{"id":15224,"date":"2026-01-24T02:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:41:04","slug":"claim-of-divine-approval-for-taliban-rule-amid-slave-references-in-official-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/claim-of-divine-approval-for-taliban-rule-amid-slave-references-in-official-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Claim of divine approval for Taliban rule amid \u201cslave\u201d references in official documents."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Claim of divine approval for Taliban rule amid \u201cslave\u201d references in official documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, leader of the Taliban, recently stated that supporting the Taliban government \u201cbrings honor in this world and the hereafter\u201d and that this system reflects \u201cGod\u2019s approval\u201d and benefits the people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the same time, civil activists and citizens cite the Taliban\u2019s \u201cCriminal Code of Courts\u201d (Principles of the Taliban Judiciary), which defines citizens effectively as slaves (\u201cghulam\u201d) obligated to obey and support the regime\u2014a concept critics argue violates basic human rights and dignity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Taliban leader further described support for the regime not only as a religious duty but also as a path to salvation and success, insisting that the system\u2019s legitimacy is based on Sharia and that opposition is religiously unjustifiable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These statements come amid widespread public criticism over social restrictions, the exclusion of women from education and work, economic crisis, widespread poverty and unemployment, lack of political participation, concentrated power, absence of accountability mechanisms, and suppression of dissenting views.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Taliban leaders, however, dismiss these criticisms as \u201cenemy propaganda\u201d or the result of misunderstanding their religious perspective.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim of divine approval for Taliban rule amid \u201cslave\u201d references in official documents. Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, leader of the Taliban, recently stated that supporting the Taliban government \u201cbrings honor in this world and the hereafter\u201d and that this system reflects \u201cGod\u2019s approval\u201d and benefits the people. At the same time, civil activists and citizens cite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224","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=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15234,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions\/15234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}