Source/Credit: The Nation | Pakistan
By Nation | January 24, 2011
LAHORE – At a time when the incident of Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s wrong recitation from the Holy Quran at a cabinet meeting is still fresh in the mind of general public, prominent religious personality Liaquat Baloch committed the same mistake while reciting Sura Al-Kausar at a seminar held on Sunday.
The secretary general Jama’at-e-Islami, known for frequently quoting Quran and Hadith during speeches, failed to correctly recite Al-Kausar, the shortest surah in the Holy Quran that is remembered by even a primary student.
Baloch failed in his ‘attempt’, when asked for opening the seminar on Tahaffuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat (PBUH) organised by Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith at a local hotel. He insisted that his recitation was correct, as Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith chief Senator Sajid Mir pointed that he (the JI leader) made a mistake in the recitation.
Sajid Mir presided cover the seminar which was also addressed by Abdul Ghafoor Haidri, Liaquat Baloch, Qari Zawar Bahadur, Allama Zubair Ahmed Zaheer, Allah Wasaya and other leaders.
The speakers demanded dissolution of committee constituted to review the blasphemy law and withdrawal of the bill submitted by PPP legislator Sherry Rehman.
Expressing dissatisfaction over the explanation given by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, they said the government should abolish the committee formed to review the blasphemy laws to show its sincerity with the claim that no amendment in the laws was under consideration. The said committee is headed by Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti.
The speakers warned that the government would be ousted if the committee was not dissolved. They said the law for punishing the blasphemers had been devised by Allah Almighty and not by former military dictator Ziaul Haq. If that was the case, then Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed would not have killed Jay Pal in the British era, they argued.
They were of the view that persons like Ghazi Ilm Din Shaheed, Amir Cheema and Mumtaz Qadri would continue to emerge if the rulers did not change their attitude.
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