I watched the video of IK as it popped up in 5 pillarz news site and by the looks of it IK had very poor choice of words and did not give the correct description of Surah Ad-Duha. He may not have realized that or he may not even know that in the first place but it seems he did not have any bad intention what so ever and it seemed unintentional or out of lack of knowledge.
There are couple of sides to this case of street fatwa (if i may call it) and I would be assuming that reported statements of Pir Muhammad Afzal Qadri is true and this concerns the video of IK above as per reported by 5pillarz :
- Its not the job of any tom,dick or harry to declare someone Wajib-ul-Qatal which seemed to have happened in this case.
- The Pir shaheb in question does not have a authority to do that as there is a due process under islamic law with regard to this sort of issues.
Its the job of the ruler/state and judiciary/state sanctioned panel of judges.
-Also its highly irresponsible of him to declare someone "kafir" based on just a video clip and not discussing the matter with the person in question.
Even in a blasphemy trail in a official islamic court the panel of judges would have to ascertain the issue with the accused person and have to absolutely ward of any doubt before coming to a verdict. And there r always plenty of room for doubts - is the guy knowledgeable or ignorant? did he consciously said what he said ? did he realize what he said? was that a slip of tongue? did he know about the topic? was he misinformed? does the guy fit the definition of a blashpohemer according to Quran and sunnah etc etc?
- Correct me if I am wrong but this Pir shaheb in question is NOT sanctioned by the Pakistan state or judiciary to look into such matters? right?
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Why did he NOT file a case under Pak's blashphemy law since PAK rightfully have blasphemy law?
- What kind of a "mullah", "imam", muslim is this Muhammad Afzal Qadri if he did not have the compassion to reach out to his brother in faith IK concerning issue before making such a dangerous statement against IK? What kind of a lover of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah (swt) be upon him) is he?
These street fatwas are a serious problem and cause serious harm to the cause of Islam and muslim society in the following ways:
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It gives ammunition to liberal secularists and other enemies of Islam who are always looking for excuses to gang up on islam. This thread is a good example - the liberal secularists, qadiyanis and indians are linking this to religion and calling for the kufr of secularism to be implemented while mocking islamic laws .
- This may give an ignorant muslim who has admirable zeal and love for the religion, to do something stupid and attract islamophobic global media crusade.
- The secular imperial west and their resident agents are already up in arms against whatever islamic injunctions are enshrined in the PAK constitution and laws. And this kind of street fatwas are exactly the kind of fallacies they use deceptively to attack islam and further their agenda.
- The Pir shaheb in question I assume is a sufi and NOT a "wahabi" , salafi or deobandi. This actually goes to show that no particular school of thought (they are sunnis and not seperate sects) have monopoly on ignorant over zealous followers. And in the same breath most followers of all sunni schools of thought are peaceful law abiding citizens and most scholars of all sunni schools of thought are good thinking intellectual people.
Street "mullahs" are very few in between but they help give a flawed picture of islam which a preying anti-islamic secular media then uses for their crusade against Islam.
- Muslims who are not aware of the religion of islam i.e the majority may develop a wrong understanding of islam in different ways. Some may develop apathy to religion or some may become too rigid and narrow minded thinking that these method of street fatwas are correct and islamic. While others may falsely think that the whole concept of islamic blashphemy law is unislamic and argue accordingly.
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These street fatwas only gives a false picture of the Islamic scholars and gives the islamophobic portions of the society the excuses to mock the scholarly community. The word "mullah" has been made a mockery by the liberal secularists and street mullahs.
- These street fatwas are NOT a representation of "islamic scholarships" . IF there is a secular law banning mockery of national symbols such as flag and If any tom dick and harry now says that such and such person is liable to be killed because he according to that tom seemingly mocked the flag , is that a representation of legal precedence of that particular secular law school?
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This whole issue underlines one of the fundemental problems plaughing a religiously illiterate society and it not just PAK ,
most post-colonial muslim states are religiously illiterate but high on passion and under opression. And among all this chaos your have the cancer of the secularists and heretics fishing for trouble and mischief and the constant Western imperial secular crusade.
I apologize if I hurt the feelings of any supporter of the Pir Shaheb in question. As I said before what ever I said above is based on the assumption that he did threatened takfir as per the report. I think the pir shaheb in question made a serious error and as a fellow muslim I hope he realizes that redeems himself.
