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Sipah-e-Sahaba
The Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS), also known as the Millat-e-Islamiyya (MI), was a banned Sunni Islamist Deobandi organisation in Pakistan. Founded by Pakistani cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi in 1989 after breaking away from Sunni Deobandi party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), it was based in Jhang, Punjab, but had offices in all of Pakistan's provinces and territories.B. Raman"Musharraf's Ban: An Analysis" ''South Asia Analysis Group'', Paper no. 395, 18 January 2002 It operated as a federal and provincial political party until it was banned and outlawed as a terrorist organization by Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf in 2002. Even though it has been banned by the Pakistani government on numerous occasions, the Sipah-e-Sahaba has continued to operate under a different name throughout the country; it has significant underground support in Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The organization was also banned by the United Kingdom, where there is a significant British Pakistanis, Pakis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zia Ur Rehman Farooqi
Mawlānā Zia ur Rehman Farooqi (; 1953 – 18 January 1997) was the co-founder and former head of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. Early life and education Abu Rehan Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi was born on March 4, 1953 in the town of Sarajia, Khanewal in a religious Deobandi family. His father's name was Maulana Muhammad Ali Janbaz, who was an active member of the Tehreek-e-Majlis Ahrar-e-Islam. At the time of his birth, he was also imprisoned in the central jail of Sukkur in the same regard. He received his primary education from Sarajia, Khanewal. He studied memorization of the Holy Quran from Jamia Rashidiya, Sahiwal. For further religious education, he was associated with Darul Uloom Kabirwala and Babul Uloom Kahroorpakka. After that, he joined Jamia Khair-ul-Madaris, Multan and completed his studies in the science of Hadith. He also passed his BA examination with distinction from Punjab University. Early religious and political career He started his political life from the pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) , Army of Jhangvi) was a Deobandi terrorist organisation driven by a Takfiri Anti-Shia ideology based in Afghanistan. The LeJ was an offshoot of anti-Shia party Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). The LeJ was founded by former SSP activists Riaz Basra, Malik Ishaq, Akram Lahori, and Ghulam Rasool Shah. The LeJ operated in Pakistan and Afghanistan until 2024. The LeJ had claimed responsibility for various mass casualty attacks against the Shia community in Pakistan, including multiple bombings that killed over 200 Hazara Shias in Quetta in 2013. It had also been linked to the Mominpura Graveyard attack in 1998, the abduction of Daniel Pearl in 2002, and the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore in 2009. A predominantly Punjabi and Pashtun group, the LeJ had been labelled by Pakistani intelligence officials as one of the country's most dangerous terrorist organization. Basra, the first Emir of LeJ, was killed in a police encount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azam Tariq (Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan)
Azam Tariq (; 10 July 1962 – 6 October 2003) was a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who was the leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). He was assassinated in 2003. Early life and education Azam Tariq was born on 10 July 1962 into a Punjabi Rajput farmer family to Mohammad Fateh in Chichawatni, their family roots lying in the Kalyan village of the Patiala district, now in Indian Punjab, from where they moved due to the 1947 partition. He studied at a local madrassa and then enrolled in the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Banuri Town, Karachi. Like most madrassa students and graduates at that time, he participated in the Soviet-Afghan jihad, and when he returned, while he was the imam of the Masjid-e-Siddiq-e-Akbar in North Karachi he formed the basis of the future SSP. Arrests and Assassination attempt The Azam Tariq was arrested and jailed on 20 November 1995 alongside Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi by the Government of Pakistan for anti-Shia activities and in February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azam Tariq (religious Leader)
Azam Tariq (; 10 July 1962 – 6 October 2003) was a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who was the leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). He was assassinated in 2003. Early life and education Azam Tariq was born on 10 July 1962 into a Punjabi Rajput farmer family to Mohammad Fateh in Chichawatni, their family roots lying in the Kalyan village of the Patiala district, now in Indian Punjab, from where they moved due to the 1947 partition. He studied at a local madrassa and then enrolled in the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Banuri Town, Karachi. Like most madrassa students and graduates at that time, he participated in the Soviet-Afghan jihad, and when he returned, while he was the imam of the Masjid-e-Siddiq-e-Akbar in North Karachi he formed the basis of the future SSP. Arrests and Assassination attempt The Azam Tariq was arrested and jailed on 20 November 1995 alongside Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi by the Government of Pakistan for anti-Shia activities and in Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deobandi
The Deobandi movement or Deobandism is a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that adheres to the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. It was formed in the late 19th century around the Darul Uloom Madrassa in Deoband, India, from which the name derives, by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Ashraf Ali Thanwi and Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri after the Indian Rebellion of 1857–58. They opposed the influence of non-Muslim cultures on the Muslims living in South Asia. The movement pioneered education in religious sciences through the ''Dars-i-Nizami'' associated with the Lucknow-based of Firangi Mahal with the goal of preserving traditional Islamic teachings from the influx of modernist and secular ideas during British colonial rule. The Deobandi movement's Indian clerical wing, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, was founded in 1919 and played a major role in the Indian independence movement through its participation in the pan-Islamist ''Khilafat'' movement and propagation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi ( Punjabi/, ''Ḥaq Nawāz Jhangvī''; 1952 – 23 February 1990) was a Pakistani cleric who founded the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, a Sunni Deobandi group known for its anti-Shia thoughts, on 6 September 1986. Early life and education Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was born in 1952 in Chela, a village in the Jhang District of West Punjab, into a small land-holding Punjabi family of the Jat- Sipra clan to Wali Muhammad, having memorized the Qur'an by heart in two years before, studying Qur'anic recitation and Arabic grammar and then pursuing higher Islamic studies at the ''Darul Ulum'' Kabirwala, where he spent five years, and ''Khair ul Madariss'' Multan, where he spent seven years, mainly focusing on hadith, becoming an imam (prayer leader) at a Toba Tek Singh mosque and later a khatib at a Jhang mosque, in 1973. Career Jhangvi joined the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam during the 1970s, and before he began focusing his preaching against Shias, he was active in the Kha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi
Muhammad Ahmad Ludhianvi () is the current Sarparast-e-Aala of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at (ASWJ), a proscribed group in Pakistan. Ludhianvi became the head of ASWJ (then knows as Sipah-e Sahaba) upon the death of the previous chief, Ali Sher Haidri, in a 2009 ambush. Ludhianvi is also the Secretary General of Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC). Ludhianvi is on the Pakistani legislature's list of persons with suspected ties to terrorism. However, he is considered as a moderate leader by the government officials compared to the other leaders of ASWJ, while he is also commonly referred as "S''afer-e-Aman''" (ambassador of peace) by his followers. Ludhianvi has stated that he supports sectarian harmony, as long as it does not impede his group's goal of making Pakistan a Sunni Islamic state and declaring Shia Muslims a minority, like the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. Family Ludhianvi is the son of Hafiz Sadrud Din; who migrated in 1947 from Ludhiana district of Indian Punjab to Kamalia cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isar Ul Haq Qasmi
Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi (; died 1991) was a Pakistani Islamic cleric, preacher and a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1990 and 1993 representing the Jhang constituency. Early life and education Qasmi was born in 1964 to a family which migrated from Ambala and settled in Samundri, Punjab, at the Partition, with a father who worked in the Middle East for years (like many SSP members). He was educated in three madrasas in Lahore, and at first pursued a business career but then decided to become ''khatib'' (preacher) in an Okara mosque from 1985 onward, where he also established a madrasa, and he would soon gain a reputation for his clashes with the local police, before moving to Jhang at the request of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, to preach in one of the market-towns of the district. His family was Punjabi Rajput. Political career He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-Shi'ism
Anti-Shi'ism, also known as Shiaphobia, is hatred of, prejudice against, discrimination against, persecution of, and violence against Shia Muslims because of their religious beliefs, traditions, and cultural heritage. The term was first used by Shia Rights Watch in 2011, but it has been used in informal research and written in scholarly articles for decades. The dispute over who was the rightful successor to Muhammad resulted in the formation of two main branches, the Sunni, and the Shia. The Sunni, or the "followers of the way", followed the caliphate and maintained the premise that any member of the Quraysh tribe could potentially become the successor to Muhammad if he was accepted by the majority of Muslims. The Shia instead consider the Ahl al-Bayt (household of Muhammad) and maintain the view that only God can decide who His hujjah (proof) can be. This is due to many reasons, including every successor to a prophet being chosen by God from Adam all the way to Muhammad. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi
Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi (; died 1991) was a Pakistani Islamic cleric, preacher and a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1990 and 1993 representing the Jhang constituency. Early life and education Qasmi was born in 1964 to a family which migrated from Ambala and settled in Samundri, Punjab, at the Partition, with a father who worked in the Middle East for years (like many SSP members). He was educated in three madrasas in Lahore, and at first pursued a business career but then decided to become ''khatib'' (preacher) in an Okara mosque from 1985 onward, where he also established a madrasa, and he would soon gain a reputation for his clashes with the local police, before moving to Jhang at the request of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, to preach in one of the market-towns of the district. His family was Punjabi Rajput. Political career He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
