Televangelist claims masturbators will find their ‘hands get pregnant’ in the afterlife

Weird World: Turkish news source Hurriyet Daily News reported some potentially disturbing features about the afterlife today: masturbators may find their hands get pregnant.

Turkish social media went bananas, quickly followed by the rest of the world, when televangelist Mücahid Cihad Han made the curious pronouncement as he answered his viewers’ questions on private television station 2000 TV. Han seemed stumped when a viewer said he “kept masturbating, although he was married, and even during the Umrah,” a pilgrimage to Mecca performed by Muslims which can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the Hajj.

After repeating the question a few times, Han claimed that Islam strictly prohibits masturbation as a “haram” (forbidden) act. “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.”

Which begs the question ‘pregnant with what?’ Is this where the legend of Tom Thumb comes from? And what about Jimmy Nail?