WRITING HOLY QURAN WITH BLOOD IS ILLEGAL ACCORDING TO RELIGION - NEWSPAPER ABU DHABI, SEPT 25 (KUNA) -- A RELIGIOUS FIGURE FROM THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) ASSERTED THAT WRITING THE HOLY QUORAN WITH BLOOD IS ILLEGAL ACCORDING TO RELIGION.
THE ADVISOR OF THE UAE PRESIDENT FOR LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS, AL-SHEIKH AL-SAYYED ALI AL-HASHEMI, SAID IN A STATEMENT TO "AL-KHALEEJ" NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED ON MONDAY, THAT WRITING THE HOLY QUORAN WITH BLOOD WHICH IS IMPURE IS A SIGN OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION AL-HASHEMI'S STATEMENT CAME AS A COMMENT TO REPORTS THAT IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN WROTE THE HOLY QURAN WITH HIS BLOOD.
HE ADDED THAT OTHER SIGNS OF THE RESURRECTION DAY IS WHEN SCHOLARS OF RELIGION, WHO ISSUE DECREES, DIE AND OTHERS WHO DENY THE RIGHT COME.
AL-HASHEMI ALSO CALLED ON ALL MOSLEM SCOLARS TO DENOUNCE THESE ACTS WHICH HE DESCRIBED AS A WASTE OF LIFE AND RELIGION.
THE NEWSPAPER ALSO QUOTED THE ISLAMIC SCHOLAR DR.MUSTAFA AL-SHAKAA AS SAYING THE HOLY QURAN IS A PURE BOOK WHICH SHOULD NOT BE WRITTEN IN BLOOD.
THIS ACT, AL-SHAKAA SAID IS AGAINST THE SANCTITY OF THE HOLY QURAN BOOK.
HE POINTED OUT THAT HUMAN BEING BLOOD IS NOT ENOUGH TO WRITE A WHOLE BOOK AND SAID THE BLOOD IS IMPURE TO USE FOR WRITING THE HOLY QUORAN.
AL-SHAKAA ALSO SAID THAT THE HOLY QUORAN SHOULD BE WRITTEN BY INK SPECIALIZED FOR THIS PURPOSE.
FOR HIS PART, MEMBER OF THE ISLAMIC RESEARCHES CENTER AND FORMER HEAD IN THE HOLY QUORAN AND ITS SCIENCES SECTION IN KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY MOHAMMED AL-RAWI SAID THE WHOLE MATTER IS RUBBISH AND SHOULD NOT BE SAID BE A PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY OR A WISE PERSON. (END) TA.OHD KUNA 251248 Sep 00NNNN