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al-Muballigh 7/4:32 (May 1963); Razkr 26/15:3 (16 April 1963); 26/16:3+7 (24 April 1963). The following is a list of notable Shia Muslims . I.e. There was an immediate outcry from the supporters of Dihlavi that Qizilbash had violated communal discipline and that only the Qid-i Millat had the right to discuss Shia demands with the President or the Governor.189Close Dihlavi himself in a statement on 28 October made it clear that the three main Shia demands had not been accepted so far. Razkr 29/25:3 (24 June 1966). 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. Yet he continued to play some role until his death in 1976; see sections 5.4, pp. Almost all of the people of Pakistan are Muslims or at least follow Islamic traditions, and Islamic ideals and practices suffuse virtually all parts of Pakistani life. 198204. 34, for a list of the federal cabinets in the period 195868. 1, tabled by Najm ul-Hasan Kararvi, called on all Shia ulam not to participate in working out any syllabus that would not provide for separate dnyt for Shia pupils. On some of the suggestions brought forward in 1962 see Razkr 25/6:6 (February 1962); 25/910:9 (18 March 1962); 25/16:4 (24 April 1962). This new practice, which has been applied ever since in Pakistan,316Close was ostensibly a balanced precautionary measure against sectarian strife. Even in cities like Lahore, Karachi and Multan there were only a few quarters with a Shia majority in 1963. He also distanced himself from those Shia delegations which had met the president before him.197Close, The new split within the ranks of Shia communal leaders had now become manifest. Therefore it must be added to the said Article: but in Pakistan tablgh will be allowed only for the Islam based on m an alaihi wa-ashb,42Close and no Muslim will be allowed to leave the Islam of m an alaihi wa-ashb.43Close, During the history of Pakistan the small sects have always displayed narrow-mindedness and fanaticism and caused distress for the great majority therefore, to remove apprehensions of the masses and their mistrust of the government, it is necessary that such persons will not be kept in ministries and other responsible positions 44Close, Shia organisations, for their part, repeated the constitutional demands which had been made already in 1953.45Close The ITHS discussed the questionnaire at meetings in the house of the advocate S. Muhammad Ali Zaidi in Lahore on 15 and 29 May 1960.46Close, The commission completed its report in April 1961, but it took until 1 March 1962, for the new constitution to be enacted. A remarkable greeting address was sent to Multan from S. Ibn Hasan Jarchavi, who could not attend the convention due to illness. Whatever the Lord of the Martyrs has endured was only for the sake of reviving Islam. 3857; Malik, Islamisierung, pp. One of them, the advocate Khaqan Babar from Lahore, even held a speech against the traitors and named Muzaffar Ali Shamsi when pressed by the audience.349Close But the APSC was not ready to recall its Vice-Chairman, S. Hadi Ali Shah, from the mixed Waqf Board, let alone to exclude him from the organisation as demanded by the SMC.350Close The acceptance of the CII recommendations regarding syllabi by the APSC in the same month (see above) further alienated it from the SMC. He is noted for his calming presence and delivering speeches in a soothing manner, and mostly focusing on the importance of respecting and loving one's parents. (retd.) She made her presentation as an entertainer in 2000 on PTV Channel. 5,000 had been collected for the event), Col. The conflict as such had surfaced in Pakistan already in the 1950s, with some ulam from the dn madris complaining about how the zkirs and preachers would be misleading the Shia awm and distracting them from their religious obligations.215Close In 1959 one of the most successful preachers and munzirs, Maulana Muhammad Ismail (190176),216Close struck back. ), Constitutional Foundations, p. 251, and section 3.2, p. 74. Even allowing for a certain degree of opportunism, the gratitude for relief from sectarian strife, corrupt politicians and economic hardship seems to have been genuine.20Close. Razkr 25/42:4 (8 November 1962); Shamsi repeated his resignation with the same result at an ITHS Council meeting in Rawalpindi in August 1964, at that time ordered by S. Muhammad Dihlavi himself to stay in office (Razkr 27/2728:5; 18 September 1964). In his 1986 interview with Dogar, he was still defending that position vigorously (Dogar, 150 sul, p. 50). See sections 4.3, pp. Although not openly opposing state supervision, Qizilbash was always trying to retain influence in the Auqaf Board through different tactics in order to maintain de facto control of the assets of his family waqf.29Close, While the sajjda-nishns of the numerous shrines of holy men in Pakistan included some renowned religious figures, most had become like ordinary big landowners, drawing benefits from the religious prestige of some more or less distant ancestor. Our youth became very far from their Islamic culture (tahzb). Thus goes the account of Mirza Yusuf Husain, who was present at the meeting; see Razkr 27/42:1 (24 December 1964). Javed Abidi (India) 4. A country-wide campaign for safeguarding Shia fiqh and rights in the auqf according to the four [canonical] books142Close is out of their reach. Zara Sheikh is a famous Pakistani model, actress and also a good singer. Pakistan Times (4 June 1963 and after) reported on the latter two incidents, but apart from that only on peaceful processions in a number of other towns, including Quetta. 25-May-02 Sindh Karachi . When he was finally obliged to accept Rs. When have they detested the Sunnis? 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). This seems to be an error; the relevant article in the 1956 constitution was No. On the evening of 1 November 1968, the following official statement was released, which also appeared in all daily newspapers the next morning: With the approval of the Central Government, the Government of West Pakistan has decided to revise the syllabi of Islamiat in accordance with the recommendations of the Joint Board of Shia and Sunni Ulema which was set up by the Central Government some time ago. These were the Chief Secretary of the Government of West-Pakistan, the Home Secretary, the Chief Administrator of the Auqaf Department, Sardar Abd ul-Rashid, and the Secretary of Education, S. Muhammad Sharif; see Razkr 28/7:3 (16 February 1965). Besides, what yardstick do those Maulvis who were implicated in the recent riots have to judge others beliefs? According to Mirza Yusuf Husain, who was to become S. Muhammad Dihlavis right-hand man over the following seven years,148Close the idea to hold the convention had initially come from some ulam in Hyderabad.149Close He himself and Shaikh Jawad Husain (Hangu), S. Safdar Husain Mashhadi (Peshawar) and Habib al-Hasan (Hyderabad) had been called to Karachi prepare the convention together with Dihlavi who paid its expenses on his own.150Close Mirza Yusuf Husain also claimed to have authored the letter of invitation, which was published in the Shia press in December 1963. Ayub Khan himself had made clear his aversion against any political role for the Mullahs from the start of his rule,23Close and he did not shrink back from antagonising the religious lobby in order to implement some secularist reforms. It made clear that the Central Organising Secretary of the SMC had never consented to cooperation with the APSC.365Close, In a message to the Shias prior to the session of the ten-member Board, Dihlavi had portrayed his acceptance of five Sunnis in that board as a sign of goodwill, because, as he put it, we have neither a conflict with the Sunnis, nor are they concerned by our demands.366Close This was little more than wishful thinking. Therefore we request for a last time from the government to accept our un-political, religious and constitutional demands within three months. Thus Dihlavi, who had no connections to government circles and had even been their persona non grata, had succeeded where others had failed.406Close, In a message to his followers in early December 1968 Dihlavi ordered that all SMCs must rest in place until full implementation of the governments promises and that more SMCs should be formed where they did not yet exist. In Razkr 26/32:3+7 (24 August 1963) a resum of the statements of Shaiq Ambalvi, Secretary-General of the APSC, in front of the commission on 18 August is given. Razkr 31/4243:3 (1624 November 1968). Razkr 31/26:4+5 (16 July 1968). It did not take long until he was even accused of preaching Wahhabi doctrines. Pakistani Shia clerics (1 C, 10 P) F. Pakistani former Shia Muslims (3 P) I. Pakistani Ismailis (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Pakistani Shia Muslims" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. Experience has shown that this method has not done harm to the unity of Muslims, but has rather been useful for it. The agreements reached were apparently broken both by Sunni preachers and by Shias who tried to take out some unlicensed additional processions on 9 Muharram.87Close On 10 Muharram (3 June), the main azdr procession was attacked with stones, sticks and knives when passing in front of the Unch Masjid near the Bhatti Gate of the Old City. In addition to the two main groups there is a . The Indian attack along the border with West Pakistan, concentrating on the Lahore frontline, started on 6 September. In his article Mr dst (Jauhar & Riz, Khatb-i Azam, pp. Shortly after an independent branch of the ITHS was set up in Karachi; see also section 4.5, p. 138. Most of them are related to his retrogressive, chauvinistic and inflammatory statements on Osama-bin-Laden, Muslims and terrorism, ban on propagation of all other religions except Islam, sex slavery, laws of apostasy in Islam, child marriage, destruction of cultural and religious . Mufti Mahmud (190980) was born in a village near Dera Ismail Khan (NWFP) and graduated from different Deobandi dn madris in Northern India until 1941. Razkr 31/36:12 (1 October 1968); 31/3839:56 (1624 October 1968). Today, too, we stick to the conviction that we must have full religious freedom. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Ibid. He complained, among other things, about the obligation for Sunnis to keep their shops open during the Muharram processions, about their greatly increased number since 1947,106Close and that Shias were allegedly abusing the sahba with impunity at their majlis throughout the year.107Close In reply to some questions from the Shia advocate Khaqan Babar, Ghulam Qadir said: Pakistan was achieved in the name of Islam. Mufti Jafar Husain had been appointed to replace Hafiz Kifayat Husain in November 1965. These things are not coming unexpected for me; rather I have started this work expecting such difficulties and sufferings 274Close, On the other hand, Dhakko once more denied that he was opposed to the zkirs generally, insisting that he was their well-wisher and only wanted to rectify some of their current faults.275Close However, this could not make his attacks on the status quo of majlis and the zkir-business in Pakistan less objectionable in the eyes of his opponents. Razkr 27/35:3 (1 November 1964); 27/39:3 (1 December 1964). If the recommendations of the ten-member Board were not found to be approved fully, he would again call the Shias for a convention.398Close, The mood at the oratory sessions of these two days was one of utmost excitement and vindictiveness towards those who had not supported Dihlavis movement, as some anecdotes may illustrate: Muhammad Bashir Ansari told how Muzaffar Ali Shamsi had assured the Interior Minister that there would be no civil disobedience movement in Rawalpindi, disclosing that those who had courted arrest during the 1950 Narowal agitation had been bought for Rs. Razkr 22/44:3. ), was professor at the Islamia College Lahore. He succeeded Shaikh Akhtar Abbas, who had left in 1964 for eight years of advanced religious studies in Najaf and Qom, and the interim principal Maulana Husain Bakhsh of Jara (19645). His stay closed with a large public gathering at Karbal-i Gme Shh.170Close At a press conference on 29 February, S. Muhammad Dihlavi gave a comprehensive account of the three demands and their implications (excerpts): After the foundation of Pakistan the Muslims had merely understood that their goal had been achieved and they would be free to do what they liked. Until 1958 special passports for pilgrims wishing to visit the holy sites in Saudia Arabia. It reminded the ulam of their duty to assume a leadership role to stem the world-wide tide of materialism and called for an effective programme of action to unify and organise the Shias and protect them from moral and religious decline. 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. This was denied emphatically by Mirza Yusuf Husain and by S. Muhammad Dihlavi himself,196Close who issued an immediate clarification in the Shia press: first, presidential elections were a political question, and the rules of a fatw would not apply to them; every Shia had complete freedom in that matter. 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). See references in Fn 219 to chapter 3 (p. 375). Not surprisingly, Dhakkos diatribes met with resistance from those concerned. Petty internal quarrels like the controversies about khums57Close or about Friday prayers in Multan58Close were fought out with stubbornness, further eroding the reputation of the Shia ulam among the intellectuals. The relative calm on the sectarian front in the years from 1959 to 1962 had gone along with some curtailing of Shia religious life, too. Naseem Abbas (Pakistan) 6. For 40-year-old Tehseen, Kashif was her whole world. Muzaffar Ali Shamsi had only increased his isolation when trying to belittle that convention in his weekly Shahd.340Close Thereafter the ITHS Chairman Mubarak Ali Shah wanted to discuss the statements of his Secretary-General at a meeting of the ITHS Council. Moon Market 1 0 Mohsin Naqvi, famous poet, Shia Zakir. 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. In Sadda (Kurram Agency) fire was opened on a Muharram procession in 1961, leading to fighting that spread to other villages (Bangash, Political and Administrative Development, p. 184). al-Muballigh 10/34:76. Most of them have become qasda-khwnn137Close for notables and powerful people. The time is fast approaching when all religious groups will perform their religious ceremonies in complete freedom 19Close, Such eulogies on the martial law government were also common in editorials of Razkr in the years from 1959 to 1962. The SMCs were supposed to give publicity to decisions and appeals of the centre, but also take initiatives of their own on the local level, for example against any obstruction of azdr. I., p. 127. Since 1951 he taught at the Madrasat Qsim ul-Ulm in Multan where he became head instructor and Shaikh ul-Hadth. 248; Mujeeb Ahmad, Jamiyyat Ulama-i-Pakistan, pp. Dihlavi was on the verge of loosing patience with his rivals in Lahore and giving up the leadership of his campaign at that stage.212Close But the strong support he received from other Shia centres in Pakistan, especially from Multan, encouraged him to free himself from both the ITHS and the APSC and set up a new countrywide organisation in the following year.213Close. Starting in October that year, he published a series of articles in his journal Sadqat in which he accused those ulam who run the dn madris with harsh and insulting words of misusing funds given to them as khums. With other words: Sunni Islam, abiding to the example of both the Prophet and the sahba. A number of polemics against the greediness of the zkirs and their mis-handling of the majlis had been published in the Shia press already since the mid-1950s, especially in al-Muballigh.249Close An editorial of that journal from September 1961 was peculiarly outspoken (excerpts): Has Husain been martyred just for the purpose that some people would sit together and weep for him? 3.97 million (Malik, Islamisierung, p. 97). They were also asked to organise at least one hour weekly of religious instruction for Shia pupils at their place, to found dn madris if possible, and to teach the small children at least ten minutes daily about religion in their homes. From 1956 onwards he published the fortnightly Sadqat from his residence in Gojra (Lyallpur Dist.). Ali Raza (UK) 7. Although this was not a new development, it gained momentum with the numerous books and pamphlets written since the mid-1960s in response to the challenge from Dhakko and other orthodox Shia ulam. Razkr 28/29:3 (1 August 1965) contains the first reference to the term. Pakistani Model and Actress Zara Sheikh was born in Lahore, Pakistan on 7 th May 1978.. Zara Sheikh is a famous Pakistani Model, Actress, and a Singer. Nawsib (sg. She is very talented, gorgeous and hard working. One important objective of the Shia ulam convention in Karachi was to search for ways and means to unite all ulam of the country, in order to overcome the curse of sectarianism and to create a good atmosphere between the Muslims. His speech at the Sunni Conference was also in contradiction to positions taken by him in later years; see excerpts in al-Muntazar 9/13:25. Supplements to Razkr 30/28 and 30/29 (24 July and 8 August 1967); see also Mushtaq Husains commentary in Razkr 30/43:3 (16 November 1967). Actress and model, Humaima Malick is also one of the most famous celebrities who are Shia Muslims. Nasr, Vanguard, pp. The Provincial Government has also accepted the recommendation of the Ulemas Board that under the Auqaf Board there should be two separate sections for Shia and Sunni Auqaf.396Close, The Rawalpindi Convention with thousands of volunteers, who had come with the firm intention to let themselves be arrested or face any other repression, thus turned into a festivity.397Close Since the authorities had not allowed a public meeting at Liaqat Bagh, all gathered in the house and garden of Dr S. Ajmal Husain Rizvi on Murree Road on 23 November.