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| India-Pakistan |
| Now, a fatwa against birthday celebration! |
| 2010-05-18 |
| In a fresh fatwa, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deboand has said that Islam does not permit celebrating birthdays. Responding to a query posed by a woman, the country's biggest Islamic seminary observed that the tradition to celebrate birthdays was started by the Jews and Christians, but Islam does not permit this practice. The Darul Uloom Deoband has in recent days issued edicts declaring that working in banks and opting for an insurance policy was against the tenets of Islam, sparking a debate. The seminary had also decreed that it was illegal according to the Sharia or Islamic law for a woman to work and for a family to accept a woman's earnings. Leading Islamic body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind's spokesman Abdul Hameed Nomani had maintained that fatwas should not be generalised and should be seen in the context in which they have been issued. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 If I were as big a loon as this clown and his fellow travelers, I'd be ashamed of the day I was born, too. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-18 13:16 |
| #1 He is wrong about the history but he is correct about Islam and birthdays. The ancient Jews knew about birthday, there is one mentioned in the bible for a non jewish king but there is no record in the bible that Jews celebrated it. Even today religious Jews have trouble celebrating it. Islam has always been against it. Christians have varying views on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday |
| Posted by: Bernardz 2010-05-18 12:29 |