“This is Drama”, “This Video, is fake”, “No it was not even made in Swat”, “This was shot to sabotage the peace process between Taliban and Govt”. “You see ,that girl was a prostitute and hence punished by Taliban”. “NGOs want to bring bad name to Islam”, “This video is a conspiracy against Islam”. “US is trying to justify its future attack on Pakistan”. “The video is fake because if the girl was beaten so much then how she could walk afterwards”.
This is the kind of crap I have been listening since the video of that poor Sawati girl released to the media. No one, except few and coward voices, talks plainly. It was brutality against humanity. It wasn’t about how hard the girl was beaten, it was about the desecration of women and humiliation in the middle of the road. Have we gone blind as a society? Where for heaven’s sake Islam permits this kind of treatment? What kind of society we want? Islamic, right! Does anybody among the vanguards of this savage movement understands an iota of Islam? Does Islam only means Islamic punishments or we also have Islamic social justice system? How many smugglers have been killed by Taliban so far? None. Because they are powerful and beating an orphan girl is easy. It is this simple.
For God sake, the champions of Islamic renaissance, Islam is not about getting you back to the stone age, it is about progress and growth and this kind of Islam is only going to tick the clock backwards. I am appalled by the support these groups draw from general public. So any Lawrence of Arabia who recite a few verses can still blackmail muslims even today. What do want to see in Pakistan, a cricket stadium where a cricket match or beheading after Friday prayers? We want teen age boys to be suicide bombers or school going-prize winning students?
The way media has been captured by the Taliban-sympathisers, I think the above mentioned question should not have been asked in the first place. Guys like Ansar Abbasi, Hamid Mir and Mushtaq Minhas are showing their worth and are ample proof of how good Jamaat Islami is at training and placing their aces in the pivotal positions in the system. The saplings planted by Zia-ul-Haq are now bearing fruits. It is harvesting season, reap it!
Now for those, like Ansaar Abbasi, who think it was Islamic. Why these guys only quote the ayaat that justifies their purpose. Let take the whole context:
Surah Al-Nore Verse 02:
The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment) (An-Nur 24: 2).
Alright, and this is the one quoted by almost every Taliban supporter on Pakistani media. But they were dishonest when they didn’t quote this verse in the same Surah.
Surah Al-Nore Verse 05:
Except those who repent after this and act aright, for surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful
This is just an example as how half truth is presented. This also essentially means we want to create a society where we are not ready to provide an mercy to anybody. Just imagine, if in the future some member of Taliban Politburo wants to defame anybody’s sister/mother/wife, how easy it would be for him. Remember what goes around, comes around.
We also need to see as what are the necessary conditions for establishing Zina? There should be four witnesses who must have seen the intercourse explicitly. Just for heaven’s sake how that could be established until somebody wasn’t doing that act in the middle of a road like that poor girl was beaten there. This penalty was awarded by circumstantial evidence. A Talib saw somebody in Chaand’s ( The victim girl ) home and he reported it to the top Taliban leadership. Circumstantial evidence can not be admitted in this case. Cannot we see, Allah wants us to hide the sins of people around us. Of course, there are categorizations and limitations.
During Rasul-e-Khuda’s times a woman came to him and confessed that she had committed Zina. Rasul ( PBUH) turned his face to the other side. She repeated it and again he turned his face away. This happened three ( some say seven ) times, then it was promulgated that Hudd should be implemented. Some companions asked Rasul ( PBUH ) as why you didn’t announced the punishment right after she confessed the first time. He ( PBUH ) said, I wanted to give her a chance that she might go back and repent. But she made enough witnesses for her and I was left with no choice but to announce Allah’s prescribed punishment for this act.
Now imagine, the creator and His Messenger ( PBUH ) are trying to show compassion and mercy but Taliban and their supporters are not ready to do this. Because purpose is different. Now a days purpose is to scare people, the typical fascist techniques.
If we let these thing go, tomorrow we might have to tolerate bombing of our own people, destroying hotels, airlines and everything. We should be clear headed as what we want. Do we want Taliban who can always blackmail you by any crime against humanity in the name of Islam or we want a peaceful society with moderate values, as we used to be. Do we think that among the 6 billion human beings in the world only Taliban and Pakistanis are the only one on the right track? Why cannot we think, may be we are wrong on some counts ( not all, of course ). The biggest religion is the humanity which also has written some golden principles and I am willing to sacrifice my even my life for those. Why I can’t think this cannot happen to my own sister/wife/mother…? Difficult to think..huh..it is very much possible. Also we need to understand that rest of the world is not as bad as we have been told.
Even in their wildest dreams Jinnah and Iqbal would never have imagined this kind of Pakistan. Unfortunately, I can see very troubled times lie ahead for Pakistan. But fair and sqaure blame goes to Pakistani Army, politicians and gentry, essentially the people who ruled Pakistan in the last 60 years. ( This is a lengthy subject that I will cover sometime later ).
Dear BA,
I am agree with you and would like to add one more name in the list with Army, politicians, gentry and MEDIA. You can see without any verification any research any facts finding just broadcast the video to gain numbers simply unprofessional and creating more problems for Pakistan
Regards,
Khurram
Comment by Khurram — April 6, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
I totally agree with Bahadar Ali. This is the crux of the whole problem that things are taken selectively from Quran. The very base of Taliban philosophy and many other Mullahs, AMAR BIN MAROOF WA NAHYE ANIL MONKAR…but no one ever mentions the full ayah from surah At Tawba which goes like (9:71) And the believers, both men and women, are colleagues (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors)one of another. They enjoin the doing of Right and forbid the doing of Wrong (The distinction between right and wrong will never be arbitrary. The Qur’an is the eternal Criterion of what is right and what is wrong (2:185)). Together, they help establish the Divine System, and set up the Just Economic Order of Zakat (9:60). This is how they obey Allah and His Messenger. These are the men and women on whom Allah will shower His Mercy. Allah is Mighty, Wise.
I will add the most important factor to the list which comes on top of all in the list… MULLAH
Comment by Hilal — April 6, 2009 @ 10:08 pm
i love it.
Comment by izle — April 6, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
Assalam sir,
you have mentioned the 5th aayat of Surah Noor. . .
my doubt is regarding the application of this Verse to the various cases that can possibly be brought to a Sharia Court.
are we to infer, from this Verse, that you commit a sin and then repent and you are forgiven! And no charges are held against you!
For all we know bout human nature, wudn it be only too obvious for a man to repent after commitin a sin in fear of being punished.
in that case, why did God ever set laws regarding punishments? ? ?
when all God needed was a ’sorry’, why did He go bout revealin Verses after Verses dealin wid punishments and its proper ways?
there are many places in the Qur’an (which i am not capable of quoting spontaneously) where such a Verse has been upheld. Granting forgiveness after a sin. . Are we to consider it as a ‘chance’ in the sense that ‘ok, you get a chance, but if you repeat it, you will be punished’?
or are we to consider it as a forgiveness with no punishments what so ever?
assuming either case, would you also apply the same Verse to a situation where the Media is not involved, where a terrorist organization is not involved, where a trial WAS held, where the gal and boy were PROVED guilty in a way that Sharia prescribes, and after all this if the boy and gal REPENT?
assumin your answer to be a ‘yes’, let’s consider that the boy and gal in question were allowed to walk away free, and then, a similar episode repeats (maybe involving the same couple, maybe some other)where again at the end the couple Repents . . What then?
i believe the Qur’an mentions no limit to the ‘forgiveness’ that the Qur’an itself mentions in 24:5 ?
In that case, is there a need for an Islamic trial? Is there a need for Sharia? Is there even a need for the ’supposed’ Khilafa , coz anyways. . . Wats the use . . For a person who fears Allah wudn sin, and one who sins wud be punished in the Afterlife. . .he can do zina and repent to appease the ‘authorities’ to keep his Present Life cool. . . ?
what then would you suggest to an Islamic court (if there be such a thing) to do in a case of PROVED zina, in order to show PROGRESS and GROWTH in Islam?
regards
Almas Shamim
P.S.- this is in context of the application of Verse 24:5 in a zina case in general, not by any means pointin to Chand’s case.
Comment by Almas Shamim — April 6, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
Good post, Ali.
As an infidel I have nothing but contempt for Islam. Look at what it has done to Muslim societies. Look at the hate and violence in the Quran and hadith. Muslims don’t even consider their doctrines… so if the Quran is the “eternal Criterion of what is right and what is wrong” then killing and being killed is what Muslims are suppossed to do. That is verse 9:111. Or did I read it wrong? Pathetic.
Even so, Ali, you are a light shining in the darkness. You at least use your Brain and have some common sense.
Kactuz
Comment by J. kactus — April 15, 2009 @ 10:33 am