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Nuggets from the Urdu Press
 Scared of law ministerColumnist Nazeer Naji wrote that after federal law minister Wasi Zafar cruelly beat up a waiter in a hotel in Islamabad, the entire press spoke up in protest. If the National Assembly was supposed to take note of this act of savagery, it preferred not to do so. It was busy doing more interesting things. Naji wrote that he was scared of the law minister after writing the column and hoped that he would not be thrashed as the waiter was. Hudood laws can be removed! Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a book by Mehmood Mirza and as quoted by the Nawa-e-Waqt, Justice (Retd) Javid Iqbal said that Pakistan should have an institution empowered to do ijtihad which should then be accepted by everyone. He said the government had talked of roshan khayali but had not abolished hudood laws, which together with laws of testimony, were unjust and brought dishonour to the state in the world. Allama Javed Al Ghamidi said that Islam should be understood afresh without an imitation of fiqh which was man-made and could be amended. Culture minister Muhammad Ali Durrani said Islam was being exploited in Pakistan. Islamic banking needs reform! Writing in the Jang, Dr Shahid Hassan Siddiqi said that Islamic banks were not very different from modern banks in their offer of profits to their customers. In 2005, modern banks gave 3 per cent interest to their savings account holders while the Islamic banks did the same. Profit should be at least one per cent above the inflation rate or why should savings accounts be opened? Islamic banking cannot flourish unless society is reformed and Islamic banks dominate the market to the same extent as the modern banks. One expert from Jedda stated that Islamic banking was still involved in riba (interest) mechanisms. Reshma humiliated by Pakistani in London Quoted in the Nawa-e-Waqt, famous Pakistani folk singer Reshma stated that she had gone to the UK to sing on a contract with Pakistani promoter Haji Iqbal. After the tour was over, she asked Haji Iqbal to give her the promised £1500, but he sent her to a Hindu promoter instead who also refused. She then went to the High Commission but the high commissioner refused to see her. After that, she returned to Pakistan without receiving the paltry sum of money she had been promised. How fast is violated According to the view of the ulema published in th daily Pakistan, roza (fast) was violated by looking at women with a bad view, telling lies and watching songs and films. It was not violated by brushing oneâs teeth, injection, kuhl in the eyes or perfume. Shocked by âThe Protocolsâ Writing in the daily Pakistan, Nasim Shahid expressed his shock and grief at reading The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in which the Jewish leaders planned to conquer the world in a secret meeting in 1897. The document said that Jews were spreading hatred and prejudice so that the world may fight. Another protocol said that Muslims were like sheep while the Jews were wolves. The columnist said he was greatly shocked and surprised at the effectiveness of the Protocols today, meaning that the plan to conquer the world was still on. Ahmedis killed after Khatm-e-Nabuwwat rallies The daily Jang and other newspapers carried the news that in Mandi Bahauddin near Lahore, gunmen riding motorbikes had killed eight people saying namaz in a place of worship and wounded 14 others. Most papers tried to hide the fact that they were Ahmedis but the giveaway was the reluctance to describe the place of worship as a mosque. During the same period, all Urdu newspapers had carried angry statements from sessions of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat organisations pledging revenge on Ahmedis because âthey were involved in conspiracies against Muslims together with the Jews. The rallies were attended by some MMA leaders including Maulana Fazlur Rehman of JUI. âI will forecast Imam Mehdiâs comingâ Quoted in the daily Pakistan, Allama Tahirul Qadiri said in Lahore that in his next sermon, he would precisely forecast the coming of Imam Mehdi. He said Imam Mehdiâs coming was foretold in 200 hadith reports and anyone who did not believe in his coming was not a Muslim. Imam Mehdi was to be the last ruler of the Islamic state, after which the world would be no more. He said the Sunnis believed that Imam Mehdi was yet to be born while the Shia thought he was born but had gone underground. He said that some misled ulema were saying that Imam Mehdi had already been born in 1960. He was therefore to spend the month of Ramazan to explain the coming of Imam Mehdi. The first period of omens had passed and the second was unfolding but it is after the third period that he would come. He will meet Christ in Jerusalem where he will lead him at namaz of fajr, after which they would open the door of the city to find Dajjal with his army of 30,000 confronting them. Imam Mehdi will put Dajjal to death. Also, he will kill 30 other Dajjals claiming to be prophets. 250 Jews in Karachi According to the Nawa-e-Waqt, there were 250 Jews left in Karachi, some of them attached to professions like doctors with names that can no longer be told apart from the Muslims, which dates from the day the Jewish place of worship was burnt down. One doctor, Ishaq Musa, said that there used to be 2,500 Jews in Karachi doing business after 1947 but after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, they got scared and left the country. Posted by: Fred 2005-11-12 |
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