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[quote][blue][center][b]Maolana Abdul Rasheed Ghazi Shaheed[/b][/center][/blue]
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[size=2][b]A Brief background of Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa and a remarkable change in the life style of Late Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi Shaheed[/b].

Late Maulana Mohammad Abdullah Ghazi (Father of Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi and Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi) was a favorite and famous personality among the masses all over Pakistan as well as Islamic World.  He endowed with great qualities of oratory and his Friday sermons used to attract thousands of the faithful at Lal Masjid.

In 1965 Maulana Mohammad Abdullah Ghazi laid the foundation of Lal Masjid, in 1970s Jamia Fareedia (Male Madarsa) and in 1992, the Jamia Hafsa (Female Madarsa).

In 1998, Maulana Abdullah was assassinated in the compound of the Lal Masjid, causing a severe backlash. At this juncture his eldest son, Maulana Abdul Aziz, prevailed upon his followers to exercise restraint and thus avoided a sectarian clash in the city.

Maulana Abdullah belonged to Rajanpur district of the Punjab and left behind two sons and two daughters. His eldest son Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi was considered to be a soft-spoken person who had devoted his whole life to the teachings of Islam at the Madrassa Jamia Fareedia.

[b]His second son, Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, was a liberal person who always differed with his father’s conservative style. Despite Maulana Abdullah’s best efforts to indoctrinate Maulana Rashid along religious lines the younger son refused to accept his father’s commands.

Abdul Rashid Ghazi refused to enroll himself in Jamia Fareedia and did his graduation and masters from the Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad.

He used to wear Western dress and was against the concept of women wearing a veil. He was married in a well-off family of Murree and his wife was an educated woman who used to drive a car. Moreover, he refused to be called Maulana and developed serious differences with his father and brother over this issue.[/b]

The violent death of his father Maulana Abdullah brought a revolution in the life of Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi and left indelible imprints on his personality. [b]All of a sudden the Westernised Rashid became a hardline cleric vowing to impose a strict interpretation of Sharia on the lines of the Taliban.[/b]

Rashid Ghazi was employed in the Ministry of Education as a Grade-17 officer and was later deputed to UNICEF. After the death of his father he quit his government job and began to take interest in the affairs of the mosque and Jamia Fareedia.

[b]He did his masters from the Quaid-i-Azam University. And he was a liberal minded like those of modern westernized Muslims. What made him change his all the life style?[/b][/size=2]

Edited by: Dalmir on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:09 PM[/quote]

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