Kindly peruse the statement which the MJC issued on the desecration of the tombs of the kara-mats in Cape Town.

Answer

The statement of the MJC on the issue of tombs is drivel and un-Islamic. It is haraam to erect mausolea and tomb structures at and on the graves of the Auliya. The analogy with Rasulullah's Holy Grave is baseless because the Shariah makes an exception for the graves of the Ambiya.

At all the tombs of the Auliya, whether in Cape Town or any where else in the world, an abundance of shirk is practised. Should there be a true Islamic government, it will be its duty to destroy all the tomb constructions and leave only the bare graves in the same way as are the graves of all Muslims.

The MJC is a body of bid'atis who even condone and practise kufr such as performing Janaazah Salaat for a professed atheist. Maulana Yusuf Karaan issuing the baatil statement on behalf of the MJC is indeed lamentable. Maulana Yusuf Karaan who had studied and qualified at Darul Uloom Deoband should have known better. He is fully aware that his Ustaadhs and all the Ulama of De-

oband are dead against mausolea and acts of grave-worship which take place in abundance and recklessly at the tombs of the Auliya. It is sad to observe that Maulana Yusuf Karaan in his last phase of life with both his legs hanging in the grave has become a chameleon. He has betrayed his Ustaadhs and the knowledge he had acquired, and Islam by throwing in his lot with the people of baatil, namely, the MJC and the grave-worshippers. The 'karamats' (darghas) in Cape Town are haunts of shirk and grave-worship. Destruction of the monuments of shirk, grave-worship and kufr is not desecration of graves. It is destruction of idolatry, and that was the primary mission of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Our Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) had once dispatched Hadhrat Ali (radhiyallahu anhu) to flatten every raised grave. On his deathbed, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) cursed the Yahood and Nasaara for their grave-worshipping of the tombs of their Prophets.

This is a brief answer. If time permits, a lengthy article may be written to demolish every silly argument the MJC has tendered in its baseless statement in justification of grave-worship.