Sabeen Mahmud shot some images which Express Tribune posted on their website. In the photograph two or three people were seen who were standing in front of Hadees posters which were against Valentine’s Day. These people were also holding posters which were insulting these Hadees posters.
Hundrerds of people protested against these images of Express Turbine and also against Sabeen Mahmud. Many on Facebook report their pages and now Sabeen Mahmud Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/neebas) and Twitter Pages (http://www.twitter.com/sabeen) does not exist.
After the whole controversy and a big protest on social media Express Tribune on its official Facebook page updates the following status:
Dear readers,
All of us at The Express Tribune would like to apologize unreservedly for causing any hurt or offense to our readers over a slideshow that was published covering a local event. With your feedback we took action and rectified the error by removing the images. Appropriate action has also been taken to ensure that something like this does not happen again.
Thank you for being a part of our community and helping us grow.
Friends
I am a muslim, and I did not think that the photographs hurt Islam, or me in any way. In fact my conception of Islam is such that no one can make a dent in it no matter what they do. because i know what it is, so can it be hurt.
Now will describe the missing part that has been deleted above. In one Sultan rahee, the famous actor in Pakistani punjabi films has been colored like in a cartoon, and in the bubble message, he is saying : “Pyaar Honay Dey”, or Let Love Be. In the the other one the banner says: Faasla na rakhein, which is the opposite of what is written on mini buses : fasla rakhein. Once again this is a play on words of the mini buses, and an expression of love.
One has to look at what is behind these. This is neither unislamic nor unhuman. It is both human and islamic. Islam teaches love of humanity, love of creation, respect for life, to be kind to others, and to show good manners. If you can manage this whats the problem. No Valentine day or anythung can hurt Islam or your conception ‘idea’ of it.
Then why all the noise and hungama? Its because some mullah minded people are waving ayats in your face, on streets, like advertisements (if anything that is insulting to islam & Quran), in order to control your life and in the process, increase their own importance, when they are only meddling in other normal people’s affairs. They have never heard of mulla Nasrudin, and have no sense of humour, because they are after power.
Friends beware of such people. Protect your independence. Resist control by others at all cost – especially those who use religion to gain power.
Thanks.
Dear all,
My only concern here was that these are real authentic ahadith, from the sihhah sitta or the Authentic six as we call them. Since a hadith is next to the word of God (essentially it is the word of God in the sense that it is Allah’s command but communicated through the Prophet) it is EXTREMELY sacred. we can make fun of the whole world, but not this. It was best to not get our hands dirty in this one. Best is to keep our jokes for people who actually deserve them 🙂
Yeah except the hadith’s have no relevance or application to Valentine’s Day. You can’t use any Quranic ayah or a hadith in existence to say that Valentine’s day is haraam. Doesn’t make any logical sense.
One hadith essentially talks about STD’s. What does that have to do with a man giving his wife flowers on Valentine’s Day??
Yeah, go ahead my fellow muslims, shoot me for telling the truth.