- ‘Islam gives solutions to all problems, challenges of Muslims’
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F chief Fazlur Rehman on Friday declared in unequivocal terms that there was no room for armed struggle to resolve challenges being faced by Muslim Ummah.
He said this while addressing an inaugural ceremony mammoth three-day JUI-F centennial congregation at Azakhel in Nowshera, attended by Imam-e-Ka’aba Sheikh Seleh Muhammad bin Ibrahim, Saudi Minister for Religious Affairs Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousaf, Federal Minister for Housing Akram Khan Durani and delegates from Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind Maulana Asad Madani.
With his inaugural speech, the JUI centenary celebrations formally commenced at Azakhel that will continue till Sunday. Addressing the gathering, Fazl said that the Jamiat leadership under founder Mufti Mehmoodul Hassan and Mufti Mehmood had played key role in protecting Islamic identity, promoting Islamic values, training of party workers on political-religious and ideological fronts.
He said that Muslims of the Indian subcontinent during independence war in 1857 besides Sirajdullah and martyrs of Balakot had also paid heavy price for protecting their identity and ideology. “This great congregation believes in peaceful struggle for accomplishment of goals and did not consider raising arms for it as right,” he said while people raising hands in affirmation.
The JUI-F leader said that Islam gives solutions to all the problems and challenges of the Muslims Ummah. He said that elimination of poverty, hunger, corruption and terrorism was necessary for sustainable peace and economic prosperity in the world.
He said that solution of core issues of Kashmir and Palestine needed to be addressed for the regional peace and stability in South Asia and Middle East. He said that terrorism can’t be eliminated unless the world had addressed the key issues of poverty, illiteracy, unequal distribution of wealth, economic imbalances and equal justice besides giving rights to self-determination to Kashmiri people as promised to them by UN.
He said that the JUI-F believed in cordial relations with all neigbours, improvement in current economic system, supremacy of law and unity among Muslim Ummah. Fazl said that China was time-tested friend and stressed the need to get further closer to Chinese for more expertise.
He said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would give enormous boost to the economy of Pakistan and bring massive economic development in the country.
Beside a 25-member delegation from Saudi Arab, delegates from around 45 different countries including India are also participating in the three days event, first ever of its kind in history of the country. Former provincial lawmaker Mufti Kifayatullah claimed that around five million people attended the Friday prayers lead by Imam Ka’aba.
A day before the event, Fazl and Abdul Ghafoor Haideri who is also deputy chairman of Senate also invited Taliban leadership to the three days gathering. So far, there is no any response from the banned militia, as almost all of its leaders and commanders are underground.
