TIL Desk/National/Bareilly-The Islamic seminary of Barelvi sect issued a fatwa (edict) against Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed declaring him anti-Islamic. The fatwa was issued against the Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief by Mufti Mohammed Saleem Barelvi, an Islamic seminary in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.
It dubbed Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba who carries a USD 10 million (Rs 66 crore) bounty on his head, as “outcast” from Islam and declared those following him or considering as Muslim as “illegal”. A fatwa is a legal pronouncement in Islam which is given by a mufti, a Muslim scholar of a recognised authority, who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law.
The ruling came close on the heels of Saeed asking Pakistan Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif to send troops to Kashmir to “obey” the pending order of Pakistan founder M A Jinnah. The ‘fatwa’ was issued by Manzar-e-Islam Saudagaran, an institution associated with Dargah Ala Hazrat, in a reply to a question asked by Mohd Moinuddin of Jaipur.
