The Holy Quran was burned last Wednesday in front of the largest mosque in Stockholm, Sweden. The day was Eid-ul-Azha. Such atrocities have been committed in the name of freedom of expression. The act of burning the Quran was carried out under the security of the Swedish police. The OIC has called an emergency executive committee meeting in Jeddah next week to discuss the consequences of burning the Quran. A spokesperson said the meeting will discuss what can be done against this heinous act. The burning of the Quran in Sweden has caused widespread outrage in the Muslim world. Some countries have withdrawn their ambassadors from Sweden. The foreign ministries of many countries, including Bangladesh, called the Swedish ambassador and strongly protested the incident.
In some other countries, including Sweden, we have noticed the burning of the Holy Quran. The question is, what do they want to prove through such an event? If you burn the Quran, will the Quran disappear from the world? How many millions of copies of the Quran will they burn? Millions of Qurans are printed around the world every day. Can they finish burning the Quran? Another thing is that millions of Hafez have memorised the Holy Quran. Can the Quran be erased from their hearts? And the number of Hafez is increasing every day in this world. Understandably, it is not possible to destroy the Quran in this world by burning it.
So why arson in the Holy Quran? A person with a deranged brain can do such a thing. And can a person go crazy with violence? Such people are dangerous for society and the state. Such people should be brought under the law. But can all states afford to do this? As Sweden does not.
However, they are quite capable of showing leniency in the heinous act of hurting people's religious sentiments. It is good to say here that the Holy Qur'an not only mentions Muhammad (pbuh), but twenty-five prophets, including Moses (pbuh) and Jesus (pbuh). If the Quran is burned, they will also be burned. But the prophets and messengers can be burned like this. Can Islam be burned?
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, have called an emergency meeting. The governments of various Muslim countries around the world, including Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Iraq, have strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran with the help of the Swedish government. These countries have summoned the Swedish ambassador or recalled their own ambassador from Sweden as a protest. There are demands to boycott Swedish products. Meanwhile, the burning of the holy book of Muslims in Sweden, the Quran, led to protests in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. In addition, several Muslim countries have condemned this incident. A man set fire to a copy of the Koran outside Stockholm's central mosque on Wednesday. His name is Salwan Momika. Several Muslim-majority countries, including Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, strongly condemned the incident. A group of people gathered in front of the Swedish embassy in the capital, Baghdad, on Thursday (June 29) after a powerful Iraqi religious leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, called for a protest. In a video posted on social media, several people are seen walking on the premises of the embassy building. An AFP photojournalist at the scene said some people entered the embassy building and stayed there for about 15 minutes. They left after the arrival of local security forces. Swedish authorities, meanwhile, say Momika was allowed to protest outside the mosque under the country's freedom of expression law. However, after the Quran-burning incident, the police say they are now investigating the incident for inciting hatred. Turkey strongly condemned the incident, saying that such anti-Islamic activities in the name of freedom of expression are unacceptable. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, "We will teach arrogant Westerners that insulting Muslims is not freedom of expression." Morocco and Jordan have asked their ambassadors to return home from Stockholm in protest. The Swedish ambassador in Rabat, Morocco, was also summoned. Egypt says the shameful incident is particularly provocative when Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Adha. Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson said the incident was "legally valid but inappropriate". There have been riots in Sweden over plans to burn the Quran. However, nobody has the right to encourage others religious mindsets. NATO member Turkey has previously rejected Sweden's offer to join the alliance, citing the incident as one of the reasons. Russia's parliament, the Duma, condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran with the help of the Swedish government. President Putin said that in Russia, desecration of the Holy Quran is considered a very heinous crime. Ahmad Attayyeb, the current head of Egypt's Al Azhar University, has called on Muslims to take steps to boycott Swedish products.
Now the question is: can the Quran be burned or not? Let's discuss this. 106 verses of the Qur'an talk about the Qur'an. It is said in a verse that the Qur'an was revealed by Majid Allah. And Allah will preserve this Qur'an. For this reason, it is not possible to destroy the Qur'an. The big proof of this is that there are more than six and a half million Hafez of the Quran in the world today. Some believe that burning or tearing the printed book of the Qur'an will destroy it. They live in a complete fool's paradise. Another group thinks that the Quran written on paper does not burn in fire. They also lack a general understanding of the Qur'an. That is why it is often seen after a fire somewhere—it is being preached that the Quran has not been burned and people are eating it. So how did the book of the Quran burn in Sweden?
Finally, anything written on paper will burn. If there is something written in the Quran, it will also be burned. But the words of the Qur'an written on paper are a visible part. Another invisible factor is money. What God said Whenever recited, these two things together become the Qur'an. It cannot be burned. If someone burns the Qur'an book, it will surely be an insult to the Qur'an. But he burned the Qur'an—that is not possible at all. It can also be contained in an invisible word. Hafez might be killed. It is not possible to destroy the Quran from Hafez's chest of six and a half million Qurans. It is surprising to think how the Quran is preserved on paper and in stone. The biggest thing is inside the hearts of the followers. The Quran is light. It is not possible to extinguish this light.