RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Country-wide peaceful voice of protest will be raised on the Youm-e-Saneha-e-Samarra (Day of Tragedy of Samarra) against the destruction of holy Askariyain shrine and blasphemous act of Austrian woman politician in respect of holy Prophet (SAWW) throughout the country as a part of International Ashra Beemar-e-Karbala being observed on the call of Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi.

In a special message issued on the occasion, Agha Moosavi said that Islam is commensurate with peace, tranquillity and integrity but the international colonial powers have adopted the attitude of defaming the same and they never let any chance go waste in doing so. They initiate conspiracies, sometimes against Mashaheer and sometimes they trample the honour and dignity of holy places by sponsoring different incidents at these places in a bid to prove that oppressed Muslim nations are violent and extremists.

He said Afghanistan and then Iraq were targeted after the 9/11 incident and now the allied forces are fully in control there. Blood of the Iraqi people was profusely shed while the holy shrines of Hazrat Imam Ali Naqi (A.S.) and Hazrat Imam Hassan Askari (A.S.) were razed to ground two years ago.

Agha Moosavi said that like the respect of the Khasan-e-Khuda is binding, similarly the respect and dignity of their graves and holy shrines is also binding as respect of the same is the sign of love and devotion with these holy personalities. He said the graves of all prophets from Hazrat Adam (A.S.) to Hazrat Eisa (A.S.) had not only be respectable rather all those places where they used to sit are considered respectable even today. This respect is an obligation to the extent that there is a commandment to offer Nimaz on the footsteps of Khaleel Allah Hazrat Ibrahim (A.S.) on which Quran also stands witness: “. . . and when We declared Khana-e-Ka’aba a place for Sawab and shelter for people and ordered to make the Muqam-e-Ibrahim the place to offer Namaz” (Surah Baqarah, Ayah 125).

He said, no doubt, that Namaz (prayer) at Muqam-e-Ibrahim is not Pooja (worship) rather this act is in his respect as he was the biggest follower of Tauheed. He said the holy places are declared Sha’air Allah and their respect is considered the sign of Zuhd-e-Taqwa of hearts. He made it clear that Sha’a’ir Allah mean signs of religion e.g. Arafat, Mina and Hajra-e-Aswad are respectable to-date because these are amongst the Sha’air Allah. Therefore, respect of the Khasan-e-Ilahi is also binding on the whole humanity.

The TNFJ chief said that Hazrat Imam Ali Naqi (A.S.) is that great personality about whom Sahib-e-Hadayah Wa Nehayah Ibne Kaseer writes that Farzand-e-Imam Jawwad (A.S.) and father of Hazrat Imam Hassan Askari (A.S.) were Mard-e-Abid and Zahid. Mutawakkil shifted him to Samarra from Madinah where he lived for more than 20 years and kissed Shahadat in gaol. Similarly, his son Imam Hassan Askari (A.S.) was gaoled many times in this short span of life spread over 28 years, confronted 6 dictators but none of them could bow him down or divert him from the right path.

He said the razed shrines of these holy personalities are inviting the attention of the world of religion and Shariat that their destruction is an open challenge to the dignity of the Islamic World.

He said if the Muslim Ummah desires to get rid of its problems and achieved supremacy then they would have to reconstruct these Mazars and restore their dignity.

The Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Moosavi said that owing to the silence of cold-shouldered attitude of the Islamic World, the international chief of the colonial powers have made the life of Muslims difficult and they are following their agenda of attaching holy places and shedding the blood of Muslims.

He said the Austrian woman politician Susanne Winter’s blasphemous act is a part of that heinous conspiracy. If the silence on such an attitude is not broken then all States would be torn apart, one by one the responsibility of which would lay on the Muslim rulers and the representative organisation of the Islamic World i.e. OIC.

He appealed the countrymen to raise peaceful voice of protest so as to awake the human conscious on this occasion and divert the attention of the international organisations, particularly the United Nations, ICC and the OIC towards this issue.