Cleric Glorifies Dog If there is a serious debate going on among clerics of different shades of opinion as also the politicians in Pakistan, about the status of a dog killed by American weapon. Syed Munawar Hassan who is Aameer of Jammat Islami founded by an enlightened scholar Maulana Maudidi and led by himself for a pretty long time is now being steered by Munawar Hassan who is well known for his outbursts compared to serene and scholarly contributions by the founder has recently stated that he will glorify a dog as martyr if it is killed by an American weapon. He was quickly followed by Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman so that he may not be confirmed as a spy of Pakistan administration against Taliban and said that he too maintains that a dog is a martyr if it is killed by America. There is a strong reaction to these outbursts one person made a direct question to Munawar Hassan asking him to prove his attributes to dog from Islamic authority the reply was ‘open the Holy Quran and you will find the reply.’ In the Holy Quran dog is mentioned in three verses. 1) Verse No. 176 of Chapter 7 its translation is reproduced from Pickthall’s The Glorious Quran ‘and had We willed We could have raised him by their means, but he clung to the earth and followed his own lust. Therefor his likeness is as the likeness of a dog: if thou attackest him he panteth with his tongue out, and if thou leavest him he panteth with his tongue out. Such is the likeness of the people who deny our revelations. Narrate unto them the history (of the men of old), that haply they may take thought.’ In this verse dog as a specie is despised and according to certain commentators the person mentioned here in was a Jewish scholar Baalam Bin Baoor, who was a biblical scholar of a high order and for his misdeed fell from grace. So according to analogy a scholar felling from grace is like a dog. Let the two clerics and their fans look into the Holy Quran for the test of their provocative outburst. 2) The dog is mentioned in company of people of the cave. The translation of two verses 18 and 22 from Chapter 18 (The Cave) are reproduced here 18- ‘And thou wouldst have deemed them waking though they were asleep, and We caused them to turn over to the right and the left, and their dog stretching out his paws on the threshold. If thou hadst observed them closely thou hadst assuredly turned away from them in flight, and hadst been filled with awe of them.’ 22- ‘(Some) will say: They were three, their dog the fourth, and (some) say: Five, their dog the sixth, guessing at random; and (some) say: Seven, and their dog the eighth. Say (O Muhammad): My Lord is Best Aware of their number. None knoweth them save a few. So contend not concerning them except with an outward contending, and ask not any of them to pronounce concerning them. In these verses dog as an individual is neither in the camp of any warlord nor it is killed by any ungodly force, but for these two occasions dog is not mentioned in any part of the Holy Quran. Otherwise in Islamic jurisprudence dog is despised as an impious animal and if it licks any pot full of any liquid or bites a solid material it becomes haram. It is now for the two clerics to corroborate their views from the Holy Quran, The Sunnah of the Holy Prophet and the views of acknowledged jurists of various Muslim schools and denominations.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 14:52:44 +0000
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