{"id":14670,"date":"2025-12-16T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14670"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:33:24","slug":"divine-rulings-or-oppression-taliban-ministers-view-on-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/divine-rulings-or-oppression-taliban-ministers-view-on-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Rulings or Oppression? Taliban Minister\u2019s View on Laws."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Divine Rulings or Oppression? Taliban Minister\u2019s View on Laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khalid Hanifi, Taliban Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, emphasized in an audio recording released by spokesperson Saif-ur-Islam Khyber that the Taliban\u2019s laws and decrees are based on \u201cdivine rulings,\u201d and human-made laws have no standing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He stated that strengthening and preserving the religion is a religious duty for all Afghan citizens, and everyone is obliged to follow and implement these laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the audio, Hanifi said: \u201cOur religion is built on divine laws, not human laws; therefore, ensuring its stability and preservation is our religious responsibility.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

These statements align with previous remarks by Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, who described his decrees as \u201cGod\u2019s commands\u201d rather than the decisions of individuals or groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, citing these \u201cdivine\u201d laws, the Taliban have for over four years barred women from education, work, and broad participation in social life, drawing widespread domestic and international criticism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Analysts suggest that this approach provides religious legitimacy for the restrictions and repression imposed by the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Divine Rulings or Oppression? Taliban Minister\u2019s View on Laws. Khalid Hanifi, Taliban Minister for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, emphasized in an audio recording released by spokesperson Saif-ur-Islam Khyber that the Taliban\u2019s laws and decrees are based on \u201cdivine rulings,\u201d and human-made laws have no standing. He stated that strengthening and preserving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14680,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14670\/revisions\/14680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}