SSridhar wrote:Selected SUCH GUP from this week's TFT
Heartfelt prayer
The lead cleric of the Tableeghi Jamaat is a most pious gentleman, as to be expected, given that he delivers the main sermon at the annual congregation in Raiwind. His family is equally God-fearing, especially his lady wife. The only fly in this lady’s ointment is that she is a fanatical fan of the Indian (and, Heaven forbid, Hindu) Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan. Our mole reports that the lady follows Rai’s films and career with a diligence only reserved by traditional women for their nearest and dearest. Recently, the entire family went to the Holy Land to perform their Umra. While there, Mrs Cleric was observed to be in concentrated prayer. It transpired that she was praying for Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan, and she instructed the rest of the family to follow suit. They all prayed that Ms Rai-Bachchan see the light of day and convert to Islam. “Only when she becomes a Muslim”, Mrs Cleric told a friend on her return to Lahore, “will I rest in peace.”
But then inquiring (and Kafir) minds would like to know how
Begum Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan would be able to entertain Mrs Cleric with her films if she sees the true light of the Only Religion of Peace? Surely it is forbidden for a pious Muslim woman to act in haram films opposite Males who are not her husband? (And any movie with her husband would probably bomb in the box office!).
Also wouldn't her time be better spent in trying to convert other infidels in that den of sin called Bollywood rather than acting as a scantily clad heroine in some movie for the enjoyment of Mrs Cleric?
It would also be interesting to know what Mrs Cleric's reaction was after seeing Dhoom2? Did she blush under her shuttlecock burkha? Does she secretly look at pictures of Ash when she was competing for Miss World in, ahem, revealing (lack of) clothes?
It would be even more interesting to know what would happen if despite the holy prayers from such a holy family in the holiest of holy places Ash still remains an infidel? Does that mean any of these:
a) The Holy family is not HOLY enough and so their prayers were not answered?
b) The Holy place is not HOLY enough? Or
c) The Big Man to whom all the prayers are sent to loves Hindi films too much to allow Ash to convert and stop acting and be a role model for other actresses, including some from Pureland?
Of course one could be rude and think of point D.
d) Ash's Kufir Big Man is Bigger than the Big Man to whom the Holy persons sent their Holy prayers to and so the (small) Big Man couldn't do anything that would displease the (big) Big Man?
On a more serious note: If this gupsup has an element of truth I think it shows the daily contradictions that even the pious in the land of the Pure face. Her genes make her love Ash, her movies and the Indic society they represent. And yet she can't relax and enjoy them because its haram according to her interpretation (
this is an important point folks, lets not tar everyone with the same feather) of her religion. So what better way to resolve the conflict? Get Ash to covert to Izlam. As usual someone else is expected to accommodate the Paqui while they make not effort on their part to change!
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