This is funny…
Mufti Abdul Rehman Al Rehmani, head of Darul Ifta wa Al-Qazzath of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JD) Pakistan:
if…Indian Muslims…comply with Indian law, then the coming generations of Muslims in India will be involved in Hindu beliefs
Here is the story:
A few days ago, the mufti or head cleric of one of India’s biggest madrassas, the Darul Uloom Deoband (DUD), Mufti Habibur Rehman, said that Indian Muslims should take care when slaughtering the cow that is considered sacred by Hindus. He pointed out that the slaughter of the cow is prohibited under Indian law and thus it was not right to use its meat secretly.
In response, the head of Darul Ifta wa Al-Qazzath of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JD) Pakistan, Mufti Abdul Rehman Al Rehmani, said that the “fatwa” should be withdrawn immediately and justified. “The fatwa encourages Hindu beliefs,” Al Rehmani said while talking to Daily Times on Tuesday. His official stance was published on the JD website the same day.
Al Rehmani claims that Rehman’s “fatwa” is wrong because according to Islamic education the cow was a major cause of idolism and polytheism. “And if Mufti Habibur Rehman tells Indian Muslims to comply with Indian law, then the coming generations of Muslims in India will be involved in Hindu beliefs,” said the text. [ link ]
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Mufti Abdul Rehman Al Rehmani, interpretation of the story of cow is also funny. It doesn’t occur to his amazing Islamic brain that it was the people who worshiped the cow according to the quran. I am not aware of the quran ever stating that the cow convinced the people to worship it. So, be it. By using the same logic stone is a important cause of idolism since they are used to create idols and some stones are used as it is, as idols. So, should muslims go on breaking stones as much as they can?
If icon worship bothers such learned people, they should look at the ethics behind circumambulation of their most sacred place. By the way, circumambulation is a distinct Hindu practice. During my visit to the homes of a number of devout brothers both in UK and other countries, I have seen photos, embroideries and wall hangings of these places of pilgrimage (in Saudi Arabia) adorning their mantle places. Tolerance and respect for the faith and beliefs of fellow citizens will not only generate respect in their minds for our own personal faith. After all, as the cliche goes, to earn respect, one has to respect others.
Dear Sir,
This is true secularism. So narrow minded that it will appeal to all secularists. This is why we are having terrorism in India. If that Paki Mufti wants to state a Islamic Law let him keep it to where his enclave is and let it not spill over, we have enough here.
This is specifically the act that our leader Gandhi did for currying favour with the Muslims. He wanted the Caliphate to exist. he lost touch with reasoning that India is different and the Muslims residing in India have to subject themselves to Indian Laws.
Let us not mix issues. Laws of one land prevail whether one likes it or not.
For the Marxist-Christian educated secularist let me state for his understanding “Do in Rome as the Romans do”.
I have to make this statement as he will not understand stupid things like Hinduism and India based laws etc.
Regards,
vck
We are so much aggrevated by these statements from Muslims and we are so much against cow meat.
I fail to understand what have we done to stop fellow hindus from taking beef and other products made from cow meat. I would guess 95% of people in kerala eat beef including hindus except brahmins and few others. Cow meat is not banned in most states and tamilnadu encourages it as we would expect its atheist leaders and public.
I think in addition to asking muslims, we should also ask beef eating hindus to stop doing that as it ofcourse hurts our sentiments.
And, many of us travel abroad and we see beef served everywhere next our own plates. We just have to ignore it by blaming it on kaliyug.
From The Telegraph:
Good argument for banning cow slaughter…and MF Husain!
I eat beef. And I see nothing wrong with continuing with it. The whole “to eat or not to eat (beef)” issue is cultural. Except the fact that it involves violence against a living creature.
Our religious sentiments (that of upper caste Hindus from outside Kerala and Tripura – the chamars everywhere eat beef) are hurt by not this violence, but a small part of the violence that is directed against an animal who is treated like our mother. Revered as long as she is giving milk, grazing on rubbish, kicked out as soon as she runs dry. The milk she produces for her child stolen, her child (if male and of doubtful economical value) allowed to die of starvation (no himsa, again) and the child’s skin put on a truss so she can smell and lick it and still lactate. Oh, by the way, have we wondered what skins we use in the mridanga?
We eat fish (Brahmins from the East and West included here), allowing them a slow agonizing death of asphyxiation.
We have chicken turning neurotic in small cages, debeaked, illuminated 24 hours and given antibiotics so that they can gain weight and adorn our table.
Have you seen an animal’s eyes as it is dragged forward to its death, smelling the blood spilt by its companions?
There is a basic difference between us and other carnivores. The other carnivores attack weak, aged, diseased animals and are a natural cause of death. We prefer the healthy ones. This is against nature and against God, if you believe that He did give nature some rules to be followed.
So we are OK with all this. If we had called for abjuring meat (forget the milk and meat products for the time being) we would have had some justification. As it is, we are asking a poor populace to give up a cheap source of protein – jut because it wounds our religious sentiments. We found a decrepit collection of domes in Ayodhya wounding our sentiments. We found providing for our divorced wives wounding our religious sentiments. We are not wounded by the cages in Kamatipura. Nor by age-old customs dedicating young girls to a life of prostitution. Nor by the high preponderance of Muslim women in the same industry.
There are lots of kooks in the world. Especially in India, who feel that their well is the world and croak that to the world at large. Want to hear some pearls of wisdom? Check out this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fMB6xq_Jcg
I don’t mind the kooks. I mind the educated guys using the kooks as hooks to hang their own prejudices. Didn’t read about the Deoband fatwa, non-observance of 6th December, refusal of burial space for the terrorists? There is a whole generation of Hindus and Muslims who study each other’s religions to see only the defects and to project them. In the process, they overlook the good points. Is it so difficult, or did Katherine Mayo have so many children?
Out of context- It is called “Ulti Ganga”
N. Americans people, after these many years are understanding the facts that how animal protein is harmful to health. And Indians are on the verge of accepting what these countries are planning to abandon in their daily food intake and life.
The time we start accepting the western concepts, It is the time for westerners leaving that concept. Nice developing countries!
Jai Hind!
Courtesy Ashok-ji, more details on the fatwa by Mufti Habibur Rehman. From Refrain from cow slaughter: Deoband by Manjari Mishra | TNN, 27th April 2008:
Lucknow: “Muslims must refrain from cow slaughter, beef eating or trading in cow hide” Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom, Deoband, issued a clear edict to its followers on Friday.
“There is much one can choose from … meat eaters can always opt for buffaloes, goats, chicken and fish. However, Shariat does not allow beef-eating if it is prohibited under law,” ruled the octogenarian head of the fatwa department, Mufti Habibur Rehman.
Mufti Rehman, who has been heading the department for more than two decades, announced the fatwa in response to a query put up by Haji Mohammad Israr, a resident of Dadhedu village in Muzaffarnagar. A small time farmer, Israr had submitted a query last Monday demanding to know if “cow slaughter, trading in cows, bulls and calves and use of its skin for business, which is quite rampant in UP, was permitted under Islam.”
UP, he wrote, had a large number of butchers and beef eaters and a thriving business of cow hide despite the fact that the state government has prohibited cow slaughter and all related activities.
After the issue was taken up by a three-member committee which gave the verdict in the light of “Hadees and Quran”, Mufti Rehman ruled that Shariat disallowed doing any thing which was not permissible under law of the land. Cow slaughter and trading in bullocks or calves for the same purpose, therefore, was “najayaz” even though beef eating was not prohibited under Islam, the fatwa stated.
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The community leaders have welcomed the fatwa calling it an important development for the Hindu-Muslim amity. Noted activist Javed Anand said:
“Muslims should respect Hindu sentiments and avoid cow slaughter. Influential seminary’s fatwa would go a long way in ensuring this.”
Anand said there was nothing new about the fatwa as Muslim leaders have repeatedly sought compliance to the anti-cow slaughter law. “The fatwa should have come earlier, but better late than never. It’s a
welcome move,” he said.
“The Indian Constitution has given us equal rights including the freedom to religion and it’s important for us to respect it and abide by its cow slaughter prohibition. Muslims around the country should ensure that they abide by the law prohibiting cow slaughter,” Rajya Sabha member and Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind general secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani said.