Famous cleric Maulana Azad Jameel is making headlines these days by telling wazaif (spiritual practices and rituals) to different callers seeking solutions to their problems while appearing on a private news channel’s Ramzan Transmission. His latest wazifa is for reducing household electricity bills, and it is going viral on social media.
A short clip featuring Jameel surfaced online yesterday, in which he was heard informing viewers to write “Zam-Zam” on the electricity meter utilising the “Shahadat ki ungli (index finger),” which would lead to a reduction in the electricity bill.
“If you want your electricity bill to be as low as possible, there is a wazifa. You need to write “Zam-Zam” on the electricity meter using your Shahdat ki ungli (index finger). Do this twice a month, every fifteen days. Inshallah, I guarantee that your electricity bill will decrease,” the cleric said.
Internet users were quick to react to the clip, with some users mocking the scholar. One user, while sharing the video, wrote, “Air conditioner khul kar chalain (Let the air conditioner run freely)”
Another user satirically wrote on X (formerly Twitter), “This wazifa is absolutely effective. One day, I wrote ‘Zam Zam’ with my finger on my neighbor’s car’s fuel tank—its fuel line got jammed. An ice vendor once wrote ‘Zam-Zam’ on his ice block during the peak of June and July—he’s still waiting for the ice to melt.
In the Well of Death, a stuntman was riding his motorcycle along the wall when a spectator gestured and wrote ‘Zam Zam’ in the air—the motorcycle and the rider have been stuck on the wall ever since (sic).”
“I wrote ‘Zam Zam’ on the electricity meter early in the morning at Sehri time. Now, no one’s father can send me a high bill!! Thank you, Maulana,” quipped another user. While a netizen called the cleric’s wazifa “religious meter tempering.”
The cleric had earlier made a big revelation in the Ramzan transmission, claiming that he received a call from an unknown number on his phone. He said that the caller informed him that the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad SAW (PBUH) met the caller in a dream, advising him to read the wazifa told by Jameel. The cleric took an oath three times before recounting it.
In another episode of the transmission, he berated a female caller, who was complaining about her husband’s excessive talkativeness. Rather than addressing her concerns, the cleric advised her to speak less instead.
