RNA – Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi sent a message on the 85th day of the hunger strike of the renowned Pakistani scholar, Allamah Rajah Nasir Abbas Ja’fari, and called on him to stop his hunger strike due to his deteriorating physical condition.
Allamah Ja’fari, the secretary-general of Pakistan’s Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen (MWM), declared a hunger strike on May 14, to protest the recent wave of sectarian killings carried out by Takfiri terrorists, particularly in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
“This hunger strike is over the ongoing Shia target killing and the criminal silence of the government and security forces... This hunger strike is to protest against continuous persecution of Shi’a, Christians, Hindus, and followers of other beliefs at which security institutions have opted criminal silence,” the MWM stated in May.
The message is as follows:
In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Dear Allamah Rajah Nasir Abbas Ja’fari,
You alongside with your companions have sacrificed by hunger strike in the way of Ahlul-Bayt (A) in Pakistan in which has significant side effect worldwide.
I hereby ask you and accompanying to end hunger strike in order to maintain good health.
It is expected to answer to the right demands of you and your companions and other Muslim in Pakistan especially Shi’a Muslims in which always we back our neighbor government in hard times. You want nothing, but security and right of freedom of belief; it is farfetched to ignore citizenship rights by the government of Pakistan.
It is recommended to unite whole Pakistan, maintaining public peace while demanding your rights. By the help of God you will get your own rights.
Naser Makarem-Shirazi
August 7, 2016
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