A BJP leader has written to Darul Uloom Deoband asking that a fatwa be issued against a man who allegedly used indecent language for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his mother last week during Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar.
Terming it “a matter of grave concern and sensitivity”, BJP Minority Morcha national president Jamal Siddiqui sought to emphasise that Islam accords the highest respect to elderly parents and that the comments made against Modi’s late mother at an INDIA bloc rally in Bihar’s Darbhanga by Mohammad Rizvi, who has seen been arrested and sent to 14 days’ judicial custody, tarnished the image of the community.
In a letter to Maulana Abdullah Mujahid Siddiqui, principal of the Uttar Pradesh-based seminary, which is at the core of Sunni Islam in the Indian subcontinent, said that Rizvi, alias Raja, a Congress worker from Singhwara, made “extremely derogatory and indecent remarks” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother during Gandhi’s campaign centred on his allegations of vote theft.
The BJP had got an FIR registered in the matter, which had also triggered clashes between the cadres of the party and the Congress-RJD. The Opposition INDIA bloc in the state has denied Rizvi’s affiliation with it and distanced itself from his comments, even as the BJP has demanded that both the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav tender a public apology in the matter.
“In the Holy Quran, Surah Al-Isra (17:23), Allah commands believers to treat their parents with kindness, and in the Hadith, Prophet Muhammad has described a mother as the gateway to Paradise,” the BJP Minority Morcha leader wrote.
“Mohammad Rizvi’s actions, therefore, not only insult a family but also go against Islamic teachings and moral values. Such conduct creates discord in society and tarnishes the image of the Muslim community, which is being condemned across the nation,” he further wrote.
Urging the scholars of Darul Uloom Deoband to look into the matter and issue a fatwa against the “disgraceful act committed by Mohammad Rizvi”, he said such a fatwa would not only serve as “a path of correction for the individual” but also “reinforce Islamic morality and the spirit of respect within society”.
