A biography of one of the major Deobandi clerics who recently left this vale of tears. One of Shamzai's peers, although more concerned with Heretics than western infidels.
The late Maulana Manzur Ahmad Chinioti was born in Chiniot in 1931 but got his religious training at Darul Ulum, Tando Alahyar, Sindh. He founded his own seminary Jamia Arabiya in Chiniot in 1954. He was invited by the founder of the Banuri Mosque in Karachi, Maulana Yusuf Banuri, to come and instruct the youth there in his speciality of condemning the Ahmedi community as apostates. Maulana Chinioti was counted among the great leaders of the JUI and was closely associated with Mufti Mahmood and Maulana Darkhwasti. In 1985 he was invited by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to instruct the youth at Madina University. He thought the Ahmedis were both zindiq (who interpret Islam wrong) and murtad (who abandon Islam) and thought that their rightful punishment was death. On 30 June 1974 the opposition in the National Assembly presented a resolution for the apostatisation of the Ahmedis in Pakistan, which was passed as a constitutional amendment. Bhutto declared them a non-Muslim minority. Later Maulana Chinioti was successful in getting General Zia to place additional disabilities on the Ahmedis. God struck him dead He died of kidney failure in the Sharif Hospital in Lahore where he was admitted on the special recommendation of Mian Nawaz Sharif who held him in high esteem like the rest of the nation.
Scourge of the Qadianis: Maulana Chinioti won the hearts of the Pakistanis after he became the scourge of the Qadiani/Ahmedi sect in Pakistan.
| George Washington is known as the father of his country. Vaclev Havel is known for his peaceful resistance to the communists. Churchill is known for never surrendering. Chinioti is known for being a "scourge". Questions? |
Today, if a Qadiani is buried in a Muslim graveyard by mistake his corpse is dug up and banished by the neighbourhood community. Annually a booklet is published by the Jama'at Ahmadiyya recounting the stories of persecution by the believing Muslims with the help of the Islamic state. Puritanical Deobandi clerics arose in Jhang to challenge heresy in Islam. Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, the founder of the (later terrorist) organisation Sipah Sahaba, arose from a being baiter of the Ahmedi and Barelvi communities to become the great apostatiser of the Shiite community. Demanding that the Shiites be declared non-Muslims in the Constitution, Sipah Sahaba became the great mother organisation of jihad which was used by the Pakistani state for its own purposes. Maulana Chinioti was the great Deobandi leader of the district after Maulana Jhangvi. By reason of his electoral success (three times elected to Punjab Assembly) he was perhaps the greater of the two. |