It is not difficult to come on a galloping moral horse and preach others for what it should be like. However, it is not so easy to see the realities on the ground and describe them as they are.
No matter how much you debate it, the matter whether a full veil or a partial one, the dabate would still remain endless. The best middle ground is that, as things stand in our society, let those who want to cover their face do so. Those who dont, again it is purely their own choice. In their hearts they know, whether they are doing right or wrong. If they believe it is ok in Islam to expose your feet, hands and face, it is their own matter and I do not think God will punish them unless they know really that it was not ok.
As to the blind marrying the prisoner, may I request you again to get off your bloody moral horse and do a little bit of introspection. Would you yourself marry a woman who is blind? Perhaps you are far to humane than the rest of us and would be willing to do so on moral grounds. But believe me this is not the case with everyone. It is not even a matter of Qatari's. No where in the world are people with disabilities preferred equally as normal people when it comes to choosing a spouse. That is a stark reality (and I must say I hate it that I belong to a species which is selfish by nature).
People should change their attitude. You are right. (Let us ride this moral horse together for a while). They should not discriminate on color of skin, financial status, physical appearance or the presence of any disability. A blind person is as human as someone who is not blind. An ill person is still as human as someone who is healthy. A poor human and a rich human are only different in monetary terms.
Realities, however, still exist. Prisoners too are not dirt under your bloody feet! They are also equally human. Committing a crime (or being sent to prison wrongly) does not make you an animal for the rest of your life.
I think it is a very welcome decision on the part of those who came up with this idea. If they are able to find some people among the prisoners who are already about to complete their terms, who do not have heinous crimes like murder, rape etc. to their name, who have pledged to live a normal life, there is nothing wrong if they are allowed to marry a blind woman--- even if that means a mild relaxation in their punishment.
It is not difficult to come on a galloping moral horse and preach others for what it should be like. However, it is not so easy to see the realities on the ground and describe them as they are.
No matter how much you debate it, the matter whether a full veil or a partial one, the dabate would still remain endless. The best middle ground is that, as things stand in our society, let those who want to cover their face do so. Those who dont, again it is purely their own choice. In their hearts they know, whether they are doing right or wrong. If they believe it is ok in Islam to expose your feet, hands and face, it is their own matter and I do not think God will punish them unless they know really that it was not ok.
As to the blind marrying the prisoner, may I request you again to get off your bloody moral horse and do a little bit of introspection. Would you yourself marry a woman who is blind? Perhaps you are far to humane than the rest of us and would be willing to do so on moral grounds. But believe me this is not the case with everyone. It is not even a matter of Qatari's. No where in the world are people with disabilities preferred equally as normal people when it comes to choosing a spouse. That is a stark reality (and I must say I hate it that I belong to a species which is selfish by nature).
People should change their attitude. You are right. (Let us ride this moral horse together for a while). They should not discriminate on color of skin, financial status, physical appearance or the presence of any disability. A blind person is as human as someone who is not blind. An ill person is still as human as someone who is healthy. A poor human and a rich human are only different in monetary terms.
Realities, however, still exist. Prisoners too are not dirt under your bloody feet! They are also equally human. Committing a crime (or being sent to prison wrongly) does not make you an animal for the rest of your life.
I think it is a very welcome decision on the part of those who came up with this idea. If they are able to find some people among the prisoners who are already about to complete their terms, who do not have heinous crimes like murder, rape etc. to their name, who have pledged to live a normal life, there is nothing wrong if they are allowed to marry a blind woman--- even if that means a mild relaxation in their punishment.