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Posts Tagged ‘Fatwa’

Can Fatwas Stop Suicide Attacks ?

By Tazeen • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When in 2004, the Pakistan Army entered into the FATA area against Taliban, the first tide of suicide attacks started in cities of Pakistan. At that time, many religious leaders including the Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in Lal Masjid denounced the suicide attacks and called them “Haram.”
When in 2007, the tragic incident [...]



Bradistan: The future of Sikh-Muslim relations

By Dil Nawaz • Aug 8th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The Sikh religion is based on three important pillar The Guru (Teacher), The Garanth(Holy Book) and the Khalsa (Brotherhood of the Pure).It all seems so familiar because of similarity with the religion of Islam. Nowadays one cannot objectively analyse Islam, without provoking Fatwa of One kind or the other. The debate, discussion and Ijtehad (innovation [...]



Dr Sarfaraz Naeemi : Shaheed-e-Pakistan

By Rohail Butt • Jun 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

One of the ardent supporter of the military operation in the Malakand Agency, and one of the most argumentative and sane religiouis figure against the suicide attacks and the terrorism describes the great man Dr Sarfaraz Naeemi, who was martyred in a suicide attack in his office in Jamia Naeemia in Lahore after the Juma [...]



Legitimacy and Interpretation of Fatwa’s as Per Shariah

By Dr RazaHaider • Apr 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

A Subdural Controversy as award of punishment in lieu of blasphemy;…….Fatwa’s are never a laid down criteria of ideology but a verdict based on interpretation of scholar as cleric and all ifs, buts and shall are under his responsibility and is not necessarily a compulsion among followers of that religion but only those who are under his sworn as practice.