The other day, purely by chance, BEIRUTSTATEofMIND happened upon this rather bizzare fatwa on the website IslamQA.com, the brainchild of Saudi Wahabi Sheikh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid. Set up in 1996, IslamQA.com has consequently been translated into 11 languages: English, French, Russian, Hindi, Spanish, Urdu, Indonesian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, and Uyghur.
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| Wahabi TV Sheikh Muhammad al-Munajjid: Imam of the Umar Ibn Abd al Aziz Mosque in the Southern Saudi City of al-Khobar and a regular on "Iqra TV." |
Sheikh Munajjid, a regular on Saudi channel "Iqra TV" who professes to have recorded over 4,500 hours of recorded TV programs and tapes on a variety of subjects regarding Islamic ethics, is never one to shirk his responsibility to express an opinion.
On the causes of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake has notably commented:
"The problem is that the (Christian) holidays are accompanied by forbidden things, by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken dancing, and revelry.
"A belly dancer costs 2500 pounds per minute and a singer costs 50,000 pounds per hour, and they hop from one hotel to another from night to dawn...Haven't they learned the lesson from what Allah wreaked upon the coast of Asia, during the celebration of these things forbidden? At the height of immorality, Allah took vengeance on these criminals."
Elsewhere in January 2011 a video appeared on the internet in which Munajjid sanctioned the hacking of Jewish websites as an exception to the rule regarding general prohibitions against such web-based sabotage:
"This is a special case that requires a special answer. The people whose property and websites are protected do not include criminal aggressors.
"These Jews are bombing from land, air, and sea, perpetrating a genocide against our brothers, killing women and children, and destroying homes and mosques with people inside... There is no doubt that they are criminals, corrupters, attackers, and saboteurs. Their websites are targeted in the context of the war against them."
In the particular fatwa linked below Sheikh Munajjid switches it up a bit, providing some advice to a worried mother to be expressing concern that giving her child a particular name may be both un-Islamic and lead to the child being bullied:
Fatwa No. 172347
Ruling on Calling the Baby Azaan
My mother in law suggested name Azaan' for my son but I'm confused as to whether I should agree to it or not. My concern is that when the baby does poo, or he pees, there will be many stances when I will have to use the name Azaan with pooh or pee while talking for others for example: Azaan did poo or Azaan peed. I'm also concerned about nick-names that one uses out of love by changing the original name for example, Azzoo or Azzi etc...
To read the rest of the enquiry and Sheikh Munajjid's thought-provoking response, hit the link, HERE.
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