I would like Pakistanis to stop being emotional and sentimental and calculate the cost of billions of rupees that this government spent on providing security, safety and protection to hundreds of thousands of Shias mourners during the ten days of Moharram and on the day of Ashura. But, it does not end there in Moharram but goes on through out the year. Though, every Muslim respects, adores and admires the sacrifices Hazarat Imam Hussein (RA) gave for the Deen of Islam but we live in the real world and should start thinking how we could minimize our costs and still provide the best kind of security to the mourners taking out hundreds of processions in the country? I believe that our Shia scholars and religious leaders should sit with the authorities and discuss about the economic effect of these processions on the government's treasures.
This government is bankrupt and is heavily in debt of World ban, IMF and the private sector. We are living on the hands out thrown at us by the USA and if it stopped giving us 1.5 billions dollars a year for the next five years, we will starve to death. And, we need to save every penny for the seventeen crores abjectly poor of the country and provide them with jobs, houses, education, food, gas, electricity and health care.
The fact of the matter is thatsectarianism was created to divide and harm Islam by the Jews and this fitna isstill being propagated by those who believe in it. Do we need division in ourDeene Islam and give Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others anopportunity to ridicule us?
Why do we need rituals of public chestbeating with hands, blades, knives, hair pulling and prolonged mourning torevive Shiasim? Is it because we do not observe Ahkam-e Deen as prescribed inthe Quran and rely on the tragedy of Karbala and carry on with its manyfrivolous rituals which are forbidden to redeem our sins?
Hundreds of millions of Shias in the worldjoin the mourning procession of Ashura; I would like to ask a question: Howmany of them say their payers five times a day? How many of them keep fast inRamadan? How many of them lie, backbite, drink alcohol, gamble, have illicitsex, earn money with illegal and haram methods etc? These are the kinds of things that HazratImam Hussein (RA) hated, disapproved and preached against and observed every word ofthe Quran word by word.
How many of us remember what he preached?Perhaps some but we are the first ones to join a procession to mourn his deathand cry when we ignore and forget what Imam Hussein stood for, fought againstand sacrificed his life and seventy three of his family members. Let us not forget that he gave his life forthe Deen of Islam and Sunnah of his beloved grandfather, our beloved ProphetMohammed (SAWW) and against dajaliat and tauti nizam of his time. Let us allunite and stop divisions in our Deen and fight our enemies together who mock uswhen they see us divided.
I believe it the best way forward that andwe should come to common terms ondisagreements that have divided Muslims for over fourteen hundreds years. Shiaand Sunni scholars have for once in the history must resolve the issue ofsuccession of Khilafat by inheritance or through election. Both sects have toaccept the fact that there must be no division in Islam and those who create itor created propagated a fitna azeem that from the very inception has harmedIslam and the Islamic glorious civilization.
This government is bankrupt and is heavily in debt of World ban, IMF and the private sector. We are living on the hands out thrown at us by the USA and if it stopped giving us 1.5 billions dollars a year for the next five years, we will starve to death. And, we need to save every penny for the seventeen crores abjectly poor of the country and provide them with jobs, houses, education, food, gas, electricity and health care.
The fact of the matter is thatsectarianism was created to divide and harm Islam by the Jews and this fitna isstill being propagated by those who believe in it. Do we need division in ourDeene Islam and give Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others anopportunity to ridicule us?
Why do we need rituals of public chestbeating with hands, blades, knives, hair pulling and prolonged mourning torevive Shiasim? Is it because we do not observe Ahkam-e Deen as prescribed inthe Quran and rely on the tragedy of Karbala and carry on with its manyfrivolous rituals which are forbidden to redeem our sins?
Hundreds of millions of Shias in the worldjoin the mourning procession of Ashura; I would like to ask a question: Howmany of them say their payers five times a day? How many of them keep fast inRamadan? How many of them lie, backbite, drink alcohol, gamble, have illicitsex, earn money with illegal and haram methods etc? These are the kinds of things that HazratImam Hussein (RA) hated, disapproved and preached against and observed every word ofthe Quran word by word.
How many of us remember what he preached?Perhaps some but we are the first ones to join a procession to mourn his deathand cry when we ignore and forget what Imam Hussein stood for, fought againstand sacrificed his life and seventy three of his family members. Let us not forget that he gave his life forthe Deen of Islam and Sunnah of his beloved grandfather, our beloved ProphetMohammed (SAWW) and against dajaliat and tauti nizam of his time. Let us allunite and stop divisions in our Deen and fight our enemies together who mock uswhen they see us divided.
I believe it the best way forward that andwe should come to common terms ondisagreements that have divided Muslims for over fourteen hundreds years. Shiaand Sunni scholars have for once in the history must resolve the issue ofsuccession of Khilafat by inheritance or through election. Both sects have toaccept the fact that there must be no division in Islam and those who create itor created propagated a fitna azeem that from the very inception has harmedIslam and the Islamic glorious civilization.
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