Wahhabism Is A Distorted Version of Islam: Wahhabi Ideology Declares - Follow My Ideology Else Get Ready to Be Killed
By
Hasan Khurshid
17
September 2020
Will the
global Muslim community raise its voice for the restoration of the holiest of
Islam’s revered sites that were destroyed by the Wahhabis?
The five
centuries-old Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was demolished on December 6, 1992 by a
Hindu mob, mostly comprising diehard Kar Sevaks (volunteers) of the Vishva
Hindu Parishad led by Sangh Parivar leaders. Intellectuals across the globe,
irrespective of caste, creed and religion condemned the demolition, as did the
Supreme Court (SC). No sane person will justify the demolition of the Babri
Masjid but the bigger heinous crimes of massacres, multiple demolitions and
destruction of the holiest of religious and heritage sites, shrines, relics
have taken place in Saudi Arabia. This was done at the behest of its
Wahhabi/Salafi rulers of Zionist ancestry who, wearing the cloak of Islam, in
the middle of the 18th century introduced a new and distorted version of the
faith based on terrorism. The demolished and desecrated holiest of Islamic
religious places included the birth place of Prophet Mohammad.
Wahhabism,
the new, distorted version of Islam, aimed to capture worldwide political power
using terrorism. The dreaded terrorist, Abu Bakr Baghdadi, is one such example
of this diabolical plan. This negative ideology was created by one Sheikh Najdi
ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, in association with a Bedouin tribal leader
Muhammad-ibn-Saud. Wahhabi ideology should not be mistaken as Islam’s tenets,
although its practitioners shrewdly camouflage their real identity under the
cover of Sunni Islam and associate the names of their terror groups with
typical Islamic names, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and
so on.
Wahhabi
ideology manifestly declares, “Follow my ideology, else get ready to be
killed.” According to renowned British historian and writer Charles Allen, all
dreaded terrorist organisations like the ISIS, the Taliban, the Al-Qaeda, the
Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Boko Haram, and so on, follow Wahhabi ideology. And, Abu
Bakr Baghdadi’s ISIS, following the Wahhabi ideology alone, murdered more than
20 lakh people. A majority of them were Muslim youth in Iraq, Syria,
Afghanistan and other parts of the world.
On December
6, 2019, the day marking the 27th anniversary of the demolition of Babri
Masjid, several review petitions were filed in the SC by individuals who were
party to the case. The pleas were supported by the All India Muslim Personal
Law Board. Earlier, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind had also filed a review petition
against the order saying justice can be done only by ordering the Centre and
the UP Government to build the mosque at the disputed site.
Surprisingly,
the entire Muslim community across the globe, including the intellectuals,
remained silent spectators when Saudi ruler Abd-al- Aziz, the son of Muhammad
ibn Saud, who was also the son-in-law of Sheikh Muhammad Najdi ibn
Abd-al-Wahab, the founder of Wahhabism, in 1802 attacked Karbala in Iraq. He
allowed the desecration of the shrine of Hazrat Imam Husain (grandson of
Prophet Mohammad).
Giving the
details of the attack, Charles Allen in
his book, God’s Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern
Jihad, has quoted Lieutenant Francis Warden who wrote, “They pillaged the whole
of it and plundered the tomb of Hazrat Imam Husain, slaying in the course of
the day, with circumstances of peculiar cruelty, about 5,000 of the
inhabitants. A huge amount of booty was seized.”
In 1803,
Abd-al Aziz ibn Saud obtained a visit permit from the Shareef of Mecca on the
pretext of performing Haj, whereupon his Wahhabi fighters laid waste Islam’s
holiest shrine the Ka’aba, wherein Muslims across the globe perform the ritual
of Haj. Abd-al Aziz ibn Saud followed in the footprints of Yazid who had
earlier desecrated Ka’aba in 682 AD.
According
to TE Ravenshaw, author of A Memorandum on the Sect of Wahhabis, “They robbed
the splendid tombs of the Mahomedan saints, who were interred there and their
fanatical zeal did not even spare the Prophet’s Mosque (in Medina), which they
robbed of the immense treasures and costly furniture to which each Mahomedan
Prince of Europe, Asia and Africa had contributed his share.”
In 1804, a
Wahhabi gang crossed the great desert in the Hijaz and destroyed tombs of
Prophet Mohammad’s family members at Jannat-ul-Baqi, the ancient cemetery of
Medina, and even despoiled the grave of the prophet. After this, the Wahhabi
gang reached Mecca and demolished another heritage site, the cemetery of Jannat-ul-Mualla,
where the ancestors and other close relatives of Prophet Mohammad are interred.
Again, on April 21, 1925, Wahhabis demolished the shrine of Prophet Mohammad’s
daughter Hazrat Fatima Zehra as well as those of his grandsons, namely Imam
Hasan, Imam Zain ul Abideen and Imam Mohammad Baqir. The shrines are still
lying demolished and the Saudi Government does not repair them or allow
pilgrims to offer prayers at the revered sites.
Jannat ul-Mualla: Many of Muhammad's relatives were buried in this cemetery before his Hegira in 622
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Again in
2014, a leading Saudi academic had proposed to destroy the tomb of the Prophet
Mohammad in Medina with the mala fide intention of removing the remains of the
Prophet from there and burying them anonymously in the Jannat-ul-Baqi
cemetery. However, the nefarious plan to destroy the tomb under the custody of
Saudi monarch Abdullah was exposed by another academic, hence it could not be
executed. Had it been executed; the motionless Muslims would have remained calm
as the perpetrators were Wahhabis in Muslim attire and not people from any
other religion.
View of Jannatul Baqi with Masjid-e-Nabwi on the left
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In India,
those who demolished the Babri Masjid are still facing trial in the Special CBI
Court at Lucknow, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. In all,
there are 32 accused and the apex court has directed the Special CBI Court to
conclude the hearing by September 30 this year. Till now the CBI has presented
351 witnesses before the court.
What legal
action has the Saudi Government or the groups of Muslim countries taken against
the perpetrators of mass destruction and demolition of heritage and revered
sites and massacres committed by Wahhabis feasting on Saudi petro dollars and
spreading terrorism in the name of Islam? There is a deafening silence on that
account.
The
cacophony created by the Muslim leadership and millions of their followers on
the matter of Babri Masjid may be based on the presumption that its
perpetrators were Hindu bigots and the thugs behind the demolition of the
holiest of Islamic sites, like the Jannat-ul-Baqi in Medina and the Jannat-ul-Mualla
in Mecca, were Muslims. It matters little to them that the perpetrators of the
crimes against Islam are Muslims just in name.
Will the
global Muslim community raise its voice and take a conscious decision for the
restoration of the holiest of Islam’s revered sites of religious and heritage
importance that were systematically destroyed by the Wahhabis? If they don’t it
will smack of hypocrisy and bigotry.
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Hasan
Khurshid is a legal journalist and author
Original
Headline: Why the double standards on demolition of holy places?
Source: The Daily Pioneer
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