The call to refrain from listening to religious lectures is a scheme to divert the people away from Islam: Sheikh Imran

Leader of the Adhaalath Party, Sheikh Imran Abdullah has said that the call to refrain from listening to the lectures of religious scholars and to abandon praying behind them is a scheme hatched by anti-Islamic elements in the society to divert the people away from Islam.

Sheikh Imran said that this act is similar to the action of the polytheists who used to call the people away from the call of the Prophet of Islam when people started to accept his call.

He said that during the 2008 Presidential campaign when Adhaalath Party, including himself, Sheikh Shaheem Ali Saeed and Sheikh Ilyas Hussein, backed the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) and strived hard for them, they were regarded as the most important and useful people to MDP. ‘However, today they are regarded as lower them scum by the MDP’, said Imran.

“Why has this change come? We have not changed! We are still upon that which we were upon on that day! We had warned even then that if MDP goes against the values of Islam, then we will go against them. That’s our stand even now,” he said.

Sheikh Imran said that his party still reiterates the same warning to the current government. He said that even the President, Dr. Mohamed Waheed himself has been warned that if his government also strays away from Islam, Adhaalath Party will no longer back them and will go against them. He said that his has been announced right in front of the public on the 24 February mass symposium held by the 23 December coalition.

He noted that brothels that are operating in the country under the guise of Spas and saloons are being closed down by the current government. He said that these brothels were operated under the direct license of the former regime.