The Original Dhu'l-Faqar

[AhmedH]

Originally Posted by ariel

Never knew Turks to be so teary-eyed and gullible.... Must have been hell of a love story to force them to circumvent every known museum protocol:-)

While I was still in my second year in the Faculty of Archaeology, I had the opportunity to get acquainted to the Imam of the Mosque near our house; where we prayed our Friday congregational prayer. That man was a lecturer in al-Azhar University, and he was very academic in his speeches and Friday lectures. When talking about the Battle of Uhud (624 or 625 CE), he kept on lecturing us for two years (i.e. about 104 Friday lectures)!!! He was very well-informed, educated, pragmatic, liberal, etc. After each Friday lecture, he would sit with his companions and talk with them until the afternoon prayer time came. From October or November 1996, I started being one of his companions; the youngest one actually...aged only 20 years!