With reference to your criticism of the Muslim cricketer, I have the following comments: (1) Where did Nabi (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) say that all

Answer

All your comments and questions are drivel. However, since ignorant people are captivated by even drivel and stupidities, we deem it appropriate to respond.

(1) You ask where? Refer to the kutub of the Ahaadith and to the rulings of the Fuqaha. If you are genuinely interested to know 'where', then write for our book, Kuffaar Sport, which explains in detail the prohibition of sport in general, and kuffaar sport in particular.

(2) In the first instance it is haraam to undertake a journey for haraam activities. Every act and every step of the misguided cricketer on his journey from the moment he stepped out from his home until the moment he returned were mal'oon (accursed). He was under the Wrath of Allah Azza Wa Jal throughout the haraam journey. A person who sets out from his home undertaking a journey to commit a murder or to visit a brothel for committing zina, is also a musaafir. So while according to only the Hanafi Math-hab, the criminal setting out on a journey to commit sins and crimes is a musaafir and may avail of the concession, this Fiqhi technicality does not absolve him of the kabeerah sins he perpetrates nor does it save him from Allah's Curse and Wrath. Despite the validity of the concession for the criminal cricketer, he remains fully under the dark cloud of La'nat and Ghadb, and the criticism against him is fully justified. Undertaking a haraam journey in the glorious month of Ramadhaan to indulge in haraam is most despicable, and it portrays what is hidden under the outer façade of professed Imaan and Islam. Validity of the concession does not legalize the sin. Thus, the musaafir who commits zina is not vindicated by the concession of abstaining from fasting. Such moronic 'logic' is absurd. The same applies to the misguided cricketer who is enamoured by the kuffaar and their haraam sport with all its haraam effects and paraphernalia.

(3) The cricketer seeking advice from the Maulana does not justify and legalize his haraam activities and sins. Whether the Maulana advised him correctly or incorrectly is not the issue here. It does not alter the fact that the cricketer indulged in haraam in the mubaarak month of Ramadhaan. His sins were therefore of an aggravated nature. The unknown advice of the Maulana is of no consequence in this matter.

(4) Yes, even prostitutes have a profession and they 'have to work' for their living. Does earning a living justify fornication and prostitution? The cricketer is in the same category as the working prostitute. He has to 'work' and she too has to 'work'.

(5) Tell it to the baboons in the mountains that a chap whose bedfellows are all rowdy liquor consuming kuffaar fornicators enslaved to the bestial instincts of the lustful nafs, does not mingle with females. (6) We do not know for which haraam team, league or shaitaani company he plays. Regardless of who his employers are, he indulges in haraam. The money he earns is haraam and every activity associated with his haraam sporting trade is haraam.

(7) Neither you nor the misguided chap has the haziest idea of the meaning of humility and good character. If he was humble and had good character, he would not have been so brazen in the commission of haraam nor would he have violated the sanctity of the Holy Month of Ramadhaan. If he had true humility, he would have had Taqwa. A man who emulates the kuffaar lacks understanding of the meaning of Tawaadhu'

(Humility).