Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Chairman Shabir Ahmad Shah has expressed strong resentment and anguish over the reports regarding selling of large quantity of flood hit copies of Holy Qur'an by a local bookseller publisher to a factory at Bari Brahmana. He has called for strong action against those involved in the "heinous" crime besides boycotting the publications of such bookstore.
"I appeal people to completely boycott the publications of such bookstores who are involved in such heinous act. As such, we're going to constitute a probe team headed by Moulana Muhammad Abdullah Tari to ascertain the motives behind such provocative and nasty act of desecrating the holy scriptures and on whose behest it was carried out," Shabir Ahmad Shah said in a statement issued here today.
Strongly condemning the "anti-Islam" act carried out by local trader Sheikh Muhammad Usman & Sons and a junk-dealer Bilal Kaloo, Shah said this bookseller publisher hitherto made his living and acquired wealth through the business of selling holy books but resorted to such cheap and nasty act (of selling flood hit copies of Qur'an), "just for petty material gains.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel"
"This is nothing but a sell-out of religion and faith. It's the belief of Muslims that Qur'an is not a creation but an entity associated with the characteristics of God. We can't tolerate the desecration of the Holy Qur'an and can sacrifice our lives for its sanctity. The stamp of the said publisher has been affixed on the flood hit scriptures at the Bari Brahmana factory and the papers were to be used for making of firecrackers," Shah alleged, adding "if these traders were so obsessed with amassing wealth they should have started begging rather than stooping too low."
Shah reiterated that those involved in such crime be punished at earliest "lest we take public on board in this regard."