LAHORE (Dunya News) – The recent wave of terrorist attacks in South Waziristan highlights that extremists are not only enemies of innocent lives but also of the intellectual and moral fabric of Muslim society.
By targeting scholars, teachers, and educational institutions, these elements are attempting to destroy knowledge and divide the Ummah.
According to local sources, a day after a school in Azam Warsak, Karha Bagh, was blown up, religious scholar and teacher Maulana Sanaullah was shot dead. This pattern of targeting schools, scholars, and teachers is part of a broader campaign to spread fear and chaos.
The so-called group “Fidayeen Islam” has threatened students and teachers against attending schools—a calculated extremist tactic aimed at trapping society in ignorance, paralyzing civic life, and sustaining an atmosphere of fear.
The killing of Maulana Sanaullah underlines the reality that these terrorists are not protectors of Islam but enemies of its true spirit and values. True martyrs are those who defend the right to knowledge, education, and dignified living—not those who murder scholars and innocent citizens in pursuit of power.
Islam has declared knowledge a fundamental obligation, with the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ stating: “Seeking knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim man and woman.” By bombing schools, these groups openly defy this divine command and destroy the very structure that provides the Ummah with knowledge, unity, and moral strength.
Attacks on scholars, teachers, and civilians serve no Islamic cause but instead weaken the Ummah from within. Such extremist actions divide Muslims and erode the social fabric, creating vulnerabilities that external enemies can exploit.