In the meantime, upon entering the mosque, Sheikh Ja’afar proceeded straightway to his position as the Imam while the faithful formed neat rows behind him. He started the prayer; his usual melodic and magnetic voice reciting the Noble Qur’an filled the atmosphere with spiritual inspiration. However, while the prayer was still underway, some occupants of that parked car alighted from the car and in a commando-like style stormed the mosque, got close to the Imam and poured bullets into him ripping his chest and tearing his stomach, hence disrupting the flow of those beautiful Qur’anic verses between his mind, chest, throat and tongue, and indeed triggering an unprecedented pandemonium in the mosque, which resulted in the killing of some of the faithful also. The attackers fled immediately, and the Sheikh breathed his last afterwards. One can’t help wondering who might have been that cruel to plot and/or carry out such attack. This is even though it is obvious that, in as much as the Sheikh’s vast knowledge, fearlessness and charisma had earned him an extensive base of constantly and phenomenally growing audience, which cut across all social strata, it had equally earned him the anger of many others particularly amongst the society’s elites, their cronies and thugs. Incidentally, right from the beginning of his clerical activities, Sheikh Jaafar’s religious revivalist tendency, which inspired his campaign for better understanding of the Islamic religion in its original form, had angered the traditional clerical cycles, who have always been the masterminds behind all heretical ideologies and practices that seek to pollute the purity of the Islamic religion.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:18:13 +0000
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