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Egypt imam criticizes listening to Quran in public
[Al Arabiya Latest] A top Egyptian scholar stirred controversy this week after he issued a fatwa restricting the places that Muslims can listen to the Quran, which had been vehemently rejected by the government in Cairo. Sheikh Gamal Qutb, former head of the Fatwa Committee at the world's top Sunni institution al-Azhar, stated in an interview with a local paper that people should not listen to recitations of Islam's holy book while at work, on public transport or in stores. "Listening to Quran in public and crowded places implies lack of respect," he said. "People who do that deal with Quran with carelessness" Qutb argued that people who listen to the Quran while doing something else are not concentrating enough and may be distracted. The fatwa, or religious edict, stirred much controversy among al-Azhar scholars and Egypt's Dar al-Iftaa, the government institution in charge of issuing fatwas, rebutted the fatwa. Posted by: Fred 2009-09-01 |
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