Horse sculptures smashed for being “sinful”
Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh demanded destruction of sculptures
- AFP
- Published: 12:11 June 13, 2013
Riyadh: Ultra-conservative Saudi
Arabia has smashed sculptures of horses erected on a roundabout in the
southwest after the kingdom’s top cleric denounced them as sinful, local
media reported on Wednesday.
The municipality in the town
of Abu Arish in Jazan province bordering Yemen demolished the statues on
Tuesday, local online news website jazantoday.org reported.
The decision came after Grand
Mufti Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh sent a letter to the governor of Jazan
demanding that “the sculptures be removed because they are a great sin
and are prohibited under sharia (Islamic law),” said another news
website, sabq.org. Statues of people and animals are prohibited under
Islam as they represent a form of idolatry. However, the religion does
allow artworks depicting plants and landscapes.
Does this not show the stupidity and brainlessness of the Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Al Shaikh to speak out his personal interpretation of the content of the Kor'An, and the subsequent Law?
ReplyDeleteThe Grand Mufti has no right to make an interpretation of the Law, as there is no word in the Law, nor the Kor'An that speaks of erecting a sculpture honoring nature to be a sin or a sinful activity!
As is so often the case, those claiming to be clerics and claiming to be having authority based on religious writings are speaking their own personal opinion on matters, and fail to implement correctly what is actually written and given as rule to live by!
Honoring nature by erecting statues of for instance horses is not a sin, and is not condemned anywhere in any religious Islamic writing, and when so, then depictions of human beings are to be considered also a sin, and thus no depiction of the Grand Mufti is allowed, or of the Keeper and Protector of Mecca, or any human being would be allowed!
And within the most religious conservative communities, pictures of the Rulers are shown!
My opinion!