Lahore Friday Prayer Leader:‎

Media silent about plight of Shaykh Zakzaky

Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi ‎said, “The international media is absolutely silent about Shaykh ‎Zakzaky and there is no news about him in the Pakistani media. May ‎God help the Nigerian ‎believers and save Shaykh Zakzaky from tyranny and destroy these ‎oppressors.”‎

News ID: 446194

Date: 29 July 2019 - 08:47

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in ‎‎the‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Pakistani city of Lahore, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Jawad ‎Naqvi ‎said that the most important ‎news event for Pakistan this week was Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to the United States ‎and noted, “The entire Pakistani government is very happy and there is an atmosphere of ‎celebration. They said that he was given a warm welcome and everyone seems to have ‎achieved something.”‎

The principal of Jami’at Urwat ‎‎al-Wuthqa Islamic ‎Seminary in Lahore ‎added, “This excitement ‎is being considered as a great success by the government. There has been lot said about ‎this visit. Today, also the United States Department of State sent a message to Prime ‎Minister Khan just after his return asking him to implement all that what he agreed to do. ‎Details of the agreements signed haven’t been released yet. This visit was very important for ‎Prime Minister Khan. There have been various types and forms of governments in Pakistan ‎and everyone has bowed to the United States and there is a 72-year-long history of such ‎visits. All of the heads of state throughout the visit the United States and give preference to ‎establishing relationship with them and the United States also does this for them but the ‎visits to the United States have never achieved anything for Pakistan.”‎

He added, “What have the visits by various Pakistani prime ministers given to the United ‎States? Every Pakistani prime minister has visited the United States after their election and ‎after the formation of a government, everyone waits and expectations are high on which ‎country they will visit and when they will go to the United States. This policy becomes clear ‎after seeing which country is the first country that the prime minister visits. Some prime ‎ministers visited Saudi Arabia immediately after being elected, as Prime Minister Khan did. ‎Some leaders make their first visit to China and some make their first visit to ‎the United ‎States. These are the three stops for Pakistan prime ministers and after establishing their ‎government, this act clarifies their political direction. Since Prime Minister Khan visited Saudi ‎Arabia, the policies became clear as to what he wanted in government.”‎
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Hujjat al-Islam ‎Naqvi referred to the circumstances facing Shaykh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the ‎imprisoned leader of the Shi’ah Muslims of Nigeria, and said, “In Nigeria there were mass ‎killings of protesters last week. Shaykh Ibrahim Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic ‎Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has been imprisoned, wounded and poisoned by Nigerian ‎government. He was given poisoned food and the poison is spreading across his body. The ‎millions of Nigerian Shi’ahs are the trees planted by this elderly person. There were no ‎Shi’ahs in Nigeria until the 1980s and this scholar brought them to Shi’ism. He studied in Qom ‎and after recognizing the truth, he went back to his homeland and engaged in propagation. ‎Due to his efforts, today there are millions of Shi’ahs in Nigeria and such a large number is ‎not present in any other African country. This is the outcome of the efforts of this scholar ‎and his companions.”‎

His Eminence added, “When his efforts were seen blossoming by the enemies, specifically ‎the House of Saud, the Nigerian government and army, carried out mass killings of Shi’ahs. ‎Members of the IMN were arrested and tortured several times. In 2015, a massacre was ‎carried out against the IMN and a number of its members and Shaykh Zakzaky’s sons were ‎martyred and he and his wife were wounded and imprisoned. His wounds haven’t been ‎treated yet and on top of this they have poisoned him. There are demands for him to be ‎sent him outside Nigeria if he can’t be treated inside the country. The Iranian parliament has ‎written a letter to the Nigerian government to send him to Iran. Many other intellectuals, ‎personalities and people from around the world have written letters to send him out of ‎Nigeria.”‎

He added, “This past Monday (July 22nd), another peaceful protest was attacked and a large ‎number of people were wounded. In addition to this, the wounded weren’t allowed to be ‎admitted to the hospital, instead the victims were arrested while gravely injured and taken to ‎prison. This is such a barbaric system in Nigeria. The international media is absolutely silent ‎and there is no news about him in the Pakistani media. May God help the Nigerian believers ‎and save Shaykh Zakzaky from tyranny and destroy these oppressors.”‎

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