Monday, August 17, 2020

The Murder of Tahir Naseem


Charged with the offence of 'blasphemy' and facing legal proceedings for the last two years in Pakistan, Tahir Ahmad Naseem was murdered by a fanatic youth on Wednesday, 29 July 2020. Apparently, the assassin was able to sneak inside a Peshawar courtroom where a judge was presiding over the case, and  shoot the victim down at point blank range, to silence him forever. Media reports testify that while the gunman Faisal Khan was immediately apprehended by the police; the murder is being openly celebrated as a 'victory of Islam', with many Mullahs competing among themselves to declare the murderer a 'Ghazi' - soldier of Islam-, turning a horrific murdered into national hero! 


Such is the 'Darkness at Noon' that engulfs a so called 'Islamic Republic' in our times. The State of Pakistan claims to respect Islamic values in its Constitution and the Laws. And yet, it looks away from glaring injustice and oppression that is taking place in the name of faith. With virtual impunity, religious thugs who take law into their own hands, celebrate their cult of violence and murder in the name of Allah. With close to 100 people being so murdered in the last three decades alone, today, extra-judicial killing of persons merely accused of 'blasphemy' is a near certainty in Pakistan. The assassination of Governor Salman Taseer of Punjab by his own bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri in 2011 only because the Governor opposed the application of blasphemy law on an innocent and helpless Christian woman, and the subsequent adulation Qadri received at the hands of fanatical mobs on his court trial is a grim reminder of the deeper malaise in society. 


The law relating to the offence of blasphemy is being widely misused by extremist elements  to intimidate religious minorities- including Ahmadis; to arrest and imprison individuals for their personal opinions. The privileging of  ‘majoritarian’ prejudices in national discourse threatens the very space for Divinely-willed diversity: after all, minority voices and contrarian perceptions can enrich the discourse on truth appreciation. The deadly poison of religious/sectarian scheming casts its long shadow over the integrity and fairness of the nation’s governance structures. Ensuring fair trial and justice for those caught up in the maelstrom of blasphemy allegations is virtually impossible under the prevailing circumstances. How should we look at a Law that caters to collective prejudices, to persecute and spread hatred against minority communities and to target contrarian voices in the public sphere? 


When blood-thirsty Mullahs openly call for spilling human blood in public meetings- all in the name of safeguarding the Faith, or to 'protect the honour of the Holy Prophet’, they create conditions for civic strife and chaos in society. These so-called religious leaders are inciting people to commit murder! Rather than following Divine ordinances on decent conduct, they are following their own Satanic whims and caprices. Most certainly, rather than setting things right, nor seeking to reform their followers; they are working corruption on land in the quest for power and pelf. They play God by seeking to define and control legitimate religiosity in the land, and they end up tampering with the social order and rule of law; denying justice and basic freedoms and rights of the people. The cult of violence and lawlessness they unleash will eventually corrode the faith from within, as well as destroy the social order in the long run. Like the Qur'an says, 'Corruption has flourished on land and sea as a result of people's actions and He will make them taste the consequences of some of their own actions so that they may turn back'. (HQ, 30: 42). 


Contrary to fanatical Mullah-ism, true Islam abhors Totalitarianism and thought control, either by the State or the vigilantes. Islam stands for freedom of conscience, and respect for personal choices. A society that does not tolerate difference and diversity, nor respect freedom of religion of individuals -including the freedom from religion-only ends up challenging Allah’s Grand Order of Things for the world. When a nation’s leaders exceed the bounds of equity and fairness and social balance, they ignore common sense and the lessons of history, only to write its destiny in creeping injustice, violation of rights, social turmoil and bloody conflicts.  Just as it is some people who create "Fasad", it is for the good people in society to join hands with the Divine Elects among them to work for "Islah"- reforms for a just and humane social order that works for everyone. Indeed, the Qur'an notes: "And were it not for God's repelling people, some by means of others, the earth would be completely corrupt" (2:252). 

 

In his Eid-ul-Adha Sermon of 01 August 2020~10 Dhul-Qaddah 1441 AH, Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam Hazrat Khalifatullah Munir A. Azim (aba) of Mauritius took note of the recent murder of Tahir Ahmad Naseem in Pakistan. Against the backdrop of moral decadence and spiritual corruption all around, Imam Azim (aba) reminds that following in the glorious tradition of Prophet Ibrahim (as) and his family, and also the great companions of the Holy Prophet (sa) in the past; today it is for the sincere believers in the Divine Way to stand up for the creation of a just social order through spiritual revolution, with fervent prayers, constructive efforts and selfless sacrifices against all odds and at all costs. Hazrat Saheb (aba) exhorts, 'Arise and Create a New World'.


Read the Extracts Below: 


'.....As you see, and bear witness, Allah’s promise is always true. A promise that Allah has made since a long time, Allah has the power to make it come true years later without anyone realizing it. As you know, whether it was Nasir Ahmad Sultani, Tahir Ahmad Naseem and Abdul Ghaffar Janbah, the three of them publicly declared to me a liar, and they proclaimed their own truthfulness, and I even did an official Mubahila [a duel of prayer] with one of them, that is to say, with Abdul Ghaffar Janbah for a period of two years, where we had prayed that Allah would exterminate the false and lying community [Jamaat] who did not enjoy any divine favour – the one which Allah considers false [we did not pray for anyone’s death; this was not mentioned in our official Mubahila]. And my disciple Fazil Jamal Sahib and I both signed this Mubahila, and Abdul Ghaffar Janbah accompanied by his disciple Mansoor Ahmed signed the Mubahila



After the period of two years, they had the nerve to declare Abdul Ghaffar Janbah as the winner of this Mubahila while during this period of Mubahila, Mansoor Ahmed Sahib’s father, in full view of all, had abandoned Janbah officially and had gone to join the group of Nasir Ahmad Sultani, and out of fear, before the end of the Mubahila’ s term, they had him returned to the Jamaat of Janbah Sahib.

 

But over time, Allah has shown with whom He really is. Alhamdulillah, Summa Alhamdulillah. We have seen how Allah grew His Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam, continued to give us His support, and opened the way for us to fulfill one of the greatest prophecies in the history of Islam, that is to say, that of the fulfilment of Umrah or Hajj by the Messiah, Isa ibn Maryam, where Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) had seen the Messiah go around (i.e. perform the Tawaf of) the Ka’aba Shariff. Alhamdulillah, Soumma Alhamdulillah, this great prophecy was fulfilled on February 20, 2018 when my family and I went to accomplish the Umrah without any great difficulty. Allah Himself made this promise and it is He Himself Who opened the way for us to go and perform our Umrah.

 

 

So day by day Allah is showing and pouring out His Rahmat (graces) on us, and all those who challenged me or who intended to officially declare themselves as the Promised Messiah and Prophet of Allah of this century, see how they were exterminated. While we do not wish anyone any misfortune, but Allah knows best the heart and intention of each of His creatures, whether or not they are true in what they proclaim. Just as Allah says in the Qur’an, whoever lies about Him or says that he receives revelations without these actually coming from Allah, then Allah will seize him [with His punishment].




In this context, we had seen what had happened to Asad Shah Sahib of Scotland, where he was assassinated on March 24, 2016, while Nasir Ahmad Sultani had been arrested by the Pakistani authority on March 21, 2017 and up to this day we do not know what the Pakistani authority did to him. 

And recently, on July 29, 2020 (this week), Tahir Ahmad Naseem who had also treated me as a liar on his website, and in his correspondence, especially that of June 10, 2014, he too was murdered in the Court of Pakistan in Peshawar by a man named Khalid.

 

As I told you, we don’t wish anyone misfortune. I have never personally come forward and declare that such and such is false and that it is I alone who is true. As long as Allah does not give me this command, I can never do this. And also because Allah has the ability to raise more than one Mujaddid. So, I am not allowed to comment on anyone unless Allah tells me to. The fact that it was they who took the initiative to trample on my honour and my truthfulness, where they crushed me to enhance their proclamations by declaring me a liar, it was then that Allah gave me the permission to stand up and challenge them - [besides, the Mubahila I made with Abdul Ghaffar Janbah was not triggered because he called me a liar, but because they treated Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra), the Musleh Maoud a liar]. And when I obeyed Allah and stayed within the limits that He prescribed for me, Allah continued to support me and strengthened His promise upon me and His Jamaat which He granted to me to bring about the unity of Muslims and humanity on the Tawheed.

 

So, it is very sad that there are people who come forward to make such statements which are not based on Taqwa, and then further ahead they go towards their destruction. May Allah continue to protect the identity of my truthfulness and inspire hearts to His truthfulness. Insha-Allah, Ameen.



So, I have hope in Allah (swt) that He will give us this Tawfiq so that in practice, through our sacrifices, we can bring about a spiritual revolution across the whole world in this century, not with the sword or bloodshed, but with arguments and reasoning and Duahs. Without prayers, invocations and Allah’s help, we will not be able to bring about this spiritual revolution, because first we have to detach people from their idols and the satanic attractions of this temporal world. Insha-Allah.

 

Do not look at the faces of those fanatical Mullahs who sacrifice themselves only for their idol/s; they do not have the blood of spirituality. So, it is not possible that this great revolution will happen only with words. You have to breathe this spirit of sacrifice into you, where every father has to become like Hazrat Ibrahim (as), where every woman has to become like Hazrat Hajra (ra) and every child has to bow and obey; have total [complete] obedience to his father and mother like Hazrat Ishmael (as). And it is through your sacrifices that you will all make in the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam International that you will then be able to: ARISE AND CREATE A NEW WORLD, in order to give life throughout the whole world, Insha-Allah. From everywhere a single voice must resound and we all say together: LABBAIK, ALLAHUMMA LABBAIK.

 

May Allah (swt) help each of us, and protect us from the effect of Satan and against the plots of evildoers and wicked, and may we stand firm in our belief in the Divine Manifestation. Ameen, Summa Ameen, Ya Rabbul Aalameen.