[IbnAbdullah]

I was switching news channels and stopped at Al Jazeera, it was the program ‘Witness’ about Lal Masjid.

The host spent 5 days in the Lal Masjid or he went there 5 days before the operation launched. He was interviewing Maulana Ghazi Shaheed (rahimahullah), and looking at his beautiful face my heart was melting, that he’s no more with us and was killed in cold blood with hundreds of innocent girls and boys students.

Ghazi said he was not doing anything illegal, according to the state law brothels or massage centres are not allowed in Pakistan and that they took action because the government didn’t do anything against them even after complaints.
He said they just label you as Al-Qayeda or Taliban and after you have been called Taliban, you can be easily killed. He showed the tree in the courtyard of Lal Masjid where his father Maulana ‘Abdullah was martyred. He took the reporter to the top of the building and showed the surrounding area saying that was all uninhabitated in the past but later that was populated. There were brothers making ablution (wudhu) at a pond, everything was emotional to me, as all I was watching on tv screen doesn’t exist now. Brothers and hijabi sisters I saw there may not be alive today and I had tears in my eyes thinking about that.

The reporter was taken inside the Jami’ah Hafsah where men were not allowed, in a hall there were little girls reading Quran sitting on floors, in another room there were adult girls wearing hijab/niqab and pink scarves, a kind of uniform in that level of the class. In another class a hijabi/niqabi teacher was teaching elementary English to little girls. There was a tuck shop with biscuits and other stuff, a garments shop, a clinic with professional lady physicians, I think that wasn’t aleopathic but homeopathic or Greek or whatever. Girls were coming to a reception area where they were handing in a paper sheet to the receptionist, the walls were green-tiled and everything looked sad to me because it doesn’t anymore exist. Girls students wearing their modest hijab chanting slogans and holding sticks gave the sign of Jihad rightly or wrongly but what was painful that we can't see those purified sisters of us anymore.
Jami’ah Saiyidah Hafsah (radhiyAllahu ‘anha) has been leveled to the ground, there’s only debris in its premises with concrete material, human bones, flesh, belongings of the inmates and most probably hundreds of human bodies piled / buried in the basement of Jami’ah.

The Al Jazeera reporter was showed outside the Masjid in the street while there were clashes carried on between students and the security forces, the very first day, 3rd of July.

He was talking to a ‘Liberal Family’ in a house and they were ridiculing the escape of Maulana Abdul ‘Aziz in the burqa, the Al Jazeera reporter was telling the story of ongoing situation and porbaly it was 7th of July after the escape of Maulana Abdul Aziz, the Al Jazeera reporter called Ghazi Shaheed and Ghazi said there were 2000 students inside and children were only a few, wAllahu A’lam.

Situation was getting worse and in the end the reporter said, (in my words) ‘It’s 2’ clock in the afternoon, the operation started at 4 o’clock in the morning and it is said to have been heavy fighting inside the complex ….. and it’s reported that Ghazi has died.’

He was showing the badly damaged and ruined building of Jami’ah Hafsah which was opened for the media a few days after the operation was finished.
The reporter ended his report saying:

This is not the end; this is the beginning.