Our Holy Prophet (PBUH) always wanted the convenience and ease of his ummat. e.g he told sahaba that offering Farz prayers is enough to fulfill the prayers obligation. He even joined prayers of Zuhar and Asar, and Maghrib and Ishaa without any apparent excuse or reason. When asked, he said he wanted to set an example to make life easy for his Ummat. Similarly he stressed upon availing the concession of prayers (qasar) and fasting (Qaza) while travelling. There are so many examples like that. However what we see through history is that clerics have mostly made a mess of things. They opposed printing press labeling it haraam for 300 years only to declare it halal after all the damage to the muslim Umma was done. Similarly, they opposed the motor vehicle, the radio, the telephone, the television, the loudspeaker etc in the begining only to eat the humble pie later on and declare them halal.
Now there is the debate on offering collective qurbani and qurbani on line. The mullahs are opposing it as they opposed all what has been mentioned earlier. The mullah will never allow anything new or sensible where they fear their role will be diminished. The government should show guts for a change and overlook the version of the narrow minded mullah who do not even understand the periphery and the leverage given by sharia.
The govt should announce that a symbolic collective qurbani will be offered by sacrificing one big animal at each district headquarter by the government, on behalf of the people of that district. Rest any money willing to to be paid by the people to enhance the qurbani sawab can be collected and distributed amongst the hard hit due to Coronavirus.
I'm sure if at the time of our holy prophet (PBUH) these conditions would exist he would have allowed online qurbani or collective qurbani in the same spirit. We love our Holy Prophet (PBUH) as he loved his followers. The spirit of his seerat e tayaba should be followed in every matter including qurbani and instead of bracketing Islam with mere killing of a dumba without any true spirit of sacrifice, we should look for the real essence of qurbani.
Now there is the debate on offering collective qurbani and qurbani on line. The mullahs are opposing it as they opposed all what has been mentioned earlier. The mullah will never allow anything new or sensible where they fear their role will be diminished. The government should show guts for a change and overlook the version of the narrow minded mullah who do not even understand the periphery and the leverage given by sharia.
The govt should announce that a symbolic collective qurbani will be offered by sacrificing one big animal at each district headquarter by the government, on behalf of the people of that district. Rest any money willing to to be paid by the people to enhance the qurbani sawab can be collected and distributed amongst the hard hit due to Coronavirus.
I'm sure if at the time of our holy prophet (PBUH) these conditions would exist he would have allowed online qurbani or collective qurbani in the same spirit. We love our Holy Prophet (PBUH) as he loved his followers. The spirit of his seerat e tayaba should be followed in every matter including qurbani and instead of bracketing Islam with mere killing of a dumba without any true spirit of sacrifice, we should look for the real essence of qurbani.
