Srinagar/ Dec, 6 : J&K’s Grand Cleric Mufti Nasir Ul Islam on Monday said that ridiculing and insulting the Holiest figure of Islam, The prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is intolerable and unacceptable.
In a statement issued on Monday Mufti Nasir Ul Islam said “Accepted belief by Allah authorities is that the prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and all other prophets cannot be drawn and cannot be produced in pictures, more so imaginary, because they are according to Islamic faith, infallible individuals , role models and therefore should in no case be presented in any manner that might cause, overtly or covertly, disrespected for them and for Islam as a whole in letter or spirit, besides the move being fraught with crime of idolatry, that is to say an image rather than the divine belief it symbolizes can become the object of worship and veneration”.
Stating that ” the abominable act of drawing such hurtful imaginary images of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), is the vilest of sins and a serious religious offence which is apt to enrage the entire Muslim Ummah”, adding that “the climax of disrespecting Islam is the latest move by some publishers to have included such imaginary images of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and Angel Gabriel in the educational syllabus/curriculum at primary level possibly with a sinistrous and unholy design (God Forbid) of influencing, inculcating and embedding the minds of the students that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) was one like other individual with worldly wisdom or some specialties finding place in their curriculum thereby belittling His(PUBH) distinct grace qualities and virtues showered upon Him(PUBH) by none else than the Almighty Allah who exclusively owns and commands the entire universe” .
In the concluding para of his above referred statement he said “the least that has to be done, is that the publisher needs to be booked for igniting communal unrest, disharmony and disorder; and on the other every individual book containing this stuff needs to be got withdrawn from the market and from each every school/collage”.
