Islamabad: President Azad Kashmir Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob has said that Kashmiris are not terrorists and they don’t want to conquer India but they would continue their struggle for their right of self-determination despite all odds.
“I want to make it clear that there are no training camps of terrorists on our land. We are peaceful people and believe in peaceful struggle for our right of self-determination and we would continue our struggle till last drop of blood in our veins” he said while speaking as chief guest at the inaugural ceremony of an Ulema Peace Convention here at a local hotel on Monday.
The three-day Ulema Peace Convention is being organized by Majlis Saut-ul-Islam (Voice of Islam Society), A Karachi-based religious organization, struggling for clearing misconceptions about Ulema and clergy in Pakistan.
Veteran as well as newly-graduated young Ulema and religious scholars from entire Pakistan as well as other Islamic countries including Jordan, Algeria, Egypt and other parts of world are attending the peace convention, aimed at presenting a soft image of Muslim Ulema in the eyes of world.
AJK President Sardar Yaqoob praised Majlis Saut-ul-Islam for organizing the Peace Convention saying majority of Ulema in our society are preachers of peace and tranquility but owing to wrongdoing of some misguided Ulema, Islam as religion is being termed as ‘religion of violence’.
Inviting Young Ulema from Madaris to visit Kashmir, AJK President said Kashmir was the only place in entire Pakistan where people were oblivious sectarianism and hatred in the name of religion.
Shaikh Sameeh Ahmed Al-Tamina, an Islamic scholar from Jordan claimed that beliefs and thoughts contrary to actual Islamic teachings were being introduced among the Muslims and non-Muslims in the world were considering Islam as violent religion and way of living, which was against not actual face of Islam.
“Unfortunately, such non-islamic beliefs and thoughts are being introduced by people who claim themselves as Muslims and in these circumstances, it is the responsibility of the Islam and peace-loving Islamic scholars to present actual teachings of Islam, which are based on respect of humanity and human beings.
The Jordanian scholar said no Muslim is authorized to declare any other Muslim or group of Muslims as infidels and urged young Ulema, passed out from religious seminaries to apprise people that Islam shuns violence and calls for respecting human lives at all costs.
“Islam does not forbid people from progressing, getting educated, learning new disciplines of science and technology and living peacefully along with other religions and nations in the world” he maintained.
Chairman Majlis Saut-ul-Islam Mufti Abu Huraira in his inaugural speech deplored that baseless propaganda against Islam was being unleashed for last several years although Islam is the only religion that even protects the rights of animals and plants.
“Islam is the way of living for humans, irrespective of their cast, race, language and ethnicity and it is the only religion that ensures the rights of men, women, minorities, even animals, plants and the environment” he observed.
Mufti Abu Huraira said their peace convention was being organized to apprise people of Pakistan rest of the world that Ulema wanted peace as Islam asks its followers to respect human lives and forbids shedding human blood at any cost.
He said his organization was presenting 500 young Ulema as “peace leaders” to people of Pakistan and assured that their organization and movement would clear all the misconceptions about Islam, religious seminaries and religious people through their character and preaching.
The Ulema Peace Convention would for three days at the local hotel in the federal capital that would be addressed by federal ministers, senior Islamic scholars from different cities of Pakistan and young Ulema who have recently been graduated from local seminaries.
Papers would be presented on important topics like women rights as per Islamic Sharia, rights of minorities in a welfare Islamic state, role of Ulema in establishing lasting peace in Pakistan and rest of the world, causes of intolerance in the society, conflicting systems of education in Islamic world and related issues.
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