Shahbaz Sharif should tell who are responsible for a bloody revolution :Hafiz Muhammad Idrees

Lahore: Deputy chief of the Jamaat e Islami, Hafiz Muhammad Idrees, has said that as long as  wealth was confined in a few hands, the poor would continue to starve out of hunger and commit suicides.

Addressing the Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque, he said that things could not improve unless the rulers considered themselves answerable to Allah Almighty and servants of the masses.

The JI deputy chief said that lakhs of people had offered their lives for securing Pakistan, a homeland where their future generations could lead their lives in accordance with the teachings of the Quran and the Sunnah. However, immediately after the demise of the Quaid e Azam, a tiny elite class brought up by the British grabbed power and took control over its wealth.

Hafiz Muhammad Idrees referred to the statements of the Punjab Chief Minister that if the things were not improved, a bloody revolution would follow. He  asked why the Chief Minister did not tell the people who was responsible for the present situation and whose duty it was to set the things right.

He said,  it was not the common man, the workers or the farmers who were to be blamed for the present mess. On the other hand, the people in power were responsible for the situation. It was due to sheer incompetence of the rulers that millions of people were living below poverty line and were deprived of basic facilities of education, health and employment. The incidents of the mothers jumping into canal along with their kids reflected the grave situation and their despair, he added.

Hafiz Muhammad Idrees referred to the Second Caliph Umar’s oft quoted saying giving the true idea of a welfare state, and said if the rulers sincerely followed that path, Pakistan could be free from the menace of beggary and the problems of the masses could be solved. He said the JI was struggling for the same Caliphate and a welfare state in order to free the masses from oppression and exploitation.

He paid glowing tributes to the founder of the JI, Maulana Syed Abul Ala Maudoodi, and his successors, Mian Tufail Muhammad, Qazi Husain Ahmed and Syed Munawar Hasan, for their invaluable services for the establishment of an Islamic system.