“Day of Tolerance” marked across Pakistan with spirit

By: Salman Alvi

RAWALPINDI, October 10: “Day of Tolerance” as announced by Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, chief of the Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya, Pakistan was observed throughout the country including Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas with national spirit on Friday.

On this occasion, Ulama-e-Karam during Friday congregations in all cities and town urged the need of promoting brotherhood, fraternity, sacrifice and tolerance and fervently appealed the countrymen to make joint practical struggle with unity to thwart the conspiracies of enemies of the religion and nation.

Delivering special address on the “Day of Tolerance,” the Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi said solution to problems lay not in oppression and violence but in patience and tolerance. He said that at present whole world of humanity is confronted with oppression and terrorism; colonial powers plus Zionists and Hindus are utilizing all their energies aimed at causing one brother to fight the other and creating mischief in a bid to confront the world with unrest, ergo, we would have to work with sagacity and avoid unreasonable blaming as it causes benefit to not only the enemy but also the real terrorists and perpetrators succeed in escaping thereby.

Agha Moosavi stressed the need of promoting peace as well as its maintenance, which is possible only when all respect each other. He said as Pakistan which came into being in the name of Islam is a fruit of exemplary unity of all schools of thought therefore responsibility of its survival, security, integrity and solidarity comes equally to the shoulders of all.

He said playing just role is the greater responsibility of media because it is incontestable that terrorism is oppression, and support of an oppressor whether it is by pen or tongue, it is great sin. He said affiliating terrorism with any faith, sect or state is not right because the whole world abhors it. He said we have to give preference to unity plus interests of nation and the country above every thing, which is possible only when all parties: government, opposition, parliament, administration and media would work justly keeping aside expediencies.

The TNFJ chief said strong condemnation from all schools of thought for the Islamabad incident proved that there is no maktabi and maslaki conflict in Pakistan, and that disputes of outlawed outfits could never be termed as Maktabi and Maslaki conflict. He made clear that our perpetual enemy by conducting killings & rapacity and creating dissention desires to give it a Maslaki and sectarian color; its topmost objective is to harm Islam, Pakistan and Muslims, but all schools of thought will prove by their deed that no power, howsoever big, could create dissension among us, he asserted.

Congregations were also held in the twin cities: Islamabad and Rawalpindi marking the “Day of Tolerance.” Allama Syed Mohsin Al-Hussaini while addressing Friday congregation at Jame Masjid Qasr-e-Abu Talib (AS) expressed his concern over giving freed hand by the government to the terrorists following the Islamabad incident which resulted in destruction of not only private property but also setting on fire the holy shrine of Hazrat Bari Imam’s (RA) father, Hazrat Sakhi Mahmood Badshah (RA) situated in the heart of Islamabad, Mosque and Imambargah adjacent to it, dozens of copies of holy Quran and other relics.

He said that above this oppression was the encouragement of miscreants through concealing this news by media. He said those who trample the honor of Buzurgan-e-Din are enemies to human values as well as those who torch holy Quran are foes to Sha’a’ir Ullah whose punishment is prescribed in Quran & Sunnah and Constitution of Pakistan.

Allama Al-Hussaini said Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali should had to condemn this heinous act of miscreants by visiting the Shrine on his return to home besides issuing orders of immediate action against the culprits. He held Islamabad administration responsible for the torching, and destruction. He demanded ATO implementation and clamp of banned outfits working with new names.

Congregations were also witnessed at Masjid Kazmiiyah Chuhr Harpal, Jame Masjid Shah Chan Charagh, Danishgah Jafariya, Masjid & Imambargah Qasr-e-Shabbir, Zainabiyah Hall, Imambargah Zainul Aza, Haideriah Masjid, Jamiatul Mosheer, Masjid Isna Ashari, Masjid Sakinah, Masjid & Imambargah Jagir-e-Ali Akbar, Masjid Al-Qaim, Qasr-e-Batool, Imambargah Sajjadiyah, Masjid-e-Tuba, Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra, Masjid Imam Ali Naqi, Qasr-e-Imam Moosa Kazim, Jame Masjid Jafariya and Jamia Waliul Asr addressing which the scholars highlighted the importance of tolerance.

Meanwhile, according to reports reaching TNFJ headquarters, congregations and gatherings marking the “Day of Tolerance” were also held in Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta, Bhakkar, Dera Ghazi Khan, Haiderabad, Kherpur Miras, Faisalabad, Multan, Toba Tek Singh, Jhang, Bhawalpur, Sanghar, Badin, Larkana, Gilgit, Bagh, Muzaffarabad, Mir pur and Qasoor.

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