THE KUFR AND IRTIDAAD OF ‘MARRYING’ SAME SEX COUPLES

On this lurid act of fisq, fujoor and irtidaad, many Muslims have written to us querying the status of Muslim marriage officers who will now be compelled by the law to  perform the ‘marriages’ of same sex couples. What will be the Shar’i status of such Muslim marriage officers?

The media reports on this shaitaani abomination:

“After a long debate and a number of grievances caused by marriage officers refusing to officiate same sex couples, legislature has finally changed and a new bill has been passed which means officials now have no choice but to officiate same sex marriages.”

Q. In our Musjid, a short bayaan / kitaab-reading takes place immediately after Fardh Salaat. The musallis are pressurized to sit until the end of the  talk. Will it be permissible to get up and  perform the Sunnat Salaat while the talk continues?

A. The Sunnat Salaat of all the Salaats, has to be compulsorily performed immediately after the Fardh Salaat. It is not permissible to delay the Sunnats until after the bayaan. The bayaan is man-made while the Sunnat Salaat is the command of Allah Ta’ala.

WOMEN VISITING GRAVEYARDS

QUESTION

Is it permissible for women to visit the graveyard? A Mufti from the U.K. says that it is permissible? A South African mufti says that there is ‘scope’ for women to ‘occasionally’ visit graveyards. This mufti lists three conditions for the permissibility:

• Hijab should be adhered to
• There should be few or no people in the graveyard
• No Shar’ee laws such as intermingling, should be violated.

We have always understood that just as it is not permissible for women to visit Musjids, so too it is not permissible for them to visit graveyards. Please comment.

ANSWER

The ‘muftis’ of this age are not muftis. They are cranks and quacks. They lack in Aql. They lack expertise in issuing fatwa, yet they proudly proclaim themselves to be attached to some Darul Ifta. They fail to understand when and how to apply the principles, and they dig out texts from the kutub to foster and even solidify existing fitnah and fasaad.  Due to their liberalism, inclination to westernism, and lack of suhbat of the Saaliheen, they are what the Fuqaha term, maajin ‘muftis’, i.e. buffoon, moron.