‘Imams won’t deliver sermons against law’

Imams will not deliver such a sermon which is against the country’s existing law, the High Court said in an observation today.

“An Imam’s duty is to conduct prayers at mosque. He will deliver the right sermon in the light of Islam,” the court said while passing verdict in Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider killing case.

If anybody makes any derogatory comment about Islam or Hazrat Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) or any other religion or make any post in Facebook, he can be put on trial under the existing law of the country, the court said.

“The incident of killing Rajib took place in a planned way,” the bench of Justice Zahangir Hossain and Md Zahangir Hossain in its judgment said.

“Nobody has the right to take the law in his own hand,” the court added.

It has been found from evidence and argument during hearing of the case that all the seven accused except for Mufti Jashim Uddin Rahmani are very meritorious students. But we could not find any reason behind their choosing of such a path, it observed.

The court said that there might be many reasons for such meritorious students to get derailed adding “the guardians have to take the responsibility to keep their children on the right track.”

The parents should be cautious so that their children gets right education, the court observed.

Source: thedailystar