{"id":13253,"date":"2025-09-06T23:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13253"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:08:58","slug":"taliban-we-will-not-allow-the-misuse-of-religion-and-sufism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-we-will-not-allow-the-misuse-of-religion-and-sufism\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban: We will not allow the misuse of religion and Sufism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13259\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pir-gilany.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Taliban: We will not allow the misuse of religion and Sufism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Promoting Righteousness and Preventing Evil has announced that it has arrested Syed Mohammad Ibrahim Gilani, a leader of the Qadiriyya Sufi order, and a number of his followers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The ministry\u2019s spokesman, Saif Khyber, accused him of \u201cmisusing Sufism\u201d and said that these individuals were \u201ccarrying out acts contrary to Sharia law under the guise of religion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban have emphasized that their duty is to \u201creform the intellectual and ideological structure of society\u201d in order to prevent the spread of \u201cwrong ideas and false beliefs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The ministry also published a letter showing that Mr. Gilani has given a written commitment \u201cnot to commit any wrongdoings or innovations\u201d and to align his actions with Sharia law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The commitment also states that he \u201chas no right to complain\u201d in the event of a violation. It is not yet clear whether Gilani was released after signing the pledge or whether he remains in detention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Ibrahim Gilani, known as \u201cPir Ibrahim Baba,\u201d is the nephew of Pir Sayed Ahmad Gilani, the late leader of the Qadiri Sufi order, and is descended from Abdul Qadir Gilani, the founder of the Sufi order.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>He was previously arrested by the Taliban in Paktia in 1401.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Over the past four years, the Taliban have repeatedly suppressed individuals and religious movements outside their framework and have even forced people to convert in some areas.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban: We will not allow the misuse of religion and Sufism. The Taliban\u2019s Ministry of Promoting Righteousness and Preventing Evil has announced that it has arrested Syed Mohammad Ibrahim Gilani, a leader of the Qadiriyya Sufi order, and a number of his followers. The ministry\u2019s spokesman, Saif Khyber, accused him of \u201cmisusing Sufism\u201d and said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13262,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253\/revisions\/13262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}