Man, what is your obsession? leave pir ma'ruf naushahi alone. he's passed away now. khalas. tamam. Note: i don't support tafzilis or minhajis just btw. just why does every thread have to be about pir maruf and irfan shah?
Talking about Bradford - Mawlana Aqdas what about the Barelwis who went and declared the Bradford Pir a Mujaddid after his organisation enabled Irfan to lecture at the Bradford Central Masjid for four years. Was this not treachery against the ahl Sunnah and the Blessed Sahabah رضي الله عنهم? 'Fortify Sunnis. Whoever wants to come, welcome'
is this even a matter of debate? i think maulvis are fat because they don't get sufficient exercise. i have sat with many maulvis - but this rumour about them being gluttons is a myth. and also the charge that ONLY maulvis are fat. obesity is an epidemic in our age - which is mostly due to processed food and lack of exercise. --- and btw, it is one of the proofs of prophethood! RasulAllah sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam, in the portents of Judgement day, said: "men of my nation will be fat". scholars tried to understand this hadith and offered various explanations, such as: 'they will stop doing jihad and indulge in luxury. their sedentary and luxurious lifestyle will be the cause of their obesity" etc. ---- irrespective of the justifications - it is an irrefutable fact that men in our time, as a rule, are fatter than they were at anytime in history. check this out: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30054-X/fulltext if you look at the heat map, in 1975, except the west, the entire world was underweight - BMI around 18.5. especially third world countries. (notice the light yellow) in forty years - this changed. dark orange around the world (i.e. BMI > 25). ---- from the lancet study: notice the number of obese and severely obese MEN in millions. consider india: 400K men were obese in 1975. and in 2014 that number jumped to 9.8M even though, india is one of the poorest countries in the world. ==== irrespective of the issue about maulvis or - men in general - being fat, remember it is proof of prophethood. Allah ta'ala knows best. https://data.worldobesity.org/ https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
