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India-Pakistan
Review of the Urdu press
2006-03-31
Writing in monthly Naya Zamana (January 2006) Dr Parwez Parwazi narrated that Justice Muhammad Munir in his memoir talked about a spiritual leader staying next to his rest house in Murree whose disciples used stones to dry their genitals after urination. The process was called watwani. The custom was to take a stone and keeping rubbing it on the genitals while walking around. When Justice Munir protested to the pir he replied that his disciples were observing a sunnat.

Despite pious observance, the practice of watwani has declined in our times. One sees fewer and fewer men walking around with their hands obscenely thrust into the shalwar. Yet if you read the big book of Dawat-e-Islami (green turbans) the ritual of watwani is alive and well as a tradition. Some of the instructions, especially to women, are unprintable. But can anyone legally stop a man from doing this in public? How will the Federal Shariat Court rule?
Posted by:john

#2  That sounds more like a local Pakistani (Pushtun?) custom to me. The kind of thing that can be done because the women are all locked up in Purdah. Can you imagine the outcry in a Beduin camp if one of the womenfolk came across such carryings on while out fetching a bucket of water from the well?
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-31 22:12  

#1  The process was called watwani
he replied that his disciples were observing a sunnat.


Isn't sunnat the deeds of the profit?
So old profit Mo' used to rub his penis with a stone for hours on end?



Posted by: john   2006-03-31 18:20  

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