Turkmenistan President orders his own words be inscribed alongside Koran verses!

Society Religion & Philosophy
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**The president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, has ordered that his own words be inscribed alongside verses of the Koran on a new mosque being built just outside the capital Ashgabat, intended to be the biggest in all Asia. **

There is a 50-metre-high dome, which has just been set into place by helicopter, and minarets twice as tall, towering above Turkmenbashi’s ancestral village, the site chosen for what Mr Niyazov hopes will become a place of pilgrimage.

Now he has gone further and ordered that the facade will be inscribed with phrases from the Ruhnama - the Book of the Soul - a collection of his musings which is required reading in schools.

The presidents critics in exile accuse him of deliberately propagating the impression that he is almost a prophet but Turkmenbashi himself has always been careful to avoid going too far towards sacrilege.

Turkmenistan as a Muslim country has a board of Islamic scholars - or Muftiat - in charge of religious affairs.

In March, the authorities arrested the chief Mufti, Nasrullah Ibn Ibadullah, and sent him to jail for more than 20 years.

It is not clear why.

Some say he was accused of being involved in a plot to assassinate Turkmenbashi but there is also talk that he was planning to set up an Islamic party, presumably finding support among those who find the president’s semi-religious dimension unacceptable.
Turkmenistan President orders his own words be inscribed alongside Koran verses!

Some people got some big egos comparing his own words to the koran is a step too far even for a dictator!

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Thats sad.

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Quran 9:107-108
*And there are those who put up a mosque by way of mischief and infidelity to disunite the believers and in preparation for one who warred against Allah and His apostle aforetime. They will indeed swear that their intention is nothing but good; but Allah doth declare that they are certainly liars.

Never stand thou forth therein. There is a mosque whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety; it is more worthy of thy standing forth (for prayer) therein. In it are men who love to be purified; and Allah loveth those who make themselves pure.

Which then is best? he that layeth his foundation on piety to Allah and His good pleasure? or he that layeth his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? And it doth crumble to pieces with him into the fire of Hell. And Allah guideth not people that do wrong.

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HE is psycho ...he has made it compulsory that any one who wants to do some govt job has to give test from his book ....

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ugh. He’s a psycho alright.

:rolleyes: yeah okay.

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This is the same guy who made it illegal for men in his country to wear beards or have long hair. Strange indeed!

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well give some weirdos in our country a chance and they will do the exact opposite..

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That is very wierd.

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Tawba Astaghfar.