What , One should circumcise!!!!!!!!!!?
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Salaams All,
JUST FOR INFO .
Let us look to the Koran and ask what it says about circumcision. Very strangely, there is no reference at all to either male or female circumcision. Muslims generally ignore this fact. The word "circumcision" does not exist in the Koran, and this book does not even mention Abraham's circumcision although it does honor Abraham as the first Muslim and the model of the believers.
The only explicit references in the Koran are in two verses -- 288 and 4155 -- which use the term "uncircumcised" in a metaphorical, non-literal sense associated with "hearts" (qulubuna ghulufun), in reference to the Jews. Here are these two verses
And they say Our hearts are wrapped (qulubuna ghulufun). Nay, but Allah hath cursed them for their unbelief. Little is that which they believe (28.
Then because of their breaking of their covenant, and their disbelieving in the revelation of Allah, and their slaying of the prophets wrongfully, and their saying Our hearts are wrapped (qulubuna ghulufun). - Nay, but Allah hath set a seal upon them for their disbelief, so that they believe not save a few (4155).
The term ghulfah means a foreskin or a cover. Muslims translate this expression into English by "our hearts are sealed" or "our hearts are hardened or wrapped". They never understood it as a reference to circumcision.
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem 1(12)
We can then conclude that the Koran, contrary to the Jewish Bible and the New Testament, is basically silent on the matter of circumcision. In the wake of this silence, some people have tried to give their own interpretations of some verses to support male circumcision. Others have used other verses as arguments against male and female circumcision.
Gods Blessings.
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Let us look to the Koran and ask what it says about circumcision. Very strangely, there is no reference at all to either male or female circumcision. Muslims generally ignore this fact. The word "circumcision" does not exist in the Koran, and this book does not even mention Abraham's circumcision although it does honor Abraham as the first Muslim and the model of the believers.
Practice of Circumcision is barbaric regardless if scripture proscribes it or not! What does God want with human foreskins? -)
Though circumcision is also performed for medical reasons and that may be acceptable!How did this bloody practice get into rituals of Abrahamic religions still is a mystery.
Regards,