Pakistan: Statue of symbolic warrior girl vandalised in Islamabad

According to Dawn, unknown people allegedly vandalized a statue of a symbolic warrior girl that was put in within the Kachnar Park of Islamabad, Pakistan. The situation was delivered to mild on Wednesday morning by park guests who additionally handle a Facebook web page referred to as ‘Friends of Kachnar Park.’

Twitter consumer Tahir Malik shared in regards to the incident in a tweet. He wrote, “Shameful act of Vandalism in Kachnar Park,1 /8 Islamabad this excellent sculpture has been vandalized. The sculpture was presented by a great artist in Islamabad whose art is exhibited at public places.”

Shameful act of Vandalism in Kachnar Park,1 /8 Islamabad this glorious sculpture has been vandalised . Sculpture was offered by an amazing artist in Islamabad whos artwork is exhibited at public locations. #CDA Islamabad police ought to take strict motion .@CDAthecapital@ICT_Police pic.twitter.com/3P4T21djAv

— Tahir Naeem Malik (@TahirNaeemMalik) November 2, 2022

The monument was supposedly destroyed by somebody at evening and was in a very good situation till Tuesday, in line with Malik, who spoke to Dawn. Although the Capital Development Authority (CDA) claimed that the monument had fallen, he mentioned that it couldn’t be dominated out as a result of different vandalism incidents had not too long ago been reported in a number of different components of the nation.

Unknown individuals allegedly vandalised the sculpture of a symbolic courageous girl, put in within the metropolis’s Kachnar Park in I-8 sector.https://t.co/1ad07xaHO1

— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) November 3, 2022
Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s statue was broken in Lohore in December 2020

A nine-foot-tall statue of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore, Pakistan, was vandalized in December 2020. The statue, which was situated outdoors the Haveli of Rani Jindan Kaur, spouse of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, at Lahore Fort, was vandalized on December 11 by an individual recognized as Zaheer Ishaq. After breaking the left arm of the monument, Ishaq was apprehended on the scene by a safety guard.

Zaheer Ishaq mentioned that Ranjeet Singh had killed a number of Muslims and harmed the emotions of the Muslim neighborhood, which is why he broken the statue. The perpetrator, who was mentioned to be a staunch follower of the late Maulana Khadim Hussain Rizvi, was reportedly against the putting of statue of the courageous Sikh king at Lahore fort as a result of he had transformed the Badshahi mosque right into a horse steady.

Idol worship is Haram in Islam

Worship of Idols and celebrating personalities by statues is taken into account Haram in Islam. The Quran states that idolatry is a grave sin, a violation of the primary commandment in all of God’s teachings, and an impenitent sin if continued till loss of life.

Surah 31 verse 13 says, And bear in mind when Luqmân mentioned to his son, whereas advising him, “O my dear son! Never associate anything with Allah in worship, for associating others with Him is truly the worst of all wrongs.”

Islam’s intolerance towards idol worship was most seen within the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, the famed Sixth-century huge sculptures of Gautama Buddha carved into the facet of a cliff in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan valley. It was by far probably the most barbaric assault on Afghanistan’s historic and cultural legacy by the Taliban, eliciting harsh condemnation from nations all over the world.

The world’s largest standing Buddha statues had survived for a millennium and a half—till the Islamists of the Taliban ordered their destruction. On 27 February 2001, Talibani chief Mullah Muhammad Omar, issued a decree ordering the elimination of all non-Islamic statues and sanctuaries in Afghanistan.