Re: Calling a spade a spade
^ well said bhai…
Well i can think of only one occasion when the Phrophet of Islam broke with strandard custom and stood over the mass grave of the seventy kuffar of Makkah at Badr and personally spoke to each dead man by name and recounted thier evils and anounced they would suffer for thier evil doing.
However that was the only occasion, subsequent Muslim leaders including Hazrat Ali left clear instructions to respect the enemy even when dead… Hazrat Allah may Allah bless him was a real Hero who decreed that nobody should mutilate a defeated enemy as was the custom up to that point yet tragedy is that a generation later Shabeer would suffer mutilation at Karbala…
But we are Muslim and we should respect the dead becuase such was the word of our lord hazrat Ali sher e khuda.
As for Salmaan Taseer he was no martyr and deserves no special ceremony governor or peasant in Islam no one is buried with the trappings of pre Islamic times when kuffar would bury thier leader with his fammily and treasure.
Mr Taseer should rest in a common grave and be thankfull for it, there are sons of the same motherland who’s broken bodies lie scattered as bones in the hills he should be glad to get any burial at all.