Unruly Behaviour, Slogan Shouting And Abusive Language By Pakistanis Inside The Prophet's Mosque In Madina During Ramazan
Saudi
Arabia Government Arrests Several Mischief Mongers And Sends Them Behind Bars.
Main
Points:
1. On 28 April,
Pakistan's two ministers were heckled by Pakistani protesters inside the
Masjid-e-Nabwi
1. 2.Information
and Broadcasting Minister Maryam Aurangzeb and Minister for Prevention of
Narcotics Shah Zain Bugti had visited the mosque.
2. Protesters
shouted 'thief,thief', 'traitors' and 'shame'
3. One
protester pulled the hair of Mr Bugti.
4. Protesters
used abusive language against Maryam Aurangzeb.
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By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
30 April
2022
The spokesperson for the Madinah Police
said the suspects were “referred to the competent authorities after legal
procedures were completed against them.” (Screenshots)
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Political
rivalry and mudslinging has reached a new low in Pakistan. Since Imran Khan was
removed from power he has been running a campaign against the Shahbaz Sharif
government. He has held rallies in several towns of Pakistan and the war of
words is also in its peak between the two parties. Often this war of words
culminates into personal attacks.
But on
Thursday, this political rivalry reached such a low that even Pakistanis could
not expect and defend.
The new
prime minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif and two ministers of his cabinet Maryam
Aurangzeb and Shah Zain Bugti are on 3-day official visit to Saudi Arabia.
Maryam Aurangzeb and Shah Zain Bugti took time off to visit the prophet's
mosque in the evening. On their visit, Pakistanis, who were apparently the
supporters of Imran Khan and his party, PTI started shouting slogans against
them. They shouted 'shame, shame, thief thief, traitors' and used abusive
language against the two ministers. One protester even pulled Mr Bugti's hair
and fled.
This all
happened inside the prophet's mosque which is one of the three most sacred
mosques in Islam together with Kaba in Makkah and Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The
unruly behaviour by the Pakistani Muslims is a sacrilege against the holy
Prophet pbuh and the Muslims of the world have expressed anger and grief over
the incident. In Pakistan, Imran Khan and his party leaders are being
criticised for provoking his supporters to go this extent.
Religious
scholars including Maulana Tarique Jameel who is close to Imran Khan has
condemned this act. But Imran Khan is yet to make a formal statement condemning
the incident.
Maulana
Tahir Ashrafi said that the prophet's mosque was dishonoured due to the
political differences. This was not acceptable. Islamic scholar Mohammad Ali
Mirza said that it was a grave sin and a sacrilege against the holy prophet
pbuh and Imran Khan should make a public statement condemning the incident. On
the contrary, some leaders of PTI, have defended the incident. A leader of PTI
Iqbal Khan Afridi said that it was a spontaneous public reaction and that the
incident took place outside the mosque. He said that a thief will only be
called a thief even in a sacred place.But Engineer Ali Mirza said that it's
only a lame excuse and that the entire area within the boundary of the mosque
falls under the mosque.
According
to media reports in Pakistan, Imran Khan and Shaikh Rasheed had been inciting
their supporters in Madina to attack them. After the incident, Rashid Kashif,
Shaikh Rashid's cousin and a central minister even expressed jubilation over
the incident.
Meanwhile,
the Saudi government has taken strict action against the mischief makers and
arrested several persons involved in the incident. Each mischief maker has been
fined 60, 000 Saudi Riyal and sentenced to five years imprisonment.
This
incident shows that political intolerance has grown in Pakistan in recent
years. As a backlash of the incident in prophet's mosque, the former deputy
speaker and a PTI leader Qasim Khan Suri was assaulted in Islamabad on Friday
night at the time of sehri by some miscreants when he was sitting in a hotel.
Both the parties have not respected the month of Ramazan.
Reacting to
the incident, Maryam Aurangzeb said that the PTI has disrespected the prophet's
mosque for political gains.
Imran Khan
had alleged that the conspiracy to topple his government was hatched in the US
and Shahbaz Sharif has been painted by him as a puppet of the US. Shahbaz
Sharif and his son Hamza are facing corruption chares involving illegal land
allotment and money laundering in a federal court of Pakistan and they may be
indicted on May 14.
However,
this does not justify the heckling and misbehaving with the ministers of his
cabinet in a holy place in a foreign country. This only shows that Imran Khan
or for that matter the politicians of Pakistan can go to any extent to harm the
opposition.
Imran Khan
is also being criticised because he claims he wants to model Pakistan on the
state of Madina of the prophet's time. Critics ask if this is the kind of a
state he wants to build. They therefore, think that his claim is only a
rhetoric to win public support.
Imran Khan
has won the support of the religious circles and of common Pakistanis with his
Islamisation of education and taking other steps that have presented him as the
champion of Islam. He has successfully presented Shahbaz Sharif as an agent of
the US. Corruption charges have further distorted his image. His partymen are
seen by the majority of Pakistanis as a cohort of thieves who have captured
power with the help of Pakistan's enemies.
All said
and done, the incident of slogan shouting, abusing a lady minister and heckling
another minister in the holy prophet's mosque is a condemnable act. The
incident only shows how intolerant and violent the Pakistani society has
become.
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