From 'Hindustan Times': The influential Islamic seminary Darul Uloom, Deoband, openly turned against violence on February 26th of this year (see story HERE). Nearly 6,000 senior Islamic clerics from around the country of India endorsed a fatwa (edict) against terror, which was issued on May 31st by the seminary (see story HERE). This Sunday, another 50,000 clerics are expected to put their signatures on it, making it the biggest and clearest rejection of terror by Muslims to-date. The fatwa had made headlines around the world and was first reported by Hindustan Times.
Darul Uloom, Deoband Seminary
Darul Uloom, some 100 km north of Delhi, is one of Islam’s two most-revered theological schools - the other being Al-Azhar in Cairo - and is often charged with propagating a radical version of the religion. On the first day of the 29th annual convention of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind here on Saturday, clerics endorsed the fatwa, which was issued under the seal of Darul’s grand mufti Habibur Rehman. The fatwa was ratified by three other Darul clerics, as required.
 Rajya Sabha Madni (third from left) reading out the fatwa against terrorism issued by Darul Uloom, Deoband. To his left is Moulana Marghub Ur Rahman, Rector, Darul Uloom, who signed the fatwa. |
On Sunday, the open session of the convention, comprising 50,000 clerics and community leaders will endorse the fatwa. “We did not have a chance to endorse the fatwa when it was issued because people like me stay far away. I am happy to be part of the campaign now,” Syed Ahmed, a tribal cleric from the Northeast. Earlier, the working committee of the Jamiat decided to oppose both Muslim and Hindu organisations for trying to incite communal passion in the wake of bomb blasts in several cities.
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