So you want to be an Imam? Lisping naked farters need not apply!
And I hope those aren't "Depends" you're wearin...this came in the daily e-mail I receive from my Buds at Serenity Fountain.
Conditions for being an Imam
6- To be without an excuse. A person who has an excuse cannot be the imam for those who do not have an excuse. Excuses are: continuous bleeding at some part of the body, incontinence in wind-breaking or urination, repeated pronounciation of the letters “te” and “fe”, lisping, that is, pronouncing the letter “sin” as “se” (a letter which is pronounced with “th” sound) and the letter “ra” as “ghayn” (that is, voiced velar fricative instead of post-alveolar frictionless continuant), being without an ablution or being smeared with najasat in excess of one dirham, and being with bare awrat (genital) parts.
damn!
Oh? And which condition do you fail to meet;)
Where's the bit about school qualifications?
There are NO set/standard school or learning qualification to becoming an Imam. One need only be a Koranic scholar.
Though, it is usually required that any person who is to be considered a Koranic scholar must be fluent in the ancient Arabic in which the Koran is written, and must be able to recite the Koran. But, this is only an expectation and not a requirement.
What about capri pants?
John Calvin: “I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.”
And then there's that whole predestination thing...
Anyway, I guess I will have to slightly rework my strategy for the day we all have bow to the sword and change Islam from within.
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