Five-day Aza-i-Fatimiya kicks off with grand majalis in Pak

By: Salman Alvi

RAWALPINDI: Majalis in connection with the nationwide five-day Ayyam Aza-e-Fatimiya from July 19-23 marking the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Syeda Fatima Zahra (S.A.) began throughout the country on Monday in line with the announcement made by Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi.

Syed Qamar Haider Zaidi, Central Secretary Information of Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya, Pakistan while addressing the Majlis-e-Shahadat organised by MSO at Hussaini Manzil Rawalpindi said, the honour and dignity bestowed on the female gender in Islam does not exist in any other religion.

He said woman had been considered the sign of obscenity and bad luck and was used to be buried alive and sold out like a tradable commodity but the true religion of Islam not only declared all such imaginations as evil but also considered her a human being as a man and human-builder and guaranteed her honour and dignity giving her individual and collective rights.

On the contrary, he said, colonial powers, Zionists and Hindus considered woman a source of leisure. He said westernised woman is unaware of this heinous conspiracy against her and has become a tool in the hands of colonial capitalists choosing the path of indecency.

Zaidi said Islam highlighted the greatness of woman owing to the blessed and pious personality of Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.) and declared the mother’s lap as the first institution and made her feet a source of winning the heaven.

He said Khatoon-e-Jannat is that pious a personality whose mother is Syeda-e-Bat’haa Hazrat Khadija-tul-Kubra (S.A.), father Chief of the Prophets Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (SAW), husband Sher-e-Khuda (Lion of Allah) Hazrat Ali Al-Murtaza (A.S.), daughters Zainab (S.A.) and Kulsoom (S.A.) an example for women, and sons are Hassan (A.S.) and Hussain (A.S.) – resort and refuge of oppressed of the world -, while she herself has been declared Syeda-o-Sardar (Leader) of women in the universe. He said Hazrat Fatima Zahra (S.A.) enjoys singular status in piousness, Taharat, worship, greatness rather in every field of life.

The TNFJ Central Secretary Information strongly demanded from the government to present special programmes on Radio and Television on the occasion of Ayyam-i-Aza-i-Fatimiya (Fatimiya Mourning Days) and give full coverage to the main processions to be taken out throughout the country in connection with the Martyrdom Anniversary of Khatoon-e-Jannat on the electronic media.

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