Curing Alcoholism the Muslim Way
Nice head you have there—shame if something happened to it:
Following are excerpts from a sermon delivered by Egyptian cleric Mahmoud Al-Masri, which aired on Al-Nas TV on August 10, 2009.
My dear brothers, we want to repent, and we want to take by the hand those people who have not yet repented. We should feel pity for them. … We should act like doctors who care for the sick.
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I’d like to tell you a very nice story. Once there was a Muslim who lived next to a Jew. The Muslim saw in the Jew a measure of goodheartedness – however small – and he wanted to find any way to make him convert to Islam. So he went to him and asked: “Don’t you feel the need for Islam? Why don’t you become a Muslim?” The Jew said: “The only thing preventing me from becoming a Muslim is that I love drinking alcohol. I would have become a Muslim ages ago, but the only thing stopping me is that I am an alcoholic.”
The Muslim devised a plan. He said: “No problem – become a Muslim, and continue to drink.” The Muslim didn’t meant this, of course, but he said to him: “Become a Muslim, and continue to drink.” The Jews said: “Fine.” He said: “I proclaim that there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.” The Muslim said to him: “Now you have become a Muslim. If you drink alcohol, we will carry out the punishment for drinking alcohol on you, and if you renounce Islam, we will kill you.” So the man remained a Muslim and never drank alcohol again. This was a nice trick by this good Muslim.
A nice trick by a good Muslim—why didn’t Major Hasan try that instead of going all Rambo on his fellow Americans?
Just in case you were wondering what the punishment is for drinking alcohol while Muslim, there is some debate. But lashes are involved. Might as well make it a double, then.
Who else but an Egyptian cleric could tell such an uplifting, warmhearted story?
Carol said,
November 10, 2009 @ 7:26 am
That is so sweet. I wish he would next tell the story about the Jew with the tiny little heart the size of a dried-up walnut who would have converted to Islam but for the fact that the Jew realized it was a total and complete crock. (Realizing that Islam is a complete and total crock is how you can tell that the Jew had a tiny little heart the size of a dried-up walnut, you see.) I think that one ends with the Jew cut to ribbons and beheaded. Possibly poisoned, too.
I just love Islamic Fairy Tales.
Joe O'Neill said,
November 10, 2009 @ 9:23 am
Did you hear the one about the generous jew ?