Members of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat have announced to lay siege to the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka, protesting the alleged initiative of destroying the tomb of Prophet Muhammed (SW).
Ahle Sunnat made the announcement in a press briefing held at Chittagong Press Club on Wednesday afternoon.
Ahle Sunnat Member Secretary Mosaheb Uddin Bakhtiar said: “We will lay siege to the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday, protesting the decision of destroying the tomb of the Prophet and removal of his body to another location. We came to know about the decision from recent media reports.”
According to a recent report, the body of Prophet Muhammed would be removed to an anonymous grave under plans which threaten to spark discord across the Muslim world.
The “controversial” proposals are part of a consultation document by a leading Saudi academic which has been circulated among the supervisors of al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the Mosque of the Prophet) in Medina, where the remains of the Prophet are housed under the Green Dome, visited by millions of pilgrims and venerated as Islam’s second-holiest site.
