'Every Hole a Goal'?
A look at the bizarre world of Islamic necrophilia (sexual intercourse with corpses)


At a time when Islam is associated with any number of troubling practices, shall necrophilia also be laid at its feet?

Consider the following report of a Muslim-background man who sexually violated a number of corpses last year in the UK:

A warped “monster” who broke into a funeral parlour before having sex with a woman’s corpse has been jailed for six years. Kasim Khuram, 23, forced his way into a Co-op undertakers before violating a dead body at around 1.40am on November 11 last year. A court heard how he lifted the lids of several coffins before selecting his victim. Khuram then removed the body from the coffin, took off her clothes and then “interfered with her” in the chapel of rest, leaving her face down on the floor.

Another female body was found face down in a coffin with her lower clothing pulled down while seven other corpses, including a baby, were disturbed. Police were alerted by the alarm at the funeral parlour on Walsall Road, in Great Barr, Birmingham, and turned up to find the depraved pervert still at the scene. Officers said he was “more concerned” about leaving his watch behind. Khuram, who had been drinking vodka and smoking mamba, told officers: “I bet you think I’ve been sh***ing them don’t you?” and sickeningly added: “every hole is a goal.”

While necrophilia is a depravity that is not unique to any one modern culture, the fact is only Islam contains scriptures, commentaries, and fatwas (Islamic decrees) revolving around and in some instances permitting the macabre practice.

As with most of Islam’s problematic teachings, necrophilia is traceable to Muhammad.

According to a hadith (a recorded tradition concerning the sayings and doings of the prophet) that exists in six of Islam’s classical reference texts (including the important Kanz al-‘Umal and al-Hujja fi Biyan al-Mahujja), Muhammad once took off his shirt, placed it on a dead woman, and then descended into and “lay with her” in the grave.

As they hurled dirt atop the corpse and Muhammad, the grave diggers exclaimed, “O Prophet, we see you doing a thing you never did with anyone else,” to which he responded: “I dressed her in my shirt so that she may be dressed in heavenly robes, and I lay with her in her grave so that the pressures of the grave [also known as Islam’s torments of the grave] may be alleviated from her.”

One can interpret this, and there certainly is no reason to maintain that Muhammad was actually copulating with the corpse. There are, however, some hurdles:

First, the two Arabic words (ataja‘ ma‘ha اضطجع معها) which I translate above as “lay with her,” are also used in Arabic to mean “intercourse.” This is similar to the English idiom, “to lay with her,” which can literally mean nothing more than laying down with a woman, but often is a reference to sex. More than a few Muslim clerics have made this linguistic observation.

Second, Sunni Islam’s four orthodox schools of jurisprudence (or madhahib al- fiqh)—namely, al-Hanafi, al-Hanbali, al-Maliki, and al-Shafi‘i—implicitly permit necrophilia. None of them actually addresses it on its own; rather, they give it a nod whenever it comes up in the context of other topics. Thus, in the section on adultery, the Maliki teaching is that “If a husband enters his dead wife—any which way, from front or behind—there is no penalty for him” (Sharh Mukhtasar al-Khalil fi al-fiqh al-Maliki).

Similarly, Shafi‘i rulings on wudu (ablution) point out that it is unnecessary to rewash the body of the dead—male or female adds the Hanbali madhhab—after penetrating it, though the penis of the penetrator does require washing. (Although a few English translations of these pivotal Arabic texts appear online, most are poor and inaccurate. I may at some point collate and freshly translate all of the relevant ones, which are not a few.)

Regardless of all the above, it is not for the non-Muslim—certainly not for me—to tell Muslims what their texts are really saying and teaching. That is the job of their ulema: scholars and clerics devoted to learning the deep truths of Islam. Thus, the real question remains: do modern day ulema permit necrophilia?

The lamentable answer is yes. For instance, in 2011 a leading Moroccan cleric and founding member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Abdul Bari Zamzami, issued a fatwa permitting the Muslim husband to copulate with his dead wife. He prefaced his decree by saying that, although he does not necessarily approve of this act, it is not for him to ban what Islam permits. As proof, he cited the aforementioned rulings of Islam’s schools of jurisprudence.

In April 2012, when the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad Morsi was president of Egypt, news that Islamist Egyptian parliamentarians were trying to pass a law legalizing necrophilia appeared. Although Al Ahram, Egypt’s most reputable paper reported the story, it was quickly dismissed as a hoax in Western media (which often happens whenever Islam makes the news in ways that do not comport with Western sensibilities). As one journalist argued, “This ugly rumor and hoax, thought to originate in a fatwa by [the aforementioned] sheikh Zamzami, a noted Moroccan cleric, should be doubted for the simple reason that no Egyptian Islamist sheikh, or any other Imam, has ever been reported to approve of necrophilia.”

That may have been true then, not now: In late 2017, necrophilia was again mentioned and legitimized, this time by Sheikh Sabri Abdul Raeuf, a professor at Egypt’s Al Azhar—the Islamic world’s most prestigious madrasa, which Pope Francis considers an ally. During a televised show in Egypt, the Sheikh-professor was asked if it is permissible for a husband to penetrate his wife after death. He replied, “It is not favorable in Islam; however Islamic law considers it as halal,” that is, permissible, not a crime or sin deserving of punishment in the here or hereafter.


A Youm7 Arabic report titled (in translation) “The Books of al-Shafi‘i, al-Hanbali, and al-Hanafi Reveal that Sex with a Dead Wife is Not Adultery,” verified the Al Azhar professor’s claims.


Be all the above as it may, I would be remiss not to point out that this entire excursus on Islam’s position concerning necrophilia should not be interpreted as meaning that “death-sex” is a normal or widespread activity among Muslim societies. Indeed, whenever it makes the news in the Arab world, most Muslims—as can be expected of most decent people of whichever creed—respond with incredulity and revulsion.

Rather, the point here is that Islamic jurisprudence is so legalistically slavish to old, sometimes bizarre, texts and often ambiguously worded as to legitimize much that is repugnant to modern sensibilities. Not only does this provide a moral—sometimes even pious—cover for deviants; it may attract them to Islam.

In other words, just as pedophiles, rapists, sex-slavers, misogynists, psychotic mass murderers, extortionists, those eager to be “breastfed” by women or drink camel urine, can find support in the teachings of Islam—in ways that the followers of other religions simply cannot—so too can those with depraved proclivities for the dead.

Hadith is written by just anybody... Al Quran is written by Prophet Mohammad PBUH as instructed by angel Gabriel

in simple analogy Quran is like the Bible, while hadith is like books written by your pastors

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This is one of the many lies against the messenger of Allah PBUH.

Al Qur'an is not written by the messenger of Allah PBUH but revealed/brought to him.

iammo:
Hadith is written by just anybody... Al Quran is written by Prophet mohammad pbuh as instructed by angel gabreil

Ok

The sheikh's madness is in the rubbish His madness is in the nonsense His madness is exhibiting in the thing that doesn't have experience at all...
Sheikh from hell!

madridguy:
Al Qur'an is not written by the messenger of Allah PBUH but revealed/brought to him.

we are saying the same thing.. brought by who? Jibril .. or Angel Gabriel , did the Angel write it himself in the caves? NO, did Mohammad an unlettered man at the time miraculously write it down ? YES.. did Shatan tried to have Mohammad include Allāt, al-'Uzzā and Manāt goddess of Mecca in the Quran YES ( as written by Muhammad ibn Ka'b).. Did Jibril appear to expressly warn Mohammad of th plot by Shaitan and to rebuke it, YES

Too many depravity mystical and magical teachings at the same time convincing the adherents that it is ok to do it.
Whether it be book or the book it is still too weird a story and must raise question marks in any mind that is honest.
Such stories are in the Bible but that was the old covenant. Just to show the crazy things men can do and to show how God was building up to..
The New covenant, which is simple and clean. Love God. Love your neighbour and accept the perfect sacrifice of Christ for our sins which we can never be free of by our own power or actions.
Let the veil fall from everyones eyes. A time is coming when it will be impossible to escape. 'O how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation' says Hebrews 2:3
Anything that bears evil fruits like terrorism beheading war and oppression of non members cannot be the will of the true God
Im not a pastor o but i feel all who are not in the sheepfold should be quick and come in now. John chap 10
At least google or get the Bible and read some stories ..compare the waka of Jesus to the waka of The Prophet. Ask yourself which one rings true which one seems pure ..which one talks to your spirit ringing like a bell. You know one must be wrong and one must be right. The choice is yours and fence hanging cant work .. if you come in it must be fully because thats where u will tap the power to withstand all opposition.

Much love to all

“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.” “A silent great soul, one of that who cannot but be earnest. He was to kindle the world, the world’s Maker had ordered so.”

[Thomas Carlyle in ‘Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History,’ 1840]

He even copied the whole post from Raymond Ibrahim

https://www.meforum.org/57825/islamic-necrophielia

Anyways! You're all numbskulls sha!

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