How is it for an Imaam to lead the janaazah salaat of a politician while males and females - Muslims and non -Muslims - are all standing shoulder to s

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The fatwa is an insult and a disgrace for the brains of the Nadwah muftis. It displays their typical fork-tongued ghutha' fatwas. They completely ignored the issues in the Istifta' and answered stupidly. They did not even understand the question. If they did understand it, then their answer is the effect of dubious and stupid 'hikmat' and nafsaani politics. The question is not about general permissibility for an Imaam to perform the Janaazah Salaat of a Muslim. The question is specific. Every jaahil knows that an Imaam or a non- Imaam can perform the Janaazah Salaat of a Muslim.

The mufti was supposed to have highlighted the irregularity of the imaam leading the janaazah salaat which was corrupted with many haraam acts. But, the

mufti deviously avoided the evil factors. That is because the Nadwa molvis are liberals and incline to modernism. They indulge in these types of activities, hence their fork-tongued fatwas. The mufti should have taken into account the fact that Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) had refrained from performing the Janaazah Salaat of a Sahaabi, not because there were any evils accompanying the Salaat, but because of unpaid debt. The Ulama have thus opined that the Ulama should not perform the Janaazah Salaat of flagrant fussaaq. Others should perform it. The Sahaabi whose Janaazah Salaat, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) did not join was not a faasiq, nevertheless, to highlight the notoriety of unpaid debt, he refrained from participation.

To a far greater degree should the imaam refrain from the janaazah salaat of a faasiq/atheist, especially when the salaat itself is horrendously corrupted by a host of evils which were the vile orchestration of the Reverend Abraham Bham of the NNB jamiat of Fordsburg (The No Name Brand jamiat).