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By Farooq Ganderbali
Five months ago, in April to be precise, slogans in praise of Islamic State (IS) appeared in pockets of Srinagar, particularly the historic Harwan area on the outskirts of the city. Simultaneously, IS flags were cited here and there across the valley. Now five months down the line, the IS has not become the phenomenon security experts feared it would.
Instead, there are few takers for the IS talk and IS ideology in Kashmir today , according to an “informal” survey conducted over the past two months covering students, youth, academics, tour operators, and auto rickshaw drivers, who are in ‘direct interaction’ with the people in the street.
“Youth were swayed by IS ideology, no doubt”, says a professor with the University of Kashmir, who does not want to be identified. “But the IS activities particularly its brutalities on innocent people and the way this group has butchered women after making them sex slaves have created a wave of aversion against them (IS leadership) in the average Muslim”.
An auto driver, who operates mostly in Dal Lake area, has his own theory. “We Kashmiri Muslims are Sunnis but we practice Sufism down the ages. The IS ideology of extremism and intolerance does not appeal to us”.
Reflecting the groundswell of opposition to IS in Kashmir and elsewhere, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) based Darul Uloom Nizamia Farangi Mahal, has issued a fatwa against the Islamic State declaring categorically that “Islam doesn’t permit killing of any innocent person”.
The fatwa against the leader, fighters and followers of the self-declared Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), recalled that Prophet Mohammad too has appreciated those who pardon others.
Darul Uloom Nizamia Farangi Mahal is the first Sunni Muslim seminary in India. Founded nearly 300-years ago by Allama Nizamuddin Farangi Mahal, the seminary had conceptualised syllabus for madrasas which is still followed in leading seminaries including India’s biggest Darul Uloom, Deoband.
Signed by its rector Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahli, and Maulana Naeemur Rehman Siddiqui, apart from Maulana Mohammad Mushtaq and Maulana Mohammad Nasrullah, the Darul Uloom fatwa was issued on a query by Sajid Umar Jilani of Lucknow, who wanted to know whether the activities of the IS, including killing of innocents, were “ valid” in light of Islamic teachings. The fatwa has been ratified by more than 1,000 Muslim clerics, including Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Delhi, Ajmer Dargah, Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, Raza Academy, Ulema Council of India, Jamiat Ahle Hadees Mumbai, All India Tanzeem Ammay-e-Masjid, Darul Uloom Mohammadiya etc.
Jilani also referred to “repeated waving of IS flags by some people in Kashmir”.
The fatwa termed the IS activities as “anti-Islam”. It asked Muslim youth not to fall in the trap of the “false propaganda of the IS”.
“In the light of the above teachings, there is no place for unholy acts of IS of killing innocents. It is totally un-Islamic,” said Mahli, who is also a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
He remarked that those “who commit atrocities “do not get place in ‘jannat’ (heaven)”, and appealed to the youth not to join the IS.
“I appeal to Indian Muslim youth not to join IS by getting impressed by its false propaganda,” Mahali said, adding that the fatwa will clear misconceptions about IS among Muslims.
In a related development, more than 1,000 Muslim clerics (1050 to be exact, according to news agency. ANI) , including muftis and imams, have issued a 15-volume fatwa against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State (IS).
“Holy Quran mentions that killing of any person without reason is against humanity. It mentions that Allah dislikes war on land,” said the fatwa issued in Mumbai
It added the Prophet has appreciated those “who pardon others” and “even Prophet’s companions, who took part in wars”. It went on to say “Prophet Muhammad always protected the religious places of others”.
This edict was issued by a leading Mumbai-based cleric, Mohammed Manzar Hasan Ashrafi Misbahi, and has been signed by the leaders of all the main mosques in India, which has the world's third-largest Muslim population.
The scholars emphatically stated that the IS or ISIS actions were "absolutely inhuman and described the Khilafat Rule of IS or ISIS as "absolutely absurd and accursed" and their actions as not having any relation with Islam or its teachings.
The signatories include the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, key representatives of the Ajmer Dargah, Nizamuddin Aulia dargah, the Raza Academy, the Ulema Council of India, the Jamiat-ul -Ulema Maharashtra, the Moin Ashraf Sahab Kachocha Dargah, the Sayed Zahir Abbas Rizvi Zainabya, the Aamil Sahab Dawoodi Bohra, the Jamiat Ahle Hadees Mumbai, the All India Tanzeem Anmay-e-Masjid and the Darul Uloom Mohammadiya.
In a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, these Islamic clerics described themselves as believers and followers of Islam, and appealed to the international community to have a better understanding of what it means to be a Muslim and a follower of Islam, and not to abuse it by associating it with terrorist outfits like the IS or ISIS.
(The author is a Freelance Journalist and columnist)
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