TAHIRUL QADRI – ULAMA OF OKARA TACKLE THE PROFESSOR

In the discourse you are about to unfold, the Jama’at-e-Ahle Sunnat and the Ulama of Okara Pakistaan have taken up the cudgels against Professor Tahir Sahib and have approached the Sage of this Age, Sheikh-ul-Qur’aan wat Tafseer, Faqeeh-ul-‘Asr and Ustaazul Ulama, Hazrat Maulana AI-Haaj Abul Fazl Ghulaam Ali Qaadri Ashrafi Okarvi. He was asked by the Ulama of Okara to formulate a questionnaire to put forth to Professor Tahir Sahib in order to once and for all determine whether he is a Sunni Sahi-ul-Aqidah or just a pretender, so that the Ummah at large could be informed accordingly.

Just as expected, a lengthy period has elapsed, but the Professor has maintained a deadly silence. The Professor’s silence to these questions in Pakistaan was so deafening that it must have shattered the eardrums of the Tahiris. Here, a little insight to the calibre and personality of the QUESTIONER is incumbent to familiarise the reader with this Towering Colossus of a Scholar who runs the rule over the “intellectual pygmy”. Hazrat Maulana Ghulaam Ali Okarvi, for more than 50 years has carried out the duty of teaching Qur’aan and Ahadeeth, and by so doing, made thousands of individuals into Scholars of Deen. By virtue of his learning and services to lslaam is called, “Sheikh-ul-Islaam wal Muslimeen”. Even the Ulama of Egypt, Syria and Iraq have sought from him permission to teach Hadeeth and Tafseer. Naqeebul Ashraaf, Saiyyidina Peer Taahir Alaauddeen Geelani (may Allah shower His mercy upon him) used to refer to him with the title of “Ustaazu Asaatiza tina” (Teacher of our teachers). This Alim-e-Rabbani has been the Ustaaz of even Mujaddid-e-Maslak-e-Ahle Sunnat, Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Shafee Okarvi (Alaihir Rahmah). Among his other pupils are, Hazrat Maulana Yaar Khan, head teacher of the Jaami’ah Ashraful Madaaris, Okara, Mufti Muhammad Abdus-Subhaan Qaadri of Darul Uloom Qaadiryah Subhaaniyah, Karachi, and his son, Mufti Muhammmad Abdul Aleem Qaadri and numerous high-profile Ulama.

Since the Professor has failed to convince the Pakistaani Sunnis of his “Sunniyat” by his failure to answer the questions, lets see if he succeeds in South Africa and elsewhere where the very same questions are once again put to him. The questions are not really difficult to answer, any ordinary Sunni will be able to answer them within minutes, because only a “yes” or a “no” would be sufficient as a response. Why the ducking, the dodging, the diving and the evading, is clearly beyond us.