Report in Razkr 31/40:1+8 (1 November 1968). Report of the Inquiry Committee, quoted in Pakistan Times, 23 December 1963 (Urdu translation in Razkr 27/1:1; 1 January 1964). 10814) Hajji Daud Nsir recalls how he had repeatedly invited S. Muhammad Dihlavi to speak at majlis in Bombay, but the latter had refused to accept any payment for them. Dihlavi, who feared that agitation in Lahore and elsewhere might turn violent and jeopardise the achievements of three years of Shia communal mobilisation, agreed to these conditions and called off the Lahore Convention.353Close He even allowed Qizilbash to portray himself as having taken over the command of the campaign for the Shia demands. generally Sunni extremists. The same applies to all ministers and officials. Possibly it took place on the sidelines of a visit of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran in Lahore on 11 November (Pakistan Times, 12 November 1964). In the resolutions [of the Muslim League] there was no mentioning of Shias and Sunnis; neither it was mentioned that Shias will have the right to take out their processions even if these violate the feelings of the Sunnis , [religious] freedom does not exclude some prohibitions. We have to give our young generation religious instruction according to our beliefs. Otherwise after three months the Shias of Pakistan will be free to take any appropriate steps to secure the acceptance of their demands, and the responsibility for that will fall on the government.347Close, Resolution No. 18995; Pirzada, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, p. 9. Until 1958 special passports for pilgrims wishing to visit the holy sites in Saudia Arabia. Thus he was anxious to give the ITHS and APSC due representation in delegations and commissions and paid all respect to their leaders.185Close For example, at the sidelines of the Rawalpindi Convention he intervened during a session of the ITHS Council and ordered Muzaffar Ali Shamsi to withdraw once more his resignation from the post of Secretary-General.186Close, In October 1964, however, the semblance of cooperation of the other Shia leaders received a first blow. Although no agreement was reached then, S. Hadi Ali Shah from the APSC and Fayyaz Husain Hamadani from the ITHS accepted their nomination as Shia representatives within the Joint Board.208Close Both were later accused of having consented to the transformation of a number of Shia auqf into Sunni endowments during their term.209Close, The joint commission of Shia and government representatives formed in early 1965 was called for a first session on 7 September 1965incidentally almost coinciding with the start of that years war with India210Closeby the home secretary. I.e. According to Dihlavi the Boards recommendations were as follows: 1) There will be one textbook for dnyt with three parts: a) Akhlqyt, which will be prepared by Shia and Sunni ulam jointly and must be acceptable to both sects; b) Sunni dnyt; c) Shia dnyt. 1923, 4648. These were the Chief Secretary of the Government of West-Pakistan, the Home Secretary, the Chief Administrator of the Auqaf Department, Sardar Abd ul-Rashid, and the Secretary of Education, S. Muhammad Sharif; see Razkr 28/7:3 (16 February 1965). Dr Zakir Naik - YouTube The quarter of Karkh,309Close the walls of Baghdad, the bazaar of Kufa and the court of Damascus are witness that we have not been afraid of any power when raising the voice of truth. 1316. Mirza, From Plassey to Pakistan, pp. Among them were a number of Shia notables in the Punjab, especially in the districts of Sargodha, Jhang and Multan.30Close The Ayub Khan regime presented its new laws on auqf as complementary to a land reform started in 1961, although the latter would remain without much impact.31Close Another side-effect of them was to bring a number of dn madris under government control, but apparently none of the few Shia schools was included.32Close Both Sunni and Shia madris responded to the challenge with the formation of countrywide umbrella organisations.33Close, The most controversial issue tackled by the martial law regime was the Muslim Family Law Ordinance promulgated in 1961. The radical Sunni groups, who had so far not taken Dihlavis movement too seriously, were alarmed by what leaked through from the recommendations of the Board and warned the government from introducing separate dnyt or dividing the Auqaf Department.367Close On 6 August 1967 a Sunni Conference was held in Multan to discuss how to counter the divisive Shia demands.368Close Although only a few dozens of some 400 invited Sunni ulam showed up (among them no Barelvi lim of any standing),369Close speakers included Maulana Mufti Mahmud370Close and even Kausar Niyazi.371Close Resolutions against all three demands of the Shias were passed. In Sadda (Kurram Agency) fire was opened on a Muharram procession in 1961, leading to fighting that spread to other villages (Bangash, Political and Administrative Development, p. 184). Pakistani Model and Actress Zara Sheikh Pictures and Biography On 30 November 1964 Dihlavi was again received by Ayub Khan along with a fifty-member delegation of ulam, advocates and notables in the Government House of Lahore. XIXXXVIII. He is the founder of Idara-tul-Mustafa. Literally: investigators; Muhaqqiq is also an honourable title of some leading Shia authorities of former centuries; see Momen, Introduction, p. 317. And if controversial matters are treated as such, the students will be confused and split among each other Shia hadth and fiqh should be taught separately and exams should be separate, too. 7, 37 and 51. al-Muballigh 3/12:2 (January 1960). 14243. They were challenged by Kausar Niyazi, (then still a member of the Jamat-i Islm), to say words in praise for the khulaf-i rshidn there and then in order to convince the Sunnis in the audience of their good intentions.103Close. While the Jmiat ul-Muntazar rose to the first rank among the Shia madris in Pakistan in 1971, the Dr ul-Ulm Muhammadya Sargodha maintained its leading position until at least the mid-1960s. Mahmoud al-Sarkhi (born 1964) Mohammad al-Sadr (1943-1999) Mohammad al-Shirazi (1928-2001) Mohammad Ali Tabatabaei Hassani (1945-2017) Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi (1925-2019) Mohammed Ridha al-Shirazi (1959-2008) Mohammad Taher Khaqani (born 1940) Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi (born 1945) Mohammad Yaqoobi (born 1960) Morteza Hosseini Fayaz (1929-2014) By 1963 it took twenty-two hours for the 3.5 miles from the Qizilbash Haveli in the Old City to Karbal-i Gme Shh (Razkr 27/1:1; see also a report on the 1962 procession in Razkr 25/2223:2). On his contribution to the movement in 1968 see section 4.5, p. 144. This wave of mobilisation was entirely indigenous and more successful than all former or later campaigns for the sake of Shia equal rights during more than six decades of Pakistans history, although the concessions gained in late 1968 took some more years to be implemented and were later gradually revoked. The following is a list of notable Shia Muslims. Braving strong pressure from thousands of frenzied Shias who were incited by Mushtaq Husain and others, he decided to call off the convention.379Close He later argued that he did not want to give credibility to those who had told the government that its objective had been fomenting trouble against it with a civil disobedience campaign.380Close, One week later the APSC organ Asad reported that Qizilbash had been informed officially about the acceptance of the Shia three demands.381Close This turned out to have been baseless, and the divorce between Dihlavi and Qizilbash became now complete. Pakistan Times, 23 December 1963; Razkr 27/1:12. 10) and to stop the seizure of Shia objectionable literature (No. 6973, 857. See the full text in Razkr 26/4647:3 (16 December 1963). A country-wide campaign for safeguarding Shia fiqh and rights in the auqf according to the four [canonical] books142Close is out of their reach. famous shia zakir in pakistan. 'Every year we dig mass graves': the slaughter of Pakistan's Hazara Razkr 24/1415:8. On the March 1956 convention see section 3.2, pp. Ali Raza (UK) 7. In his 1986 interview with Dogar, he was still defending that position vigorously (Dogar, 150 sul, p. 50). The latter were full of references to the new era of progress in the economic and scientific fields, to which the Shias would need to adjust. Was it the purpose of the martyrdom of Husain that majliskhwn would become a trade? This is causing considerable heartache for us, because we are seeing the future of our qaum in black colours.80Close. 1356. In the meantime, a SMC delegation should again meet the President and the Governor and report on the results in Hyderabad.377Close, At that junction, the government for the first time resorted to repressive measures against the Shia movement. Our youth became very far from their Islamic culture (tahzb). Membership fees for the SMCs should be fixed locally with two thirds of the funds raised to be used for local requirements and travel expenses to countrywide meetings. His stay closed with a large public gathering at Karbal-i Gme Shh.170Close At a press conference on 29 February, S. Muhammad Dihlavi gave a comprehensive account of the three demands and their implications (excerpts): After the foundation of Pakistan the Muslims had merely understood that their goal had been achieved and they would be free to do what they liked. From January 1966 onwards a number of appeals appeared in Shia journals calling for the formation of SMCs in every town, district and village with a noteworthy Shia presence, which should then establish contact with S. Muhammad Dihlavi in Karachi.308Close One especially sentimental appeal was published by the SMC Lahore in Razkr. He was born in Kapurthala (Jullundhur Dist., East Punjab). See references in Naqvi, Bibliography, Vol. 2000 - present. Pioneering in this sense was the weekly Tanzm-i Ahl-i Hadth (Lahore), which already during Muharram in 1961 had compared the Shias recitation of elegies (mars and nauhajt) with the howling of dogs.77Close But the editor of that journal was just as adamantly denouncing his Sunni countrymen for pr-worshipping and grave-worshipping as he accused the Shias of tazya-worshipping,78Close thus isolating himself among the majority sect, too. According to that source the madrasa had received only Rs. Natasha Ali. S. Ajmal Husain was a medical doctor and nephew of Justice S. Jamil Husain (see section 5.4, p. 158). He penned poetry about love. He later set up a trust for Shia religious publications. S. Abid Husain, a leading landlord of Jhang.16Close The Secretary-General of the ITHS, Muzaffar Ali Shamsi, for his part, was an enthusiastic supporternot to say a flattererof Ayub Khans regime right from the start.17Close In his report on the organisations activities during the preceding years read at an ITHS convention in Lahore (79 April 1961) he said, among other things: The era of martial law has become a blessing for the ITHS, and it has forced those who had conspired against it to retreat from politics.18Close The government of Ayub Khan has destroyed their dream in a humiliating way Now this group of conspirators are passing their days in retirement, while the ITHS is still alive by the grace of God and is performing the task of a spokesman of the Shias very well like before , God be praised, our present ruler is following a neutral policy in religious affairs and is giving complete freedom to all Pakistani citizens of different faiths the sectarian atmosphere in the country has become quite calm, and the situation is improving rapidly. Natasha Ali is a Pakistani entertainer, Model, and host.