I saw a short news documentary today about Pakistan’s deformed children who are called chewies. This is the blurb written about it…in case those of you are not really sure about what I’m talking about.
http://cbc.ca/programs/sites/foreign.html
Apr 02, 2000
On this week’s edition of Foreign Assignment, we’ll begin in Pakistan, with a disturbing look at handicapped children sold into slavery. The so-called “Rat Children” are born with abnormally small heads. There are an estimated 10 thousand microcephalics in Pakistan; no one is sure why the numbers are so high. But in that country, the handicap is both a a curse and a blessing. Many believe the deformity marks the children as messengers from God who, if given money, can bestow favours from above. Most fall into the clutches of slave-masters who use them to beg on the streets. We’ll have a feature report.
At the end of the report, in the commentary the reporter said that the cause of the deformities may be a potion that the woman drink at the shrine after they go there to i guess pray for a kid and the the gov’t hasn’t tested this drink.
what do you guys think about these microsophalic children, the shrine where this story came from and is this allowed in Islam? ( i mean the idea of having a shrine to go to to pray for children, then dropping off your first born, cuz if you don’t all your other kids will be microsophalic children as well) I gues this is a social and religious topic so if i put it in the wrong forum sorry, just wondering what you guys think about that. thanx!
I am not sure about your faith, and your question that whether it is allowed in Islaam or notmakes me think that you may not be a Muslim. However, I may be wrong, please be advised that no disrespect is intended.
First and foremost CHILD ABUSE is strictly prohibited in Islam. The only religion which gives women rights and children rights on the face of earth is Islaam.
The story has media and westren bias and streotype against Islaam and Pakistan. Having said that I’ll only address your questions.
Your quoted: “At the end of the report, in the commentary the reporter said that the cause of the deformities may be a potion that the woman drink at the shrine after they go there to i guess pray for a kid and the the gov’t hasn’t tested this drink.”
My response is that this may not be the case, since it is NOT proven. I wonder that why reporter or news agency never bothered to have the water tested? hummmmm
In that particular kind of children there is something historically and spiritually involved. During the course of history Prophets of God and many pious and righteous individuals were given or blessed with certain mircles or powers. It is said and believed that Dulla Shah (ra)[whom these children are referred to] was one of them. There is no disagreement about it. How those children are raised is a question of poverty and ignorace.
In Islaam grave worshipping is not allowed. It is undesireable. So those who have crossed the line out of ignorace having no proper religious education are simply ignorants and need education about Islaam’s dos and don’ts.
As I said that Islaam is the only religion on face of earth who has protected, defined, and described children rights and issue. Below are the verses of Noble Quran that talks about children. Please check them out if you have a Noble Quran at home or from any library or click on the link below.
Children, 16:72, 17:64, 18:46, 19:77, 26:133, 34:35, 34:37, 40:67, 46:15, 57:20, 58:17, 63:9, 64:14, 64:15, 65:7, 68:14, 71:12, 71:22, 74:13, 80:36
adopted ones should be named after their fathers, 33:5
baby daughters wrongly thought an evil sign, 16:58-59, 43:18, 53:21-22
breast feed for two years, 2:233, 31:34
do not kill for fear of poverty, 6:151, 17:31
female offspring buried alive will ask for what crime she’d been slain, 81:8-9
gift of female offspring, 42:49
gift of male offspring, 42:49
helpless, 4:127
ignorant at time of birth, 16:78
in Heaven, 40:8, 52:24, 56:17
of Adam, 36:60
of Israel, 2:40, 2:47, 2:72, 3:180, 5:12, 5:70, 5:78, 7:105, 10:90, 17:2, 17:4, 17:101, 17:104, 20:47, 20:80, 20:94, 26:17, 26:22, 26:59, 26:197, 27:76, 32:23, 40:53, 43:59, 44:30, 45:16, 46:10, 61:6, 61:14
commandment concerning killing by, 5:32
pre-Islamic customs of slaying children, 6:137, 6:140
wet nurses, 2:233 http://www.unn.ac.uk/societies/islamic/quran/naeindex.htm
If you have any question please feel free to ask?
Regards
Bubble Buster “You mess with the BEST
You LOSE like the REST!”
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