Bari Imam Islamabad Incident was very tragic and heartrending event. Chief of TNFJ Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi was scheduled to deliver address to a Majlis-e-Aza there; and as soon as there was an announcement ‘he is coming to address’ a powerful bomb went off. Despite all this Moosavi not only addressed the Majlis-e-Aza but also led the Azadari procession monitoring its safe culmination. Hamid Moosavi is regularly addressing this Majlis for the last quarter a century. Anti-motherland lobbies tried to give it different colors; one of them is daily Dawn which published an article titled: “Sectarianism: failure of security forces”. Like many others, me too expressed concern over it being a reader. I telephoned, talked to Editor daily Dawn Mr Ziauddin and protested over this injustice. Mr Ziauddin said to me, articles are published; you should answer this item, I promise you to publish your piece of writing ‘word-to-word’. But when I dispatched the article in response, neither it was given due place i.e. article segment rather it was put in the letters section, nor its original text was published.

The text published in Dawn, and the original script, are as under respectively:


Text in Dawn:

Original text:

BARI IMAM INCIDENT AND ANALYSES
CONTRARY TO REALITIES

By: Wajih-ul-Hassan Syed

Shocked to read an article captioned “Sectarianism: Failure of security forces” wrote by columnist Anwer Sindhu and published in the June 10 issue of Daily DAWN Islamabad. It was more painful to know that this columnist who analysed the Bari Imam incident, as he himself admitted, had reached after two days of the incident and while analysing the most sensitive topic without knowing or asking anything from anyone based his write-up on imagination and trampled the high values of journalism rather labelled a characteristic and moderate personality, enjoying a high status within and outside the community, as radical thus violating the moral frontiers.

The analysis of the columnist is not based on realities for reasons mentioned above that he was out of the country at the time of blast. There is a saying that there is a difference of four “angusht” (about three inches) between the truth and a lie, what is heard is a lie and what is seen is truth. By terming the Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi radical, the columnist, no doubt, is speaking the language of chief of the international Taghoot. A Muslim who follows the religion cannot be radical irrespective to his belonging to any Maktab or a country. Islam is commensurate with integrity, faith and peace and the columnist is either unaware of the personality of Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi or is biased otherwise he would not have used wrong wordings with his name.

It is a recognised fact that Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-e-Jafariya is the only representative organisation of Maktab-e-Tashayyo that is neither violent nor radical; if it had been so then it would have been declared restricted. The Bari Imam incident that took place in Islamabad on May 27 is not the first incident in the twin cities rather many incidents had taken place out of which reference of only two is necessary. One is Masjid Shah-e-Najaf incident and the other is assassination of Aun Muhammad Rizvi. Had Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi not tackled the post-incident situation on both the occasions, then Rawalpindi and Islamabad would have turned into ashes. Had he not controlled the zaireen and participants of Majlis-e-Aza gathered at Bari Imam from all over the country after the worst incident in the history of the Federal Capital on May 27, then the flames of the fire may have touched the corridors of powers. A private TV channel telecast the news to the whole world that Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi kept on sitting at the place of incident, he not only addressed the Majlis-e-Aza but also led the Azadari procession and monitored its safe conclusion, and owing to his presence there, Pakistan remained saved from being set on fire.

There is duplicity in the analysis of the columnist. Writing such a personality as radical, his pen would have shattered. By radical if it is meant to follow the Godly principles and religion, then the Anbia Karam (prophets) and their pious inheritors also followed that path, were they radicals also? Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, who according to the columnist was scheduled to make a rare appearance, is regularly addressing this Majlis for the last quarter a century. This year also when his name was called to address, the blast took place instantly. Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi goes wherever he has to go, he is Mard-e-Zindan as well as Mard-e-Maidan. However, he is not visible to those journalists who are fond of corridors of powers and follow yellow journalism, because be’sal faqeer ala babil ameer that faqeer is worst who goes at the doors of rich. The Mazar Mubarik of Hazrat Bari Imam was given in the control of Auqaf Department in Ayub era. The Bari Imam’s Gaddi-Nashin mentioned by the columnist is not a Syed and belongs to another province and he always said that he was a devotee of Bari Sarkar and his family. That is why he was buried in the other province. While Moosavi has neither claimed to be Gaddi-Nashin nor he joined such a race rather he always feels honoured for being a Boria-Nashin under Al-Faqaro Fakhari.

Family of Bari Sarkar and Agha Hamid Ali Shah is the same; Bari Imam is his forefather in relationship. The columnist has provided the proof of his unawareness and low knowledge while analysing terrorism. He should be aware that as per saying of Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, a terrorist keeps no Maslak or a country; he is only a terrorist and this 20-year old point of view of his, is being repeated today by powers that be and the journalistic circles. By the Grace of God there is no sectarianism in Pakistan. God forbid, if it happens then this fire would even reach the place where the said columnist sits and writes columns.

Efforts are being made for the last 25 years to divide Muslim States into sects, fan sectarianism, and pitch the brother against brother but the Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi has thwarted the enemy conspiracy through mutual brotherhood and understanding and such condemnable designs would also be thwarted in future. If raising voice against the oppressors is radicalism, then like righteous persons of every era, Agha Hamid Moosavi is also a front-runner in saying Kalma-e-Haq because he is following the saying of Imam Barhaq and Muslim Khalifa-e-Rashid Hazrat Ali ibne Abi Talib (A.S.) that goes: Be enemies of the oppressor and help the oppressed. Rasool-e-Akram (SAW) during the short span of last 10 years fought 105 wars in defence of Islam, is he a radical in the eyes of the said columnist?

Giving a wrong analysis on the topic of sectarianism, the columnist declared the highlighting the sacrifice of Nawasa-e-Rasool increasingly at PTV during Muharram as one of the reasons behind Bari Imam incident that unveils his enmity with Syed-us-Shuhada. While on the contrary, set aside Muslims, every human being is imbibed to the blessings of Hussain (A.S.) who belongs to all, who belongs to Allah, because Imam Aali Muqam highlighted and defended the whole human sanctity along with Islam. Not aware of facts, the columnist expressing his surprise has admitted the fact that Sunni-Shia Muslims fighting on the issue of Khilafat assemble at the mazars of religious personalities. He should be aware that not only on mazars, they are together from nursery to offices, from creation of the motherland to defence of religion, motherland, and from home to Bait Allah Sharif for Haj rituals without any discrimination on the basis of colour, creed, region and language. As far as the differences are concerned, the Holy Prophet (SAW) has declared these a blessing for the Ummah. Hazrat Abu Bakr, Hazrat Omer and Hazrat Usman not only consulted Khalifa-tul-Muslimeen Hazrat Ali (A.S.) but Hazrat Omer stated at more than 70 places that God forbid, a difficult moment would not come to me, if Ali (A.S.) is not there to resolve it.

The columnist should be aware that Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-e-Jafariya is the only representative organisation of the Maktab-e-Tashayyo that had took over Islamabad Secretariat but did not adopt a violent policy rather police brutality took the life of our worker Muhammad Hussain Shad. Then 8-month long agitation was launched from the platform of Hussaini Mohaz in the era of Zia’s martial law in which 150 Ahle Sunnat and 8 Christians courted arrest along with Ahle Tashayyo expressing their solidarity with the TNFJ. The most important feature of this long agitation was that no cart was overturned and no shop or vehicle was set on fire.

Tehreek Nafaz Fiqh-e-Jafariya is identified through its exemplary policy of peace and tranquillity under which Hafta-e-Wahdat and Akhuwat is observed in the month of Rabiul Awwal and all Sunni-Shia brethren observe the memory of Nana and Nawasa. The columnist should have obtained correct information first before giving his comments on the Bari Imam incident. Attaching any innocent person with sinful persons is oppression. As far as the personality of Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi is concerned, his moderation is crystal clear. The columnist should be aware that the way Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi presented his suggestions to every government for rooting out terrorism and presented Moosavi Peace Formula comprising 850 pages highlighting reasons and measures to root out terrorism in the Supreme Court of Pakistan when the then Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had taken suo moto notice of terrorism. President Pervez Musharraf had enforced Anti-Terrorism Act keeping Moosavi Peace Formula in view and put restrictions on radical organisations that were pushing the country towards fire of terrorism on the basis of foreign aid, all these historic and courageous steps owe to the personality of Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi. It is a separate issue that the Anti-Terrorism Act introduced by President Musharraf is not implemented and the restricted groups are not only working with new names rather are included in political alliances, government and opposition committees and government Councils. Journalists like the said columnist have played a big role in promoting such groups the biggest proof of which is that he has indecently and heinously tried to make ‘mehram’ ‘mujrim’ with putting only one dot while analysing the Bari Imam incident.

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