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In the name of Allah, the most Merciful and

Compassionate

Ansar al-Mujahideen English Forum

Translation and Languages Department

presents

An English Translation of

the interview with the Khateeb of Laal Masjid

Moulana

Abdul Aziz-May Allah Protect Him-



Dozens of cases have beenmade against our women,

while the killers roam free !

The seminaries in Rajanpur were attacked at midnight. After violating the

sanctity of the religious and sacred books not even the women were

spared. The orders of Supreme Court were neglected. – Khateeb Red

Mosque Maulana Abdul Aziz

The worries of Maulana Abdul Aziz, who is the Khateeb of the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) and the leader of Jamia Faridiya and Jamia

Hafsa, have not ceased yet.

At 2am in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday the police

raided the seminaries of Abdullah bin Ghazi and Umm Abdul

Rasheed Ghazi, Lil Banaat in Rajanpur, disgracing the Holy Qur'an

and other religious books. The sanctity of the houses of the teachers

were violated, and at the same time Maulana Abdul Aziz is facing

twenty-one cases lodged against him. And so are his wife and

daughter, and the widow of Maulana Abdul Rasheed Ghazi - Umm

Haroon - and many students and teachers of the seminaries are

presented in the court every second day. The numbness of the

authorities is such that on Wednesday morning at 11 am IESCO

(Islamabad Electricity Supply Company) cut the electricity supply of

the Red Mosque due to lack of paying the bill. The Auqaaf

organization, which the Red Mosque is under, has been unable to

pay the bill of 1 600 000 rupees owed for many months.

On all these matters we talk to Maulana Abdul Aziz the Khateeb of the Central Red Mosque, Islamabad.

Q. How many seminaries do you have in Rajanpur, and why

was that one raided?

A. The district of Rajanpur is our native land, and there we have set

up seminaries in the name of our martyred father Maulana

Muhammad Abdullah and our martyred mother, for male and female

students to serve the religion. It is a half-tribal area, where there is



less implementation of law (though there isn’t any law in the whole

of Pakistan), instead of the law being supreme, tribalism is.

Even before this event, the Punjab Police and sometimes the Sindh

Police have raided the seminaries many times, in so-called 'search

operations', as this land is situated on the border between Sindh and

Punjab. Apart from these two seminaries in our village there are

fifteen other branches in the vicinity, where hundreds of students

are attaining religious education, and our seminaries dedicate their

time only for the service of Islam.

This incident took place the previous night at around 2 to 2.30 am.

There were forty to fifty armed policemen, as well as some in civilian

clothes, in four or five vehicles, and they broke in suddenly.

The leader of the seminary, brother Muhammad Riaz, told me that

the police surrounded the Masjid and the seminary, and went inside

the Masjid with their shoes on. The grave of Maulana Abdul Rasheed

Ghazi is located within the complex of the Masjid and the seminary.

After passing through the Masjid the police turned towards the

seminary. The young students were awoken with slaps and the kicks

of boots. The cupboards were broken immediately. The sacred books

were desecrated, and the same behaviour was ordained as during

the operation of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa. The sacred books were

thrown outside . And those teachers and students who tried to stopthem from this disgraceful act were tortured. After that, the police

went over to the houses of the teachers which were adjacent to the

complex. The sanctity of the houses was violated; the women were

badly shoved and beaten. The houses were all searched, and from

some houses the police even took the gold and jewellery. The same

tragedy took place in the Madrassa of the sisters. The female

teachers and students were badly treated. After two hours of

searching the police finally left. We have said before, and we say

again, that there are some unseen forces behind all this, who alsoworked before to make the circumstances bad in this country, and

now again they are trying to create anarchy. Whenever the countries

situation starts to get better these forces commit such acts, and try

to make things worse again.

Q. Was anybody arrested, or did the police give a reason as

to why they came?



A. The police station is about three kilometres from the seminary.

According to brother Riaz, the police used to come in normal

circumstances and even used to drop by for cold water. They never

had any problems with us, even though we have been raided many

times, but we bore all this with patience, and we did not do anyprotests or block any roads, and we bore the oppression at the

hands of these oppressors. These evildoers will achieve nothing but

to desecrate the sacred books. On one side these tyrants are after

us, whilst on the other the thieves and looters of this area think of

us as an obstruction. In similar events my close relative was killed at

the hands of these looters. I have requested the government many

times to give us a license to bear arms for our safety, but they are

numb to our request. Such behaviour with those people who serve

the religion is shameful.

Q. The cases that were filed against you and your family

after the tragedy of Lal Masjid, are they finished, or still

under way?

A. All these cases are ongoing. Nowadays the governmental officials

and officers are bringing witnesses against us, so many hours are

spent outside the court and within the court listening to these

witnesses against us. I have twenty-one cases filed against me. Fivein one court, and fifteen in another, and one case is filed in the

special court for terrorism. Eleven cases have been filed against my

wife, Umm Hassan, and seven cases against my daughter. And three

cases have been filed against the wife of the martyr Abdul Rasheed

Ghazi .

Apart from the cases against our family, many of the teachers and

students also have many ongoing cases against them. I have to say

with regret that my martyred father Maulana Abdullah, his case did

not ever get the chance to be heard in court, even though five

people, including myself, identified the killer. But the police allowed

him to escape from their custody, and the case is long forgotten.

This so-called law of the government is apparent when 'Aunty

Shameem' was running a prostitution center, and the whole street

was sick of her, was taken by our students and after making her

realise her sin, she was released the next day, that case is being

heard against us since past 3 years . While more than one hundred

scholars were martyred in Lal Masjid and hundreds of female

students got martyred, yet there is no case for them, but instead



many cases have been filed against our women... Only those

people who are near to their religion have to suffer these trials.

Q. What are the difficulties that you and your students arefacing at this time?

A. We have no objection on the personal difficulties, because we

were taught from day one that if you traverse on the path of religion

you will have to face lots of difficulties. We are the people who trust

on Allah alone. More than thirty branches are working from rented

houses in Islamabad. In our country there are many seminaries that

have stock for a yearly and monthly basis, yet we are unable to fulfil

it even for daily basis.

When there is no stock left in Jamia Faridiya or any other branch

then its announced that there will be no food, and its written that

today the Sunnah of Muhammad (saw) and his Sahaba will be

brought to life. It has been 25 years since the formation of Jamia

Hafsa and and Jamia Faridiya, and I can say this on record, that we

have never had arrangements apart from daily basis.

A few days ago , the leader of Jamia Safia called and said that even

last night the teachers and the female students had nothing to eat,

and even for morning we put the notice for starvation, now please

do something for the lunch. The same situation is in many of the

branches. We consider this as the love of Allah (swt), and are living

with patience. We neither have any ambassador nor any institution

that collects donations for us, within the country or outside. My

martyred father Maulana Abdullah, may Allah have mercy on him,

used to say what ever food you get give it to the teachers and

students and if there is none then go without and ask Allah's

assistance. If we are unable to give the teachers their pay then it is

a debt on us, and from the past ten to fifteen years alone the debtof the female teachers pay is around 100 000 000 rupees against

us. But, all praise be to Allah, not a single teacher left the Jamia due

to lack of pay up until now, and with the help of Allah the serving of

the religion continues.



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- Translated from Daily Ummat Newspaper , Karachi , Pakistan.

- www.ummat.com.pk

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