How to Make time to read the Quran
I read a book a few hours every day. I also love movies and watch at least two or three hours of classic Hollywood films every day. It often happens that I am asked by those who know me, how I have the time to spend so much time on entertainment, attend to my telecom business, blog 8 hours a day and still have time to read the Quran. I have a secret which I will share with you now:
My father told me long ago, that one of the reasons that many religious Jews can speak a number of languages and are mavens in so many non-religious disciplines is because of the Rabbinic suggestion that in order to prevent thinking about G-d or entertaining Holy Thoughts while on the toilet, one should bring a book on languages or mathematics or some other difficult subject and so keep the mind focused on something other than G-d. He explained that after a few years of so diverting one's thoughts from religious matters it was natural that Jews would excel in very many fields of learning.
I too, have taken up that habit and notwithstanding the attempt at humor in the photo above, I just finished for the third time in my life the Tales from 1001 Arabian Nights
What do you read while taking care of business?
Related:
My readers may recall when Newsweek ran a fabricated story that an American guard at the Guantanamo Bay detention center ripped pages from a prisoner's Koran and flushed it down a toilet and Muslims got all bent out of shape world-wide. But the world and Newsweek didn't get excited back in 2002 when Palestinians used the Bible as toilet paper:
WND, 18 May 2005, FLUSH TO JUDGMENT
Catholic priests in the church marking the spot where Jesus was believed to have been born said that during the five-week siege, Palestinians tore up some Bibles for toilet paper and removed many valuable sacramental objects, according to a May 15, 2002, report by the Washington Times.
Meanwhile, insulting Islam will land you in the slammer in Europe.
The Conservative Voice, 23 Feb 2006,
German Who Created Koran Toilet Paper ConvictedA German citizen was convicted of insulting the Islamic holy book by printing the word "Koran" repeatedly along toilet paper. The man ended up with a suspended sentence of one year in prison and was ordered to perform 300 hours of community service.