The Revival Goes YouTube- The Intro

Talk about that boy who got stabbed for not memorising the quran.

Or about that girl who somehw got married to the Quran? 

WHAT?

It was in the news. Happnd in some backwater village.

Whats that all about?

This reminds me of a book I read a number of years back. There was a girl who got on well with her older brother. They were from a wealthy family in Pakistan. The girl was about to get married to a well to do chap who she liked but then her brother died and she was do be the heir to the family fortune so to protect this fortune, her parents made her into a "Holy Woman" (marrying the Quran) and she wasn't happy initially, but it's a real rollercoaster of emotions story.

The book was called The Holy Woman. Very entertaining.

Didn't realise that things like that actually happened in real life too.

Yep. I remember reading this. And it wasnt in some backwater village or anything. The people doing this werent uneducated folk either, they were educated ministers.

Not read or even heard of the book but it sounds crazy.

Same, but I'm more interested/concerned about this news story in which it was actually done in real life :S

In the book (and in the news story, if anyone else knows about it) how exactly did they make them "marry" the Qur'an?! Is it like becoming a nun or something? 

I have never ever heard of such a thing in my whole existance. What is the world coming to?! The Quran belongs to Allah so obviously if Allah doesn't give permission but the parents do, it still isn't valid, so how exactly does this 'marriage' even work?!

Its more or less like telling a 12 year old that they are going to become a nun for the rest of your life. No choice. With any dreams or hopes of marriage or children obliterated.

According to the news article it was done to keep the family wealth within the family. And in order to legitamise it they give it a religious overtone.

Pisses me off when people abuse Islam like that.

It was like that in the book too.

Yeah, it's like becoming a nun / religious teacher (Aalima)

http://books.google.fr/books/about/The_holy_woman.html?id=m2NbAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y

Celibacy isn't something thats allowed in Islam, so why someone would do that, i don't know. Being a nun and a religious teacher are very far from each and i don't think they should be used together at all. Religious teachers are not nuns. They have a married life too, not to a holy book, but to a human being. If such a person reached a higher status in terms of knowledge, i am so sure they would know how wrong the concept of 'marrying a Quran is' and how wrong their parents were for thinking such a thing. 

I was talking about the book I read.

The woman in the book is a nun (in that she's not allowed to marry) and she's a religious teacher (Aalima) also.

I agree that:

"If such a person reached a higher status in terms of knowledge, i am so sure they would know how wrong the concept of 'marrying a Quran is' and how wrong their parents were for thinking such a thing"

You should read the book. It's full of "typical" characters. Very entertaining.

Do a response video to this http://t.co/5C0ouIVn and such "dawah" giving mentality

OMG, this is sick...

We should be reporting this...

It's vile and thuggish.

This is messed up. Theres no such thing as a Muslim area. This is thug like behaviour. Im surprised no one reported these guys to the police.

Yes it is thuggish and I hate the fact that they are acting as though they represent all Muslims/Islam. However even if you ignore their thuggish behaviour, they still, like others, would think shoving your opinion down someone's throat is a good way to make people think differently. They are ignoring the importance of respect and so on and so forth. I think it'd be a good topic to talk about. Ed can add in the whole "walking talking adverts for Islam" slogan too.

Is that Ed's slogan. He's said that to me before now. It did make me think about what I do. It's a cool one liner.

Gosh, that video was horrible. Such misrepresentation of Islam... YouTube has taken it down now anyway.

And that is a cool one liner, definately try bring it up at some point in the Vlogs.

tis in MB's area. i hope him, and his mates and all the decent muslims who live in this area had a word with those guys.