17 ‘JMB members’ detained during ‘Hijrat’ to Saudi Arabia
Imam Mahdi will appear in this month of Ramadan. You must go to Saudi Arabia to enrol as one of the first of his 313 soldiers . This was the call of engineer Syed Mostaq Md. Arman Khan. A group of youth has already left Bangladesh responding to this call. Another team of 17 youths has been detained by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
Professor of the Islamic Studies department at Dhaka University Harunur Rashid said many Muslims in Bangladesh believe that the world will turn anarchic before its destruction. At that time a man named Dajjal will appear who will destroy the faith of Muslims spreading all sorts of illusions. When humankind will be on the brink of destruction, Imam Mahdi will appear at that time and will lock into a deadly fight with Dajjal. He will reinstate order in society.
Harunur Rashid also said the extremists and Jamaat-leaning speakers have been spreading the world that Imam Mahdi has already appeared on earth. This was announced earlier as well.
Speaking to Prothom Alo, CTTC deputy commissioner Saiful Islam said, “A team of 17 has been arrested while two of the team have fled. We’re trying to arrest them.”
Saiful said a physician, four engineers and agriculturalist are in the team that was arrested from Kakrail Mosque area in the capital city on 4 May.
The arrested are: Haider Ali, 44, Mahmudul Hasan alias Masum, Jamirul Islam, 24, Billal Hossain, 38, Sheikh Arafat alias Jony, 48, Imrul Hasan alias Emon, 25, Saiful Islam, 25, Mozammel Haque, 33, Shah Jalal, 34, Akteruzzaman, 30, Mahmudul Hasain alias Sabbir, 23, Abid Ul Mahmud alias Abid, 22, Sohail Sarder, 33, Obaidul Islam alias Sumon, 30, Mahmud Hasan alias Sharif, 18, Mazedul Islam alias Mukul, 28, and Sohag Hasan, 20.
The CTTC unit recovered 19 mobile phones, over Tk 234,000 taka and USD 922 from them. Primary investigations indicate they were members of JMB.
Police later filed a case underthe anti-terrorism act with Ramna police station in the capital.
DMP’s additional deputy commissioner Tohidul Islam, who lead the raid, said Syed Mostaq Bin Arman Khan went to Saudi Arabia on 2017 and stayed there for a while. He published audio and video messages styling himself a soldier of Imam Mahdi and urged people to take part in Jihad for Muslims at Ghazwat-ul-Hind.
The arrested youths contacted Syed Mostaq Bin Arman and were trying to go to Saudi Arabia to prepare to fight as a soldier of Imam Mahdi.
The arrested also said they decided in the middle of March this year to make the so called ‘Hijrat’.
The team planned to leave the country through Satkhira or Benapole border and reach Saudi Arabia in guise of members of Tablig Jamaat via Kashmir border of India. They were told that amid this coronavirus disaster, another kind of disaster will appear from the sky which will make the environment hazy. There will not be any guard on borders at that time. The faithful will suffer from a little cough only. They must come at that time.
Believing this, the team on 18 March stayed at some mosques of Satkhira border area first and then in Jashore border area. Since nothing happened, they failed to cross the border through either Satkhira or Jashore border. Later, they decided to enter India through Sylhet border and were detained.
Tohidul Islam said already four students of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh went Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah in January at the persuasion of Syed Mostaq Bin Arman and have not returned.
Another seven people – Saad, Kawser, Sharif, Tofazzal, Giasuddin, Ali Azam and Rashed – made the so called ‘Hijrat’ to Saudi Arabia to join as soldiers of Imam Mahdi, the Tohidul quoted the arrested as saying.
News agency BSS adds: a Dhaka court today sent the 17 members of banned militant outfit JMB to jail.
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Sarafuzzaman Ansari passed the order as police produced them before the court and pleaded to keep them behind bars in the anti-terrorism act case lodged against them.