Saudi police
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “For every day on which the sun rises, there is a (reward) for the one who establishes justice among people.” — Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Hadith 870
We explain the signs in detail for those who reflect. — Quran 10:24
Saudi Arabia has denounced pro-democracy protests as ‘un-Islamic’. This follows the sending in of tanks into Bahrain to quash peaceful pro-democracy protests.
Saudi Arabia’s top clerics have condemned calls for protests as un-Islamic. The Council of Senior Scholars said that “reform and advice do not take place by protests or methods that lead to sedition.” The Council of Senior Scholars was formed by a royal decree in 1971 to issue religious rulings. In other words a mouthpiece of the corrupt House of Saud.
At the request of Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh who heads the clerics council, Saudi Arabia is now printing and distributing 1.5 million copies of the fatwa condeming protests as ‘un-Islamic’.
The Quran places an obligation on learning, on justice, it grants women rights.
In Reconcilliation, Benazir Bhutto argues a very strong case that Islam and Democracy are not incompatable.
Islam and democracy is not an oxymoron. Democracy, human rights, women’s rights, learning, knowledge, is not something alien imposed on the Musim world by the West, these are values that lie at the heart of the Quran.
The Quran says that Islamic society is contigent on ‘mutual advice through mutual discussion on an equal footing.’
An Islamic society, one based on the Quran, is a society that upholds the principles of shura consultation, ijma building or reaching consensus, finally leading to ijtihad independent judgement.
We see none of this in Saudi Arabia where women are treated as second class citizens, where the corrupt House of Saud rules the country.
There are those clerics who claim to speak for Islam, who denigrate democracy, who deny women rights, who deny women an education, who rail against science and learning, who endorse atrocities against other religious communities. Such clerics are a pervision of Islam.
The edict issued in Saudi Arabia is un-Islamic, it serves simply to keep the corrupt House of Saud in power.
Sheikh Gamal Qotb, former head of the Al-Azhar fatwa committee, has criticised the fatwa, saying peaceful protests help promote virtue and prevent evil. Sheikh Gamal Qotb has called the Saudi edict a big mistake, saying protesters warn officials of their mistakes before those mistakes grow larger. He said Muslim governments should allocate channels for citizens to express their opinions and give feedback to officials.
Al-Azhar is the highest religious institution in the Sunni Muslim world.
Pro-democracy forces are spreading in the Middle East. The sooner the corrupt House of Saud and the royal family in neighbouring Bahrain are toppled the better. The sooner the West kicks its addition to Midlde East oil the better.
The dicatators have fallen in Egypt and Tunisia. They are on their way out in Yemen and Libya. Next, the corrupt House of Saud, the Royal family in Bahrain?
Shura: A process of reaching a descision ie consensus involvolving all members of the community.
The 42nd Sura of Quran is named as Shura. The 38th verse of that Sura suggests that shura is praiseworthy but does not indicate whether or not it is mandatory, or who should be consulted:
Those who hearken to their Lord, and establish regular Prayer; who (conduct) their affairs by mutual consultation; who spend out of what We bestow on them for Sustenance” [are praised]
The 159th verse of 3rd Sura orders Muhammad to consult with believers. The verse makes a direct reference to those (Muslims) who disobeyed Muhammad, indicating that ordinary, fallible Muslims should be consulted:
Thus it is due to mercy from God that you deal with them gently, and had you been rough, hard hearted, they would certainly have dispersed from around you; pardon them therefore and ask pardon from them, and take counsel with them in the affair; so when you have decided, then place your trust in God; surely God loves those who trust.
Ijmā: the reaching of consensus. The hadith of Muhammad which states that “My community will never agree upon an error”.
Ijtihad: The process of reacing a judicial desicion based upon the evidence, not on tradition or doctrine.
– Saudis print fatwa against protests
– Saudi prints 1.5 million copies of anti-demo edict
– Al-Azhar scholar criticizes Saudi edict banning protests
– Saudi insists protests not Islamic, Facebook group calls for demos
– Saudi Arabia’s senior clerics denounce protests as un-Islamic
– Saudi Arabia imposes ban on ‘un-Islamic’ protests
– Saudi Arabia imposes ban on ‘Un-Islamic’ protests
– The Saudi women taking small steps for change
– Women and Islam
– Reconciliation
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