Fatwa on Dr. Farhat Hashmi by Mufti Taqi Usmani

The View of Mufti Taqi Uthmani D.B and other eminent scholars regarding Farhat Hashmi

Dr. Farhat Hashmi is not a scholar of religion or an Alima. She has some very strange views in matters of Deen. Please warn sisters to beware of what she teaches as we have to learn Deen from correct sources. Some of her incorrect views are as follows:
* women can travel countries without a Mahram man (husband/father etc)
* you do not need to do Qadha of previously missed Salah/ prayer
* reading Surah Yasin daily is of no use and virtue
* Nafil Salah like Awwabeen/ Duha (Chasht) etc are baseless.
The womenfolk must be informed of this so that our sisters are not misguided by this deviant woman. Below is a fatwa of mufti Taqi Usmani (senior mufti in the world in current times in Arab and non Arab world) regarding her views.


Be aware that Dr. Farhat Hashmi is not a scholar of religion and has not studied the Deen under any qualified and reliable Ulama. Rather she has studied and attained a PHD in Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her talks and lectures have gained a lot of fame and popularity amongst the public. All Muslims should be aware that many of Dr. Farhat Hashmi's teachings are based on ignorance from true knowledge of the Quran and Hadith, and conflict with the consensus and practice of the Ummah since 1400 years. Below are some of her deviant teachings.
Dr. Farhat Hashmi claims that "it is not permissible for one to follow one of the four schools of thought of Islamic Jurisprudence. Rather, one should follow one's own understanding and interpretation of the Qur’an and Hadith." She claims that "to follow one of the four Imams is sheer ignorance." We ask her, was the practice of the Ummah since 1400 years based on sheer ignorance?
She claims that "if someone has a lot of Salah to make up for, there is no need to make up for them, and to do Taubah is enough." All four schools of thought are unanimous on the fact that if one has missed a Salah, he should make up for it (Qadha) as soon as he can. It is narrated in the Hadith of Muslim that the Prophet of Allah Salla Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam said, “Whosoever from amongst you misses his Salah due to sleep, or forgets to pray, then he should perform it as soon as he remembers.”
She teaches that "after learning the translation and brief meaning of the Quran, one is able to interpret and extract rules from the Holy Quran from his own understanding." Whereas the Prophet of Allah Salla Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam said, “Whosoever interprets the Holy Quran through his own opinion, then he has erred even though he may have interpreted it correctly."
She teaches that "it is permissible for a woman in her menses to recite the Holy Quran, and that she is allowed to touch the Quran using gloves." Whereas the Prophet of Allah Salla Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam says in the narration of Ibn Majah the “The one in a state of impurity, and the one in her menses should not recite the Holy Quran. Imam Tirmizi R.A mentions that that this was the opinion of the majority of the people of knowledge, the Companions R.A and the Tabieen. Regarding this, Dr. Farhat Hashmi says "who are these people to place such self made restrictions on us women?" How can one make such a statement regarding the Sahabah, and Tabieen? We seek Allah's refuge from such statements.
As you can see, such teachings are far from the true Deen and show how little understanding Dr. Farhat Hashmi has of the Shariah. It seems she wants the Ummah to lose their trust on the God Fearing and eminent Ulama who spent their entire lives learning and teaching the Deen, and to place their trust on her teachings and follow some new sort of modern Deen which invites anyone and everyone to pick up the Quran and the Ahaadith and make an interpretation according to their own understanding. Such people and teachings are a test to the Ummah. We should realise this and stay away from such people and teachings. Brothers and sisters should be warned to stay away from such teachings, and adhere to the teachings of the rightly guided scholars.
Check the link below for more detailed Fatawa regarding her.
https://sites.google.com/site/allahiseloi/dr-farhat-hashmi-al-huda-exposed
May Allah Ta'ala give us all true awareness and keep us steadfast on the straight path. Ameen.a

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The cost of shopping at Primark- Collapse of factory building in Bangladesh

[This is a narration of an anonymous brother, expressing his feelings regarding the collapsing of the factory building in Bangladesh.] 

An hour before reading with horror on Thursday morning that workers at a clothes factory that collapsed in Bangladesh on Wednesday had been ordered to return to work after their bosses decided cracks in the wall were nothing to worry about, I was deciding what to wear.
The season has changed and most of my lighter clothes feel stale, while my children have grown and been promised new things that fit them. We must all go shopping, I thought. But where?
Not every time I open my purse, but regularly, I consume ethically, or as ethically as I can. I buy gas and electricity from the Co-op, and shop mostly at the Co-op and local grocers. I don’t buy factory-farmed meat or battery eggs, and choose Fairtrade products when I can.
I don’t think my spending habits are going to change the world, and I don’t think ethical consumption is a very effective lever in building a more just and sustainable society. That is what politics is for. But I do think if you can afford to, that it’s worth trying to give your money to producers you approve of rather than those you know are avoiding taxes, paying workers a pittance or harming the environment.
But when it comes to fashion, applying even the most modest ethical criteria is ridiculously hard. All the big chains – including Primark, which had a supplier in the destroyed Rana Plaza building on Dhaka’s outskirts, and has promised “to provide support where possible” to the families of the 187 workers known to have died – have ethics policies that can be viewed online. None has a clearly labelled and readily available Fairtrade or equivalent line on the shop floor.