After the flogging

Learn new meanings of "living in the moment" from Taliban. Extract from the article:

When asked whether the actions of Swat’s school-blasting warlord Fazlullah were un-Islamic (haram), Sufi said, “the debate on past happenings is disallowed in Islam; a hadith sharif says what has happened in the past should not be discussed”.

Citing another hadith, he further explained that “a Muslim should not discuss past happenings because he may not remember all the (details) and therefore, he may...sin by not speaking the truth.”


Surosh Irfani has rightly observed:

Small wonder then that the leaders of Wahhabi-Salafi movements such as Al Qaeda, LeT and Jama’at-ud Dawa are not trained jurists but “engineers or medical doctors”. Such self-proclaimed jurists have reduced Islam to a combustible mix of intolerance, hatred and isolationist arrogance, exploding across the world, but most notably among Muslims themselves.

However, I slightly beg to differ here. Islamists are mostly led by "engineers and doctors" rather than the "trained jurists" is primarily because the latter somehow lack the knack of managing people, resources and weapons which the former seem more adept at. It's not that the former are missing some information that only "trained jurists" are aware of.