One early example of open defiance of the orders quoted above was the publication of the book, S. Abid Husain, the head of a branch of the Shah Jiwna, A good account of Ayub Khans attitude towards the religious leaders is given, Among the tasks of the commission were named to examine the progressive failure of parliamentary government in Pakistan and to determine the causes and the nature of the failure; see, See Articles 1012 on freedom of religion of Part II (Fundamental Rights) in, They were also blamed for indulging in mutual rivalries; see, Muzaffar Ali Shamsi was later reviled for having publicly insulted and threatened Hafiz Kifayat Husain; see, Interview with the author, 6 January 2001, See his keynote speech at the 1961 ITHS convention in. Translated from Razkr 29/4:3 (24 January 1966). The Indian attack along the border with West Pakistan, concentrating on the Lahore frontline, started on 6 September. But even the Law Minister Ghulam Nabi Memon had then hinted at possible contradiction of the law with Shia personal law and asked the Shia ulam for a written comment (Razkr 27/21:3; 27/22:3). 3840. Muhammad Husain Dhakko, Islh al-majlis wal-mahfil, parts I-X, al-Muballigh 9/8910/8; also published as a book, (Sargodha: Maktabat al-Muballigh, 1967). It was also attended by Amir Ahmad Khan of Mahmudabad, Ala ud-Din Siddq and the ministers Muhammad Ali Hoti and S. Ahmad Sad Kermani. The latter, during a meeting of its Council in Lahore on 17 February 1967, lauded the CII proposals because they had accepted separate dnyt in principle, and appealed to the government to implement them.337Close The Ministry of Education shortly after started to act according to the CII recommendations.338Close, While the APSC President Qizilbash stood his ground as an undeclared rival of S. Muhammad Dihlavi during the following yearsfacilitated by the end of his political disqualification period under EBDO on 31 December 1966339Closethe ITHS further disintegrated after the SMCs Multan Convention. To counter all these challenges, it would have been necessary that the ulam of all sects would unite to preserve Islam in the Islamic country. 18, see Mahmood (ed. Zaidi, Mutlabt, p. 86, writes about 30,000 participants, perhaps confusing that gathering with some other Shia convention. For achieving that goal it has chosen the method of violence. Were it not for the peace-loving of the Shias and the farsightedness of other patriots, the damage would have been much greater , If someone does not agree with the beliefs of another person or group and considers their ceremonies to be wrong, then he should not take part in them. 13536. Dihlavi hesitated almost two months until deciding about the five Shia delegates. Natasha Ali is a Pakistani entertainer, Model, and host. Report in Razkr 31/3839:56 (1624 October 1968); 31/40:2+8 (1 November 1968). panegyrics. The latter three were ready to sign a declaration of support for the government but were prevented from doing so by the SMC delegates.395Close. By that time, thousands of Shias from other parts of Pakistan had already arrived in the town for the convention scheduled for 1011 February. In Pakistan our ulam have become professional zkirs. Yet he continued to play some role until his death in 1976; see sections 5.4, pp. On Karim Bakhsh Haidari see also section 3.4, pp. Some 1,000 delegates from the SMCs founded so far gathered to formalise the new organisation and consult about the future programme of action.319Close The opening speech was held by S. Abd ul-Jalil Shah Gardezi, confirming the full support given by most members of the Gardezi family to the SMC Movement.320Close S. Muhammad Dihlavi, who had six weeks earlier admitted his mental suffering from countless objections that had been raised against him,321Close once more recalled the aims of his movement in his keynote address. President Iskandar Mirza, whose political manoeuvring had heavily contributed to the failure of parliamentary democracy in the years after the enactment of Pakistans first constitution,1Close had abrogated that constitution and imposed martial law on 7 October. the belief that God delegated some of his powers to the Imams; see Naqvi, Controversy, pp. Already in the second half of 1965, the supporters of S. Muhammad Dihlavi had set up Shia Mutlabt Committees (SMCs) in a number of towns and districts.307Close Faced with the permanent rivalry between the APSC and the ITHS, and the obstacles which some leading figures of both organ-isations put in the way of his movement out of sheer jealousy, Dihlavi in early 1966 decided to elevate the SMC to a new countrywide organisation of its own, completely sidelining the APSC and ITHS. On the other hand, in October 1961 one S. Hasan Ali Shah Kazimi quoted fatws from both Grand Ayatollahs which seemed to contradict: Borujerdi had considered it more safe (ahwat) to use even the sahm-i imm for the poor sayyids if their part of the khums was not sufficient. In his 1986 interview with Dogar, he was still defending that position vigorously (Dogar, 150 sul, p. 50). In Narowal, another hot-spot of sectarian tensions, the local Shias had refrained from taking out a procession after being advised so by the police. the areas which had since twenty years supplied the most hardy and enthusiastic volunteers for Shia communal movements.390Close At the same time the ultimatum for the government run out without any progress being achieved. This was obvious from an article of Muzaffar Ali Shamsi, Tanzm k nm par intishr n phailiy, in which he ridiculed such ideas and rejected accusations that ITHS had achieved nothing during the last fourteen years (Razkr 24/3940:19; 1624 October 1961). 1923, 4648. Agitation started at numerous places, and a session of the SMC Working Committee was scheduled in Lahore on 34 June to discuss further steps. Translation from Razkr 30/33:3 (1 September 1967). According to the eye-witness Shaiq Ambalvi, higher-ranking police-officers had done their best, but the rank-and-file policemen were afraid to interfere (Razkr 26/32:3; 24 August 1963). I.e. His opinion was that, since Shia and Sunni hadth and fiqh are very different from each other, students of both sects will be deprived of a large part of it and their [religious] education will be incomplete if only those parts are taught on which both Sunnis and Shias agree. Nasr, Vanguard, pp. Ibid. The effect of the governments initiative was rather to accelerate the self-organisation of the dn madris of all Muslim denominations, including the Shias.235Close After the bad experiences with students who were only interested in certificates,236Close the Dr ul-Ulm Sargodha and some other Shia dn madris in 1959 made it obligatory for all students who wanted to pass exams of the Secondary Schools Board to finish the religious syllabus first.237Close After a lapse of three years, when the dn madris were prohibited from issuing Maulvi Fzil certificates (the equivalent of B.A. 79, 8586. Among them were the ulam Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari, Hafiz Saifullah and Nsir Husain; the latter two were sentenced to 6 months of prison each (ibid.). 25-May-02 Sindh Karachi . He and other representatives of the dn madris argued that they had ijzt from the highest Shia dignitaries in Iraq authorising them to use religious taxes the way they did.221Close While polemics and mud-slinging among the Shia ulam in Pakistan were by no means unusual, this was the first major controversy about a purely religious matter carried out in full public, a foretaste of worse to come in the next two decades. Bangash has pointed to the fact that the Shias of the Kurram Agency enthusiastically supported the SMC although its three central demands were already fulfilled in their home area (Political and Administrative Development of Tribal Areas, pp. I.e. The same applies to all ministers and officials. It would reach a climax in the early 1970s, when some prominent ulam became more or less openly affiliated to the Shaikhiya school of thought.300Close Although the latter would then lose ground among the Shia awm, the orthodox ulam have not been able to overcome the hegemony of the zkirs and popular preachers until present times. Mrs. Jinnaha Shia like her late brotherhad been named the candidate of the Combined Opposition Parties on 18 September 1964. 8.Zakir Naik-Quran and modern science 9.Shabbir Ally Science the answer - A Comparison of Atheism and Islam 10.From Atheism to Belief: A Journey to Islam in North America by Dr. Jeffrey Lang (Part 1/17) Resisting pressure from the radicals, he named Qizilbash among the five Shia delegates for the joint commission suggested by Ayub Khan, the others being the ITHS chairman S. Mubarak Ali Shah, Mufti Jafar Husain, Ali Ahmad Khan Jafari200Close and Dihlavi himself.201Close, Governor Amir Muhammad Khan, who was to chair the said commission appointed four other high-ranking officials in February 1965.202Close As it turned out, however, not a single meeting of the commission was called during the following seven months, allegedly because Muzaffar Ali Shamsi, the governors favourite among the Shia leaders, was not included.203Close Instead, new restrictions were imposed on religious ceremonies in the form of a Loudspeaker Ordinance in March 1965. A prominent Shia cleric has been shot dead in the Pakistani city of Lahore, sparking an outcry from members of the city's Shia community. 13942, 42148. Pakistan Times, 23 December 1963; see also above, Fn 106. See reports in Razkr 31/4243:38; Paym-i Amal 12/10:249 (December 1968); al-Muntazar 10/19:69 (20 November 1968). Nevertheless, the APSC President succeeded in mid-1967 to reap political gains from Dihlavis movement, which he had never wholeheartedly supported. It took almost five years of increasing communal mobilization to get official acceptance of the three demands by the outgoing Ayub Khan government. Secondly, neither did he consider himself a mujtahid entitled to give fatws nor did he have anything to do with politics, but only with the religious demands of his qaum. On one hand, the dn madris and organisations like the Imamia Mission Pakistan would regularly publish facsimiles of their ijzt authorising the use of khums for their expenses. But he has no right to put himself above the law and try to correct them by force. In 1965, Muhammad Ismail had founded the Dars-i l-i Muhammad (see above, Fn 216) and Zamr ul-Hasan had become chief instructor of the Jmiat Husainya in Jhang; Mirza Yusuf Husain in 1974 became principal of a newly-founded Madrasat ul-Wizn in Lahore, which was also supported by Ansari (see Fn 143 to chapter 5, p. 410). Statement of Shaiq Ambalvi in front of the Lahore Inquiry Commission (see section 4.2, p. 112. A number of public meetings were held during a stay of Dihlavi in Lahore from 1928 September and afterwards, while Qizilbash and Shamsi preferred to keep a low profile.387Close They tried to counter the SMC movement with some religious figures interposed,388Close but almost all prominent Shia ulam had meanwhile rallied behind S. Muhammad Dihlavi.389Close Dihlavi and his entourage followed up their stay in Lahore with a trip to Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Kohat, Hangu and the Kurram Agency (29 September7 October), i.e. He was dubbed Khatb-i l-i Yazd or something like that instead of Khatb-i l-i Muhammad. He became a leading member of its teaching staff rising to the position of Grand Mufti in the 1930s. See sections 4.3., p. 117; 4.5., pp. I., p. 410; quoted in Naqvi, Controversy, p. 144. They cannot agree with each other on the organisation of the dn madris because it would be detrimental to their zkir-business They take fees of 100 Rupees for a majlis and make themselves ghzs of the word with expensive ab-o-qab, sumptuous pulpits and the art of rhetoric, but leave work and efforts for the people and prefer serenity for themselves 143Close, These were notably the views of a man who had some years earlier been referred to as the most sincere person of our qaum by the editor of al-Muballigh, the mouthpiece of the orthodox ulam.144Close In fact many of the latter fully shared his misgivings about the zkirs,145Close although they would probably not have agreed with the way he was putting ulam and zkirs into one basket. At the same time he had started to preach at majlis and attracted the attention of wealthy sponsors like Nawab Riza Ali Khan of Rampur and Hajji Daud Nsir, a leading member of the Khoja Twelver Shia community of Bombay.160Close In 1937 some enemies in Delhi tried to ruin his reputation by accusing him of rape, but he was cleared of all charges after a lawsuit in which S. Wazir Hasan of Lucknow had taken up his defence and the Nizam of Hyderabad (Deccan) had paid the expenses.161Close In 1939 he toured the Punjab and NWFP to mobilise support for the Tabarr Agitation in Lucknow.162Close When parts of his huge private library were burnt down in Rampur in August 1947 because of his sympathies for Pakistan, he moved to Bombay and started to transfer the remains of his library to Karachi, to where he finally migrated in 1952.163Close He continued to enjoy the patronage of Khoja traders like Hajji Daud Nsir and Ibrahim Pirbhai and was invited to numerous preaching tours in East Africa,164Close Burma, and Middle Eastern countries.165Close Dihlavi also attended some ITHS conventions, but apparently never in a leading position,166Close devoting most of his spare time to studying and writing.167Close, In the early 1960s, however, Dihlavi shared the feeling of many other Shias in Pakistan that something had to be done to overcome the stagnation and inferiority complex of their community, which was then also loosing interest in religious matters. Account of the recommendations from S. Muhammad Dihlavi, 19 November 1968 (Razkr 31/44:3); see also below, p. 166 (wording of the official statement of 1 November 1968). Both he and Qizilbash would be attacked years later for their alleged silence regarding the Muharram 1963 events; see Razkr 36/3031:5 (816 August 1972); 26/45:1 (1 December 1972). 1316. Muhammad Bashir Ansari, Haqiq ul-wasit, Vol. Besides, Shia journals would be able to quote many insulting remarks against their Imams and ulam from Sunni pamphlets of that time, but would refrain from doing so for not pouring oil into the fire.114Close The editor of Razkr also rejected appeals by self-styled flag-bearers of Muslim unity that Shias should talk only respectfully about the first three Caliphs with the following unambiguous arguments: they know very well that these persons [the first three Caliphs] are controversial between Sunnis and Shias. Asad, 18 February 1968, quoted in Razkr 31/10:3. , Pakistan is a democratic country where the rights of all citizens are equal and where it is a fundamental right to make use of public places for gatherings etc. Zaidi, Mutlabt, p. 86; for the full text of the memorandum see Razkr 28/1:1 (1 Januray 1965). ), was professor at the Islamia College Lahore. Shias of Multan city and its suburb Shia Miyani had held Friday congregational prayers in turns at both places since 1955, but after a quarrel between locals and muhjirs in 1962 the latter had termed the prayers in Shia Miyani as invalid (btil). this meeting appeals to the Shias of Pakistan to completely boycott such religious journals which criticise the Qid-i Millat and do harm to the Mutlabt Movement. 12731. Such incidents happened not only in Lahore, Khairpur and Narowal, but in some other places too, even if it was not mentioned in the press. The invitation was signed by S. Thamar Hasan Zaidi and Hashmat Ali from Hyderabad and thirteen ulam from Karachi, among them Muhammad Naqi Lakhnawi, S. Zafar Hasan Amrohavi and S. Anis ul-Hasan Amrohavi. He had fallen ill there and stayed only in Dhaka. Those who worried about the unity of the Shias and the reputation of the ulam tried their best to contain the affair. The editor of Razkr had refused to print a rejoinder of Gulab Ali Shah, considering its language detrimental to the dignity of the ulam, but mentioned that polemics and counter-polemics had been published in other Shia journals. The respect for religion is vanishing. He was an activist of the Muslim League in the 1940s and made an academic career, becoming Head of the Department of Islamic Studies and later Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab University. 25,000 for his services, he immediately donated them to a fund for Khoja Twelver Shia mosques. Great [Shia] people! The names of those ulam, which are prohibited from entering certain districts for periods from 30 to 90 days on orders of the respective D.C.s, are regularly being published in the Pakistani press shortly before Muharram. Until 1958 special passports for pilgrims wishing to visit the holy sites in Saudia Arabia.
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