Tablighi Jamaat banned in Saudi Arabia, called as ‘one of the gates of terrorism’

Riyadh: The Saudi Arabia government has banned the Tablighi Jamaat calling it as a “danger to society” and “one of the gates of terrorism.”

Recently in an announcement made on social media platforms, the country’s Minister of Islamic Affairs directed the mosques to warn people against associating with them during the Friday sermon.

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“His Excellency the Minister of Islamic Affairs, Dr Abdullatif Al_Alsheikh directed the mosques’ preachers and the mosques that held Friday prayer temporary to allocate the next Friday sermon 5/6/1443 H to warn against (the Tablighi and Da’wah group) which is called (Al Ahbab),” tweeted Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs.

The Saudi government also asked mosques to inform people about the danger that Tablighi Jamaat poses to society.

The Minister of Islamic Affairs also directed to the mosque heads that they should certainly add this declaration that such groups, “misguide, deviate one’s belief and pose a far more bigger danger to the society” and note that it is one of the “gates of terrorism, even if they claim otherwise .”

In addition, it should mention their “most prominent mistakes”, that they are a “danger to society” and issue a statement that “affiliation with partisan groups, including (the Tablighi and Da’wah group) is prohibited in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”