Preserving holiness of mazars

The holy city of Sylhet is the land of 360 Auliaas.. In Sylhet, there are lots of mazars including the mazars of Hazrat Shahjalal (R) and Hazrat Shahparan (R).

Everyone recognizes a mazar as a holy place where many Auliaas have been buried. As mentioned in Islam, we can go there to do ziarat and can pray for the sacred souls who are buried in there. But sadly, people are going there not only for Ziaraat or Namaz, They are going there to donate money, gold, silver, sacrificial animals and much more which actually are going in the hands of some local people or authority who are involved with maintaining the mazar. Not only the Muslims, people from other religions also go there. They donate in the name of Allah and they think their wishes will be fulfilled and dreams will come true.

In addition, we often see "Uras Mubarak" in front of mazars or in the mazar area. These days, some dishonest people have turned Uras, which is supposedly dedicated to the Almighty, into a place of selling and buying drugs. They sell drugs in front of everyone. Ganja, heroin, yaba and many more harmful drugs are sold in presence of law enforcing agency members. Prostitutes are hired by them and they perform vulgar dances and dirty songs, which are strictly forbidden in Islam. These obscene activities are destroying the holiness and purity of mazars. We request the authorities to take proper steps against these acts. We want the posterity of these holy places to be maintained throughout ages and culprits making these places into a business hub should be driven out.

Imtiaz Mohammad Papon

Business Administration, SUST.