 Muslim clerics at a leading seminary in India have asked people not to use verses from the Quran as ringtones for their mobile phones, saying the practice was un-Islamic.
| "Nope. Nope. Can't do it." |
Clerics at the Dar-ul Uloom seminary in the northern Indian town of Deoband issued an edict banning the use of Quran verses or Muslim call to prayers as ringtones, saying doing so violates Islamic law.
| "It'll turn yez into a pillar of salt." |
Quran verses "are not meant for entertainment", seminary official Mohammad Asumin Qazmi said yesterday.
| "In fact, for Muslims, nothing is meant for entertainment." |
"Anyone who persists in using these should be killed ostracised from society," Qazmi said over telephone from Saharanpur, a city 450km northwest of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state |