Desecration of Qura’nic Ayah
Minister for Religious Affairs was heard saying in a TV news bulletin this
evening that a law would be made against the desecration of the newspapers
pages containing Qura’nic Ayah. Since it could be difficult to apportion
the exact blame on some specific desecrator and/or it could alternately
provide the fundamentalists with a handle to implicate even the innocent
ones for committing this act of blasphemy, it is strongly suggested that
the newspapers and other publication be asked to stop this practice of
publishing the Arabic script of the Qura’nic ayah in their papers in all forms,
whether be it a daily feature on the top of front page or in the text of an
article on other pages regarding some Islamic teachings etc. and only the Urdu
or English translation of the Ayah be printed instead. May be the Urdu or
English translation would not evoke the same degree of anguish in the mind of
our clergy and clerics as does the Arabic text.
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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