This is why our Muslim clerics have such a distorted image, in both the eyes of Muslims and non-Muslims. Instead of wasting your time issuing fatwas against lines in songs, how about doing a jihad against illiteracy. But noo… it’s more fun to waste your time doing this. Funny thing is, our own Religion Forum works in the same mentality - in the sense that, people there nit-pick about the inconsequential details while the larger picture is passing us by.
They will take to the streets in protest of one line in one song that will fade away over time. But will they take to the streets to demand for more schools, better schools, more rights for children working in difficult conditions, pensions for the elderly, better roads? No. None of that is a jihad. One stupid line in one stupid song will drive these particular Clerics to the streets in protest. Great waste of energy.
Clerics condemn Kashmir pop song, BBC
Religious leaders in Indian administered Kashmir have sought a ban on a pop song by two Pakistani singers.
A line in the song, Kachi Pencil (Fragile Pencil), says God has written the fate of man with a fragile pencil. The song has become popular with people across the disputed state, despite the protests by enraged clerics who say God would never do such a thing.
They have threatened to take to the streets in protest at the song, which is sung by Akram Rahi and Naseebo Lal.
The BBC’s Binoo Joshi in Jammu says the song has become all the rage with Kashmiri people for its melody and lyrics. But clerics in Jammu told the BBC it was blasphemous.
“There is no question of Allah [God] writing our fate with a fragile pencil,” said Moulvi Ghulam Rasool, who appealed to those owning the cassette to throw it away.
A similar message was given by other clerics at several mosques across the area.
But our correspondent says that despite the condemnation, the cassette is selling briskly. “I play the cassette in my bus as it is popular with the passengers,” one local bus driver said.
