Deobandi militants of ASWJ killed Sibte Jafar but they cannot kill his memory
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LUBP Editor’s note: Read this blog post by Sultana Haider with tears of anger and grief.
For the right-wing and pro-establishment fake liberals, Sibte Jafar can be reduced to an Iranian fifth columnist. His cowardly murder can be misrepresented by Najam Sethi (and his promoters such as Ejaz Haider, Nadeem Paracha, Raza Rumi etc) as a casualty of a fictitious Sunni-Shia proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, or can be celebrated as an implementation of the roti, karpra, makan and Shia kafir slogan recently promoted by Ahmed Ludhianvi Deobandi, Najam Sethi and Raza Rumi in The Friday Times.
But for the tens of thousands who came to attend his funeral, he was a true Hussaini. A poet, scholar, educationist, humanist, uncle, friend, benefactor and sublime devotee of the Holy Prophet and his family. The Yazidis who killed him (Yazid the cursed is considered Ameer-ul-Momineen according to a fatwa by the Darul Uloom Deoband), the Ansar Abbasis who rationalize them and the Najam Sethis who provide these Yazidis an unchallenged platforms all deserve our strongest condemnation. (End note)
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They killed my chacha, Sibte Jafar, but they cannot kill his memory
In my 25 years of life, I have met three kinds of geniuses.
First; the genius who is inaccessible. He is always busy, forever surrounded by people. With so much recognition and power, he becomes vulnerable and often, succumbs to worldly pressures and expectations.
Second; the genius who is either a good orator, a good writer or a good thinker – not perhaps an all-rounder. He may even be accessible.
The third kind of genius is my chacha (uncle). Strangely, he was like none other; always accessible, forever humble and eternally ready to serve humanity.
He was my answer to absolutely any and every problem.
For the first time in my entire life, on the day he died, I felt jealous – jealous of all those crying for him – jealous of all those associated with him. That day, I felt like I had failed in knowing him in totality. His personality seemed so vast that my little mind failed to do it justice.
Until Monday, I was very happy with just knowing him as my uncle. I was content as the child whose school speeches he used to write; as a university student whose documentaries he used to help with, and as a young adult whose questions he used to answer with so much patience.
I now feel alone with no counselor, no guidance.
But standing there, amid lost people and an orphaned community, I felt they had lost far more than I had. Never before have I seen people yearning for a human so much.
As I write this, the words seem so shallow – so meaningless, devoid of feeling and essence.
Suddenly, tears and silence do more justice to communicating than any language possibly can.
Poets tell me he was a poet; educationalists tell me he was a professor; students tell me he was a teacher; peons tells me he was a generous helper – the thousands who attended his funeral gravely felt his absence, sighed together in silence, unable to comprehend the devoid.
All those who wrote about him were still crying for him; families from interior areas came just to get a glimpse of his funeral.
It was them who told me who he was.
“You, my dear brother, will just go, happily stealing the show, joining the legends and mehfil (gathering) of great poets. It is us who’d be left to face this world,” Abu exclaimed exactly ten days before my chacha left us for the happier place.
It was still, however, a shock when I was confronted with the news. My chacha is Shaheed Sibte Jafar now. He was brutally gunned down right outside his college.
Through him, they have attempted to murder literature, language – the entire ideology of enlightenment and knowledge. Through him, they have murdered countless homes which ran through his help.
He made his way to the graveyard, held up high on many shoulders craving to carry his last bed, petals being showered on his path. I felt comforted at the sight of adoration, yet, looking around at the orphaned community, I felt a pang of inexplicable loss.
But then, how lucky is the human being who is loved so deeply by so many?
He is a fortunate man whose departure is mourned so fervently by so many and whose absence is felt so gravely by all.
My chacha will always be the man I remember on a 70cc bike, with a small, torn wallet, a checkered shirt and brown pants, holding an old, switched off Nokia 3310 – as humble as they come.
As Abu used to call him, a legend he remains – even in death, he is a living legend.
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Appendix:
Deobandi militants of ASWJ celebrate Professor Sbite Jafar’s murder
Video: Funeral of Sibte Jafar
as-salamu ‘alaykum, innal-ilaha-wa-inna-illahe-rajaeon; please accept our humble condolences, which, while it may appear to be mere words from unknown strangers, have behind them both a shared pain, and the announcement of a divine promise. Please permit me to share it with all those who are bereaved. The following is excerpted from my recent article:
islam-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-does-quran-say-about-ahlul-bayt.html
Begin excerpt
This is an amazing Surah of the Holy Qur’an [Surah Al-Kausar, ch 108]. Because, to the enemies of Islam, its prophecy provides an easy touchstone upon which to falsify the Holy Qur’an and consequently the Divine claims for the religion of Islam. But we see today, nearly fifteen centuries later, that the Prophet of Islam’s progeny is ubiquitous, known as the “Syeds” and “Syedas”, whom all Muslims revere. The most famous among them is the famous Aga Khan, the Hazir Imam of the Ismaili Muslim sect whose followers revere him as per his claim of being the direct descendant of the only seed of the Prophet of Islam. But no trace is known of the Prophet’s enemies’ progeny as vouchsafed by the Holy Qur’an. Syeds and Syedas today are found among both the Sunni and the Shia sects and their subsects wherever Muslims live on earth. And they are treated with general reverence by the Muslim public across the board. Where did they spring from? Only from the singular source: the marriage union of the daughter of the Prophet of Islam, Hazrat Fatima (as), from his first wife Hazrat Khadija (as), with Hazrat Ali (as).
As we can see in Surah Al-Kausar, the Holy Qur’an once again does not directly mention the offspring of that first Prophetic seed by name who is to be the only source of fulfillment of the prophecy of verse 108:3. But it is also self-evident. And the offspring directly comprises the Messenger’s Ahlul Bayt, by definition. Therefore, without any controversy or conjecture, the prima facie fulfillment of the prophecy of verse 108:3 is a direct reference to the Messenger’s household, his Ahlul Bayt, the only source from whence that prophecy can ever be fulfilled. Subsequently, by logical inference, the word “Kausar” in verse 108:1, in the context of verse 108:3, refers to the endless abundance of the Messenger’s progeny being granted by Allah. Only when we venture into documented history do the names of the Messenger’s offspring become known when we discover that the Messenger’s only seed was his daughter Hazrat Fatima (as), from his first wife Hazrat Khadija (as). Arguably therefore, the word “Kausar”, in context of verse 108:3, inter alia refers to Fatima (as), the singular member of the Messenger’s Ahlul Bayt through whom his seed was “not cut off”, ٱلْأَبْتَرُ , to make the prophecy of Surah Al-Kausar perpetually true.
Since one person is not sufficient to continue the line of progeny, it takes two, a husband and a wife, Hazrat Ali (as) comes into the picture as being half the source of the abundance promised to the Prophet of Islam. It is historically self-evident, and without any doubt, that it was Hazrat Ali’s marriage union with Hazrat Fatima (as) that became the wassilah (means) for the fulfillment of this Divine prophecy in Surah Al-Kausar! Hazrat Ali (as) is the genetic grandfather of the millions of genuine Syeds and Syeddas in existence today, and Hazrat Fatima (as) the genetic grandmother – the never ending abundance, ٱلْكَوْثَر , promised by Allah to the Prophet of Islam. Without these two souls, the Holy Qur’an Surah Al-Kausar would have been falsified!
Just contemplating the remarkable fulfillment of this prophecy of the pithy Surah Al-Kausar [verse 108:3] – especially for those who are aware of Muslims’ early history and the extraordinary calamities that had befallen the family of the Prophet of Islam whereby every effort was made by the Muslim rulers for over 200 years to wipe them out – is sufficient to fill a Muslim mind and heart with enormous awe and spiritual wonderment! No follower of any of the other great religions of the world has such a unique heritage. The very existence of their prophets is at times argued as mythical by their antagonists. No such charge can be laid at the doorsteps of the Messenger of Islam – the empirical evidence still continuing, fifteen centuries and some 50 or so generations later. But the effort to wipe out the progeny of the Messenger also continues to this very day. Surah Al-Kausar is the divine guarantee as a continuing prophecy that such effort will never succeed. And not only will it never succeed, but that no trace shall be left of those who persist in such enmity. It is a perpetual testament to the veracity of the Holy Qur’an. If anyone wishes to falsify it – there is the open challenge by the Author of the Holy Qur’an!
End excerpt
“They killed my chacha, Sibte Jafar, but they cannot kill his memory”
From the name and sectarian affiliation, it appears that your chacha, janaab Sibte Jafar, is from the line of offspring protected by that divine promise of Surah Al-Kausar. Do take solace in the thought that Allah Almighty has vouched for the posterity of the Prophet of Islam continuing until the end of time. It is not just Sibte Jafar’s good memory, at least for those who knew him and his family, that they cannot kill.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
SHAHEED PROF.SYED SIBT-I-.JAAFAR ZAIDI,
MAN OF MULTIPLE QUALITIES.
Born 30th June 1957 Karachi
Shahadat 18th March 2013 Karachi
Graduation from University of Karachi in 1975.
Graduate Mobaligh Course from Jama Imamia Nazimabad.
M.A.Islamic Studies from University of Karachi in1977.
L.L.B. from Urdu University Karachi in1977.
M.A.Urdu from University of Karachi in 1979.
Worked as Lawyer from 1977 to 1981 with Saghir Jafari Advocate.
Passed CSS in 1981.
First posted at Hyderabad Govt. College Latifabad.
Since Nov 1981 till his day of Shahadat served Govt. Degree College Liaquatabad. Where he taught Islamiat, Pakistan Studies and Urdu Literature.
Following books were prepared and Compiled by Prof. Sibt I Jaafar Zaidi
• Pakistan Studies for Intermediate
• Sociology for BA. Part 1
• Pakistan Studies for Degree Classes
• Sociology for BA. Part 2
• Nishan e Raah
• Zaad e Raah
• Muntakhabaat e Nazm o Masr
• Suat Ulloom o Funoon e Islam
• Bastah
He was Instructor of Traditional and Classical SOAZKHWANI. Founded International Idaara e Tarveej e Soazkhwani. His services in field of Soazkhwani admired and recognised by Harvard and Columbia Universities of USA.
He performed on national and Internation Radio Television since 1967 as Naatkhwan, Soazkhwan, Composer and Compere.
Served / Associated with:
• Elected Councillor Karachi University Student Union,Chairman press & Publication Committee and Sports Board 1976-1979
• Member Sindh Prof.Lecturer Association Karachi
• Member Karachi bar Association 1980-1983
• Publication Secretary Anjuman e Soazkhwanaan.e.Karachi,ActingGS and Legal advisor 1980-90
• Life Member Art Council of Pakistan Karachi 1990.
• President Anjuman e Mohammadi Qadeem 1992-1994
• Founder member & Advisor Bazm e Ghareeb Nawaz and Tehreek e Muhibaan e Aoulia Pakistan .
• President Anjuman e Wazifa e Sadaat e Momineen Pakistan 2005-2008.
This is ABSOLUTELY wrong. I did NOT anywhere write “Deobandi militants of ASWJ killed my chacha” absolutely ANYwhere. It is NOT in the original post. – http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/16583/they-killed-my-chacha-sibte-jafar-but-they-cannot-kill-his-memory/
STOP misquoting.
@Sultana Haider
Who killed your chacha? Care to name them?
Between the Ansar Abbasi and Najam Sethi, this is the level of confusion that has been created. The ASWJ boasts about exterminating Shias, preventing them from breathing, celebrating the murder of Sibte Jafar Shaheed. But Sultana does not want to acknowledge this glaring reality. I am very, very sorry for her loss and truly Sibte Jafar is a great soul. His cold-blooded murder by ASWJ or LeJ or whatever it is they call themselves has robbed Pakistan of a great person.
But to deny that it is ASWJ that killed him, I just don’t understand that. Sorry if I am being insensitive.
The victory dance from the Deobandi ASWJLEJ Sippah Sahbah Talibaan clearly shows even if the real killers were from another planet, the Deobandi Militants would love to have done it.
I believe that professor was not killed by deobandies,it is only conspiracy of american,oisrali agents.No any muslim can pleasew him self over brutal murder of an innocent citizen specially a teacher,teacher of humanity.it is not true a deobandi muslim is nominated as killer with out valid proof.I think it a attempt to create enmity among pakinastanis.deobadi ulama are also attaked and killed by unknown calpirits.plz love with humanity.and propagate love among masses.Innocent killing is against Islam.If any body committs so,he is out from the circle of muslim umma.His accountability is surely before Allah who will get best rewvenge from the calpirits.
@ akbar
” … only conspiracy of american,oisrali agents”
Stop insulting intelligence of LUBP-ians. Are ASWJ/SSP/LEJ/TTP/Lashkars …. paid by US/Israel? Why would they kill minorities in Pakistan? Have you had a heavenly vision last night that American and Israelis are involved? “Umma”! What “Umma”?
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