Clerics met to agree on code of ethics for Muharram ul Haram sanctity

Clerics met to agree on code of ethics for Muharram ul Haram sanctity.

Special Representative to the Prime Minister on Interfaith Harmony and Middle East and President of Muttahida Ulema Board (MUB) Punjab Hafiz Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi presided the meeting in Islamabad on Sunday.

He said they have established a coordination network across the country.

Clerics met to agree on code of ethics for Muharram ul Haram sanctity

That network aims to avert any untoward situation during the month of Muharram-ul-Haram.

Ulema and religious scholars of all schools of thoughts attended the meeting to evolve consensus for maintaining peace during the ensuing month of Muharram-ul-Haram.

The govt has established a liaison offices in Green Tower Islamabad and Lahore.

It aims to maintain close coordination among all stake holders during the holy month of Muharram-ul-Haram.

The forum issued a 14 point joint declaration to ensure peace and harmony during the upcoming holy month.

Moreover, the joint declaration prepared in line with Paigham-e-Pakistan narrative states that sectarian hatred, armed sectarian conflict and the use of force to impose one’s views and ideology on others is against the rules of Islamic Shariah and spreading anarchy and chaos in the state is a national crime.

Ulema, Mashaikhs and Muftis of all religious sects of Pakistan unanimously reject extremist thinking and extremism completely.

No sacrilegious comments

It is a responsibility to keep and ensure the sanctity of the Holy Prophets, the Companions of the Holy Prophet, and the spouses of the holy prophet and the Ahl al-Bayt (as) and all religious schools of thought refrain from those who utter sacrilegious comments and fan sectarian differences.

Swearing against each other (Galum Galuch), slander, provocation, hatred and killing one another on the accounts of hatred or dissension or imposing one’s ideology and views on others through coercion or persecution each other’s lives is against the Islamic Shariah. All these practices are Haraam and the Ulema and Mashaykhs of the country declare their dissociation against such elements.

Those attended the meeting included: Members Muthahida Ulema Board, Ulema of all school of thoughts including Dr Raghib Hussain Naeemi; Peer Hassan Hasib-ur-Rehman, Maulana Muhammad Siddique Hazarvi; Maulana Muhammad Khan Leghari;

Participants of the meeting

Cleric Usman Afzal Qadri; Maulana Ziaul Haq Naqshbandi; Sahibzada Hamid Raza; cleric Fazlur Raheem Ashrafi; Maulana Muhammad Amjad Khan; Dr. Sarfraz Awan; Maulana Zafarullah Shafiq;

Cleric Abdul Kareem Nadeem; Molvi Abdul Haq Mujahid; Maulana Usman Baig Farooqi.

Moreover, Maulana Zubair Zaheer; Maulana Abdul Wahab Ropari; cleric Tariq Mehmood Yazdani; Dr. Zakirur Rehman; Allama Ziaullah Shah Bukhari; Allama Muhammad Hussein Akbar and Allama Afzal Haidri also attended.

SUC’s Allama Arif Husein Wahidi; Maulana Abdul Karim Nadeem (Rahim Yar Khan); Allama Abdul Haq Mujahid (Multan); Qazi Matiullah Saeedi (Gujarat); Maulana Asadullah Farooq (Lahore), Maulana Asad Zakaria (Karachi); Allama Tahir-ul-Hassan (Faisalabad); Maulana Muhammad Shafi Qasmi (Sahiwal) also attened.

Besides, following clerics also attended: Pir Asad Habib Shah Jamali (Dera Ghazi Khan); Maulana Noman Hashir (Rawalpindi); Maulana Abu Bakar Sabri, (Islamabad); cleric Abdul Malik Asif (Multan); Maulana Aslam Siddiqui (Lahore);Maulana Hassan Ahmad Hussaini (Daska); cleric Abdul Rauf (Bahawalnagar); Maulana Fahim Al Hassan Farooqi (Sheikhupura); Maulana Abdullah Rashidi (Kasur).

More names of participants

Mian Rashid Munir (Sialkot); Maulana Muneeb Haidari (Narwal); Maulana Abu Bakar Hamza (Chakwal); cleric Saadullah Ludhianvi (Toba Tek Singh); Maulana Anis-ur-Rehman Baloch (Gojra); Maulana Shabbir Khatana (Hafizabad);Mufti Muhammad Omar Farooq (Khanewal); Maulana Abdul Ghaffar Shah Hijazi (Lodhran); Maulana Tanveer Ahmed (Bahawalpur) and Molvi Muhammad Ahmed Maki (Muzaffargarh);

Maulana Kaleemullah Muawiyah (Nankana); Maulana Aziz-ur-Rehman Muawiyah (Talagang); cleric Aziz Akbar Qasmi (Rajanpur);Maulana Saadullah Shafiq (Rahim Yar Khan);Maulana Yasir Alvi (Samundari);Hafiz Muhammad Talha Farooqi (Vehari); Maulana Zubair Khatana (Gujranwala);Maulana Aqeel Zubair (Sargodha) and Qari Aziz-ur-Rehman (Layyah).

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