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Submitted by ertmanc on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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A Border Passage
"What it was to be Muslim was passed on not, of course, wordlessly, but without elaborate sets of injunctions or threats or decrees or dictates as to what we should do and be and believe. What was passed on, besides the very general basic beliefs and moral ethos of Islam, which are also those of its sister monotheisms, was a way of being in the world. A way of holding oneself in the worldin relation to God, to existence, to other human beings.... And all of these ways of passing on attitudes, morals, beliefs, knowledgethrough touch and the body and in words spoken in the living momentare by their very nature subtle and evanescent. They profoundly shape the next generation, but they do not leave a record in the way that someone writing a text about how to live or what to believe leaves a record. Nevertheless, they leave a far more important and, literally, more vital, living record. Beliefs, morals, attitudes passed on to and impressed on us through those fleeting words and gestures are written into our very lives, our bodies, our selves, even into our physical cells and into how we live out the script of our lives." (121-122)
This quote is very touching, in the sense that it is very true. Many people believe what they do because of the tradition of word of mouth. Most religions, if not all, receive their morals and beliefs by word of mouth. Generation to generation words and beliefs are being taught. The Muslim religion is just one of the many religions taught through other people. If one thinks about how a religion is started it is usually because of one or many people who write down their beliefs and stories. The sura that Leila Ahmed talks about in the next paragraph was taught to her by her grandmother. Ahmed learned and knows that sura by the way her grandmother taught it to her. Ahmed learned a lot of things from her grandmother or others throughout the book.
This is how religions and morals get started. A different...
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