|
Follow the Middle East Forum
|
|
Related Articles
Better Late
than Never? Qatar Retracts Fatwa Permitting Burning People
|
|
Share:
|
Be the first of your
friends to like this.
Originally published under the title, "Qatar Published
Fatwa In 2006 Permitting Burning People — Removes It After IS Burns
Pilot."
It appears that Islam
Web, a popular website owned by Qatar's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic
Affairs, may have been responsible for the rationale used by the Islamic
State to burn alive a Jordanian pilot captive.
On February 7, 2006, the widely accessed Arabic website issued Fatwa
No. 71480, titled "The Burning of Ias bin Abdul Yalil by Abu
Bakr." The fatwa, or Islamic decree, concluded that burning people as
a form of punishment is permissible.
Ironically, hours after the Islamic State burned the pilot alive, Fatwa
No. 71480 was removed from Islam Web.
What is interesting to note is that the more recent fatwa issued by the Islamic State to justify
the burning of the pilot makes the very same arguments as this 2006
Islam Web fatwa did — citing the same sources, hadiths, tafsirs, even the
logic of "humility" — implying that IS may well have relied on
this fatwa from the Qatari website when writing its own to burn the pilot
alive — hence, why the fatwa has now "mysteriously" disappeared
from Islam Web.
Incidentally, Islam Web won the World Summit Award of 2007, on the basis
that it is "the best
interactive edutainment website for Arabic-speaking children by the
consensus of the Jury which met in Croatia, in evaluating the productions
nominated from 160 countries."
Thanks to Rachid,
a translation of the fatwa and image of the original Arabic before it was
removed from Islam Web follow.
The Burning of Ias bin Abdul Yalil by Abu Bakr
Fatwa No. 71480
Tuesday 2- 7- 2006
[Question]: How do we reconcile between the prohibition of burning
[enemies] by fire made by the Prophet, peace be upon him, and the burning
of Ias Abdul Yalil by Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, during the
war of apostasy ?
[Answer]: Praise be to Allah and peace and blessings be upon the
Messenger of God and his family and companions. Now:
The fact that the prophet – peace be upon him – forbade burning by fire
is documented and stated in his holy hadith – peace and blessings be upon
him – where he said: "No one punishes with fire except the Lord of
fire," Narrated by Abu Dawood and Ahmad in his Musnad .
The scholars differ as to whether this prohibition is for interdiction
or just for humility; Ibn Hajar said in [his book] Fath Albari: "..Al
Muhallab said: This prohibition is not for interdiction but just for
humility, and the proof that burning is allowed is in the acts of the
prophet's companions, the prophet – peace be upon him – burned the eyes of
the Oranyeen [from Orayna] with heated iron [nails]. And Abu Bakr burned
the aggressors in the presence of the companions, Khalid Bin Alwalid
[Muslim Army commander] burned some apostates, and most of the scholars of
Medina [the prophet's city] permit burning castles and ships, upon its
people, this was stated by Althawri and Al-Awzaai. Ibn Mounir and others
said: there is not a proof for permission, because the Oranyeen story was
revenge, and the case of castles and ships is allowed with the necessity as
a condition, if it was a way to achieve victory upon the enemy.
As for the story of Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) burning Ias
Abdul Yalil with fire is documented in the books of history. In the book
(Alkamel): "Ias Abdul Yalil came to Abu Bakr and said to him: help me
fight the apostates by giving me arms. He gave him arms and ordered him to
follow orders; he came to Muslims and even went down to Aljoa, and sent
Nokhba bin Abi Almithae of Bani Sharid and appointed him an Emir on Muslims,
then he raided every Muslim in the tribe of Salim, Amer, and Hawazen. Abu
Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) heard about that then he sent somebody
to arrest him [Ias] and bring him back. Abu Bakr ordered a fire to be set
in the prayer court then he threw him [Ias] in it with his hands tied.
If scholars have different opinions on the prohibition of burning by
fire, as we have said, those who objected to burning allowed it in some
exceptional cases, but there is no doubt that what Ias Abdul Yalil did was
worth burning him [alive]. May Allah reward the Caliph of the Messenger of
Allah – peace be upon him – for his zeal for Islam.
And Allah knows.
Snapshot of original fatwa before being removed from Islam Web:
Raymond
Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center, a Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum and
a CBN News contributor. He is the author of Crucified
Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (2013) and The
Al Qaeda Reader (2007).
|
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment