Jaipur: Zainul Abedin Khan, spiritual head of the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti dargah in Ajmer has been sacked from his post by his younger brother himself who has declared himself the new Diwan. The move came just a day after Mr Khan had urged Muslims to shun triple talaq and beef.
Syed Allauddin Alimi claimed he had the support of the family in sacking Mr Khan and anointing himself as the new Diwan – the spiritual head.
He claimed to have assumed office in front of the Murusi Alma, a hereditary contingent of people in service of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chisti.
“By declaring triple talaq as anti-Islamic and against the Shariah, he (Mr Khan) has ceased to be a Hanfi Muslim. He has lost the right to continue as the Diwan of Ajmer Dargah because one needs to be a Sunni and Hanfi Muslim for that,” he said.
Mr Alimi claimed he took the step on the basis of an oral fatwa by a mufti, who told him that Khan had turned into a murtad (a person who has renounced the faith) by violating the principles of the Hanfi School of Islamic thoughts.
