Islamic Seminary Issues Fatwa on…Birthdays?
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Tiffany Gabbay
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Considered one of the Islamic world’s leading seminaries, “Darul Uloom Deoband” has informed Muslims around the world that a fatwa has been issued against celebrating birthdays as doing so is allegedly against shariah law. According to the Indian seminary’s vice chancellor, birthdays are also only a “tradition of Western countries.”
“Muslims should not follow the tradition of Western culture of celebrating birthdays as it against the Sharia,” said, Maulana Abul Kasim Naumani.
Naumani added that Islamic seminary does not even celebrate their prophet Muhammed’s birthday.
Asia News adds:
Responding to a query of a student, the fatwa department of the country’s biggest Islamic seminary said that Islam does not permit such celebrations as they are against the Sharia. The query was made in reference to the birthday celebration of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University.
Deobandi (literally of the city of Deoband) is a Muslim religious movement present in the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan that follows the Hanafi legal school (madhhab).
Their main institution is a seminary in the Indian city of Deoband, in Sahāranpur District (Uttar Pradesh), about 140 km northeast of Delhi.
It hosts up to 1,500 students and its library is endowed with some 70,000 traditional legal books, prints and manuscripts
Not even innocent birthday celebrations are beyond the reproach of Islamic clerics. What will be next?
(h/t: WeaselZippers)
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ares338
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:42amIslam is pretty much the religion of ignorant camel molestors. If that sounds harsh, I really have no love for any religions either however Islam leads the pack. The religion of love indeed is a pimple on the butt of the world.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:24am.
Report Post »They should issue one of those Fatwads on breathing air……………….
lukerw
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 9:23amKoran, Sharia, Sunnah, Ijma, & Fiqh… give numerous reasons for killing. So, a Fatwa is just an open Hit Contract.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:54pmGood. More cake for me.
Report Post »yeah I got an itch
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:23amI would like to compliment Ninas2 for the stunning array of vocabulary words, like ignorant and…. ignorant.. In one of the posts you had a valid point (birthdays are way overdone and bastardized in the west), followed by immediate revocation by your ranting insults. Those same rants devalue your opinion with others. Is there “ignorance” of Islam in the west? yes. Is there a vile hatred for christianity in the middle east? yes again.
EXAMPLE: OWS has a point in the non-capitalistic way we bailed out banks; however, on the other hand they were destroying innocent businesses, raping and yelling, abusing their kids as doorstops, etc..
At this point, who cares if they have a what they say.
I guess beating a drum or a bum is more fun than contacting your congressman or voting. In my experience people who say “peace and love” tend to be the most selfish and disrespectful people of all, except for those who just attack people to change their point of view. Like calling them racist, or ignorant, or something else in that veign.
cheers
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:58amNinas2,Just a wild guess, you are a muslim.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:07amAnd just as every other religion, Many Muslims believe “To stone” means to throw rocks at people, when of course it really means to raise God’s armor (shields) against them. People who think it means throw rocks they notice the dimmer light that rules the night. That’s too bad.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:12amOf course if I was some wicked leader in the world who drooled for power, then It would be easier to get people to go to war if they believed God approved of hitting people in the forehead with rocks.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:16amAnd you know what really makes me mad? That I know those wicked people know exactly what God means but they lie to people or won’t open their mouths.
Report Post »yeah I got an itch
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:29amone more thing then I am gone,
All great works of literature and history are open to interpretation, ELIAS. One’s interpretations typically draw on the basic personality of the reader as well as aspects of experience. Better yet, the same written words, that have not changed, can mean much different things a little later in life. If this was not true, then we would all make the exact same movie ground up as every other director who read the original book. Same visual ques. Same soundtrack. Same attire. Same camera angles.
Report Post »KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 9:36amYou shouldn’t say Muslim, that is a term of respect saying they are submitted to God. You should say Mohammedan which means Mohammed follower. They follow the barbaric death cult of the false prophet Mohammed.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:33am@ ninas2
Maybe I am, whats your excuse
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:45amI understand more about world religions and cultures then the trailor-park tabloid readers commenting here. I’m glad you the caffine wakes you up. Now wake up your mind and quit being a close-minded twit.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:15am@ninas2
Report Post »Yep had my coffee and have feed the hogs , will clean the pens later today.
GreatGu
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:32amMore from the peace loving Muslims. Lets all just become lemming slaves to these bastards. NOT!!!
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 4:35pm@ASHESTOASHES
I may be reading your posting incorrectly but it reads like the Crusaders killed Protestants. If that is what you meant you need to look at the time line again. The Reformation happed several centuries after the Crusades.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:21amAnythng except servile postures in a mosque or murder and butchery of all sorts seems to be against Sharia Law–what a dismal hopeless, religion.
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:47amThis religion has been unchanged for almost 700 years…Chritians still fight amongst themselves on how to worship God in the most basic ways.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:01amNINAS2,
Report Post »Guess what? Muslims argue amongst themselves also, and they even go so far as to always be blowing up each others Mosques. When was the last time you saw a LDS walk into a Catholic Church and explode in America?
ashestoashes
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:42am@NINAS2 Althogh I admire your loyaly and dedication to whom you believe to be God…there was never an Allah..Mohamad’s wife was tight with a pope from the era in which Mohamad came to be. Through her and her cousin Waraqyauh..he devised a plan to raise up a mighty army in your people for the taking of Jerusalem for the vatican city. THe pope required 3 things from Islam which he created..to kill all Christians and Jews..protect the Augustinian Monks and Roman Catholics and to take Jerusalem for him. They did all but hand over Jerusalem. They instead switched out the story of Ismael and Issac and built the Dome of the Rock there. Then Islam wanted Europe..the Pope refused because he considered Islam heathens.(a false religion) so he raised up an army of his own.. and thus the Crusades…Millions of protestant Christians were killed and millions of Bibles were burned to prevent his own people and Islam from reading them and Christians telling them the truth. THat lasted 2000 years. Because of the loss of his daughter,,Mohamed considered his daughter that he lost in the same league with Mary…the mother of Jesus..There was something about that Lady of Fatima..anyway Mohamed..by the end of his life hoped that his people would recognize the divinity of Jesus *Yeshua” because of His immaculate conception and virgin birth.. Even in history..it is said that Mohammad didn’t want to be known as a prophet..but his wife insisted, and now you know why..
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:20amOnce again, your reports are biased and unfounded. Before you report, take a deeper look into the story before you mislead the ignorant “sheep” who believe the BS you report. Muslims all around the world celebrate birthdays. From the earliest of time man has kept record of his birthdate. It would be interesting to see you post the real language of the Fatwa so we can cleary form our own opinon rathern then your bias. The issue in question is not whether to celebrate the birthday, but how over the top and extreme people go in the celebration. A birthday should be a day to worship and give praise to Allah for the blessings and good life he provides for us. Instead, most people in the world use it for a day of celebrating “us,” full of self-indulgence with no reflection of the blessings from our creator. Ignorant people, Wake Up!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:59amHappy Birthday to you, Happy bith BOOM! (exploding candles)
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:04amImpressive that would be; maybe they will declare a fatwa upon themselvles?
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:41amYep, and they don’t eat pork account Muhammed mated with a sow I guess ,
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:12amYou’re ignorant
Report Post »db321
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 11:06amAnd You Ninas2 follow a false profit – go check out Mohammed’s grave – he is still in there – and the Lord that left this earth to sit at the right hand of God will return soon to dig up Mohammed – grab him by the scruff of the neck and toss him and all of his followers into the lake of fire – it is written. I think God may have been a little upset – he did not say placed into the Lake of Fire – he said TOSS!
I intemperate that as a good old fashion drop kick! – Enjoy your swim Ninis2.
Report Post »McKenzie Davis
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 4:33amI will keep My God, My Jesus, My Bible, My Guns, My Halloween and My Birthday!!!!!
Ya can Shove your Shariah….where the Sun Dont Shine!!!!
Report Post »Katydidnt
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:39amActually Christians didn’t celebrate birthdays for the first couple hundred years either. They thought that was a pagan practice. They celebrated the day of a person’s death because that would be their entrance into heaven.
Report Post »Their reasoning was that everybody is born the good and the bad. You had to wait until you had lived your life to see if your life was worth celebrating. That is why Easter was celebrated long before Christmas. Then St. John Chrystostom (sp?) took the date that Zachariah would have been serving in the Temple. I think there were 24 or 26 classes of priests and he was of the 8th class. Every class served for a week or two weeks, I forget. Any rate he knew from accounts of the fall of the Temple what class was the last to serve. There was one problem a historical text had an error in it by then that placed the death of Herod at 4BC when it was actually at 1 BC. So he figured enough time for both John the Baptist and Jesus to have been born and Herod to still be alive with when Zachariah could have been serving in the temple and tada Dec 25, 5 BC.
Katydidnt
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:47amThe interesting thing is there is a video about the Star of Bethlehem really worth watching that tracks the signs in the stars. There were signs that marked his conception and birth which got them moving toward Jerusalem in Israel (Jupiter goes into retrograde, a backward loop, forming a crown around the head of the Leo the lion (Lion of Judah), but the star that shines over where the child lay was a near joining of Venus and Jupiter. That appeared on Dec 25th . Dec 25th is the date when the wise men arrived to worship the child Jesus at least that is when the really bright star appeared. So St. John Crystotom “accidently” got an important date even though he was working with faulty data.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:47am@KATYDIDNT
Report Post »I worked the math… via all the Biblical Time Lines… and I come up with 6 b.c.
Greenwood
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 7:54am@Katydidnt…………….Ecclesiastes 7: 1 A name is better than good oil, and a day of death than the day of one’s being born.
You are right……….”Christians didn’t celebrate birthdays for the first couple hundred years either. They thought that was a pagan practice.” That’s because it was a pagan practice. Jesus or the apostles never celebrated birthdays. So they never celebrated Christmas or Easter. ( Ishtar) It all comes from ancient Babylon.
@McKenzie………..I will keep My God, My Jesus, My Bible, My Guns, My Halloween and My Birthday!!!!!
Report Post »I just have to say Wow!
lukerw
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 4:28amEvery day… is alike Christmas to me. Come and get me!
Report Post »Steve0218
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 4:13amMatt 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” If you are tired of religion you should try Jesus/
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 3:42amTaking away birthdays sounds like a kids playground game.
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:56amSo does “hide the willy” and “peel the bananna.” Oh what fun it is to be, an ignorant lost sheep. Stop being ignorant.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 3:32amThey don’t want to celebrate birthdays . Well i guess it would be awkward for your friends to come over and only see 7 candels on your wifes cake .
biohazard23
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:04amNo, for them to feel awkward, the cake would have to have 27 candles on it instead. 7 would be the norm…..
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:57amnice…Can you even count that high, or are those your favorite nascar drivers?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:25amAgain, projecting your shortcomings onto others WILL NOT make you a better person. Get over yourself, honey buns.
Report Post »mrzmac
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 3:21amWell I guess this is as good a reason as any to take up birthday celebrations again…I was getting tired of celebrating 29 for the 18th year straight anyway…
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 3:18amAre they gonna ban FaceBook too ?
Report Post »Cause it reminds us of birthdays :)
Brooke Lorren
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:56amMy little boy’s birthday is this week. We had a wonderful party with a cake and friends. They can stuff it.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:49amYea, but they don’t want Sharia for everyone…../sarcasm off
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:51amMuslims are totally irrelevant in American Society. Everything “American” has been built upon Jewish and Christian religions. The Muslim’s “Shariah” Law doesn’t work here because here in the USA, men and women are considered to be equal.
Jesus Christ was born a Jew, yet he launched the Christian religion. The Muslims believe that Jesus Christ was only a prophet, as they believe Mohamed was. Personally, I’m disgusted by those who are Muslims. I believe that Islam is a sick and disgusting religion.
I’m all for banning the KKK and Islam from the United States of American. Both are disgusting and ridiculous..
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:31amYou believe it’s sick and disgusting because you read crappy and biased information. Everything you say and believe about Islam can be swayed back said about any other major religion or goverment. Open your eyes a little bit and stop being biased. This is not the land of the “jew” and “christian.” How small minded you must are. Do you have any idea how many religions are even practiced in the United States alone? You’re just a poor, closed minded little girl who must have been abused by her daddy when mommy was at social services getting the food stamps.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:46am“Everything you say and believe about Islam can be swayed back said about any other major religion or goverment.”
“How small minded you must are.”
Wow, Mensa must have LOVED receiving your application for membership….. Oh, and then you have to throw in the obligatory parental abuse accusation. Classy! That’s really helping you state your case, eh? Look, no one cares how you do things in your own family, but stop projecting your issues onto other people who happen to disagree with whatever point it is you were trying in vain to make.
Just sayin’. Have a great day, ninas2!!
Report Post »ninas2
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:52amWell Bio…I’m glad you apprciated the classiness. And I am a member of Mensa. Thanks for noticing. Have a great week of sinning.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:24amMensa member, huh? When did they start accepting applications filled out in crayon?
BTW, that burqa looks FABULOUS on you! Did your brother pick it out for you? Or is that your husband? Can’t tell with you people. Enjoy your festival of the slaughter or whatever heathen ritual it is you pedophile-following folks do to appease your petty deity. Muah!!! This infidel will proudly enjoy time irritating you “tolerant” mooslim types. So insult away, my dear! Toodles, sweetheart!!!
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:33amWell, this explains why the O‘s said they didn’t have birthday parties
Report Post »or give birthday gifts to their girls.
Of course, this was said BEFORE he was elected President.
Californiasodbuster
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:52amThank You for your good memory, i thought the puzzle was complete, but the pieces keep coming in.
Report Post »Amazing.
CatB
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 2:05amThey don’t travel with the dog either .. they send it on a separate plane.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 5:54amYou are so right and don‘t forget he did make a statement that I can’t quote but he said he would side with the muslim world if it came down to it.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:44amHe also said that the Muslim morning prayers were the prettiest sound he had ever heard.
Report Post »Are you getting the picture (he is a closet Muslim).
Falsegods
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:09amMy Christmas lights are up,
Report Post »and I will be celebrating Jesus’ birthday until spring
. Enjoy the Christmas lights and Christmas.
Tis the USA, love it or leave it !
CatB
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:21amI bought a nativity for outside this year .. Merry Christmas!
Report Post »Marci
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:30amWhat a shocker, issuing a FATWA against something that is fun.
Report Post »Greenwood
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:46am@ Falsegods…………Did the apostles or the 1st century christians celebrate Jesus’ birthday ?
@CATB………….Is a nativity display a form of idolatry ? Exodus 20: 4 ” You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or that is on the earth underneath or that is in the waters under the earth.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 12:59amThose are not candles on my cake!?!?! BOOOOOOOOM!!!
Report Post »pscully17
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:15amIts crystal clear that we have to stop placating to the Muslim whims and their atack on our society through our own laws, or should I say, therlough the progressive activist judges that rule in their favor against our constitutional laws…. we MUST as a society Block every effort to stop the spread this maliciaous and violent cult.. ITS A CULT !!! the facade of it being a religion is over!!! when your scripture and core of your beliefs include killing human beings… it no longer qualifies as a religion… its an agent of evil!…. Please, I beg my fellow Americans to stop this aggressive attack on our Christian and American Traditions!!!!!! there is a school district in Massachussets that is closed tomorrow in observance of a Muslim religious day…. doesnt this bother anybody? if we are no longer an established sovereign nation based on Christianity, and God,, then we as a society are DONE!!!
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:24amMassachusetts. What do ya expect?
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 12:44amMuslims are the dumbest animals on the face of the earth.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 12:49amMuslims are the first victims of islam! Pray that they meet the Lord before The End of Days and are saved.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 12:41amSounds like Muslims are the new jehovah witnesses… they don’t celebrate birthday either….
Report Post »Greenwood
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 8:24amPeople who worship Jehovah come with a message of hope, they won’t come to your door with a bomb strapped to them.
Report Post »Matthew 24: 14 And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.
Revelation 21: 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”
Daniel 2: 44……………………It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite.
We are living deep in the last days so where do you stand? ……………Psalms 83: 18
82dAirborne
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 12:37amMine is the 13th of this month. Come and get me!!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:07amHappy Birthday soon 82DAIRBORNE … my son’s is 11-11-11 Veterans Day :-) More reason to celebrate .. we are NOT Muslim!
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:44amHappy Birthday to him!!!!! And many, many more.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 1:59amHappy Birthday to both!!!! And be sure those are candles and not Sticks of Dynamite on the cakes! Muslims may watch Bugs Bunny Cartoons!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 3:26amDitto and many more .
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 12:32amThe muslim progress in backwards :)
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