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| Not a snowman! (Photo by Thelmadatter) |
Upon first glance, it might seem as though the building of a snowman is an entirely innocent act.
However, when one considers the intricacies of religious doctrines, it becomes difficult to predict just what will or won’t contradict at least one of them.
Dubai Reuters
recently reported that “a prominent Saudi Arabian cleric” issued a “religious ruling” against “the building of snowmen,” describing them as “anti-Islamic.”
Just what is it about snowmen that could be deemed anti-Islamic? This cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid, has explained that a snowman is an image of a human being with a soul, and creating such an image is “considered sinful” by the strict standards of Sunni Islam.
Sheikh Munajjid added:
God has given people space to make whatever
they want which does not have a soul,
including trees, ships, fruits, buildings and so on.
One of the Sheikh's Twitter supporters wrote: It [building
snowmen] is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness
and eroticism. This comment might have been prompted by another Twitter entry which included “a photo of a man in formal Arab garb holding the arm of a ‘snow bride’…”
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-cleric-condemns-snowmen-anti-islamic-125135293.html
Copyright January 29, 2015 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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