News:

In an interview to the BBC News, on 1st March 2013, the Head of the Ulema Council Pakistan, Molana Tahir Ashrafi said, "Philistine is occupied by Israel, Kashmir is occupied by India and Afghanistan is occupied by the U.S. forces. If all the Muslims have no atomic weapons they should sacrifice their own selves in the way of their lord, Allah (swt)."

Comment:

The statement of Molana Tahir Ashrafi provoked the emotions of the people from all corners, which are mainly based on the false premise of Nationalism, and have been condemned, by specific national circles saying that such statements are politically motivated. They also refused it because it contradicts the Fatwas of Saudi Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz and other Islamic lands Ulema's councils.

The reaction is intensified by some circles in the government and media so that to widen the gap between the Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan by fanning the fire of Nationalism, so for so that the Molana has taken his statement back and said "The statement has misinterpreted by the media."

Ironically government institutions such as Ulema Councils, Ministries of Hajj and Auqaf and other such organizations are more or less like the Christian's churches, whose responsibility is to keep Islam separated from the political sphere of individual and state affairs. Moreover, the West has been using these institutions for their malicious schemes by providing them with funds and other incentives to make sure they function under the prevailing laws of the state, having no executioner authority whatsoever, as well as to use them to deviate the Ummah from the true path of reviving Islam and throw them into the intellectual, political and geographical disunity.

It's worth mentioning here that Molana Tahir Ashrafi himself is the head of Ulema council of a country who has the Atomic weapons, but what is the benefit of the Atomic weapon of Pakistan for the Muslims of Philistine, Kashmir and Afghanistan? Is Jihad only obligatory upon the people who are invaded, and not on those who are not and has got a powerful army? This makes it clear that the Molana is the Mufti of a country, whose enmity with the Ummah and its loyalty to the Kuffar is obvious to the people of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Furthermore, his country's rulers are those who provided all the intelligence, logistic and military support to the US and NATO forces against their own brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. The Molana failed to realize that thousands of NATO containers are passing through Pakistan, on a daily basis. He should also understand that this was the Pakistani rulers who sold Muslims, both Pakistanis and Afghans, to the Kuffar. They have also permitted U.S. drones to bombard the tribal areas of Pakistan; killing thousands of Muslims, the same rulers are trying to incite Shia and Sunni façade in Karachi and Baluchistan. They are kidnapping the sincere sons and daughter of the Ummah, especially those who are raising their voice against shameless policies and focus to establish Islam by re-establishment the Khilafah "Caliphate" state, on the method of the Prophethood. Due to this ‘crime' of calling for the Deen-ul-Haq, they have been disappeared by the government agencies in the broad day light and their life and death is not known to their families, Naveed Butt can be a clear example of such atrocities.

Alas no one from the Ummah, so far, heard any fatwa from these government-backed scholars, which states that it's obligatory upon the rulers to rule by what Allah (swt) has revealed and establish Khilafah "Caliphate" state to reunify the Ummah. Rather their fatwas are mainly to destroy the Ummah and to legalize the Kufri systems of Democracy, Dictatorship etc. Besides, they try best to please their masters by making sure these systems prevail.

As Muslims we know that there is no concept of clergy in Islam, as in other religions. In Islam it is the obligation of every single Muslim to implement Islam, therefore, the so-called religious institutions established in the Muslim world is to make sure Islam remains detached from the worldly affairs and the pseudo scholars, who are on the payrolls of the traitor rulers, will always give fatwas in order to create a rift between the Ummah. They are the people who by the dictates of the rulers are making Haram as Halal and Halal as Haram, as done by the clergy of Jews and Christians in the past. That's why Prophet Muhammad (saw) said in one of his hadith;

" لتتبعن سنن من كان قبلكم شبرا شبرا، وذراعا بذراع، حتى لو دخلوا جحر ضب تبعتموهم. قلنا: يا رسول الله، اليهود والنصارى؟ قال: فمن "

"You (Muslims) will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a lizard, you would follow them." We said, "O Allah's Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said,"Who else?"   [Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith, Narrated by Abu Said Al Khudri]

Saifullah Mustanir
Kabul, Afghanistan