Question
I am from Sri Lanka affiliated to an organization which is striving towards sustaining the rights of Muslims in Sri Lanka. One of the most talked about and controversial issues of today is the act of our Muslim Politicians and Ministers bowing down, bending even from wherever they stand, when they meet the Buddhist Mahanayakes (priests and holy men), or even their senior political leaders. This is done in addition to carrying plates of flowers, fruits and kathina pinkama (robes for Buddhist priests) and offering them to the Buddhist prelates. The present generation of children are looking at all these and if proper enlightenment is not given to them, the future generation may also think that this is all right to do as a respect and reverence. The politicians claim that this is done in order to maintain goodwill with religious dignitaries of other religions so that they can maintain a healthy co-existence with the majority Buddhist community. Therefore, I, on behalf of the Muslim community of Sri Lanka very kindly and humbly request your official detailed Fatwa in this regard. We will then have the proof and validity to say that this is this and go public. Jazaakallah khairan wa-ahsanul jazaa. Wassalaam.
Answer
The action of the Muslim politicians is a shocking and lamentable portrayal of kufr and shirk perpetrated by them. These politicians who kowtow and perform Ruku to the priests of idolatry are a disgrace for the Muslim Ummah. These politicians indulging in Buddhist rituals of kufr and shirk are no longer Muslims. They need to renew their Imaan as well as their marriages.
Their argument of 'healthy coexistence' with the idolaters has no validity in Islam. Co-existence at the cost of adopting kufr and shirk rituals thereby effacing Imaan, is absolutely baseless. It is a satanic argument.
When Imaan has been effaced, then people become the bootlickers of the mushrikeen. Adopting or practising any ritual of the kuffaar is kufr even without believing in it.
The bowing, the plates of fruit and kathina pinkama rituals are all acts of kufr and shirk. Participation in any of these activities destroys Imaan. It is not permissible for Muslims to indulge in these acts of kufr and shirk.
Muslims should attend to their moral reformation, follow the Deen and make dua for protection. Only Allah Ta'ala can protect us, not these kuffaar whom the politicians bootlick. Allah Ta'ala says in the Qur'aan Majeed:
"If Allah aids you, then no one can defeat you. And, if He withholds Aid from you, then who is there besides Him who can help you?"
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- Al-Haq Bulletin No. 60
- PDF page
- 9
Appears under ICHINESE ATROCITIES BOOTLICKING KUFR (approximate).