June 25, 2009 |
LUCKNOW: The Islamic seminary of Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband is contemplating a fatwa against buying goods made in France to protest the anti-burqa comments of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Mufti Maulana Arshad Faruqui of Dar-ul-Ufba, the fatwa department of the seminary, said it would also call for a boycott of Sarkozy. "If necessary, an edict may be issued to all followers ordering them to shun French merchandise," Maulana Faruqui said. He said the comment was "one of the most shameful chapters of the mankind".
January 7, 2009 |
NEW DELHI: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has come out in defence of the latest fatwa issued by Darul Uloom Deoband, the controversial seat of Islamic learning, which says that talaq sought out of anger is valid and legitimate "It's absolutely in order and in keeping with the well-established principles of the Shariat (Islamic law)," AIMPLB member Kamal Farooqui said here on Tuesday. "People should not see marriage, which is a sacrosanct relationship, so lightly.
December 16, 2008 |
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's permanent representative to the UN Abdullah Haroon's claim that Deobandis have a strong influence in the country's "jihadistan " of north-west and FATA provinces evoked sharp denials from Darul Uloom that it had any sway in the Talibancontrolled areas. After Haroon said Deoband should more specifically direct its "fatwa" against terrorism to Pakistan's north-west and tribal agencies, the seminary swiftly issued a statement that "controlling jihadis in their (Pakistan)
November 12, 2008
I welcome the Hyderabad Declaration against terrorism backed by 6,000 Ulemas (and to be backed by 50,000 more of them). This has reinforced the fatwa earlier issued by the clerics of Darul Uloom, Deoband. Terrorism has no religion. We must eschew double standards and prejudices while probing acts of terror. Hansraj Bhat Mumbai, November 10
October 29, 2008 |
KUALA LUMPUR: Yoga may soon be outlawed in Malaysia, if a prominent body of clerics which is planning to issue a fatwa on the practice, has its way. Malaysia's National Fatwa Council is going to impose Fatwa on Yoga after Zakaria Stapa, a lecturer of University of Kebangsaan's Islamic Studies Centre, yesterday advised Muslims who have taken up Yoga to stop practising it fearing that it could deviate their belief, local news reports...
July 2, 2008 |
MUZAFFARNAGAR: An Islamic organisation here has issued a fatwa saying that conversion of a woman to Islam for the purpose of getting married with someone in the faith is illegal and against the Shariat law. The fatwa was issued in response to a question posed before the Darululoom Deoband asking whether the conversion of a non-Muslim woman for getting married into Islam was justified. The Deputy-in-charge of the organisation's fatwa department organisation, Mufti Ahsan Kasmi said conversion to Islam must be in good faith and not for getting something.
June 1, 2008 |
NEW DELHI: For the first time ever, Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom Deoband issued a fatwa against terrorism on Saturday, stating Islam had come to wipe out all kinds of terrorism and to spread the message of global peace. The Darul-Uloom had denounced terrorism for the first time in February, but had not issued a fatwa so far. Saturday's fatwa, signed by Darul-Uloom's grand mufti Habibur Rehman, asserts that "Islam rejects all kinds of unjust violence, breach of peace, bloodshed, murder and plunder and does not allow it in any form".
May 31, 2008 |
NEW DELHI: In a landmark move, leading Islamic Seminary Darul Uloom today issued a fatwa denouncing terrorism and declaring it as "most inhuman crime". "In its (Islam) eyes, on any part over the surface of the earth spreading mischief, rioting, breach of peace, bloodshed, killing of innocent persons and plundering are the most inhuman crimes," read the fatwa, issued here at an Anti-Terrorism Conference, which was endorsed by several organisations of all religions.
May 10, 2008 |
LONDON: Noted writer Salman Rushdie has revealed that he emerged a better person after living in fear under a fatwa for almost a decade. Rushdie went into hiding in 1989 after the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued him with a death threat following the publication of his book, The Satanic Verses. He returned to public life only 10 years later when Tehran withdrew its support for the death sentence. However, in a programme, which will be broadcast on Monday on More4 channel, Rushdie claims that his time in seclusion made him more self-aware.
April 27, 2008 |
LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: "Muslims must refrain from cow slaughter, beef eating or trading in cow hide," Islamic seminary Darul-Uloom, Deoband, issued an edict on Friday. "Meat eaters can opt for buffaloes, goats, chicken and fish. Shariat doesn't allow beef-eating if it's prohibited under law," Deoband's fatwa department head Mufti Habibur Rehman said. Rehman, fatwa department's head for more than two decades, issued the fatwa in response to a query by a Muzaffarnagar resident, Haji Mohammad Israr.