Moosavi says piety is apparel of faqr

By: Salman Alvi

RAWALPINDI, June 16: Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, the chief of the Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya Pakistan, has said that divine representatives and saints of religion have always termed ‘faqr’ a source of pride for themselves, and piety & abstinence is apparel of faqr while its zenith and acme is going against sensual desires.

He made his remarks while uttering praying words after Chadar-Poshi at the grave of Hazrat Sakhi Mahmoud Sarkar Moosavi Al-Mash’hadi (respected father of Hazrat Bari Imam) in Aabpara, Islamabad on the occasion of his visit there. Central office bearers of TNFJ and different scholars accompanied him.

Moosavi said that according to Quran & Sunnah the holy family of Muhammad (SAW) & Aal-e-Muhammad (AS) is the most excellent of all families of the universe. Sakhi Mahmoud Badshah is the scion and saintly figure of the same great and respect-worthy family, he added.

He asserted that a wali and faqeer not only goes against carnal desires rather he at first kills his “I” and “ego”, because the doer of the same is considered most lofty human being. He said favors and bounties are gushed out of prophets, Auliya-e-Kiram as well as their mausoleums because they annihilating themselves provide the creation ‘existence and welfare’. A saying of a salih goes: there is no permanence in six things: shadow of cloud, friendship of mischievous, unlawful wealth, love with some other than Allah, oppression of an oppressor and false praise. Therefore, abstinence from them is obligatory.

The TNFJ chief said if Muslim Ummah adopt this lesson of faqr then highhandedness and tyrannies of colonial protagonist and international terrorist could be tackled who has made the life of oppressed hell and has gone forward in Muslim enmity to this extent that UN like international body is helpless in front of him. While Muslim rulers are even ready to polish his shoes just for permanence of their rule, though the modesty of Islamic world should wake up because months have passed since US aggressive occupation over Iraq but situation is deteriorated, and there exists no such institution in the world which could inquire America that where are those Weapons of Mass Destruction under which pretext it attacked Iraq? But on the contrary, now US is engaged in preparation of new tactics along with its stooges.

In such a situation, the Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi said, if OIC wants to get its existence recognized then it has to adopt decisive joint strategy. Similarly, if UN desires restoration of its dignity it will have to get US punished after being declared War Criminal. Otherwise the whole world should bear in mind that oppression has to be annihilated and justice & equity has to prevail.

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