Click to play videoSrinagar: A couple of doctors got on top of a telephone tower in the heart of Srinagar and served the state government an ultimatum- recognise our degrees or we commit suicide lately.
With suicides fast becoming common in terror to hit Kashmir, the Grand Mufti, Mufti Bashir-ud-din has taken a call- he has declared suicides
un-Islamic.
But does the fatwa apply to the fidayeen as well?
Says Mufti Bashir-ud-din, ”It applies to all, even fidayeen.”
As per Islamic law, those who commit suicide should not get an Islamic burial. But for the fidayeen assured a place in paradise, the fatwa means bad news.
Clerics say even the prophet did not attend the namaz janazah of a man who had committed suicide.
But for the moment the government has answers only for the more down to earth problems like providing doctors for tackling trauma.
“The problem is that most psychiatrists are concentrated in the four metros. We are trying to rectify the situation,” says Union Health Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss.
Ravaged by two decades of terrorism, the valley alone saw a 20 per cent hike in trauma cases last year with 116 suicides.
And with women bearing the brunt of this stress, the clerics are being forced to take up the issue even during Friday prayers.
So the message coming out of Kashmir is clear. There can be no jannat in the end for the suicide bomber.
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