If it’s haram to defend criminals, there will be no Muslim lawyers, says Wan Junaidi


KUALA LUMPUR: If it is sinful for lawyers to receive payments from those who had committed a crime, then there would be no Malay Muslim lawyers in the country, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (pic).

Wan Junaidi was referring to remarks made by Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin, who recently said Islam forbade Muslim lawyers from protecting wrongdoers or sinners, and it was sinful to accept service payment from offenders.

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