RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi has announced that Hafta-e-Wilayat (Wilayah Week) will be observed throughout the country from 18-25 Zilhij with honour, respect, love and devotion.

Big rallies, Mahafil, seminars and conferences will be organised on this occasion. A meeting of Markazi Hafta-e-Wilayat Committee of TNFJ was held to organise programmes of the Hafta-e-Wilayat throughout the country. Markazi Convener M.H. Jafri presided over the meeting. During the meeting, conveners for foreign countries, Federal Capital Islamabad, Rawalpindi, all the four provinces including Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir were appointed.

According to details, those who were appointed conveners and secretaries are: Syed Nazakat Hussain Naqvi and Syed Nusrat Ali Naqvi (Islamabad and Rawalpindi), Zamir Javed Khan Advocate and Rana Nazar Ali (Punjab), Abu Imad Jafri and Mahdi Askari (Balochistan), S.A. Kazmi and Z.A. Kiani (Sarhad), Allama Jafar Raza and Najam Ali Baqir Muhammadi (Sindh), Agha Syed Ali Moosavi Al-Iskandarabadi (Northern Areas), Kh. Basharat Ali Jafri and Irshad Ali Naqvi (Azad Kashmir).

Addressing the participants of the meeting, M.H. Jafri said that Islam is commensurate with peace and tranquillity, and love and Wilayat are its basis, Islam has promoted brotherhood and love, has preached to forgive the enemy, and has given the right to reply evil with good.

He said by observing the Hafta-e-Wilayat all over the world, we desire to preach peace and tranquillity because Islam is the torch-bearer of peace and integrity and the Islamic history stands witness that we have overcome the enemies not through Kalashnikov, sword or other weapons but through love and devotion.

He said the standard of our friendship and enmity is Wilayat, those who are friends of the leaders of humanity and mankind are our friends, those who are their enemy are our enemy. That is why, he said, the Paighambar-e-Islam (SAW) had said at Khumm-e-Ghadeer that Ali is the Maula (master) of those, I am the Maula of whom. In other words, like I am the Aqa and Maula of the whole humanity, likewise Ali is also Aqa and Maula of the whole humanity.

He said on the occasion of Hafta-e-Wilayat, we announce our commitment to promote Wilayat come what may as in it lay the key of success.

A resolution adopted at the meeting expressed solidarity with the oppressed and have-nots the world over and expressed heartfelt grief on desecration of holy places in Iraq and the Mina and Makkah incidents in which many Hajis lost their life.