‘LORD NAZIR’, A KEY SPEAKER FOR
MARKAZI JAMIAT AHLE-HADITH UK
STATES
“NIQAAB IS PURELY CULTURAL”!!

‘Lord’ Nazir Ahmed has always been seen by the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith as one of their own, who has ‘made it’ into the political arena. They always state and claim that he is a good ahle-hadith person who aids Islaam and the Muslims and is a protector of the rights of Muslims in the UK.

Green Lane Mosque, the headquarters of Jamiat Ahle-Hadith UK, have invited him year after year, conference after conference, even after event, as a speaker and lecturer.

So now Nazir Ahmed has taken yet another step in misrepresenting Islaam:

“The veil is now a mark of separation, segregation and defiance against mainstream British culture.”

“But there’s nothing in the Koran to say that the wearing of a niqab is desirable, let alone compulsory. It’s purely cultural. It’s an identity thing which has been misinterpreted..”

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19692
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2290058.ece

This is shear and utter ignorance. It reminds us of the following beautiful narration:

Narrated Alqamah that ‘Abdullaah Ibn Mas’ood said:”Allaah curses those women who practice tatooing and those who get themselves tatooed, and those women who get their hair removed from their eyebrows…”

His saying reached a lady from the tribe of Asad, called Umm Ya’qoob came to the Companion, Abdullaah Ibn Mas’ood and said:

“I have come to know that you have cursed so and so women?” He replied, “Why should I not curse those whom Allaah’s Messenger has cursed and who are cursed in Allaah’ Book!”

Umm Ya’qoob said: “I have read the whole Qur’aan, but I did not find in it what you say.” He said: “If you have indeed read it, you would have found it. Did you not read:

{{And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it. And whatever he forbids he forbids you, abstain from it.}} [Qur’aan 59:7]”

[Saheeh al-Bukhaaree 6/4886]

The Scholars state that the niqaab is from Islaam, and the hadeeth are ample in that regard. The only matter of difference is whether it is obligatory or recommended without obligation.

So is it that Nazir Ahmed only accepts what he finds in the Qur’aan, and leaves off the Sunnah and the statements of the Prophet (salallaahu alaihi wassallam)? Or is that he is ignorant, feigning knowledge?
So when will the defenders of the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith realise the harm that the Jamiat and its associates are doing to the da’wah?

And note, O reader, that our exposition of this Jamiat is in no way support for the evil attributes of the Soofees as is well known. Indeed our advice to and correction of the Jamiat, pre-dates the soofee and jamiat battle of media (i.e. the “Undercover Mosques” program) by over a decade! We were speaking against the innovated ideology of the Soofees when the Jamiat was inviting them to Green Lane mosque and giving them platforms to speak upon and praising the Soofees openly on public radio. So maybe that is another lesson to Jamiat, but a lesson alas unheeded!