Pictures are Haram in Mogadisho, Aways and Sharif do take pictures, are they Sinners?

[Zaylici]

Early in 1990s some young salafis burned family photos, and regarded pictures as sin, however, mature Salifis have renounced this practice, they take pictures and see no problems. Aways, head of the Shura council and Sharif, head of the executives, both allow people to take their pictures, Indhocade does the same thing, however, some junior officers do not obviously see this way: they see pictures as sin hence the bussiness of picture producing is sin, photoshops therefore should be closed; infact today in Mogadisho, young officers in court uniforms did exactaly that: they have closed Sahafi photoshop and KM photoshop in Mogadisho.

This is new development in my judjment; The Young Salafi groups would have two reasons to enforce their understanding of Sharia; first, they see this as fulfilment of God's will on earth: implementation of sharia law as they undertand it.Any postponment to this objective is seen as betreyal to the original cause : establishment of an Islamic state. Second, the enforcement would give young Islamist unlimited power, the power to intrepret the law and enforce it on the spot without any recourse to appeal, because young islamist consider this as desire of the Allah and therefore irreversable verdict. This implies also, that Aways, Sharif and Indhocade should stop taking pictures, or appearing in TV. Afghan taliban did not had TVs, they had radio, a sharia radio.

We learn from the history of Sharia experiment in Afghanistan a lesson: the department of promotion of vertue and prevention of vice was essentially the Afghan internal adminstraiton: the department was the most powerful organ of the state.

Young Islamist now have theological reason and an opportunity to capture power; noo body knows how others in the court would react to this new development.

 

finally, shariff has recentally stated that they will go to khartum to talk to the government; this was direct contradiction to the position of the Aways; five hours ago we learned that the conference has been postponed: Islamic courts have demanded the postponement. Is this a way of acheivign a consensus?

 

Now, I would like to know what you ladies and gentlement think before I write a paper.

1- What do you think young Islamist agenda

2- what do you think pictures are they Haram

3- what about people who would have no bussiness does the court have responsibility to generate an alternative way of making an income?

4- What if it affects large number of the population and therefore makes them incapable of sustaining life?

5- what do you think about Islamic law, does the application require Ulam Ijma, consensus? or very much clear?

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

[- Femme -]

First of all...there is no such thing as Islamist in our vocabulary. Just because you have been watching too much ignorant American news channels doesn't mean that you have to adopt their flawed terminology. It's Muslim.

 

Number two...looking at the big picture of the problems in Somalia, I would think closing down photoshops to be in the 0.000056% of importance.

 

4- What if it affects large number of the population and therefore makes them incapable of sustaining life?

Clarify yourself here, please.

 

The whole picture debate is a bit controversial - meaning you won't find a right answer. Check out here.

[Zaylici]

Shabunu, Muslim movements in middle east and else where call themselves islamist, in Arabic( Islaamiyiin); Alqardawi calls this name, he is famous Muslim scholar; second, if photoshops were closed, many people would lose bussiness, hence they will have difficulties findig ways to secure food and other necessities of life.

Thanks Shabuna; by the way you have nice name