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“No Obligation in Religion”
Kamangir | October 2, 2007 | Category Human Rights, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic
“There is no obligation in the religion (Quran - Bull: 256). There is no obligation in God’s religion, don’t ban water on people!” The English translation of a Persian graffiti on a water cooler in Tehran metro.In order to observe fasting in the holy month of Ramadan, eating and drinking in public is seriously discouraged and can result in punishment. As a result, water coolers are shut down in public places. The text above shows that not everyone likes the mandatory practice of public fasting.
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What if someone faints from dehydration in the metro and water is needed to revive him? What about little children? Pregnant women? Old frail people?
Just what I meant to ask as well, Noga.
It’s really more likely the water cooler wasn’t working that day.
Kamangir: Have you ever been in Iran?
For the one who was brave enough to write this, there is only this….
Damet Garm!
Yes I have been to Tehran on several occasions. That is beside the point however, and I don’t like how you always put Iranians on a pedestal.
Kamangir: I put Iranians on a pedestal? I asked if you have been to Iran to make sure you are serious in saying “maybe the cooler was broke”. I guess having been in Iran for “several occasions”, you find yourself eligible to argue against someone who has lived there for a long while.
it is just the same in our campus … not only all water coolers are shut. they have set their security gaurds too to check and walk through corridors just in case!
Kamangir: For the information of our apologist friends here. :)
Maybe they just want to make sure no bad poetry is written during Ramadan:
Nulla placere diu nec vivere carmina possunt
Quae scribuntur aquae potoribus. Hor. Epist. I.19
[No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last,
Which is written by water drinkers.]