2,000 Umrah pilgrims banned for Celebrating Mawlid in Madinah

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Asalamualikum Everyone,

We would urge everyone to contact their local Canadian MP's and the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Canada, Trinidad, Guyana, India and around the world to reverse their decision to stop the commemoration of the celebration of Mawlid in Saudi Arabia.  See article below about the deportation of 2000 Muslims for celebrating Mawlid in Madinah.  

Unfortunately things are rapidly declining in the Kingdom with the unjustified execution of Shaykh Nimr, war in Yemen and increase of private support of Salafi Takfiri's in Syria, Yemen, etc.  As an ummah we expect Saudi Arabia to more tolerant to the differences of opinions amongst the 1.4 Billion Muslims whom they host for Hajj/Umrah, etc.  With the sudden influx of Oil revenues they are caretaking the needs of the Haram but prior to the 1940's the Nizam, Ottomans and many monarchs around the world subsidized the needs of Mecca and Madina.  This is a historical fact.  

The majority of the Muslim world, more than 50 countries have a national holiday and more than 35% of Saudi's celebrate Mawlid privately/openly.  Since the Saudi-Wahhabi Kingdom banned the practice in 1924 many people celebrate in their homes and private Masjids.  King Abdullah was allowing more pluralism of schools of thought and Mawlid celebrations were increasing rapidly once again in the Kingdom.  The Kingdoms many funding vehicles have been paying Imams around the world and funding institutions $2 Billion dollars by conservative estimates to preach Wahhabism.  They have been printing books of Ibn Taymiyyah and other controversial figures to cause confusion to the standard beliefs and practices of Sunni, Shia and Sufi Muslims that constitute the majority of the worlds Muslims.

The Islam section goes into details of the majority Muslims beliefs around the world. http://themuslim500.com/download

The Saudi's are evening planning to destroy the holy chambers of the Prophet sallaho alaihi wa alihi wasalam (God Forbid).  http://www.crescent-online.net/2014/10/saudi-plan-to-destroy-the-prophets-tomb-4667-articles.html


The Saudi's have been consistent in their destruction of holy sites and have a similar history of destruction of Tombs and holy places as Daesh where they started their movement by attacking Karbala and executing Sufi Muslims in the Hijaz.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-photos-saudi-arabia-doesnt-want-seen-and-proof-islams-most-holy-relics-are-being-demolished-in-8536968.html

According to two narrations in Sahih Bukhari, Muhammad asks Allah to bless the areas of Bilad al-Sham (Syria) and Yemen. When his companions said "Our Najd as well," he replied: "There will appear earthquakes and afflictions, and from there will come out the side of the head (e.g. horns) of Satan."[1][2] In a similar narration, Muhammad again asked Allah to bless the areas Medina, Mecca, Sham, and Yemen and, when asked specifically to bless Najd, repeated similar comments about there being earthquakes, trials, tribulations, and the horns of Satan.[3][4]

The late Ghumari Masters of Hadith and several prominent Sunni Ulema have declared the Wahhabi's as the Khawarij of our times.  

Javed's big challenge as Saudis deport, ban 2,000 Umrah pilgrims
 
Dec 31 2015 : Mirror (Mumbai)
 
Sadaf Modak
 
 
Action due to pilgrims offering salaams to Prophet
 
Ambassador-designate to Saudi Arabia, Mumbai police commissioner Ahmad Javed, has his first task cut out even before he takes charge in Riyadh this February.
 
On December 24, Saudi Arabia deported about 2000 pilgrims from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and has also threatened to ban their entry into the country for life. Ostensibly this is because of a religious practice that goes against the Kingdom's own norm.
 
Reports from Saudi suggest that these pilgrims had converged in the holy city of Medina for Umrah, along with thousands others from all over the world during Milad unNabi which commemorates Prophet Muhammad's birthday. The Umrah, unlike the Haj, is a non-mandatory pilgrimage prescribed in Islam.
 
One of the practices among the Sunni sect of Islam is to say salaam and sing naats (poetry in praise of Prophet Muhammad) by his grave.Certain sects within the Sunni belief in Islam, believe in the holy power of the Prophet which goes beyond mortality. “The belief is that the Prophet may have died but has never perished and that he remains among his follower in spirit to guide us,“ said Mufti Manzoor Ziyaee of the Raza Academy in Mumbai which is now petitioning on behalf of the deported pilgrims. “Some of these pilgrims from the sub-continent who went there observed this tradition and offered salaams dedicated to the Prophet,“ he added. But the Saudis who practice a more severe form of Wahabi Islam and do not believe the Prophet should be thus invoked, found this offensive. The pilgrims, many of whom are from Mumbai, were at first verbally warned against this and when they persisted they were removed from the holy site and later deported.
 
The Raza Academy has compiled a list of the Indians who now additionally face a possible ban on re-entry into Saudi Arabia, and is taking the matter up with the Saudi consulate in Mumbai.
 
“I was told that the Saudi authorities have taken scanned images of their passports as well as their photographs as a matter of record. We fear that this will be used to ban them from entering Saudi again,“ said mufti Ziyaee. The Counsul General of India in Jeddah could not be reached for a comment. Sources privy to the counsulate said that they had not heard of such drastic punitive action for such differences in the past. When contacted, ambassador-designate Ahmad Javed was non-committal saying he was not yet privy to any details on the matter.
 
Advocate Rizwan Merchant, who represents the Barelvi sect and is a trustee of various Dargah committees in the city said,
 
“Every person has the right to follow Islam the way they want to. Deportation from a country is in instances of having committed an offence. A differing ritual cannot be reason to prevent a Muslim from visiting the holy pilgrimage which happens to be in Saudi Arabia”.
 
 
 
Mumbai police Commissioner and Ambassador-designate to Saudi Arabia,
Ahmed Javed, left Masjid-un-Nabawi in Medina.

 
 
 







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