MUZAFFARABAD Dec 02 (TNS): Today is a day we renew the pledge to lead our lives by the exemplary practices of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), said Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, while addressing the participants of the National Seerat Conference on Eid-e-Milad Nabvi at the University Ground in Muzaffarabad.
President AJK congratulated the people of Azad Kashmir and Pakistan on the occasion of 12th Rabi-ul-Awal and reiterated the need to truly understand the life of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) by forgoing racial, ethnic and transcending prejudices and spreading the message of compassion, peace and universality.
“The Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) was sent onto this earth as Rehmat-ul-Aalameen and celebrating this blessed day of Rabi-ul-Awwal is a great honor for all”, said the President. We are blessed to be the followers of the Last Prophet and Messenger of Islam, he added.
President Masood Khan said, “The Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) gave his Sunnah and Islamic teachings to humanity as a gift. It is an eternal spring that will never dry up”. The Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), the president said, is a harbinger of peace for humanity.
The Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) pursued dialogue, engagement and diplomacy and successfully brought warring tribes of the Arabian Peninsula under one banner, started off a revolution for the welfare of humanity that has spread across the globe. Today the number of Muslims should be no less than 2 billion constituting 30% of the global population, he said.
President AJK on the occasion prayed for the prosperity and success of the Azad Kashmir and Pakistan. He also prayed for the safety and freedom of our brothers and sisters in Indian Occupied Kashmir and hoped that soon we will be able to celebrate this holy day as free Kashmiris. The President emphasized the need for resolving the issue of Jammu and Kashmir through dialogue and diplomacy in the light of the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH).
President Masood Khan said that we as a nation can only progress by inculcating values of tolerance, mutual harmony and whole heartedly following the Sunnah Mubarak of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)).
“The Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) is a role model for Muslims and humanity for all ages”, the President said; adding that “The Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) was a statesman par excellence, a successful and effective military commander and a just ruler”. He said that through his life the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) taught us how to organize family life and elaborated obligations and rights of spouses, parents and children.
Sardar Masood Khan said if the international community today follows the teachings of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) we would be able to resolve many vexing disputes all around the world. The Holy Quran’s tenets and the teachings of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) provide a comprehensive template for tackling strategic, political and economic problems facing Pakistan, he said.
The President regretted that the Muslim Ummah had neglected the directions of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and the result was continuous infighting and civil wars. “This must come to an end and the solution of the Ummah’s problems lies in recalibrating their strategies around the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)’s life”, he said.
