i got thiz in mail by my uncle so i thougt to share w/u.
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**Dear All,
PLEASE CALL OUR MASJID “MASJID”! Not “MOSQUE”!!!
Please read this and pass it on to any Muslims, as much as you can.
It is a vital and important information. Muslims should now refrain
from using the term “Mosque”. I was flipping through this book the
other day called “THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING ISLAM”
(he-he, they call themselves idiots) and it is filled with fun
facts. One of them concerns the term “Mosque.” So many of us think
that this is the English translation of Masjid. I’m sure none of us
ever wondered how this term came into being when it really had
little in common with how it sounded compared to ‘Masjid’. (We were
very young when we were taught this English word. Our mind then were
not critical & analytical, so didn’t dare to ask/challenge our
teachers, right?). Anyway this book pointed out that the term
‘mosque’ is derived from the Spanish word for “mosquito.” It was
termed as such because during the Crusades, King Ferdinand said they
were going to go and swat the Muslims “like mosquitoes”. (Where else
can they find Muslims in large number to be swatted if not in a
Masjid?). So, they cheekily termed “Masjid” as Mosque". So dear
Muslim brothers and sisters, refrain from using this term which is
obviously a disgusting slap in the face to the Ummah. Educate our
brothers and sisters to the history and etymology of this word. And
let us replace it with the word which is MEANT to be used: Masjid!
The Place of Prostration!! Not Mosque: the place to be swatted! If
any of you have doubts about this, then please go look for the book and read it.
Well King Ferdinand was known as Catholic leader or preist kinda person he did expeled the jews from spain, win the war against muslim granada kingdom or what ever it was called & the story is from late 1490’s or maybe from early 1500’s… so who knows.
The writer of "Complete Idiot" is idiot himself. The word Mosque first came to English in the late 14th or early 15th century from French mosquée, and the French got it from Italian moschea. The Italians got it from Arabic masgid, which derived from sagada "to worship".
