Molana Abdul Aziz blasphemous remarks evoke stiff protest from Shiites

Deobandi cleric Molana Abdul Aziz of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid has made blasphemous statement that Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH), the last apostle and Prophet of God, had no authority to give law to people.
According to Shiite News Monitoring Desk, Molana Abdul Aziz said so while elaborating his viewpoint about the Islam laws in Pakistan. The live talk show News Eye was aired on Dawn News channel with Mehr Bukhari as anchor person. Even fellow Deobandi scholar Tahir Ashrafi had to react angrily to the blasphemous remarks.

“He said that Hazrat Mohammad cannot give law to people. He has gone mad,” Ashrafi told someone that was also recorded by the news channel’s camera.

Allama Asghar Askari, a leader of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen who also gave his viewpoint in the talk show, endorsed the opposition expressed by Ashrafi.

In another talk show aired by Express News channel hosted by anchorperson, Shahzeb Khanzadah, Allama Amin Shaheedi of the MWM, and Ashrafi opposed Abdul Aziz’s viewpoint about Pakistan’s Constitution. They said that the Constitution recognized Quran and Sunnah as supreme law therefore it is an Islamic Constitution and not the secular one.

Shia leaders conveyed to Abdul Aziz that Hazrat Mohammad (PBUH) was a law giver and the word Sunnah itself manifests that he is the key source of Islamic laws.

Shiites were deeply dismayed and charged over the blasphemous remarks of Abdul Aziz. They asked the Deobandi cleric to clarify his position on his past and the role of his father Molana Abdullah. They said that Lal Masjid was founded during the rule of martial law dictator Ayub Khan. His father was friend of Ayub and the notorious General Zia ul Haq, both military rulers were allies of the U.S. and allowed the U.S. to use Pakistani soil as their proxy. They asked why his father and he himself were happy under the laws of allies of the U.S.

Deobandi leaders such as Mufti Mehmood father of JUIF chief Fazal ur Rehman, Maulana Abdul Haq father of JUIS Sami ul Haq and Ghulam Ghos Hazarvi also endorsed the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan against that Abdul Aziz has taken a stance.