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June 12th, 2007 by Double Tap

Man, I just cannot get enough of this stuff. These guys pump out the crazy fatwas like they are going out of style.

In this case, an Egyptian mufti is saying that the companions of the Prophet Muhammad blessed themselves with his urine, sweat and saliva. Sounds pretty kinky to me!

In his book Religion and Life - Modern Everyday Fatwas, Egyptian Mufti Dr. Ali Gum’a wrote that the companions of the Prophet Muhammad would bless themselves by drinking his urine, and described an incident of urine-drinking from a hadith: “Umm Ayman drank the urine of the Prophet, and the prophet told her: ‘This stomach will not be dragged through the fire of Hell, because it contains something of our Lord the Messenger of Allah…’

“This blessing,” Al-Gum’a added, “[can also] be done with the honorable saliva, sweat, hair, urine or blood of the Prophet. This is because anyone who knows the love of the Messenger of Allah is not repulsed [by these]; just as a mother is not repulsed by the feces of her son, this is even more so [in the case of] our Lord the Messenger of Allah, whom we love more than our fathers, sons, and wives. Anyone who was or is repulsed by the Messenger of Allah must recant his faith.”

I’m repulsed already.

Following the ensuing uproar, Gum’a came to the defense of his fatwa, saying: “The entire body of the Prophet, whether exposed or hidden, is pure, and there is nothing in it- including his secretions - that [can] repulse anyone. His sweat smelled better than perfume. Umm Haram would collect this sweat and distribute it to the people of Al-Madina.”

I smelled some sweaty folks in Iraq. I can assure you, their butts stank.

…The second Muhammad spat, one of them would immediately hasten [to grab his saliva] and smear it upon his face.’ Hence, the ulema, including Ibn Hajar Al-Askalani, Al-Baihaqi, Al-Daraqutni and Al-Haythami, determined that the Prophet’s entire body was pure.”

Now, that’s a mental picture!

Gala Gaballah, columnist for the government daily Al-Gumhouriyya, wrote: “Whether the story of Umm Ayman is true or not, it should not be retold by the mufti…Our honorable [mufti] knows better than we that such fatwas [are meant] for the elite and not the masses - because there are those who lie in wait for Islam and try to harm our religion. These peculiar fatwas will… be used as a stick with which to beat Islam…

Yeah, kind of like I’m doing right now.

(H/T LGF)