Women Protection Law is an attack on the Muslim family system:Nizam e Mustafa Conference declaration

Lahore: The religious leadership of the country attending the Nizam e Mustafa Conference at Mansoora on Saturday resolved to launch a movement against the anti- Islam measures of the government, to protect the Islamic rites, Islamic society and the Muslim family system and to continue the movement till the Nizam-e- Mustafa was enforced and the country was freed from the clutches of corrupt elite.

A joint declaration adopted at the moot made it clear that any amendment in the Blasphemy Law was unacceptable and vowed to foil the Qadyanis’ conspiracies against the concept of the Finality of the Holy Prophet ( PBUH).

While declaring the execution of Mumtaz Qadri Shaheed a judicial murder, the conference  condemned the arrests of those staging protests against it. It demanded immediate release of those arrested and withdrawal of the cases against them.

The conference termed the Women Protection law enacted by the Punjab Assembly as an attack on the Muslim family system and resolved to bring forth an alternative draft law for this purpose in the light of the Holy Quran and the Sunnah. It slated maltreatment to the womenfolk both inside the house or outside, by the state or non state actors but declared that the government would not be permitted to shake the unity of the house or the family system under the cover of the law passed by the Punjab Assembly.

It noted that the Bill had been totally rejected by the country’s womenfolk, the Ulema of all schools of Muslim thought while the Council of Islamic Ideology had termed it repugnant to the Shariah. The declaration said that under the constitution, any law that violated the Shariah could not have any legal status.

Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq, chaired the moot. The speakers included JI(F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman, Jamat al Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, JUI(S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq, JU) chief Dr Abul Khair Zubair, Prof, Sajid Meer, Hafiz Aakif Saeed, and others.

The declaration denounced the efforts of a section of the media to  ridicule Islamic rites, causing provocation, and promoting Indian culture besides obscenity and nudity, and stressed that this tendency must be checked effectively.

The conference strongly condemned the suicide bombing at Gulshan e Iqbal, Lahore besides all forms of terrorism and extremism and observed that these aimed at weakening the country’s ideology, solidarity and economy.  

It also condemned India’ intelligence agency RAW’s terrorist network aiming at weakening this country and demanded that the RAW agents or spies taken in custody must not be shown any leniency and should be handed down exemplary punishment under the law. It also condemned the government’s criminal silence on the issue.

The moot denounced government’s propaganda against madrissahs and linking these with terrorism. Declaring that the madrissahs had no link with terrorism, the moot demanded an end to the propaganda against the madrissahs.

The Conference condemned the government efforts that aimed at pushing the Kashmir issue to the back burner and befriending India, although Indian rulers were responsible for the bloodshed in Kashmir, the demolition of the Babri Masjid and also running terrorist network in this country.

The moot also slated the government silence over the victimization of the pro-Pakistan people in a Bangladesh and termed their trials as unlawful.

In his address on the occasion, Sirajul Haq categorically told the rulers that Pakistan is an Islamic, ideological state and hundreds of thousands of people had laid down their lives for this. The aim of establishing this state was not secularism or liberalism but the Khilafat and the Islamic system based on the Quran and the Sunnah. He said that any conspiracies on this score would not be allowed to succeed.

The JI chief said that the Prime Minister’s slogan of a liberal and secular Pakistan and PPP leader Bilawal Bhutto’s move for a political alliance against the religious parties alliance was an indication that whereas the Qibla of the rulers was the US and Washington,  the Qibla of the nation was Makkah and Madina. He said the religious leadership would have to stand united for the defense of the country’s ideology and the Ulema would have to play the leading role in this respect.

Molana Fazal ur Rehman, in his address, said that the Muslim Ummah, Pakistan and especially the religious forces in the country were the target of aggression that was led by the US. He said that the US wanted to end all the institutions striving for the propagation of Islam. He said the Muslims did not want war but a war had been thrust on them. This was because the US and the western powers thought Islam’s economic system as the rival of their economic system. The west believed that if the world adopted Islam’s economic system, the western system would collapse.

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said that the enemy was killing the youth of the Muslim states. He said it was time that the Muslim rulers stopped dancing to the tunes of the enemy and talking of liberalism and secularism.

Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair said that the nation had tried the political leadership time and again but it had failed to deliver. The masses were facing numerous problems but the rulers did not care. He said if he religious forces stood united, the political power would come to them automatically.