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Malaysian Court: Turbans Are Not Islamic
Why did this go through the courts for 9 years?Federal Court: Islam not about turban and beard PUTRAJAYA: Islam is not about turban and beard, said the Federal Court in dismissing the appeal of three pupils who were expelled from school for refusing to take off their "serban" nine years ago. The three-member panel (Court of Appeal President Tan Sri Abdul Malek Ahmad, Justice Datuk Abdul Hamid Mohamed and Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Tan Sri Steve Shim) was unanimous in their decision that not everything that the Prophet Muhammad did or the way he did it is legally or religiously binding on Muslims, or even preferable and should be followed.
Abdul Hamid, in his written judgment, said the practice of wearing a turban was of little significance from Islam's point of view, what more in relation to under-age boys. "As far as I can ascertain, the Al Quran makes no mention about the wearing of turban. "I accept that the Prophet wore a turban. But he also rode a camel, built his house and mosque with clay walls and roof of leaves of date palms and brushed his teeth with the twig of a plant. "Does that make riding a camel a more pious deed than travelling in an aeroplane? Is it preferable to build houses and mosques using the same materials used by the Prophet and the same architecture adopted by himduring his time?"asked Abdul Hamid in the judgment which was delivered by Federal Court deputy registrar. "The question is whether the wearing of turban by boys of the age of the appellants is a practice of the religion of Islam. Islam is not about turban and beard. The pagan Arabs, including Abu Jahl, wore turbans and kept beards. It was quite natural for the Prophet, born into the community and grew up in it, to do the same"... Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-12 |
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