New Delhi Riot Violence; Coronavirus & the Media - Maulana Syed Muhammad Rizvi

- The capital of the world’s largest democracy is going through turmoil.  - BJP, the ruling party, was again defeated in the recent election in Delhi and expressed its anger by targeting the peaceful people who were protesting against the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) - A leader of BJP publicly challenged the police to remove the protesters from Shaheen Bagh in three days otherwise they will do it themselves.  - The police just listened and didn’t do anything to fight the hate speech. - Within hours, Hindu mobs started gathering in some Muslim area of Delhi, with police just standing by and watching, and in many cases joining the mobs in destroying cars and motorbikes, shops and businesses, and even entered the masājid and burned the Qur’an and whatever they could burn. - This has resulted in almost 40 deaths and nearly 200 injured. - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expressed “great concern” over the CAA and targeting of the peaceful protestors - Some stories of Hindu neighbours coming to the rescue of Muslims have been encouraging – and shows that the mobs were mobilized from outside the area by the fundamentalist Hindu group - I urge you to send a message for your local MP to ask the Canadian government to make a stand on protecting the minorities in India and maintaining its secular democracy. - ‘Ali (a.s.), in his epistle, wrote to Mālik Ashtar on the topic of protecting the weak in society - I had said earlier that we should pray for all those who are affected by the Coronavirus because a virus doesn’t differentiate between a Muslim/non-Muslim… - A report in the Persian version of the BBC that the ‘ulamā’ in Iran are hindering the efforts of the health officials in preventing the spread of the virus. - It's really surprising how some media people always look for an opportunity to put down the ‘ulamā’ on false basis. - On Monday night’s mehfil, I specifically mentioned that the seminary in Qum has cancelled all classes and some senior ‘ulamā’ have even stopped going to masjid, urging people to listen to the instructions of the health officials. Even the Friday prayers in about 23 major cities have been cancelled! - The religious rulings are clear: if a person has the virus, then he or she should not attend religious gatherings. If such a person knowingly does that, then he/she is responsible in the eyes of Allāh as well as liable for spreading that virus to others. - The ‘ulamā’ talk about doing du‘as, reciting ḥadīth kisā’ and ziyārat ‘Ashūra’ in your homes BUT they always say that follow the instructions of the health officials and also du‘ā. MP3:  https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Jaffari/Fridays/FridayKhutba_Rizvi_2020-02-28_13-08-01.mp3 Friday Juma Khutba Recited By: Maulana Syed Muhammad Rizvi Date: February 28th, 2020 Youtube: https://youtube.com/islamicentre Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/islamicentre Facebook: https://facebook.com/IslamiCentre.org Website: https://islamicentre.org https://facebook.com/sayyidmrizvi https://instagram.com/sayyidmrizvi https://twitter.com/sayyidmrizvi