Eid Milad Un Nabi is one example… There are various issues in religion… you are Ahl e Hadith… you are Brelvi… you are Deobandi… you are Shia… you are Agha Khani… What kind of culture are we promoting… Everyone is throwing fatwa to each other…
Yeh arab hazrat monh par choma chanti kion kartay hian… iss par bhi fatwa hona chiahye… yeh piyar ham jinson wala fatwa authorities ko nazar nahi aata..
The Fatwa: Malaysian National Fatwa Council: Tomboy fatwa
A University of Massachusetts study recently reported that girls who play sports have higher self esteem, and are less likely to enter (or remain in) abusive relationships. Could this fact have threatened the he-men at the Malaysia National Fatwa Council? Maybe. Perhaps that’s why Kuala Lumpur had a near riot on their hands when the Sisters in Islam marched against a Malaysian fatwa banning tomboys, which branded any girls who act un-ladylike as violating Islamic tenets. Fortunately, the as-yet undefined punishment for Malaysian girls in t-shirts and jeans hasn’t been incorporated into Sharia law yet.
One more point the term 'Fatwa' also got only negative vibes due to attitude of people who indulge in proving their superiority against others. Fatwa doesn't mean that its limited to labeling someone 'kafir', 'mushrik' and 'bidati'. Fatwa was for providing solution to a person in religious matter, when a peculiar condition is faced by that person. It was sort of Ijtehad, but now Muftis are mostly upto controversial issues or probably people are provided access to only Fatwas which revolve around sectarian hatred.
Even Aurangzeb Aalmgir (who is otherwise considered bigot) got compiled a huge volume of Fatwas in 'Fatawa Aalamgiri', but those who start calling everything biddat and every second person Mushrik, don't know that such huge volumes don't contain Fatwas only about labeling someone 'Kafir', etc.
According to Muslim Internet Forum Multaqa Ahl al Hadeeth, “Emoticons are forbidden because of its imitation to Allah’s creatures whether it is original or mixture or even deformed one and since the picture is the face and the face is what makes the real picture then emoticons which represent faces that express emotions then all that add up to make them Haram.” Additionally, “A woman should not use these images when speaking to a man who is not her mahram, because these faces are used to express how she is feeling, so it is as if she is smiling, laughing, acting shy and so on, and a woman should not do that with a non-mahram man. It is only permissible for a woman to speak to men in cases of necessity, so long as that is in a public chat room and not in private correspondence.”
The Fatwa: Football fatwa
No, not even the beautiful game is safe from stupid fatwas. As part of a government drive to eliminate frivolous fatwas, the Saudi newspaper Al Watan lampooned one very real edict setting out new rules for football. Ridiculous demands included “do not play with 11 people like the heretics, Jews, and Christians”, and “play in your pyjamas or regular clothes (because) colored shorts and numbered T-shirts are not Muslim clothing”. Especially ridiculous is the edict to “remove the crossbar in order not to imitate the heretics and in order to be entirely distinct from the soccer system’s despotic international rules.”
The Fatwa: Infidel Vaccine
Polio is actually increasing in India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Why? Because an anti-polio fatwa by anti-Western clerics forbid Pakistani children from immunizations, because the clerics are saying the vaccine is a conspiracy to make Muslims sterile. Ironically, it’s the clerics’ plans that would produce this result, as dead/paralytic kids don’t breed all that much.
ab miyan biwi hi nahi dekhain aik dosray ko phir kon dekhay ga…
The Fatwa: Rashad Hassan Khalil: No Nudity for Sex
In 2007, the former dean of Islamic law at al-Azhar University in Cairo issued a fatwa that** nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage between husband and wife**. Debate was immediate. Suad Saleh, head of the women’s department of Al-Azhar’s Islamic studies, pleaded for “anything that can bring spouses closer to each other” and Islamic scholar Abdel Muti concurred, saying “Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy.”
For his part, Al-Azhar’s fatwa committee chairman Abdullah Megawar backpedaled and said that married couples could see each other naked but should really cover up with a blanket during sex.