Gulf Imams Issue Fatwa Against Mulims Travelling To Mars

[ghulam muhammed]

Gulf Imams Issue Fatwa Against Muslims Travelling To Mars

Likening attempts to send astronauts on a one way trip to the Red Planet to suicide, the clerics said no good Muslim could agree to go knowing he would not return.

The ruling was issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE), a group of imams in the United Arab Emirates.

It came after more than 500 people from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries were said to have signed up for a spot on the Mars One mission to the planet - a technically dubious attempt to send explorers to our nearest neighbour in space by 2025.

The Mars One mission would use a worldwide reality TV show to raise more than $6 billion, enough to send its selected team to the planet and give them a reasonable attempt at survival... it claims.

Experts point to the lack of solutions to problems such as radiation poisoning, fuel, landing and even waste disposal as evidence that the Mars One plan is not likely to succeed.

But just in case, the GAIAE issued its ruling to try and dissuade others from signing up. They said that according to the Quran suicide is forbidden and leaving on the mission would be akin to choosing death over life.

"Protecting life against all possible dangers and keeping it safe is an issue agreed upon by all religions and is clearly stipulated in verse 4/29 of the Holy Quran: Do not kill yourselves or one another. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful."

Mars, as you may recall, is a poisoning, irradiated death planet, 141.6 miles from the Sun, with an average temperature on the equator roughly equivalent to the poles on Earth, no breathable atmosphere, and almost no water.

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[Muslim First]

In a way fatwa is correct
Going one way will be certain death
Suicide is prohibited.

[M Taha]

In a way fatwa is correct
Going one way will be certain death
Suicide is prohibited.

breathing in populated/polution environment like china and India is also a slow suicide, none should go to India and China?

[Muslim First]

In a way fatwa is correct
Going one way will be certain death
Suicide is prohibited.

breathing in populated/polution environment like china and India is also a slow suicide, none should go to India and China?

Correct
But those billions living there, where will they go?

[anajmi]

What kind of idiotic Imams live in the Gulf? Why would I go to Mars to commit suicide? Not sure what these guys are smoking. If I am going to Mars, then obviously I am going to there to benefit mankind in some way and if that causes my death then so be it. Does Allah have the power to save me on Mars or no? Of course he does. So why would it be suicide?

[Bohra spring]

Well I hope these imams are equally concerned about loss of lives when Muslims are killing themselves in the wars that are on right now in dozens of countries

They are of course worried 500 people may not return

But what about 100,000s who have died on Syria , Bahrain , Egypt , Lebanon , Pakistan , I can go on if someone is unsure

[M Taha]

and same wahabi clerics allows suicide bombing in name of jihad.

[Nietzsche]

Hypocrisy... meanwhile, suicide bomber kills eleven in Pakistan. The way the planet is treated, staying here is eventually going to be more dangerous than living in communities established on Mars.

[salim]

I think intention of Fatwa was good. Also initiation of dialogs between science and religion is good too. The fatwa was not given outright rejecting the science, discussion and dialogs will improve these fatwas eventually.