(04-05-2024, 07:40 AM)Hope Wrote: Because Makkah was not liberated from idols worshipers .If Makkah had been the direction, your ancestors would have told ,we were worshiping to those idols.
Arabic is not a holy language. It is same as any other language.However We use Arabic to keep our religious Practices intact around the world.
Assuming that what you said is true, so Moslems faced some other random site even if that place was not a holy site? That does not stand up to logic.
And I don't know how speaking Arabic which I believe you can't, or reciting (a bit or all of) the Quran in Arabic would keep "our religious practices intact around the world", whatever that might mean.
Are you saying that Moslems are to speak like, eat like, dress like Arabs and effectively become Arabs in FORM even if they aren't Arabs in SUBSTANCE? So a Chinese girl, a Malay girl, a Caucasian girl aka AMDL would all wear the hijab, and their external appearance now look alike, like an Arab, and that's what being a GOOD Moslem should be?
And they greet one another in Arabic using the few phrases they learned by heart, and after that, for lack of an ability to really speak Arabic, chit chat in English?
Sounds pretty much like some religions which have lots of rituals, rules, and "practices", kinda regimented which my God of the Bible grants little importance to, afaik, because my God judges the man by his heart and not by you know....the Pharisees were pretty good at doing things according to the Law, and looking good...
I have to leave the house to work. Lots of dishes to be washed today, which is Saturday. You are lucky. Be grateful.