In a strong-worded statement, the family of former Shia Waqf Board chairperson Waseem Rizvi said they have disowned him after he filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court demanding deleting of some of the verses from the Holy Quran.
In a video statement, Rizvi’s younger brother said that neither he, nor his mother or his other siblings have anything to do with him, and said they have not had any relationship with him for the past three years.
“He has lost his mind. He neither prays, nor fasts and he has nothing to do with Islam,” Rizvi’s brother said.
Rizvi’s brother accused him of saying all this under the influence of someone and said that by questioning the authenticity of the Holy Quran, he has committed a grave sin.
Muslims across India have held protests against Waseem Rizvi since last week after approached the Supreme Court for elimination of 26 verses of the Holy Quran. He alleged that the said verses “incite violence”, and that it were “added in the period of the first three Khalifahs”.
The All India Shia Personal Law Board (AISPLB) and several other Shia organisations have expelled Waseem Rizvi from Islam and called him a ‘murtad’.
“Rizvi should be arrested immediately for rabble-rousing. He is an agent of anti-Muslim forces and with the CBI investigating corruption in the waqf board, he is doing all in his imagination to hold on to their support,” eminent Shia scholar and general secretary of Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind Maulana Kalbe Jawad said.
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Shaik Zakeer Hussain is the Founder and Editor of The Cognate.
