The Holy Qur’an was burned last Wednesday in front of the largest mosque in Stockholm, Sweden. The day was Eid-ul-Azha. Such atrocities have been committed in the name of freedom of expression. The act of burning the Qur’an was carried out under the security of the Swedish police. The OIC has called an emergency executive committee meeting in Jeddah next week to discuss the consequences of burning the Qur’an. A spokesperson said the meeting will discuss what can be done against this heinous act. The burning of the Qur’an in Sweden has caused widespread outrage in the Muslim world. Some countries have withdrawn their ambassadors from Sweden. The foreign ministry of many countries including Bangladesh called the Swedish ambassador and strongly protested the incident.
In some other countries, including Sweden, we have noticed the burning of the Holy Qur’an. The question is, what do they want to prove through such an event? If you burn the Qur’an, will the Qur’an disappear from the world? How many millions of copies of the Qur’an will they burn? Millions of copies of the Qur’an are being printed in the world every day. Can they finish burning the Qur’an? Another thing, millions of Muslims have memorized the Holy Qur’an. Can the Qur’an be erased from their hearts? And the number of Hafiz is increasing every day in this world. Understandably, it is not possible to destroy the Qur’an from this world by burning it.
So why arson in the Holy Qur’an? A person with a deranged brain can do such a thing. And can a person be crazy with violence? Such people are dangerous for the society and the state. Such people should be brought under the law. But can all states afford to do this? As Sweden does not.
However, they are quite capable of showing leniency in the heinous act of hurting people’s religious sentiments. It is good to say here that the Holy Qur’an not only mentions Muhammad (PBUH), but 25 prophets including Moses (PBUH) and Jesus (PBUH). If the Qur’an is burned, they will also be burned. But the prophets and messengers can be burned like this? Can Islam be burned?
Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation or OIC have called an emergency meeting. The governments of various Muslim countries around the world, including Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Iraq, have strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Qur’an with the help of the Swedish government. These countries have summoned the Swedish ambassador or recalled their own ambassador from Sweden as a protest. There are demands to boycott Swedish products. Meanwhile, the burning of the holy book of Muslims in Sweden, the Qur’an, led to protests in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. In addition, several Muslim countries have condemned this incident. A man set fire to a copy of the Koran outside Stockholm’s central mosque on Wednesday. His name is Salwan Momika. Several Muslim-majority countries including Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia strongly condemned the incident. A group of people gathered in front of the Swedish embassy in the capital Baghdad on Thursday (June 29) after a powerful Iraqi religious leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, called for a protest.
In a video posted on social media, several people are seen walking on the premises of the embassy building. An AFP photojournalist at the scene said some people entered the embassy building and stayed there for about 15 minutes. They left after the arrival of local security forces. Swedish authorities, meanwhile, say Momika was allowed to protest outside the mosque under the country’s freedom of expression law. However, after the Qur’an burning incident, the police say they are now investigating the incident for inciting hatred. Turkey strongly condemned the incident, saying that such anti-Islamic activities in the name of freedom of expression are unacceptable. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, “We will teach arrogant Westerners that insulting Muslims is not freedom of expression.” Morocco and Jordan have asked their ambassadors to return home from Stockholm in protest. The Swedish ambassador in Rabat, Morocco was also summoned. Egypt says the shameful incident is particularly provocative when Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Adha. Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson said the incident was “legally valid but inappropriate”. There have been riots in Sweden over plans to burn the Qur’an. However, nobody has the right to hearten others’ religious mindset. NATO member Turkey has previously rejected Sweden’s offer to join the alliance, citing the incident as one of the reasons. Russia’s parliament, the Duma, condemned the desecration of the Holy Qur’an with the help of the Swedish government. President Putin said, in Russia, desecration of the Holy Qur’an is considered a very heinous crime. Ahmad Attayyeb, the current head of Egypt’s Al Azhar University, has called on Muslims to take steps to boycott Swedish products.
Now the question is – can the Qur’an be burned or not? Let’s discuss this. 106 verses of the Qur’an talk about the Qur’an. It is said in a verse that the Qur’an was revealed by Majeed Allah. And Allah will preserve this Qur’an. For this reason, it is not possible to destroy the Qur’an. The big proof of this is that there are more than six and a half million Hafiz of the Qur’an in the world today. Some believe that burning or tearing the printed book of the Qur’an will destroy it. They live in a complete fool’s paradise. Another group thinks that the Qur’an written on paper does not burn in fire. They also lack a general understanding of the Qur’an. That is why it is often seen after a fire somewhere – it is being preached that the Qur’an has not been burnt and people are eating it So how did the book of the Qur’an burn in Sweden?
Finally, anything written on paper will burn. If there is something written in the Qur’an, it will also be burnt. But the words of the Qur’an written on paper are a visible part. Another invisible factor is money. What God said. Whenever recited – these two things together become the Qur’an. It cannot be burned. If someone burns the Qur’an book, it will surely be an insult to the Qur’an. But he burned the Qur’an – that is not possible at all. It can also be contained in the invisible word. A Hafez might be killed It is not possible to destroy the Qur’an from Hafez’s chest of six and a half million Qur’ans. It is surprising to think how the Qur’an is preserved Lawhe Mahfooz on paper in stone, and, inside the heart of the followers. Qur’an is the light. It is not possible to extinguish this light.
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Mohammad Abdullah