Special Analysises: Trapped – Punjab Assembly Bill – For Unity against Unity?

Three decades of sectarianism causing lives of hundreds primarily followers of Shia sects turned Pakistan into a broken state. The Muslim nation with highest degree of potential to lead the entire Islamic Ummah is buried under heavy international debts, never ending political crisis, social instability, slavery of West-Saudi and above all religious discord making Pakistan the nursery for religious terrorism.

This extreme form of massacre under the umbrella of religion never saw a reversion to Muslim unity until last few years. When Takfirist ideology-based terrorism span beyond Shiite and landed into the homes of its own ioneers, the Pakistan army an action plan was seen to eradicate this evil tree. After Peshawar army school attack the army made an intention for cleansing terrorists. Though a good attempt but only addressed to chopping of leaves and stems not addressing its primary root of Takfirist Ideology which was growing stronger every day specifically with Saudi elements visiting Pakistan to keep it warm. The Takfirist Ideology had deep rooted state ponsors and promoters within the system and with heavy influx of funding and moral support from Ale Saud the Takfirist terrorism factor was to be kept alive. The only solution to this terrorism whose basis was sectarianism as to revive the spirit of Islamic Unity across sects. Though certain attempts were made but got politicized whereby unity turned into political alliances contesting elections like Muttahida Majlis e Amal (MMA) and Majlis Wahdat e Muslimeen (MWM). This unity which is power driven would never solve the root cause to eliminate Takfirism from Pakistan. An ideological effort was required where various sects and their leaders whole heartedly ccept that Muslim Unity is not for political purpose but is an Islamic obligation related to faith. Striving for something as precept of faith, religious covenant is totally different from achieving the same goal for olitical objectives.

If we step outside Pakistan then Shia-Sunni sectarianism seems to be a global issue with world’s leading British Intelligence Agency MI6 and Ale Saud have been pivoting in fueling this fire. Ale Saud has been sponsoring unni Mufti’s globally to spread the fire of hatred against Shias and MI6 created elements within Shias who would provide the fuel to fire. These Shia elements ideologically classified as Ghaali (hyperbole or exaggerators) sect originated from the time of Shia’s sixth Imam Sadiq and faced very strong opposition from Shia Imams declaring them as apostates with death penalties. This category was heavily brewed by MI6 within Shias to the level of Marjaiyat and personalities like Ayatollah Sadiq Shirazi came in limelight as the leader of this group. Sadiq Shirazi came under heavy scrutiny residing in Iran but even Iranian regime could not control him completely considering the human rights issue backfiring on them if they take strict actions on them. Then other Marajae Taqlid of Shias like Ayatollah Bashir Najafi in Iraq were all part of the same MI6 package.

Ale Saud and MI6 aims to distance the Muslim Ummah from the revolutionary path of Imam Khomeini and Iranian anti-western system which has been spreading across the region primarily in Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq and Bahrain. If the same system kicks within Pakistan with a 240 million population it would be the biggest front which USA and their allies will have to encounter in their one world agenda. The factory of producing Takfirist element was Pakistan hence strategically Pakistan is very crucial and important in the current clash of civilization. They were on the peak of success in Pakistan when two things happened; one was claws of Takfirist became too long piercing their own creators, trainers that is Pakistan army and second was a new wave of Islamic Unity on Ideological grounds was seen developing in Pakistan. This was pioneered by a new entrant within Shiite who returned to Pakistan after three decades from Qom. It was unexpected that this man would be so different from others and all were expecting that he is like other Shia groups, personalities mainly supported by Iranian and Iraqi lobbies at their back. This man turned the table around and within a decade made a virtual Ummah within Pakistan which was not just supported by Shia youths heavily but with leading Sunni groups like Jamaat e Islami, Tablighi Jamaat of Tarikh Jameel and even Tahirul adri’s Minhajul Quran became positive on this new Hero of Shias of Pakistan, Syed Jawad Naqvi.

This Syed has certain qualities worth mentioning alongside his intellectual level which even his opposition accept that he is on top of the list. His visionary thoughts which are deep rooted in Iqbal’s vision of Pakistan that is a Pure Islamic state. Syed Jawad Naqvi nullified the democratic system of Pakistan and promoting Wilayat (Islamic guardianship) as the only solution for liberation of Pakistan from the clutches of Western and Saudi demons. He grounds the practical implementation version of Wilayat on Iqbals’ stratagem and not blindly following the Iranian political system. In last three years this Syed created a big Tsunami of Islamic unity and many Sunni prominent ersonalities like Maulana Thanawi from Karachi publicly on stage announced Sunni allegiance to Syed Jawad Naqvi. Though Naqvi never aims to become leader of Pakistan instead he carries the pain to see Pakistan liberated from the agonies it is going through due to mistakes of past leaders, establishment and still non recognition and ectification of those mistakes.

The 6th July 2020 event despite of Covid-19 risks was an MI6 agenda to stir a big so far controlled sectarianism discord. For those unaware, this event was organized in Lahore by a brewed personality Abuzar Bukhari allied with the Shia Ghaali orators who are mainly the Northampton lot heavily funded by MI6. This event was aimed to defame ranian leadership and their revolutionary movement and at the same time fuel the fire of sectarianism. This event was foiled by Syed Jawad Naqvi by using his methodology derived by Khomeini and Iqbal that is communal intention and communal power. Naqvi does not rely on political power to resolve issues instead he relies on people and masses; though he agrees to using the political tools at disposal to build pressure on state. He believes in purely non violent ways of managing situation with people pressure building methodology. It is worth mentioning that Syed Jawad Naqvi is appearing in now several theses on Pakistani Shia Ideology written by research centers and students in Gerrmany and USA. The West is highly attentive on Naqvi and are cautious that he could be another emerging version of Khomeini from Pakistan. For forty years West arrogant powers are not able to control one Khomeini and his successor Khamenei in Iran, how will they control this another one that too from a passionate, sentimental, hardworking, tough Pakistan nation. It would be end of their dreams. India is equally concerned about Naqvi and Ajith Doval the National Security Advisor of India from leaked cables clearly states that though we have no threats from Shias in India but if ideology of Naqvi penetrates deep inside Muslim youths it could turn into a big threat. When Naqvi’s posters, placards and even billboards are seen across Kashmir and flashing on google images, it is miraculous to see a Pakistan scholar being followed in Indian occupied Kashmir to this extent.

The leaked files of Indian intelligence even report that early 2020 uprisings against Citizenship law which saw unexpected reactions by youths of Muslim university had an ideological contribution from Naqvi’s thoughts in India. Google Analytics reveal that 30% of viewership which Naqvi gets on his video lectures are coming from India and out of this 30%, nearly 90% are from Kashmir and Ladakh provinces. This is the reason that over last year Naqvi has seen highest degree of criticism and condemnation from Indian Shia scholars and groups, specifically those who are milked by Modi government.

In summary Syed Jawad Naqvi has reached the threshold where a volcanic eruption of uprising of Muslim Ummah in the region is expected anytime and core of this is Shia Sunni unity. As Naqvi becomes more profound amongst Sunnis and YouTube and Facebook comments analysis reveal that Sunnis are also closely following Naqvi and falling in love with his ideology this has become a threat for the legacy Shia leadership struggle in Pakistan. As such conventionally named representative of Khamenei, Syed Sajid Naqvi of Tehreek Jafaria an alliance to MMA claims to be leader of Shias in Pakistan. Then Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen an organization whose General Secretary Raja Nasir Abbas claims Syed Sajid was ousted by Khamenei due to act of moral corruption. Then Hamid Mousavi the leader of ritualistic and Ghulaat is another claimant of leadership. All these leaders are finding themselves in a very difficult situation with Jawad Naqvi’s Shia ideological rhetoric.

During the 6th July saga, Syed Jawad Naqvi faced a unified opposition from all these Shia leaders as he was pushing them to rise and take strong stand against the seditionists as they are threat to Islamic unity in Pakistan, but these leaders wanted to take a soft approach. MWM chief considers the Ghaali who publicly quote Ali is Allah as their brothers in faith and are not ready to disassociate with them. MWM spinal cords this group of apostates within Shias in return for votes during elections.

Interestingly within 16 days of 6th July saga Punjab National Assembly passed a bill in the name of defending the foundations of Islam. The question is what was the rush to do so and was this bill prepared during this period. Joining the dots looks like 6th July and this bill were queued. In a news brief Parvez Elahi the Assembly spokesperson claimed that this was done after agreement from various scholars and several reputed names of Shia personalities were also released including Tehreek Chief Syed Sajid Naqvi who as usual remains lip stitched neither accepting nor denying his approval. The bill has three major segments out of which two would for sure become controversial. Anyone who prepared the bill that too after discussion with so many scholars of Islam were well aware that this would stir up controversy and that seemed to be the driving force. The first part related defaming any religious personality like Prophet, companions and Quran leads to prosecutions. This had no objections outwardly but inwardly two groups came under target; one, the extremist Salafi Takfirist who declare Shias as Kafirs and second bleeding ones were the Shia orators whose bread and butter is earned only after defaming the companions of Prophet and wives of Prophet. Remember, this prejudicial Shia group has a strong support of MWM as mentioned before.

The second part was use of Alaihis Salam with the name of Ahlulbayt. The bill no where says that it is prohibited to associate this term for honor. It was strange why MWM who came in opposition made this an issue. They wanted to mandate its use? Then this would be again controversial. If it is left to people to use any respectable term then no one should pursue what term has to be used by any sect. The bill is presented to be aimed at sacrilege and not deciding the gravity of honor. The third part was the real trigger point and the main card for this entire Trap. This part says that Raziallaha Anhu (May Allah be pleased with them) should be used alongside the name of all companions of Prophet in every publication whether printed or digital. Though this is illogical because many Sunnis also do not consider certain companions on the right path and criticize them like those who killed the grandson of Prophet, Imam Hussain in the battle of Karbala, but still this was present in the bill jolts the mind with a clear agenda behind this.

The ones who were preparing the bill expected reaction on this which could be primarily one out of two but they ignored the third one which Jawad Naqvi’s super thinking worked out. 1. The first reaction would be Shias remain silent and accept that we will dignify all companions in our publications, then imagine a statement in Shia books “Imam Ali (a.s) confronted Muawiya (r.a) in the battle of Jamal”. This means what Takfirist desired Shias should accept all the companions as righteous would be achieved. And above all this, the shops of Shia Zakireen would be closed. The chanting of curses and the festival like atmosphere during Shia majalis where one sided missile launching on companions would all go for a toss. This would be good from this perspective but then from Shia perspective entire Shia ideology gets shattered as the existence of Shias is based on the immediate difference that took place between Ali ibn Abu Talib and companions of Prophet on the issue of Caliphate. So Shias accepting this bill definitely was near to impossible, but still this bill came out at a sensitive stage where the country is struggling with Covid-19. This means there is a background agenda behind the bill and this was intentionally done. 2. Shias will react but the question is how will they react. There are two common ways by which Shias could react and was expected by the house who made the bill.

a. In a legal way confronting the bill and taking to Supreme court. Any bill passed in a democratic system even if approved by Senate or upper house or governor at state level can be appealed in court and its implementation can stop until court order. If the objections come on negotiation table, they will agree to permissibility of any degree of respect to Ahlulbayt but also mandate honor to companions. So that’s a win for Takfirist. The possibility of this was very low and was only expected from Syed Sajid Naqvi who as per Parvez Elahi has signed off the terms even before it got passed.

b. The second highest expectation was Shias react in an emotional manner, whereby they will come out to prove and give reasons on why Shias are not ready to honor the companions and certain wives of Prophet. This means Shias will have to bring out the deficiencies, mistakes, crimes, sins of these personalities. This would immediately fuel the fire of discord. This is exactly what happened and once again MWM acted insane and without thinking about the consequences rushed into the arena to demonize this issue for the sake of recovering back from the disgraces they have suffered. Remember, MWM lost their face badly in front of Shias when they supported Khan’s party and Khan ended up in the arms of Bin Salman immediately which proved MWM’s claim wrong that Khan is a Shia supporter and anti-Saudi. The second was MWM’s constant support to the Ghaali made many sensible Shias go against them. Then there were internal disputes within MWM and another leading scholar Amin Shahidi parted off from MWM. ISO the group who claims to be most closely affiliated with Iran stands with MWM only if Raja Nasir dances on their tunes. And after 6th July MWM came under brutal public torture for not just standing up but in fact supporting that group who was anti-Iran, anti-Khamenei and infidels in ideology. The starving belly of MWM found this bill as a fleshy deer which can give the energy required by them to rise again. They did not even calculate the consequences as this is a highly sensitive matter and during their press conferences and video clips of their supporting scholars, they started lambasting the companions and emphasizing that companions cannot be honored by Shias. This had to backfire and Takfirist, Ahle Sunnah groups reacted sending strong warning signals to not come out in public and talk anything against the companions even if enveloped. The eyebrows are raised over here; whether MWM is part of the plan or were they trapped? Neither can be denied and time will reveal. The social media comments, posts analysis is again targeted towards Syed Jawad Naqvi, whereby he is being provoked to come out. Anyone coming out and speaking against the bill means he is explicitly or implicitly denying honor to companions. Roping in Jawad Naqvi in this melodrama looks like is one big objective so that he gets engulfed in sectarian discord whereas he has been pioneering the unity movement. The uestion for every friend and foe is will Syed Jawad Naqvi remain silent on this? The answer to this question is another question whether he is really silent? He is already on the move and social media has become viral with the snaps of his high profile meetings with Liaqat Baloch, the Jamaat e Islami chief, Maulana Tariq Jameel and looks like ore to come. People expect reactions the way their ego desires. Jawad Naqvi is moving on very wisely as a matured, hard cooked leader who wants to cut the roots here. He knows that any uncalculated Shia standing on this in absolute sense will see a backfire from Takfirist and atmosphere which was cruising towards unity will race towards discord within no time. On the contrary it looks like MWM wants to spoil the atmosphere of Unity. As an example if anyone listens to the short clip of MWM representative scholar Shahriar Abedi from USA, it is nothing but an act of fueling highest possible degree of hatred. Even a moderate Ahle Sunnah will hate Shias on listening to this. When turban bearers within MWM speak in this manner, then this cannot be just counted as an emotional outburst, there is definitely an agenda whereby MWM wants to spark communal unrest and then move towards Jawad Naqvi that he did not defended Shiite. It’s a tough time for Jawad Naqvi as well on how he will maneuver the situation and not allow a wave of sectarianism to tide up in Pakistan. Looking at the past and when PHD students globally are doing research and writing thesis on this personality and when his name can be heard from walls of White house and Vauxhall cross in London; this man has the potential to steer a nation out of such emotion based dreadful crisis. Naqvi has to manage three fronts now; one is Ghulaat group of Shias who will act as front-line miscreants to spoil the atmosphere; second is the government who wants to push the bill forward and third are his own Iranian line of thinking front of MWM and Tehreek. The actual battle is with this third front who have daggers ready under their sleeves for Naqvi. This entire bill is a trap made to shred the atmosphere of Islamic unity in Pakistan in the fire of discord and whether intentionally or unintentionally groups like MWM are trapped in the hands of Takfirists just due their lustful power polygamy who along with their allies are in revenge mode to regain their false prestige which was undressed by Sayed Jawad Naqvi. They want to see Naqvi out of the scene forever even if they have to burn Pakistan once again in the fire of sectarianism. Sincerity demands allegiance to Syed Jawad Naqvi in this situation but with a Himalaya of ego in between God knows if they would even step on to overcome it.