A day after her quit on Twitter and Instagram, Zaira Wasim is back on the social media platforms. The actress left the handles after her religious verses on locust attacks stirred row with many trolling her for justifying the attack. The post which is now deleted reads, “So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood: Signs openly self-explained: but they were steeped in arrogance- a people given to sin -Qur’an 7:133 (sic),”
Now, Zaira has broken her silence on the controversy and reacted to it with a lengthy post after Pakistani-Canadian journalist Tarek Fatah’s tweeted, “Indian Muslim actress @ZairaWasimmm mocks her own countrymen as being victims of Allah’s wrath. This is how she explains locust swarm.” In her response, she wrote, “While I too agree making claims like ‘this is wrath or a curse’ when the world is going through so much is a really insensitive one, I wish to also emphasise that making a claim on our own as big as It’s a wrath or curse of Allah upon any land* is a statement one is making on behalf of Allah, which is actually a religiously irresponsible one and a sin and also a claim I never made, let alone mock anyone.”
She added, “For the knowledge of the actual reality of a calamity that befalls anyone, whether it’s a test, punishment or a blessing only lies with Allah, The Sovereign, and we cannot and must not make such claims on our own.” Stating how her quote was misinterpreted, she wrote, “My tweet was completely taken out of context and blown out of proportion and none of the opinions, whether good or bad, define the reality of my intentions, for that is between me and My Rabb, and something which I’m not even going to explain, for I’m only accountable to Allah and not His creation”.
