged that
>> they would continue the mission of spreading Islam across the world.
>>
>>
>> http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/12-tableeghi-jamaat-leaders-denounce-gunpoint-sharia--bi-12
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