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Qari Ziauddin, who teaches Koran to boys in Qari Latif Islamic school, hanged Atif upside down with a ceiling fan in the school after beating him with sticks, which caused his death.
This is the police statement released in the murder investigation of a seven year old blind child who was beaten to death by his teacher for not learning the Holy Quran. This tragic incident took place at a madrassa in Vihari, a town near Lahore.
The barbaric act only intensifies in its gory as the teacher did not even bother to take the poor child to the hospital after his condition went from bad to worse. The boy eventually succumed to his death in that condition and this teacher of our Holy book ran away! He was eventually caught by the police on charges of torture and murder.
This is a shameful and embarassing act from the teacher of a religion that promotes peace and harmony in the world. A blind child who literally did not see it coming suffered at the hands of a Qari who had been educated in the same harsh ways most probably and knew this to be the only way to ‘teach’ and pass on. Perhaps this was not the first time he had laid a hand on a child. Perhaps this time he pushed a little too hard and went over the limit.
But who suffered at the end? An innocent life has been lost to corporal punishment and at what cost?
Two years ago I remember driving by a mosque and seeing a maulvi holding a child roughly by his throat and slapping him mercilessly in the middle of the road right outside this house of God. I remember getting out of the car and shouting him to stop. There were people all around who chose to either stand and watch the thrashing or keep on walking as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening. No one objected. No one even looked concerned for the boy who was in tears and crying ‘Mama… Mama’ (Mother … Mother). The maulvi only said that this is the punishment Allah has allowed for the students of his book and he is doing nothing wrong. It was only after I threatened to call the police that he let him go and went inside.
Are we really so blind so as to allow things like these to happen? I don’t believe for a second that it is the will of our creator that his angel-like children are to be beaten raw or to death for not memorizing his book! There is a dire need to educate our maulvis and qaris who think they are doing the right thing by severely beating the children whom parents leave with them for religious teachings.
The time to act on this is now or more kids like Atif might fall victim to this practice.
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Tags: Islam, Lahore, murder, opinion, Pakistan, Religion, Torture, Tragedy
9 responses so far ↓
1 leo // May 30, 2008 at 5:02 pm
this kind of mullah are the biggest enemy of islam.government should hang him for murder
2 fouzia // May 30, 2008 at 6:05 pm
this is really a shamefull situation for all the muslims. due to such stupid & nonsense peolpe the image of muslims is falling down .
3 Dr Nida Ullah Khan (smartswabian@yahoo.com) // May 30, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Islam is candale of peace. and reltion between the teacher and student is same as between the Allah and Mohammad (S A W ).
Childs are innocent, and I personaly strongly condemn such like an unbehaviuoral action which is against huminaty and which severly degrade Islam in non muslim countries.
4 Alya Khan // Jun 9, 2008 at 6:56 pm
This is an example of the illitracy in our country. In some parts of Pakistan, it is considered ,’unholy’ for girls to learn or study.
5 leo // Jun 10, 2008 at 1:05 am
PLEASE hang him high to make example for other mullas
6 oal // Jun 26, 2008 at 6:16 am
In poetry, edges, tangles, and mists provide for drama and mystery. In Pakistan, the same provide the same, but the edge may lay between those who have found power in awareness and those steeped and lost in dogma: for tangles, relationships threading out to connect all; for mists, time itself and the translucent curtain cast by fate across the future.
7 its very bad // Jul 7, 2008 at 8:59 pm
THAT IS NOT RIGHT AND BECAUSE OF SUCH PPL ISLAM IS RECOGNIZED AND KNOWN A BAD RELIGION IN THE FOREIGN COUNTRIES…ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF PEACE AND HARMONY ..IT IS NOT HARSH
ALLAH SAB KO SLAMAT RAKHEE AMEEN
8 lazaf // Jul 8, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hey who u r to pass comment on them? let u know one thing first. if u r loyal with that religion in which ur than its mean that u r loyal with ur Al-Mighty and off course Al-Mighty will reward u hereafter. If u r not loyal with ur own its mean that u r passing comment on other religion like this that u have passed comment. Do u think we all Muslims will go into paradise, nop and never, there are very good people in other religions who respect other religion like their own and they respect the humanity. they are not materialistic like our people they are not doing prostitution in their holy places, than how can we say that we are correct in our religion. Allah never happy with such act which we r doing with other. For God take away ur comment.
9 Peace plz ! // Jul 8, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Asalam o alikum,
we all know what happened and what is happening so we must make ourselves better..yes this is true that in the present scenerio Pakistan’s image is coloured with terrorisim but it is not only because of this reason there are many reasons involved ..This act is not at all good it’s very harsh and sick act..No matter what the world think’s WE MUST STAY UNITED ! MAY ALLAH BLESS PAKISTAN AND EVERYONE(AMEEN)
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