Sh. Chabahari refuses “Planning Council for Sunni Seminaries”

Zahedan/Chabahar- Prominent Sunni scholar, Mawlana Abd-ur-Rahman Chabahari has announced his severe and complete rejection of the disputable state-organized Planning Council for Sunni Seminaries in previous days.

Shaikh Chabahari has written a letter to the head of the Union of Sunni Seminaries in Sistan-Baluchistan, headquartered in Darululoom Zahedan, and the office of the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenehi’s representative in the province.

Refusing the state-run council lucidly, rector of Jamiat-ul-Haramain Asharifain in Chabahar city decried some personnel of the Supreme Leader’s office in Sistan-Baluchistan over distribution of credit cards to his seminary. Credit cards were distributed by the Planning Council which has been rejected by the Union of Sunni Seminaries in Sistan-Baluchistan.

He denied accepting any financial aid from the Planning Council like other rectors of Sunni Seminaries in the Sistan-Baluchistan province.

The eminent author and writer reiterated his strong aversion to the Planning Council for Sunni Seminaries. He affirmed in the letter, “My deputy attended the meeting of Sunni Seminaries’ rectors in Gosht, Saravan, where all of them agreed to refuse the Planning Council and any financial aid from the Council in a lucid letter to the representative of the Supreme Leader in Sistan-Baluchistan. All participants endorsed and signed the letter unanimously.”

In another part of his letter, Shaikh Abd-ur-Rahman underlines saying, “I must proclaim my complaint to the act of this organization [Planning Council] as they handed over some credit cards to students of my seminary without clarifying the fact of those cards. I would like to announce my firm obligation and agreement with the decisions inked by the rectors of the Sunni schools.”

It is pertinent to mention that the Supreme Cultural Council, supervised by president Ahmadinejad, established a planning council for Sunni religious schools few years ago. Most of the members of the council are Shiite. Despite stern rejection of Sunni scholars, the government has been striving to implement their decisions by force.

The state-built council has reserved the right for itself to change curriculum of Sunni seminaries as well as to appoint/dismiss teachers and rectors of the seminaries.

Source: SunniOnline.us