Mufti Rule
A political leader while addressing a gathering said that Gandhian way of life was the best path and everybody should follow it. This exhortation was meted with a fiat(fatwa) from a Mufti who opined that anybody asking Muslims to follow a path other than the one shown by the Holy Prophet is violating the basic tenets of Islam. I couldn't believe the gross stupidity displayed by the mufti who is the guardian of muslim faith. This bickering cannot be backed by a divine sanction. It springs from resisting the power-shift triggered by democratization of religion. Every organized religion suffers when these emissaries carry a mandate to languid in the ruts of age-old thinking and take religion back to its tribal settings from where it was freed by its prophets. Have these muftis offered their rationality at the altars of dogma? What the prophet has bequeathed to Muslims, if it has to be protected through strife and violence, then this creed urgently needs a prophet again. But is it poss...