Bollywood star branded Muslim 'non-believer' after Hindu festival

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Bollywood star branded Muslim ‘non-believer’ after Hindu festival

LUCKNOW, India (AFP) — Bollywood bad boy Salman Khan is in hot water again – this time with some of the country’s Muslim clerics.
Khan, known for playing a tough guy in his films, has been branded a “non-believer” and ordered to reaffirm his faith in Islam after participating in a festival honouring the Hindu elephant god Ganesh in Mumbai on Tuesday.

The order came from scholars at the influential Daarul-Ifta Manzare school in northern Uttar Pradesh state, which claims hundreds of thousands of followers among India’s approximately 140 million Muslims.
“Be it a pauper or a king, everyone has to follow the dictates of Islam – nobody has been given the exemption to bypass the tenants of the religion,” religious scholar Nafeez Khan told AFP by telephone.
The 41-year-old actor must reaffirm his faith before an imam and two witnesses, the cleric said, describing the religious decree as “right and appropriate.”

Khan was released on bail last month pending his appeal against a conviction for killing protected wildlife. He also faces charges of manslaughter after a road accident in 2002 left one person dead and four injured.

Comment:

This is one of the problems of Muslims living as a minority in India, some Muslims will do anything to fit in, but still the Hindu Fanatic parties will demand more. So actions like this attempting to integrate and gain acceptance achieve nothing except compromise ones own belief.

The Islamic scholars are correct when they say that everyone must follow the teachings of Islam regardless of social class and its a good thing that they are speaking out about such issues. It is their silence in the past about societal issues which has led to Muslims only practicing Islam inside the masjid and follwoing non-Islam in the rest of their lives.

Watch the vid below, another Muslim actor talks about Islam

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Actor Salman Khan attending Ganesh puja (TOI Photo)

NEW DELHI: A Muslim organisation has issued a fatwa against Salman Khan for attending a Ganesh puja .

On Tuesday night, the actor was present at the aarti performed by singer Sonu Nigam at the Lalbaugcha Raja mandal, Mumbai’s most iconic sarvajanik Ganesh mandal. His visit was widely publicised on television.

Stating that Islam prohibits idol worship, the Bareilly-based Daarul-Ifta-Manjar-e-Islam has said that unless Salman reads the kalmas all over again, he will not be considered Muslim.

The kalmas are the Islamic credo, constituting a declaration of belief that God is one and Mohammed is his prophet.

Salman, who is out on bail in the Chinkara poaching case, also celebrated Ganesh mahostav with his family in Bandra.

The Khan family brought home a Ganesh idol for one-and-a-half days. Matching steps with step-mom Helen, and with his nephew hoisted over his shoulders, the actor was among the group who danced in the procession en route to immersing the idol.

Salam’s father Salim Khan reacted strongly to the news of the fatwa : "If these are Muslims then I don’t want to be called a Muslim. I want to know how these people are qualified to issue a fatwa against my son. I don’t think people who have issued a fatwa against Salman have anything to do with Islam; they don’t even know their religion well. Don’t they know that the Koran says ’ sab ka khuda ek '?

"My family is a cosmopolitan family with members from practically every religion living under one roof. What has my son done? He has gone for an aarti which is not wrong at all. Such issues don’t even come up for discussion in our house. All I can say is that a fanatic Hindu and a fanatic Muslim only thrive and live on hatred and it is their hatred towards us that they express through such fatwa s.‘’

Zeenat Shaukat Ali, who teaches Islamic studies at St Xavier’s College in Mumbai, dismissed the controversy as a "non-issue’‘. "What Salman did was his personal choice,’’ she said.

"The Koran clearly says two things: you to your religion and me to mine; and secondly, there is no compulsion in religion. Therefore, the fatwa is the Bareilly maulvi’s personal opinion and Muslims are not bound to follow it.‘’

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to be honest its his own choice what he does, i dont think its any1's else's business, i mean his dad's comment says it all really, there's really no point sayin anything to salman khan that will make him think otherwise

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whats the big deal.I have been to dargah,church,masjid. its all same...jahan dekho wahan khuda hain

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Lets leave it up to God to judge. Even people who say "there's nothing wrong with it" have issued a judgement, and quite frankly, you're not qualified to make such a judgement just like some random maulvi is not qualified to dispel Salman Khan from the folds of Islam if he doesn't say the Kalimah again.

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yeah i agree we r no1 to say if its right or worng, god is the best judge of all

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Fact is he bowed before an idol which portrays allah as half animal and half human. so nothing can be a bigger sin than this according to quran. salman khan having a muslim name has to face this fatwa as per strict instructions of quran...where believers and un-believers are clearly defined. mullah who gave this fatwa cannot have any ambiguity as to what salman did. he just acted as per what quran stated.

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yaar who cares....baki di galla chado dil saaf hona chaiyeda

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uh NO.

The Quran does not give any human the right to issue a fatwah against another person for their behavior, nor is there such a thing as excommunicating someone in Islam. That's, what? Catholics. Two doors down.

Apostasy is a different issue. But Salman Khan hasn't come out and said he doesn't believe in Islam, nor is he under Islamic law and jurisprudence. Even then, many people are now arguing that Apostasy rules might not be correct. Irrelevant in this situation at any rate.

The political authority of a random muslim living under a non-muslim government is ... guess what?

zero.

No matter how many turbans he's getting wound up over this.

(You can, as a muslim, give another muslim advice. That's your Quranic duty. Beyond that, you can't tell someone that they are or are not muslim, as you don't decide such things.)

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^^if quran doesn't give any fatwas, then why does it say not to allow idolators to come near the place of worship as idolators are unclean?.... verse 9.28. Here quran is virtually commanding believers to do something. in short it is issueing fatwa.

If it is all about "Leave it to god to judge salman khan or Allah knows best", then why Allah has clearly instructed/commanded like this in this verse??

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^
The fatwa was correct...it just wasn't qualified with enough IF's....IF salman in fact is a Muslim (and really, in that kind of family a name means nothing), and IF he cares for what the dictates of the faith require...then he is honor bound to follow the advice of the fatwa.

There was NO threat implied or implicit in the fatwa...it was a mere statement of fact. There's nothing fanatical about it...if anything, the reaction to the statement was nothing short of rabid. So the Indian media can kindly sod off...and stop pretendling like it was a "personal" attack...

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^^i guess media just stated an event that happened(atleast most of them). it need not be to create any sensation

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You are confusing a Quranic command to an individual with a Quranic command that gives power in the hands of the muslim to ENFORCE another Quranic command.

Secondly, who decides if one is an idolator? If Salman Khan was hanging around this place of worship, and participating just to have fun, with no intent of worship, then that must be disproved before anyone calls him an idolator.

For example, I can stand in front of a statue of Mary at an art exhibit, and observe the artwork, but does that mean I'm an idolator? I have seen David's statue...does that mean I'm worshipping David, instead of respecting him as a prophet? Does that mean I've committed shirk? Just his presence at this event and his actions alone do not label him as an idolator, because you don't know what he was thinking when he was there. He could have just been making a political statement of unity between humans, for all we know, acting as a representative of Islam.

Regardless, there is NO authority that the Quran places in any one of us to randomly start picking on people and telling them to recite the Quran again, or otherwise what? What the heck do you think anyone can do if you don't recite the kalimah again? Excommunicate him from the faith? There is no such concept in Islam.

Do you know how many people go to Makkah and Madina, the holy cities, and enter pretending to be muslims, when they really aren't? All you need really is a muslim name and your'e cleared to go. A friend of mine who is an apostate actually went for Hajj. She's a total atheist - who stopped her?

Meanwhile we pick on this guy because he's a celebrity. You think he's going ot want to practice Islam now?

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Get a life.

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Shah Rukh Khan's video is just sad. He says himself that he gets emotional because he tries to teach his kids something that matters to him, but he doesn't know much about it.

This is what's becoming of our people. We don't educate our people about Islam and welcome them in. Instead we pass fatwas on them, and scare them away.

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Not everyone with an Arabic/Persian/Turkic name is a Muslim.

Most of these actors/actresses couldn't care about religion, Hindu actresses marry Muslim men and vice versa, I don't think they're bothered about the dictates of religion.

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PCG...i even saw a pic of salman holding his hands together and bowing before that idol.

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White can’t be black and black can’t be white…A Mushrik can’t be a Muslim and a Muslim cannot be a Mushrik…

By celebrating, recognizing or honouring multiple gods no matter how sweet, nice, adorable, tolerant, open minded, moderate e.t.c. you wish to display yourself as by doing such is shirk…It lands you outside of Islam…

As a Muslim, there are two entities you can try to please…You can try to please the creations or you can try to please the Creator…And out of these two, who does a Muslim make happy when it comes between these two? The Creator of course…

The Holy Prophet :saw: and his Sahaba :razi2: made pleasing Allah :swt: the foremost act of their lives…And they were hated for it…People hurt them, tried to hurt them, cursed them and tried to kill them…But nothing swayed them from acknowledging any god besides Allah :swt:…And that is a Muslim…

Once when the Muslims were under great oppression, the Kuffar of Makkah offered a solution…They told the Holy Prophet :saw: that we will let you use the Kaaba for your religious rites and we’ll join you as well if only you’ll partake in our religious rites…

Although the Muslims faced denial of use of the Kaaba and further oppression because they were so few in numbers, the Holy Prophet :saw: refused…Even as they faced annihilation…

But how can today’s mods refuse a PR opp? Even at the risk of becoming a Mushrik…

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If a person who professes to be a Muslim and doesn’t even know the basic of Islam (which FYI is Tawheed which FYI again means Oneness of Allah) and doesn’t make the slightest effort to learn about it is better left outside of Islam…He gives a distorted picture of the religion of the Holy Prophet :saw:…

Islam is not about placing the Quran besides idols of false gods, the one thing which Quran was sent to destroy…

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But it gives every self respecting Muslim with the slightest knowledge of Islam to openly distance himself and renounce an act which distorts the image of his religion...

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