Mohabbat ka silsila jari rahna chahiye, says cleric who went missing in Pak

March 20, 2017 19:38

'Mohabbat ka silsila jari rahna chahiye' (efforts to build peace and amity must continue) -- said one of the two clerics from Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, on returning home from Pakistan where they had gone missing under

mysterious circumstances.

Despite the hardship faced in the last few days, the two clerics from Delhi's iconic shrine, are filled with anything but acrimony.

"Whatever we faced during this time, should not mean that India and Pakistan should have another reason to feel bitter about each other. In fact, the efforts to build peace and amity must continue even more," Sufi cleric Nazim Ali Nizami told PTI in an interview.

Ali Nizami and 80-year-old Syed Asif Nizami, 'Sajjadanashin' of the holy shrine were given a warm reception at the Nizamuddin mausoleum, where special prayers were offered to "thank the almighty" for their return.

"We are Sufis and Sufism teaches us the message of love ('paigam-e-mohabbat'). We had gone to Pakistan to spread that message. Some people may not have liked our message. But, I will again go to Pakistan, and go there with greater resolve," he said.

News reports had claimed the two clerics were detained by Pakistan's spy agency ISI over suspicion of their links with India's external spy agency RAW and Muttahida Qaumi Movement in that country.

Pakistani newspaper Ummat had in a report claimed that the clerics worked for RAW and MQM, an organisation of Muslims who migrated from India to Pakistan after partition and has often been locked in confrontation with the establishment there, a charge strongly rejected by the cleric.

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