A cleric chastising Mohammad Shami for not fasting during Ramzan is less about religion and more about power theology and the confrontational ideology it engenders.
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This article is studded with some incontrovertible facts. But instead of getting to grips with them and also ascertaining how the majority of the faithful looks at them, people tend to point the finger of suspicion at something or somebody else. This itself goes to show how intractable and seemingly unresolvable the problem is. Ibn Khaldun Bharati is the thinking person’s guy. He is the kind of thinker who raises questions that few would have the nerve to confront.
The moment you break free from the ulema, you realise the illogical hollowness of faith itself when not subservient to its clergy. Shuddhi/Gharwapsi follows as a natural corollary.
Why do y’all take these so called ulemas seriously? Just ignore them and move on. The real imams and muftis worry about socio economic problems, income disparity, lack of healthcare, lack of affordable education, etc.
If news outlets stop reporting about these stupid fatwas, these fake ulemas wouldn’t be relevant anymore.
The ulema who ostracised Shami, maybe he doesn’t know that Shami and every Muslim has the privilege to fast after Ramadan in compensation if they weren’t able to fast during Ramadan. Authentic Ahadith are available to everyone as evidence. Anyone can easily google for the same. Maybe the ulema was paid by the TV channel to say this. The article written by Ibn Whatever reeks of a biased man. It’s rooted in appeasement to the current environment in country.
This article is studded with some incontrovertible facts. But instead of getting to grips with them and also ascertaining how the majority of the faithful looks at them, people tend to point the finger of suspicion at something or somebody else. This itself goes to show how intractable and seemingly unresolvable the problem is. Ibn Khaldun Bharati is the thinking person’s guy. He is the kind of thinker who raises questions that few would have the nerve to confront.
The moment you break free from the ulema, you realise the illogical hollowness of faith itself when not subservient to its clergy. Shuddhi/Gharwapsi follows as a natural corollary.
Why do y’all take these so called ulemas seriously? Just ignore them and move on. The real imams and muftis worry about socio economic problems, income disparity, lack of healthcare, lack of affordable education, etc.
If news outlets stop reporting about these stupid fatwas, these fake ulemas wouldn’t be relevant anymore.
The ulema who ostracised Shami, maybe he doesn’t know that Shami and every Muslim has the privilege to fast after Ramadan in compensation if they weren’t able to fast during Ramadan. Authentic Ahadith are available to everyone as evidence. Anyone can easily google for the same. Maybe the ulema was paid by the TV channel to say this. The article written by Ibn Whatever reeks of a biased man. It’s rooted in appeasement to the current environment in country.