Adhan in Turkish

The Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, as it was recited in Turkish. It replaced the Arabic Adhan in 1932 as part of Dictator Mustafa Kemal's reforms to "Turkify" and Westernise Turkey and was abolished in 1950 after years of campaigning (after Mustafa Kemal's death in 1938). Source: Time Magazine (USA), January 9, 1933, page 64: Squinting skyward last week, Turks looked for the new moon. When they should see it Ramadan would begin. Ramadan the mystic month in which the Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. This year the first glint of the new moon had a special, dread significance. Turks had been ordered by their stern dictator, Mustafa Kemal Pasha who made them drop the veil and the fez (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926 et seq.), that beginning with Ramadan they must no longer call their god by his Arabic name, Allah. No godly man, Dictator Kemal considers that there is no reason why Turks should not call Allah by his Turkish name Tanri. There is no reason except centuries of tradition, no reason except that Turkish imams (priests) all know the Koran by heart in Arabic while few if any have memorized it in Turkish. Strict to the point of cruelty last week was Dictator Kemal's decree that muezzins, calling the faithful to prayer from the top of Turkey's minarets, must shout not the hallowed "Allah Akbar!" (Arabic for "God is Great!") but the unfamiliar words "Tanri Uludur!" which mean the same thing in Turkish. When imams threatened to suspend services in the mosques and hide the prayer rugs, the Government announced that it was holding 400 brand-new prayer rugs in reserve, threatened to produce "newly trained muezzins who know the Koran in Turkish and are ready to jump into the breach." ......... Nearer & nearer crept the moon to crescent. Ramadan was almost upon Turkey when officials of the Department of Culture (which includes religion) screwed up their courage and told Dictator Kemal that he simply could not change the name of Turkey's god - at least not last week. Already several muezzins had been thrown into jail for announcing that they would continue to shout "Allah Akbar!" The populace was getting ugly, obviously sympathized with the Allah-shouters. Abruptly Dictator Kemal yielded "Let them pray as they please, temporarily" he growled. Beaming, his Minister rushed off to proclaim the glad respite only a few hours before the new moon appeared. "On account of the general unpreparedness of muezzins and imams," they suavely declared, "prayers may be offered and the Koran recited in Arabic during the present month of Ramadan, but discourse by the imams must be in Turkish." During Ramadan all Moslems are especially irritable because they eat nothing during the hours of daylight. After the fasting is over Turks will be more tractable, may accept from their Dictator a new name for their God. ..................... kemalist kemalizm şeriat anayasa kuran islam mosque sheikh türban devlet meclis tbmm tayyip baykal demirel mason sabatay yahudi israil israel filistin kudüs mescidi Laikler laiklik demokrasi sistem muhammed a.s müşrik putperest kafir Allah islam atheist ateizm başörtüsü basortusu turban fenerbahçe beşiktaş galatasaray trabzon müslim müslims atatürk müslüman şeyh terrorist media chp akp dsp army military usa soldier soldiers america england türkish liseli kızlar amerika asker Usame Bin Ladin Osama Laden taliban cihad islam çeçenistan şehid Şehadet filistin afganistan Direniş mücahid mujaheed jihad russian israel abd usa ırak ıraq bilal elazığ tevhid hattab komutan comander holy war chechen nohçiçu nahçiçye grozni goraj gorajne kaida kaide chechenya özgürlük basayev dudayev kudüs felluce juba sniper keskin nişancı kafkasya ortadoğu Chechnya nohci şeyh şamil azzam zerkavi nohchicou kudüs iman din religion Khilafah hilafet şeriat shariah ALLAH for için muslims laikler laik atatürk peygamber http://www.atajew.com/

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