PESHAWAR, Nov 30: Senior NWFP Minister Sirajul Haq has called upon the people to take guidance from the Holy Quran for solving their day-to-day problems and urged them to preach its teachings.

Speaking here at a Dars-i-Quran in Madina Masjid, Gulbahar, he said peoples were faced with enormous psycho-complications the world over owing to the present materialistic environment, and only the Holy Quran could help resolve these issues.

The senior minister reiterated the pledge of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) government that the Shariat would be enforced in letter and spirit in the province, and expressed his full confidence that the NWFP government would emerge successful in its agenda of establishing the Islamic society. This objective would be achieved in a democratic manner through legislation, he added.

He maintained that the MMA did not believe in the so-called western democracy based on cruelties and injustices. This kind of imperial order would meet same fate like that of socialism, communism and parochialism.

The provincial minister emphasized the national media to counter the prejudiced western propaganda by highlighting the simple and human-friendly message of the Holy Quran so that Europeans could be kept abreast with this universal religion of durable peace and fraternity.

The Holy Quran guarantees physical, mental and spiritual prosperity of human beings as well as ensures human welfare, cohesion and integrity by removing sectarian and linguistic discriminations, he stated.

The minister exhorted the religious scholars to revive the past glory of Islam, that it had 1,400 years ago, by practically pursuing Quranic teachings. He regretted that the global peace was at stake due to the exploitative tactics, hegemony, excesses and inhuman attitude of handful imperial powers.

He called upon the youth not to get impressed by the glamour of immoral and so-called democratic western society and urged them to exercise their powers in the light of the Holy Quran and pull humanity out of the marshes of exploitation, cruelties and infidelity.

Maulana Muhammad Din, principal of Jamia Madina, Maulana Nasiruddin Sarhadi, Khateeb, and other Ulema also spoke at the function.—PPI