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“I have conducted a search on several websites, about sexual relations amongst animals, and I have discovered that among many animals, if the male wants to mate with the female they go somewhere else. I mean, they don’t do it in front of all animals. In most cases this is done in front of the entire group, but in many cases there is a certain distancing. This is a matter of utmost importance. There is a nice story told by the Prophet Mohammed: In a group of monkeys, a female monkey mated with a female monkey, which was not the monkey that regularly mates her. He is not the monkey that she is used to. All the monkeys gathered and stoned the female monkey, when they saw her mating a monkey that is not her monkey. I am saying even though they are animals, and even though Allah does not judge them for their actions, there is a type of modesty in them. “

I am not a zoologist, but nowhere have I found such behaviour documented in biology books. More importantly, this methodology of devising Fatwa proofs is indeed interesting. I stopped for really long to look for the morale behind the story, “Act like monkeys?” Is it? How did the person narrating the story know the reason why the female monkey was being stoned? Was he living with the monkeys or did the monkeys tell him what has happened?  What if poor female monkey was being raped? What if she divorced her previous hubby? Of course, monkeys did not stone the male monkey for mating someone else's wife, but only stoned the unfaithful wife.

A research published in Current Biology shows that monkeys like porn and are willing to pay for it too. A male monkey would give up his juice to look at pictures of female monkey behinds. Why haven’t we seen any Shaikh claiming empirical proof on why watching porn is Halal and Islamically commendable? What about homosexual animals and those who masturbate?

It is saddening how proofs for some Sharia laws are being formulated; I would rather have them referred to as unexplained divine rules than hear someone use claimed monkey sex behaviour to back it up.