KARACHI – Renowned religious scholar Maulana Tariq Jameel on Saturdaylaunched his own clothing brand in Karachi.

An event for the inauguration of the clothing line was held in the portcity. Videos circulating on social media shows the preacher offering dua.

In a video message shared on his official page on Facebook last month,Maulana started the clip with a background of the scenario. He mentionedthat he established Madrasa tul Hasnain, a seminary for students to getwhole education in the Arabic language in the year 2000.

Now expanded to 10 branches, it was not effortless to manage financially.

He mentioned that some of the prosperous friends took the responsibility torun these religious schools. In the year 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic causedhuge losses to the business and it turned worse for Madrasa tul Hasnainbranches as the administration have to shut down the operations due to lackof finances.

Tariq Jameel then expressed his long-time desire to run all theseseminaries to run without aid and he thanked some of his close friends whocontributed to the noble cause and helped him started the MTJ brand. Healso wished to enhance the project and form a hospital with it.

Clarifying about the gossips, he mentioned that he never desired to makeany profit out of this business. The whole idea was to support theseminaries in the financial crisis.

He also opposes the dilemma in the subcontinent as people criticizesreligious personalities for doing business although it Sunnah.

He referred to Imam Abu Hanifa who was one of the notable cloth merchant ofhis time.