Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) on Wednesday strongly condemned the attack carried out on army-run school in Peshawar, saying that the killing of innocent children and teachers was a barbaric act.
“Linking killing of innocent human beings with Islam and Jihad can only be termed as ignorance and it has no room in Islam,” PUC Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi said.
In a fatwa issued by Darul Aftah of PUC on Wednesday, Ashrafi said all school of thoughts, all religions and sects have agreed that incident of Peshawar was “inhuman and ferocious”. He said the Ulema has never endorsed killing of innocent people and added those who are linking the unfortunate Peshawar incident with Islam and Muslims are also not serving the humanity.
The fatwa further elaborated that Islam considers killing of a person as killing of the entire humanity and Islam does not permit killing of children, senior citizens and women even during Jihad. He said that killing of teachers and students are against the teaching of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) who had preached respect of teachers.
In the fatwa, PUC has appealed to religious and political leaderships to focus on internal and external policies and find solution for elimination of terrorism with unity.
Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi also announced countrywide Pakistan Solidarity Day on December 19 to express solidarity with families of Peshawar victims and to condemn terrorism. He said special sermons on Peshawar incident would also be delivered during Friday prayers in more than 73,000 mosques running under Wafaq-ul-Masajid Pakistan.
what good will these fatwas do- bolting the door after the horse has run away? you people issue fatwas left right and centre, but realistically they have done no good – innocent people get killed all the time for one reason or another.This is a good way for people to get in news – to make their existence felt – as if anybody cares!
unless and until different sect. and groups will not unite and will make and stand on one platform and stop accusing,fighting and cursing to each, other there will be no peace in ISLAM.Just on any occasion just standing together and showing unity will not work because it just show man ship.
This is not the first time such fatwas have been issued. What change did it bring. Was not the killing of Christin couple against Islam ? Was not the killing of a person from Ahmedi sect un-Islamic ? what good does such fatwa do ? when there are so many firqas in our religion ? Unless all scholars of all school of tough stands on 1 platform, such sermons will not serve any purpose.
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