Revilement of scholars is a scheme hatched to spread irreligious activities: Sheikh Shaheem

Minister of Islamic Affairs, Sheikh Mohamed Shaheem Ali Saeed has said that the revilement of the religious scholars and the law enforcement officers is a scheme hatched to spread irreligious activities and mischief in the country.

Sheikh Shaheem said this in an interview to VTV regarding the slanders made against religious scholars by some politicians.

Minister Shaheem said that it is a crime to revile the honour of religious scholars and the law enforcement officers. He said that it is not something that is done out of ignorance but that it is a well planed scheme hatched to spread irreligious activities, immorality and mischief in the Maldives.

Meanwhile, leader of the Adhaalath Party, Sheikh Imran Abdullah made a similar statement earlier regarding accusations made against religious scholars. He 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.