KUALA LUMPUR, March 27 — Muslims who smoke and try to portray themselves as pious are worse than cows which defecate in the street, Pas spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat said today.
“... a cow which defecates in the middle of the road, (we) cannot take legal action against it because it has no brain and cannot think.
“But human beings, who have brains, for them to do something which is wrong in religion ... when they are in an attire which symbolises Islam, they can be regarded as being more despicable than cows,” he said.
Nik Aziz said that smoking was forbidden by Islam.
Recently, Indonesia’s top Islamic body passed a fatwa, or ruling, banning smoking. Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (Jakim) has also banned smoking.
Despite the ban in Malaysia, where over half the population of 27 million is Muslim, 50 per cent of the male population smokes, according to World Health Organisation data. — Reuters
“... a cow which defecates in the middle of the road, (we) cannot take legal action against it because it has no brain and cannot think.
“But human beings, who have brains, for them to do something which is wrong in religion ... when they are in an attire which symbolises Islam, they can be regarded as being more despicable than cows,” he said.
Nik Aziz said that smoking was forbidden by Islam.
Recently, Indonesia’s top Islamic body passed a fatwa, or ruling, banning smoking. Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (Jakim) has also banned smoking.
Despite the ban in Malaysia, where over half the population of 27 million is Muslim, 50 per cent of the male population smokes, according to World Health Organisation data. — Reuters
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