Polio Vaccination and the Muftis

According to a news report 49 Muftis of Ahl-e Sunnat wal Jama’t have given the Fatwa that Polio Vaccination is not un-Islamic. 

It is sincerely hoped that these Fatwas would do the necessary damage control for the ignorant who have been in the name of Islam waylaid by the crafty clerics and muftis into believing that the polio vaccine contains haraam ingredients and/or more comically ingredients that induce impotency and affect the reproductive organs of the male and female ! To lend credibility to their such damaging fatwas they had come up with their pet conspiratorial theory of Hanood o Yahood against Islam!!

Incidentally, where from Muftis in such abundant numbers and huge fat bellies come to regulate our lives?  Are they the graduates from some Mufti Degree Awarding Institution(s) or they just prefix the title to their names by themselves?  Isn’t there a possibility of conflicting Fatwas on the same some issue in the presence of hundreds of such Muftis around? And, then who is their Mufti-e-Azam, whose verdict would be taken as the final and the ultimate one? Surely, their number can be reduced to an appropriate single digit for better, harmonious and unanimous interpretation of any doubts pertaining to the religion and the religious matters.  It will also do away with the issuance of the Fatwas like the one against the Polio vaccination.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)