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Today's Qatira is going to be somewhat sensitive. A number of you have come to me and asked

me about what has happened in Pakistan of the killing of a person. For those of you who are not aware,

there was a manager, a non-Muslim manager who apparently tore down a poster and on that poster

was Salat upon the Prophet ﷺ and because of this the people revolted against him, erupted in

anger, a mob formed and they killed him and burnt him and they said this is justified because it

is blasphemy. It is dishonoring the Prophet ﷺ. I have gotten a lot of emails and some of you have

asked me, is there something called blasphemy laws in Islam? And before I answer this question,

I would like to state the question itself is actually not the right one to ask. You have jumped

10 steps ahead and you're asking, is there something called blasphemy laws? But the reality is that

what happened is a tragedy regardless of what the books of Fick and Law say because no scholar

and no Medhab and no sensible person in Islamic history has ever allowed mobs to become judged

during an executioner. So the very fact that we jump to the question, what does Fick say indicates

we have lost some steps in the middle? Regardless of what happens in a court of law, the mob does not

become the court of law. So we have to understand this point that we have to look at ourselves in the

mirror and ask ourselves, how is this happening? You know me, I don't mince my words, I ask you a

blunt question, if a bunch of people of the Hindutva ideology had done this to a Muslim, if a bunch of

Zionist settlers had done this to a Palestinian, what would your reaction be right now? How would be

that anger and that rage legitimately? Then why is it among some people, not all, that when it

happens in our lands, by our people, there is a deafening silence. Why the double standards?

Mob mentality is never justified, ever in any system, especially our system. And when one of

hours makes a mistake, we should be the first to publicly say we have nothing to do with this.

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