...thank you Ma'am.
Posted on 10/30/2010 10:06:13 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Saudi Arabia has reassured Muslims worldwide that there will be no shortage of Zamzam water as more than two million pilgrims prepare to converge on Makkah, Islam’s holiest shrine, local newspapers reported on Friday.
“The water level of the Zamzam Well at the Grand Mosque has increased,” they quoted Yousif Al-Wabil, Assistant Deputy President for Affairs of the Grand Mosque, as saying.
“This has happened because many private wells dug by citizens are no longer draining water from the Zamzam Well.”
Al-Wabil said the previous homeowners in Al-Shamyia neighborhood in the holy city had dug these wells in their houses and linked them to their water tanks.
“Muslims all over the world can be assured that there will not be a shortage of Zamzam water,” he said as Makkah prepares to receive Moslem pilgrims for the annual Haj season, which is expected to start in late November.
He said all the distribution points in Makkah are provided with a sufficient quantity of Zamzam water, adding that the Prophet’s Mosque in Madina will be provided with tankers of Zamzam water on a daily basis.
Al-Wabil rejected accusations that women are only given small areas to pray in the Grand Mosque.
He said that more than 50 per cent of the area on the first and second floors has been allocated for women.
“The presidency draws up its plans for the Umrah and Haj seasons several months beforehand, to ensure a high standard of services to worshippers….it mobilises more than 5,702 employees, supported by thousands of cleaners and maintenance workers, to serve and care for pilgrims around-the-clock."
He said the presidency, a government department in charge of the development of the two holy Moslem cities, also assigns scholars, who speak a variety of languages, to enlighten pilgrims and help them perform the rituals properly.
Al-Wabil said the presidency also allows Umrah pilgrims, visitors and worshippers to bring small amounts of dates and coffee into the Grand Mosque.
“But the mosque’s police and the presidency’s staff strictly monitor worshippers to make sure they do not bring large amounts of food with them.”
About the phenomenon of the reservation of places at the Grand Mosque, he said this illegal activity becomes more prevalent in the last 10 days of Ramadan.
“Most of those who resort to this method are foreigners, who do so for purely financial gain..these people reserve places overlooking the Holy Ka’ba.”
“Those who do so will be arrested. Many were arrested last Ramadan and referred to the responsible authorities for punishment.” he said.
>> Saudi Arabia has reassured Muslims worldwide that there will be no shortage of Zamzam water
How could anyone *possibly* think Islam is a strange, murderous cult fabricated around a pedophile and a moon god?
They seem so rational.
...thank you Ma'am.
I’m Catholic. (I’m not a priest.) They don’t seem so strange to me.
Careful fella! Christianity has many such traditions.
Not sound, fundamental New Testament Christianity.
The last time I checked, Acts 5:15 and 19:12 were part of the New Testament.
Nice time and place for a big nuke.
In those verses, I see no commandment from God to perform those rituals on a continuing basis, merely an anecdotal description of behavior at one time and in one place.
These were believers at the time of the Apostles. If choosing to emulate them is not "authentic New Testament Christianity," then the term has no meaning.
>> If choosing to emulate them is not “authentic New Testament Christianity,” then the term has no meaning.
FRiend, the term New Testament Christian has very definite meaning, and mimicking willy-nilly the actions of random, unnamed New Testament characters has no part in it.
See John 13:34-35,and James 1: 26-27.
Were that the case, there would not be thousands of competing definitions of what it is.
See John 13:34-35,and James 1: 26-27.
The commandment of love and the perfect law of liberty do not preclude Christians from investing Peter's shadow and Paul's relics with awe.
The commandment of love would rather enjoin you not to uncharitably characterize their actions as inauthentically Christian and the law of liberty would allow any Christian to emulate their practices, which were not condemned by the Scriptures.
What we should do is everyone drink a lot of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and then take a huge whizz in the well...Should raise the level a bit more.
>> Were that the case, there would not be thousands of competing definitions of what it is.
The Lord does not desire that there be “thousands of competing definitions” of Christianity. 1 Corinthians 1:10-13
>> The commandment of love and the perfect law of liberty do not preclude Christians from investing Peter’s shadow and Paul’s relics with awe.
You can hold them in awe without turning them into a ritual, or mimicking them on a regular basis, when there is no such command to do so.
>> The commandment of love would rather enjoin you not to uncharitably characterize their actions as inauthentically Christian
Christian love does not extend to putting one’s head in the sand when Christianity is perverted by the whims of men. In fact, just the opposite: it is unloving to let a soul into eternal damnation when speaking out would affect a different outcome.
But, as Paul said in his letter to the Philippians, “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling”.
FRegards
>> drink a lot of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and then take a huge whizz in the well...
Great idea, but I don’t like Pabst Blue Ribbon. Do you think it would be okay if I give it to my pigs to drink and whizz? They’ll drink pretty much any brand.
Why not just dump some poison down a well upstream of Zam Zam .. sounds like there are plenty of them...
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