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Footprints Everywhere, Fatwas-to go The Islamic earth is really flat.
Ten Surprising Relics
Go anywhere in the Muslim world and you will bump into a shrine, tombs, sacred relic, or footprints of the Prophets. No doubt you have witnessed the footprint of Prophet Muhammad at the Eyüp Sultan Mosque in Istanbul, and climbed the Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka to see the footprint of Adam. But there are even more marvellous vestiges out there from blessed tortoises to sacred crocodiles, moving walls and revered trees, and even a celebrated shrine on the sex mountain! They all come neatly, not to say sacredly, wrapped in mythology, legends, traditions and what have you. So here is our list of some noteworthy relics for you to seek out. 
1. Footprints Everywhere
Sacred footprints are ubiquitous all over the Islamic World. Widely discussed in scholarly circles has been a pair of carved footprints at the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar, Kashmir, which is sometimes ascribed to Jesus, but more often to a local Sufi saint who may very well just be an Islamised version of the Buddha. An object of fervent devotion up until today is the Qadam Sharif, the footprint of Prophet Muhammad in Paharganj, Delhi. A complex of dargah, mosque and madrassa was built around this footprint in medieval times and an ‘urs’ festival is held in its honour once a year. Other holy traces can be found across the Muslim World as well: An imprint of the hand of Imam Ali is revered on Maula Ali Hill in Indian Hyderabad. A royal eunuch (khwajasara) of the Nizam once discovered this imprint after being guided to it by a dream vision of the Imam himself. Another imprint of the hand of Ali can be found on the Khyber Pass, in local Pashtun legend often identified with the Arab city of Khaybar. Hoofprints of the horse of Imam Ali’s son Hazrat Abbas can be seen at the Murad-Khani shrine in Kabul.
of one‘s physical proportions before attempting such ventures. 
6. Bayazid Bistami’s Turtles
It is unexpected enough that ninth century Persian Sufi saint Beyazid Bistami has a tomb in Bangladesh’s Chittagong (besides having one in Iran and another one in Afghanistan). Even more unexpected are the sacred turtles that live in the pond belonging to the shrine. According to local legend, the turtles were once evil djinn who incurred the wrath of the saint and were transformed by him. The species inhabiting the pond is rare and endangered. Scientifically the species is known as the ‘black softshell turtle’ but the locals call them ‘Bostami turtle’. Believers feed them out of reverence for the saint.
[ this place was very close to the Chittagong Cant. To the best of my knowledge Col. Niazi was the station commander in 1958-little that he knew ,he will be signing the surrender in 1971 as Gen.Niazi-well I saw the turtle myself.]
7. The Crocodiles of Manghopir
Pir Mangho was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and Imam Ali, as well as a Sufi who settled in the area of modern Karachi. He became the patron saint of the Indo-African Sheedi community in particular. Hundreds of crocodiles live in a lake by the shrine and devotees regard these large reptiles as manifestations of the sacred presence of the Pir, revere them and feed them. The late German scholar of Islamic spirituality and mysticism, Annemarie Schimmel, made it a point to mention in one of her books that she found the turtle shrine in Chittagong far more horrifying than the crocodile shrine of Manghopir. We wonder what was her problem with cute little turtles? 
All 10 relics
https://www.criticalmuslim.io/ten-surprising-relics/

The Top Ten Towering Fatwas

A spectre is haunting Muslims—the spectre of fatwas. All the powers of old Islam have entered into a holy alliance: to issue more and more fatwas, each as ridiculous as the other, and thus drown the Islamic earth in a pestiferous flood of fatwas. Muftis and Mullahs, on-line clerics and television preachers, bearded bovines and senseless Sheikhs—they are all at it. So gather around, O believers! Here is a list of our all-time favourites.

1. The top place must go to the former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Bin In April 2000, the Sheikh, an authority on the Qur’an and the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, issued, after considerable study of the sacred sources, a fatwa entitled ‘The Transmitted and Sensory Proofs of the Rotation of the Sun and Stillness of the Earth’. The learned Sheikh declared that the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. Numerous Muslim scientists, who had measured the circumference of the earth correct to three decimal places way back in the eight century, immediately turned in their graves.

2. The Mullahs in the Deoband seminary in India are never far behind their Saudi colleagues. They have, however, introduced an innovation, and are now involved in a ‘cash for fatwa’ scandal. The going rate is said to be Rs 5000 per fatwa. Literally dozens of fatwas are issued by Deoband every week, like pork sausages coming down a conveyer belt, on a variety of topics—ranging from the use of credit cards to watching films (Both are haram, strictly forbidden, if you must know). But their divorce by mobile phone fatwa takes the biscuit. Issued in November 2010 by Darul Ifta, the fatwa department of Dar-ul Uloom, Deoband, it reads: ‘Talaq (the word ‘divorce’) uttered thrice over a cell-phone by a Muslim man will be considered valid even if his wife is unable to hear it due to network or other problems’. They could have added: ‘or if she is hard of hearing’.

10. In the end, as in the beginning. We return to Sheikh bin Baz, the late, lamented Grand Mufti of the Kingdom of unsoiled Muslims with perfect faith. Thanks to WikiLeaks we now know that it was none other than the blind Mufti himself who decreed, in a famous fatwa in 1991, that women should not be allowed to drive. The Sheikh declared, reads a cable, that ‘allowing women to drive would result in public “mixing” of women, put women into dangerous situations because they could be alone in cars, and therefore result in social chaos’.

The man was right. The Islamic earth is really flat.

The Top Ten Towering Fatwas
https://www.criticalmuslim.io/the-top-t ... ng-fatwas/

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