Maulana Hali said:

Maulana Hali said:
“Although no village and no town and no city can be saved from the great influence of the time, there is such a holy and vital injunction of purdah to protect the chastity and honour of our families that no charm and appeal of the time can influence them as long as Muslims continue to follow Islam and do not free themselves from the bondage of Shari’ah. Certain Muslim countries have adopted the way of the Europeans in their style of home, food, dress and means of transportation viz. in every sphere of life. But as their following of Shari’ah did not let them free themselves from purdah, no European nation has even the one-tenth of whatever chastity and honour is still there among the Muslims of those countries. – Then, O my elders and youngers! Do not give up the injunction of purdah and its powerful norm as this is the only thing left in this last phase [of human life] in which we can take pride over all other nations of the world, and this is the only thing whereby the [Muslim] nation can keep intact chastity and sense of honour. Wa ma alaina illal balagh!”

After 1857 mutiny
Maulana Altaf Husain Hali, all educated Muslims of the subcontinent know, was an eminent thinker and statesman. With the help of his writings, oration and poetry, he undertook the task of shaking the Muslim Ummah to rise to the occasion at a time when after 1857 mutiny the British government had made a hell of the lives of Muslims in the subcontinent and the local majority population, in accordance with its time-serving tradition, also had gone with the occupying government (while this was the first great public revolt against the foreign rule, the voice of which was raised by Muslims). At that time Britain was also ruling over many Muslim countries. Therefore, seeing the zeal and enthusiasm of Muslims in 1857 as well as their ideological base, they accelerated their efforts to derail the publics of Muslim countries from their very foundation. The most effective weapon (in their hands) was cultural aggression. So well-to-do locales of Muslim countries adopted the colour of the ruling culture in their style of living, food habits and dress, to which Maulana Hali has pointed. But, despite this the Muslims not only did not give up their Shari’ah injunctions but remained committed to their faith and fundamental values; hijab or purdah was one of them.

The farsighted would’ve noted it
The great poet of Musaddas Hali expected this much of the Muslims in the subcontinent. The above mentioned writing is in fact a letter that Maulana Hali then addressed to the dignitaries of Panipat. This letter is there in Muqalat-e-Maulana Altaf Husain Hali. This letter has been reproduced here from Nida-e-Khilafat (Apr 17). The farsighted would have noted that this scholar of the 19th century has pointed in his letter to such a great wisdom. Association with fundamental values is the essence of the Ummah, and the opposite forces want to derail them from these values. Had Maulana Hali been living today, he would have taught us why the western nations oppose Islamic purdah. And what these nations are afraid of. Scholars of the west know that if the benefits and advantages of purdah are made known to women in the west, they would revolt against their traditional culture and then would turn to other injunctions of the Shari’ah as well. So [they think] at the very outset it is necessary to derail Muslims themselves from this great value, and make so much propaganda against purdah that non-Muslim nations may not form any positive opinion about it. Now the farsighted would have decided as to what they have to and should do.

13/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

“It’s the naked truth”

This is the headline of the editorial of Hindustan Times (May 3). Sub-head runs like this: Al Qaeda planning revealed in blue films; our beloved jihadis are adapting to the ways of the evil world.” And a gist of the text is: Though it is now one year since Bin Laden was killed, his Al Qaeda is live and active as usual. Bin Laden used to exploit video films to threaten the world and to disseminate his viewpoints. But now his followers are doing this work with blue films. Earlier they kept from liquor and women and this was their distinction. But now they are using these two things so as to not attract any suspicion that they might be jihadi terrorists.... A film based on obscene scenes has been discovered from the possession of jihadis. But on close scrutiny it is clear that Al Qaeda has plans to make 26/11-like attacks on entire Europe and America.... The editorial is based on a news item released by US media which Hindustan Times, like other English dailies, published a day earlier with much fanfare.

One of the dozens of stories
And this story is one of dozens of amusing stories CIA media published on the first “death anniversary” of Osama bin Laden and Indian newspapers and channels flashed on the minds of Indians on great scale (it could not be ascertained what the attitude of media in other countries was in this regard). These interesting stories started making headlines in the last week of April, which continued even after May 2. In some of them sensational revelations were made. “If Bin Laden had not been killed, Al Qaeda attacks would have hit many major cities in many countries including Pakistan.... A few days before his killing Bin Laden had assigned Ilyas Kashmiri the duty of killing Obama. Before the action in Abbottabad on May 2 (last year) many methods were considered. One method considered was to drop bombs on the hideout of Bin Laden.... Now the successor of Bin Laden is Ayman Al Zawahiri, who is in Pakistan and to kill him America can bombard Pakistan because now he is the biggest enemy of America.”

Characterlessness of Indian mediaHere condemnation of US course of action that it is a Satanic super power – it should do whatever it is doing - is not intended; the concern is the characterlessness of Indian media. If Indian TV channels beat the drum of US lies, it is the need of their TRP. If Hindi press and small English newspapers do this, it is their business. But what will you say if a big newspaper like Hindustan Times does the same? Although this paper is also run by a corporate, as a mainstream media it is expected that it would feel ashamed (of publishing such stories) and work with some honesty. But the readers have seen that it is presenting the naked lies of US as “naked truth”. It did not challenge the US story from any angle; treated it as gospel truth. – And the mention here of the meanness of Indian media is because this is the media of the country that is striving for emerging as the world power. – Now it is useless to say something to the Government of India in this regard. However it would be better if the Chairman of Press Council of India Justice Markandey Katju, who is making effort to better the moral standard of Indian media, pays attention toward it.

10/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

Playing with fire in the valley of snow

There had been regular news from the Kashmir valley that government agencies are making big efforts to get the Muslims there indulged in sectarian shadow boxing. Now detailed reports in The Times of India (Apr 25) and Mail Today (Apr 28) confirmed the news and also that these efforts are open and not secret. The strategy is the same old one viz. to create a rift between the Barelvis and Deobandis. However, Sufism, “Liberal Islam” and the concept of Wahdat-e-Adyaan have been added to the Barelvis while the terms Wahabism, Salfism and Ahle Hadith have been included in the Deobandism. Government agencies are telling the world that Wahabism has taken strong roots in the valley, and the Barelvis too have come to the fore to counter them. According to the media, they are holding big fairs at graves. Old graves are being decorated. Roads are being constructed to link the graves that are inaccessible for common people. But the Kashmiri people and media persons are witnessing that all these projects of Barelvis are being funded by government agencies. High government officials are openly participating in the programmes organised by Barelvis.

Chain of events

This fresh mischief of government agencies is nothing new. However, they refreshed the chain of events in the mind: how after Independence rift was created among Muslims by creating sectarian conflicts, how fatwa of kufr was aired. Shia-Sunni riots were a very successful weapon in their hands; but this weapon was used only where Shia population was considerable. In the rest of the country Sunnis were instigated to fight. And for that matter, to weaken the Muslim Ummah by getting them fight on the bases of sects and schools of thought was a very old method of anti-Islam forces. In the past this strategy was learnt from British secret agencies when these agencies, with a view to occupy Muslim countries, first created sectarian conflicts over there and then caused different moral evils among the new generations by making them inactive and characterless. – Now the reason of development of this art today is that this work is being done in the guidance of Israeli agencies. All the methodologies, terminologies and strategies are coming therefrom. After having made attempts to get “good Taliban” fight with “bad Taliban” in Afghanistan, now efforts are being made to get “good Barelvis” fight with “dangerous Wahabis” in Kashmir.

The leadership of Kashmir is awake

But in due accordance with expectation, the Muslim leadership of Kashmir has taken timely notice of this mischief. Therefore, the Ulema and leaders of all sects and schools of thought have condemned it. Although, the media is as usual promoting the government cause yet in certain reports the government is being warned against this playing with fire. In the above mentioned reports, though the line is that of the government yet the government has been warned to keep from this dangerous move. The government has seen the result of patronising the Bhindranwales to divide the Akalis and create a rift among the Sikhs in the Punjab. Now it should not do the same in Kashmir. It will neither solve the Kashmir issue nor win the confidence of people there. – And for that matter there is a message in it for general Muslim leaders. Whatever government agencies are doing in Kashmir is part of the same governmental course of action which has been prepared with the support of foreign agencies to weaken and harass the entire Muslim Ummah. Ruining Muslim families by targeting Muslim youth in the name of terrorism and getting the Muslims in Kashmir fight on sectarian grounds are two parts of the same strategy.

07/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

Osama’s images and US courts

A US district court has rejected the lawsuit seeking to release the images of American raid on the reported hideout of Osama Bin Laden at Abbottabad in Pakistan. While rejecting the petition, the court said that the courts must respect the conclusion President Obama and the US military have drawn from this (military) action. US President and military are of the opinion that releasing these images could spur violence against US troops and other Americans travelling abroad. – The news is not just this as certain English dailies of Apr 28 have published this news. The demand to release the images of the raid on May 1 and 2 (last year) was raised earlier also; certain US citizens also had raised this demand; but the US administration rejected it then also saying that looking at these images of Bin Laden, Muslims world over will get provoked and violently target Americans. It is as if the purpose behind Americans’ no to release the images was to say to the world that the person killed during the raid was no other than Osama Bin Laden, whose image is well known in the world. And that these images would provoke the Muslims.

But the matter is not so

But the matter is not so. The real fright of US is that if the images are released, with howsoever Photoshop mastery, the reality of whole drama will come to light: the world will come to know that neither the person killed was Bin Laden nor the house raided was the hideout of Bin Laden. The US already did an amiss soon after the raid by releasing the image of a wounded dead body. That person was in no way Osama. People started to laugh at it. Therefore the image was withdrawn. Then another image of a bearded person watching the TV in a house, shot from behind, was released. This person did not seem even one-fourth of Bin Laden. And the manner the story of throwing into the sea the “dead body” of Bin Laden without showing it to anybody was publicised also revealed the reality of the drama. One more meaningful event came to light recently. The US ordered its faithful Government of Pakistan to demolish the house which was raided to kill Bin Laden. The Pakistani faithfuls immediately carried out the order. In fact, Washington was afraid that if the house remained intact and some unbiased enquiry team or honest media team reached there, its whole lie would come to light.

Why is the US worried?

Had there been any truth in the US story, that house would have been preserved as a memorial with a big board saying “this is the house where the greatest enemy of humanity was killed”. But despite the US being a “super power” the ease-loving world believes every lie of it; some new faithful countries are busy proving its lie as truth; it is afraid because it is guilty and suffering from guilt consciousness. Therefore, while being “super power”, it wants to remove every bit of evidence of its crime. Because, if the secret is revealed, the reality of so-called “9/11” will also come to light. Not only this, the other countries which, to follow the US suit, are playing the drama of the same sort and on the basis of which the propaganda of “Islamic terrorism” is being made day in and day out, will also get worried, and the US doesn’t want them worried because they have to do much work for it. But, howsoever it wants others to work for it and how much it endeavours itself, the secret of its lies is soon to be revealed. The Americans themselves, as per their tradition, will confess their lies after twenty years; but even before this some Wikileaks might reveal the secret of American lies.

04/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

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The source of income of a Muslim country

“Question: You allowed pork and liquor to be served in Maldives. The Islamic elements in the country protested against serving them. Did this play a role in your ouster?

“Answer: We have a million European tourists coming to our country every year and so we have been selling pork and liquor. They (Islamic elements) wanted to stop us giving permission to serve pork and liquor. This coup was very well-managed and staged.” This reply of the deposed president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed to the question posed by The Indian Express (Apr 22) throws full light on the situation prevailing in this small Muslim country. Nasheed confesses that the sale and use of these two haram (prohibited) things is allowed in the Maldives (which in fact has been there since the regime of Mamoon Abdul Qayyum) and he also clarified why this is allowed – to earn money to meet the needs of the State – and also that this was a big factor behind the public outrage against him. When Mohamed Nasheed was in New Delhi in the third week of April, the entire team of The Indian Express consisting of over a dozen editors, column writers and reporters talked to him in detail in the office of the Express.

Why this commendation?

And this warm talk was part of the commendation of Nasheed that has been going on in India since the very next day of change of guard in the Maldives. Though the Government of India might not have paid attention to it according to its new (political) mathematics, the Indian media has been eulogising him since he first raised his voice against “the Salafis and Wahhabis taking roots in the Maldives” and “the danger of Islamic terrorism” in the country. These views of Nasheed must have been amusing the powers-that-be, but the media is not able to hiding its joy and pleasure. In the beginning we thought we might be in the wrong in seeing through Nasheed’s views because he is after all a Muslim and cannot say such words as to please anti-Islam forces. But when the reporter of the English daily The Hindu particularly known for his reports on “Islamic terrorism” called on Nasheed and his interview was published in The Hindu (April 20), all our hope was gone. We came to believe that this man restive for power is all out to play in the hands of anti-Islam forces and to be a Zainul Abedin Ben Ali of Tunisia.

Successful experiment of enemies

Declaring characterless persons as rulers of Muslim countries, imposing them on Muslim masses and getting Islamic commandments and values wiped through them is the very successful experiment of anti-Islam imperialist forces. This experiment was first made by Kamal Pasha in Turkey in the third decade of the 20^th century. After the success of this experiment, this strategy was used against traditional kingships. Then experiment was made on army dictators, which proved successful. As today is the age of democracy, the strategists of west have been facing some difficulty though this democracy was devised by them. In fact Arab Spring has worried them, seeing their tables turned. Therefore the strategy now is to defame the activities of practising, self-respecting and upright Muslims by declaring them as Salfism, Wahhabism, activism, Talibanism, outmoded and ignorance, rather make a propaganda of their being terrorist, and then push forward power-hungry persons in the name of Sufism and “liberal Islam” and through them dye Muslim States with the immoral culture of the west. It seems Nasheed has studied this policy of anti-Islam forces well and is expressing through Indian media his willingness to work for them

01/05/12 khabar-O-Nazar by Parwaaz Rahmani, sehrozaDAWAT, translated by: Abu Yusuf

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