KARACHI – The story of the Ressurection of Laddan Jafri explained by famous scholar Syed Zameer Akhter Naqvi has started a new debate on social media, whether its possible for someone to live again after death, with some dishing in on the matter intellectually.
Ali Raj, an author based in New York, has also explained the story on his Twitter handle in a most fascinating style, citing the family background of Laddan Jafri.
According to Raj, Laddan was born in the 1910’s in Amroha, a town in Uttar Pradesh and before he became the Laddan Jafri of Incholi, he was the Laddan Jafri of Sādāt-e-Amroha, a small Karachi community from the North Indian town. They trace their lineage to 14th-century saint and qalandar, Husain Sharafuddin Shahwilāyat.
The town is known for literary acumen and witty insults and the likes of Sadequain, Raees Amrohvi and Jaun Elia are all products of the same milieu.
Ali Raj explains that some Shiites of Karachi disparage Sādāt-e-Amroha due to their territorial, incestuous style of community organization and in Incholi, that dynamic became even more complicated.
‘Incholi’s second-biggest imambargah (prayer place for Shiites), the Chaharda Masumeen, is run by Amrohvis but they could never really seize control of the affairs of the neighbourhood and hence mostly comprise disgruntled elders, contrary to Laddan Jafri whose fame was above and beyond neighbourhood and community politics, revealed Raj.
In a series of tweets, the social media user has explained that Amrohvis have a culture of bestowing stinging, but also funny and laudatory, nicknames, however, Laddan Jafri received his nick from his mother.
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The author expressed that Abid Ali Jafri was a tehsildar in Amroha and Laddan was his 14th son, with his name meaning smothered with affection, through his name was changed after a pilgrimage to Karbala.
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Raj claims that Laddan Jafri was a man of few ambitions and words and led a life of great influence and died reportedly at the age of 94 but two generations were raised on his story.
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Ali Raj asserted that the story of Laddan Jafri is narrated to make the Amrohvi Sādāt special ‘in their own eyes and the eyes of those who believe in them,’ saying that the religious scholar made a joke out of the legacy of Laddan Jafri.
The musician said it was a fools’ obsession to speculate on the veracity of legend of Ladan Jafri, saying ‘Ours is a land of stories. Without stories we are nothing.’
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The explanation came after Zameer Naqvi, in one of his sermons, explained that Laddan Jafri died while flying a kite in Karbala and was resurrected.
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Soon after Zameer Naqvi’s comments, social media was flooded with dank memes, however, the narration of events by Ali Raj has cleared the air as to what could have been behind the ‘resurrection’ of Laddan Jafri.
