Geo News reported, as published by The Economic Times News on January 25, 2025, that honour killings and violence in Pakistan have surged to such an extent that eight people, including five women, were killed in four districts of Sindh within three days.
Honour has no connection with Islam. In Pakistan, inherited beliefs are used to mislead society. In the ancient English legal system, if a husband saw his wife with another man in a sexual situation and, unable to control himself, killed the man, the punishment was reduced from intentional murder to manslaughter or unintentional killing, with the rationale being that he could not control himself. This is not the case in Islam.
What does the Quran say?
- Surah An-Nisa, Verse 15: Four witnesses who have seen the act of intercourse with their own eyes. Punishment: The wife cannot leave the house alone.
- Surah An-Nisa, Verse 16: No punishment is specified; it speaks of forgiveness.
- Surah An-Nisa, Verses 15/16 were amended by Surah An-Nur, Verse 2, prescribing a punishment of 100 lashes.
- Surah An-Nur, Verse 4: If an accuser (male or female) fails to produce four witnesses, they are to be punished with 80 lashes, and their testimony is never to be accepted in their lifetime.
- Surah An-Nur, Verse 6: If a husband accuses his wife of seeing her in a sexual situation with another man but cannot produce four witnesses, he must swear four times that he is telling the truth.
- Surah An-Nur, Verse 8: In response, if the wife swears four times that he is lying, the punishment is nullified.
I have presented all the Quranic verses related to the punishment for adultery by married individuals, but one aspect remains: If a slave woman, after gaining freedom, marries and then commits adultery, the procedure is the same—four witnesses who have seen the act of intercourse with their own eyes. According to Surah An-Nisa, Verse 25, her punishment, compared to a free married woman who was never a slave, is halved, i.e., 50 lashes.
There is neither a punishment of stoning (rajm) nor any punishment for the unmarried in the Quran. The first principle of Quranic interpretation is that the Quran itself interprets and explains the Quran, not hadith literature written after 200 years based on hearsay rather written evidence in Baghdad. The brutal punishment of stoning was abolished by Prophet Jesus (Hazrt Essa) when some people brought a woman to him, accusing her of adultery and demanding her punishment. Their conspiracy was that if Jesus did not order her stoning, they could claim he was lenient toward sinners, turning public opinion against him. When the woman was brought to Jesus, before deciding whether to stone her or not, he said, "Fine, we will stone her, but the first stone will be thrown by the one who has never sinned in their life." Jesus presented a challenge to the conspirators, resulting in their shame and the abolition of stoning. The punishment of stoning exists in the Jewish Torah and the Hindu Manusmriti, (Manwa) from where, 250 years later in Baghdad, it was reintroduced into Islamic culture, and mountains of books were written to propagate this lie. Some even attempted to fabricate a Quranic verse in the name of Umar, which I came across during my research. They claimed Umar said that if he included it in the Quran, people would accuse him of altering it. If even one percent of this fabricated story is believed, the entire edifice of Islam would collapse.
It was Umar who proposed compiling the Quran into a book, and under Abu Bakr and his supervision, Zaid bin Thabit prepared two copies of the Quran and handed them to Abu Bakr The Caliph of the time. After Abu Bakr’s death, Umar became the Caliph, and both copies were with him. Uthman formed a committee under Zaid bin Thabit’s leadership, to include the members of the Quraysh tribes, the rational was that Prophet was from Mecca therefore they can reflect true translation of Meccan accent while to recompile the Quran.
Punishment is a routine matter. How could it be that a punishment was not in the Quran, yet the Prophet’s companions were implementing a so-called punishment?
Did anyone notice any element of honour here (men’s honour, not women’s honour)? Does the Quran command and teach us solely for the rule of law? Wasn’t the issue of a husband’s honour raised when he saw his wife in a sexual situation with another man, leading him to lose control because it was a matter of his honour? Or did he set aside honour and start searching for witnesses? Is there any concept of "honour" in Islam or purely strict to rule of law?
In Pakistan, a factory of dollar-driven exploitation, in the name of religion, keeps fabricating fake ideologies. Isn’t the Islamic culture, beliefs, attitudes, religious and sexual biases of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan 100% contradictory to the Quran? I haven’t included Arabs because, having lived in Arab society, I observed that their general inclination leans more toward rationality than blind faith.
The foundation of Islam is revelation, and revelation is the Quran, not a cloak of Zoroastrian and Jewish religious stories attributed to the Prophet and his companions 250 years later (a secondary source, not a primary one, which must be look at skeptically).
Even the Prophet’s wives were accused in this literature, a mere imitation of Jewish rabbinical literature, claiming that men who visited her would first be breastfed by her nieces to become mahram (permissible for interaction). What a ridiculous story! There was no concept of mahram, hijab, or sexual segregation in Islam, yet these people in Baghdad fabricated false stories. Another wife, who
was 19/20 at the time of marriage, was portrayed as a 6- or 9-year-old girl, despite her elder sister being 27 at the time of migration, ten years older than Aisha. Don’t mullahs still fabricate false stories today? The same false stories, propaganda literature of sexual and religious sectarianism, have become the culture of Islam inherited by us.
Tariq Jamil fabricates a story contrary to the basic principles of Islam, which is about "kun fayakoon" (Be, and it is), not manifestation.
Here, Tariq Jamil narrates an eyewitness account of paradise to advance his financial and political influence. Can such liars be called scholars? Can a society progress under the influence of such people?
This mullah has degraded Allah from being the Absolute Sovereign to a creation subject to the law of gravity. Isn’t this blasphemy?
How did Khadim Rizvi know what was happening in paradise? Even the Prophet, for whom revelation came, did not know. Isn’t Khadim Rizvi’s lie a claim to prophethood?
The term "honour" is an uncivilized term from feudal and tribal societies where a woman was not considered an equal human but rather as a sexual object. Hence, in tribal and feudal societies, women were likened to "woman, wealth, and land." Today, we don’t live as subjects in tribal or feudal slave societies but as citizens in a state system where women are equal citizens, not machines for men’s sexual pleasure or childbearing.
The cultural aspect of honour relates to the early socialization of tribal life, where a son was prepared from his mother’s lap for defence and offense. When one tribe attacked another to loot its wealth, including women, honour meant fighting bravely to protect one’s woman, wealth, and land, even at the cost of life. In such societies, there was no organized state, law, or system to protect people’s lives and property. Tribal men had to protect themselves or attack to loot others’ possessions, including women. Expelling another tribe from its land through war was also a matter of honour and way of life then, and even today, tribal societies emphasize this tribal ethic, cloaking it in Islam and inventing the term "honour" (غیرت) to make it more appealing.
In the village of Bangran, near Bagh district in Azad Kashmir, the values of Islam once again triumphed over societal customs. This incident reminds us that if honest honor is awakened, even the most prominent names are compelled to step back with respect.
In the early 2000s, three respected individuals from Bangran—late Sardar Muhammad Siddique Khan Chughtai, Sardar Muhammad Hussain Khan, and Sardar Muhammad Arif Khan—raised their voices against un-Islamic Hindu customs prevalent in weddings, such as drumming, fireworks, and invitations. Initially, they faced resistance, but time proved their stance correct. Soon, the entire village stood with them, and these customs were abolished.
Sadly, in recent times, these same customs were revived in the household of the late Siddique Chughtai. Fireworks continued late into the night at his grandsons’ wedding. The village elders, patients, and people of faith were shocked and distressed. Was this the same household where one member had lit the torch of reform? The soul of the late Siddique Chughtai must have been anguished, seeing his nephews and grandsons reviving the very innovations he had fought against.
But at this moment, a faith-inspiring incident occurred.
Sardar Tanveer Ilyas was invited as the chief guest to the wedding. The organizers requested that he come inside for a photo session with the grooms and brides, asking the women present in the hall to vacate the space.
At this point, a respected female scholar from the village madrasa and the bride’s teacher courageously raised a question:
- Is Tanveer Ilyas a mahram to these girls?
- Isn’t this an un-Islamic act?
Her question changed the atmosphere. All the women in the hall stood in her support, and preparations for the photo session were halted. This act not only reflects religious honor but was sufficient to open society’s eyes.
On the other hand, Awais Iftikhar Rashid Chughtai, the groom himself, was informed that Tanveer Ilyas was being brought into the hall for the photo session and was asked to come inside. Instead of entering, he rushed to the entrance, took Tanveer Ilyas by the hand, and said, “Sir, this is against our religious traditions. Please kindly return.”
As a result, Sardar Tanveer Ilyas had to leave without the photo session.
This is no ordinary incident but a shining example of protecting faith. Awais Iftikhar Rashid Chughtai prioritized Islamic teachings over worldly protocol, status, and fame. Similarly, the respected teacher, standing alone to protect her students’ modesty and dignity, turned the course of the entire gathering.
This incident proves that the guardians of faith are still alive.
- The grandson who kept his grandfather’s honor alive.
- The teacher who brought religious knowledge to life through her character.
- Salute to all those who upheld the banner of Sharia, not tradition.
"For the protection of students’ modesty and dignity"
I will respond in detail, but for now, I consider it sufficient to state that the Quran instructs Muslim women to cover an additional part of their body, as per Surah An-Nur, Verse 31: “And to draw their veils over their bosoms.” The Quran mentions the word “face” over 100 times and “head” over 20 times, but never once instructs women to cover their face or head. The custom of covering the face and head did not originate in Mecca or Medina but became part of Islamic culture in Baghdad through Jewish and Zoroastrian religious practices. Today, clothing is a part of local culture inherited through traditions. Fashion and design change every year, dictated by market demands, not our desires or beliefs.
These Jewish women, called Haredi, are fully covered in burqas. Jewish fundamentalists neither shake hands with women nor allow them to walk or sit in front of men even today. Women are not allowed to sit in the front of a car. These Jewish customs were integrated into Islam in Baghdad 250 years later, while for Muslims, Hajar’s social act has attained the status of worship, as seen in Safa and Marwah, Quran 2:158.
The Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph’s wife is fully covered in a burqa, and this is not too far back, but from 1916. Thus, covering the head and face is not Islamic but a Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian practice that became part of Muslim culture 250 years later.
The last Ottoman Caliph, before the World War I, is seen strolling in Istanbul with his daughter. Can’t we see the difference in whose clothing the burqa was and how it became part of Muslim culture?
This is the verse that Ibn Taymiyyah first used in history to alter the Quran for face veiling, which later became a custom of face covering in fundamentalist culture. The Quran 33:59 word ان یعرفن so that you recognized. Ibn Taymiyya added the word لا in between ان and یعرفن to make it ان لا یعرفن so that you would not be recognized. (Ref Ibn Taymiyya book on woman hijab on p9 Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt also refer to Sarah Hutchinson PhD thesis submitted to the University of London for the year 1987/88).
The place where this lady is presenting an example to promote the movement for hijab and modesty is the same area where, according to their family, a case of extrajudicial killing of two brothers emerged recently. Both youths were linked to Taliban terrorists. These brothers were influenced by writings and ideologies similar which reflected in the narrative of “ honour imani (غیرت ایمانی).” In Islam, the definition of faith is given by Allah in Surah Al-Baqarah, Verses 113 and 177, which contains no concept of physical appearance or honour imani (غیرت ایمانی).
From the Prophet’s time to the Umayyad era, coins used in society bore the Christian cross and image of man on it without beard. During Muawiyah’s caliphate, the cross disappeared from currency for three years but reappeared later during his rule. In early Abbasid coins, the Zoroastrian fire symbol, a man’s image with a beard, and the word “Allah” in Arabic on one side are present on it.
The question to ask that where is the record of Mecca and Medina’s political, social, and cultural life from the Prophet (PBUH) time—daily activities, the stories of people’s actions, judicial decisions, or their written judgements? Did Islam fly from Mecca and Medina to reach Baghdad? If there was no story from Mecca and Medina, then stories based on hearsay without written evidence, fabricated after 200 years of the Prophet’s death, were rooted in Jewish religious culture, which accepted oral religious stories alongside the Torah but the foundation of Islam is solely based "Wahi" that is the Quran, and this is the fundamental difference between Islam and Judaism/Christianity.
“Un-Islamic Hindu customs, such as drumming and fireworks.”
Do drumming and fireworks have a creed (faith), making them un-Islamic Hindu customs? The bagpipe, is part of our culture, I had seen it from my childhood, is commonly associated with Scotland but historically originated in Egypt, not India. The drum is the Prophet’s sunnah (sceptically because time lapse), called a daf, and women played music and sang for the Prophet (PBUH).
Professional female singers sang at weddings during the Prophet’s time. In our society, uneducated women, through their own creative poetry in local languages, sing in pairs at wedding parties and social gatherings.
Taliban, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, and Boko Haram, which have received millions of dollars from USAID, follow their agenda based on Khawarij and later in history the 12th century jurists Ibn Taymiyyah’s whose distortions, influenced by Jewish religious thought, for which he could never escape? He applied human attributes to Allah, was arrested, and faced trial for it. To him, India’s Muslim rulers were infidels.
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This philosophy was introduced to Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab by Hempher, and based on this religious thought, the Ottoman Empire was also declared infidel. Can we conclude from the above mentioned text produced by Umme Baneen Chughtai that the Pakistani state itself is trying to push society toward violence and extremism?
I have posted hadiths from Ibn Majah and Haban mentioning female singers, and in Bukhari’s hadith, the Prophet himself is among the women while they play the daf (drum) and sing for him. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 71: Muslim men and women are friends with each other. Surah Al-Hajj, Verse 40: Temples, churches, synagogues, and mosques where Allah’s name is much mentioned.
Culture is not static but constantly evolves. However, attacking one’s own culture on the orders of foreign masters and importing external culture is colonial politics, not reform. Not every change leads to improvement, but every improvement is a change. The examples of Pakistan and Afghanistan show societies moving from civilization to fascism. A society’s foundation is its culture, and religion is one element of culture, not the entire culture. Culture is inherited from the home where a person is born.
Has any mullah ever mentioned the above hadiths or Quranic verses in a mosque? Why not? Because their Islam is not the Quran’s Islam but an Islam fabricated for financial and political needs, based on mullahs’ false stories, writings, and speeches. I have posted four videos as evidence, where thousands of people chant “SubhanAllah” after listening to their false stories.
There are significant issues with Quran translations. The language of the Quran and the Fusa Arabic of Baghdad or hadiths Arabic are not the same. Arabic, through its evolution from spoken to written, standard, classical, and lingua franca, has absorbed many languages and influenced others. Nowadays, I see the Quran being spread here with only English translations, without context, to avoid the challenge it poses to promoting false stories as Islamic culture.
According to this lady, if music, singing, or drums are Hindu customs, was Arab culture devoid of music? Did the Prophet participate in Hindu customs, or do hadith writers lie? Music and dance are part of every living being’s DNA. A baby in the womb hears the mother’s heartbeat as music, and her movement is the baby’s dance. That’s why lullabies are sung, and babies are rocked to sleep, as it recreates the womb’s environment, making them feel secure and helping them sleep, despite noise and movement making sleep difficult for humans.
Umar bin Hisham, known as Abu Jahl (father of ignorance). There fore ignorance in the name of faith correct today and incorrect then. The innovation of the term “honour imani” (غیرت ایمانی) is not an improvement but a journey toward a cow boy or clodish culture.
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