Mufti Rizwan Tarapuri, the Gujarat unit chief of the All India Milli Council, said, "The Arabic line quoted in billboards is not from the Quran."
Source/Credit: The Times Of India
By TNN | September 9, 2015
AHMEDABAD: When billboards in Ahmedabad recently carried a verse in Arabic, purportedly from the Quran, asking the faithful to respect the cow, there was a commotion in the Muslim ranks. While the government's Cow Welfare Commission had gleefully borrowed the verse from a leaflet published by the Muslim Rashtriya Manch, a body associated with the RSS, it made one glaring mistake. The quotation in the leaflet was not from the Quran.
Even as Muslim scholars protested that the verse was not from the Quran, the government panel faced embarrassment when it realised that the verse reproduced in the Muslim Rashtriya Manch's literature was attributed to the Hadees-e-Tibrani.
On Tuesday, former Union minister Dr Vallabh Kathiriya, the chairman of the Cow Welfare Commission, apologized for having wrongly attributed the cow protection message to the Quran. He said he had ordered the immediate removal of the hoardings.
Hadees, or Hadith, are a collection of reports about the Prophet's statements and are regarded in Islam as tools for understanding the Quran.
"Someone in our campaign team used the reference of the Quran, but this message had actualy been selected from the Hadees," said Dr Kathiriya. "Our sole aim was to create awareness about the virtues of cow, and certainly not to hurt any religious sentiment."
The billboards in many minority-dominated areas of Ahmedabad had said: Quran-e-Sharif message on cow protection — "Akar mul bakar fainah Saiyadul Bahaeem (Respect cows because the cow is superior among animals and its milk, ghee and butter are nectar and good for health. Cow meat is a cause of diseases".)
Mufti Rizwan Tarapuri, the Gujarat unit chief of the All India Milli Council, said, "The Arabic line quoted in billboards is not from the Quran."
Ghani Qureshi, the national co-convener of the Akhil Bharatiya Muslim Gaupalak Sammellan to be organised by the Muslim Rashtriya Manch in Mewat, Haryana, on Sunday, also told TOI: "The banners wrongly attributed the cow protection message to the Quran instead of Hadees-e-Tibrani."
The Cow Welfare Commission was established in Gujarat by Keshubhai Patel after he became the first BJP chief minister of the state in 1995. Cow slaughter is prohibited in Gujarat under the Gujarat Animal Conservation Act.
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