> [x} > Is there a rite before the recital of the Quran? a mental > orientation of > sorts, a prayer/meditation perhaps?. > Thank you for taking the time to educate me, it is very > enlightening.
[Khaled] You mentioned Oral tradition. The whole world was running on oral tradition until the last 200 years or so. That's one of the reason the church kept the bible in Latin, so few can read for themselves. Somewhere around 500 AD in Arabia there used to be a market called Oukath. "Souk Oukath" where you would go and buy poetry. The poetry used to hang on scrolls and the name given to them is the "hangings". AlMoua'alakat. I wish I knew ( or remember) more about them from my previous education 30 years ago. The jest of it is that you went there and bought poetry/literature. So when the qura'an came it had to upstage that, hence the fluidity and ease of memorization and its poetry. Yes most people were illiterate and by doing that, the tolls of the religion were put in people's hand, and not the priest, the minister or the church. When you say the word mosque or masjid in the Muslim world, or even the word synagog, you are talking about a building. There is no such thing as the Christian Church with a Capita "C". Talk about democracy. In fact the Muslim community can make their own rules as they see fit for the particular environment where they live and don't have to get a Fatwa from Mecca Or Cairo. i.e. IF ( a big if) the purpose of wearing a head scarf is to be modest and NOT ATTRACT ATTENTION, and wearing a scarf on the streets of London, Paris or Stockholm would attract attention, then the local community can say, well you can dress modestly and go on the street without a scarf, and that would attract less attention. Then you are following the spirit of the law and not the letter of the law. Unfortunately, few see that. khaled moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
