Masturbation will make your hands pregnant : Islamic Cleric Warns

A Muslim televangelist has given a stark warning to the world's masturbators, claiming during a live TV interview that their hands will become pregnant in the afterlife.

Mucahid Cihad Han made the comment after a questioner confessed that he "kept masturbating even though he was married".

Han, urged him to "resist Satan’s temptations", adding: "Moreover, one hadith states that those who have sexual intercourse with their hands will find their hands pregnant in the afterlife, complaining against them to God over its rights."

"If our viewer was single, I could recommend he marry, but what can I say now?''

'Istimna,' the Arabic term for masturbation, is a controversial issue in Islam and there are questions over whether it is permissible given that it is not clearly referenced in The Quran.

In a similarly baffling claim, an Iranian cleric earlier this month said that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.