Another heart warming story from the "Religion of Peace" -- It would appear that a pair of Oscar fish will become objects of Muslim worship.
One wonders when the shrine will be built for the lucky fish couple? I understand that Saudi Arabia has uncounted billions available for such awesome projects of faith. Perhaps in time Liverpool will become the Mecca of Europe.
Meanwhile scores of Muslim pilgrims make their way to the soon-to-be Holy Muslim City.
Muslim worshippers are flocking to see a pair of fish in the British city of Liverpool which appear to bear the words "Allah" and "Mohammed", their owner said.
Ali Al-Waqedi, 23, who hailed the colored Oscar fish as a "message from God," said he had loaned them to a friend whose house was close to the local mosque so that worshippers could visit more easily.
"I would say at least one hundred people have been there since I bought the fish last week," Waqedi said.
Sheikh Sadek Kassem, imam of Liverpool's Al-Rahma mosque, said: "This is a proof and a sign not just to Muslims, but for everyone."
He quoted a passage from the Koran which suggested Allah will send signs. It reads: "Soon we will show them our signs in the regions, and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the truth."
Waqedi said he went into a local pet shop to show his children the animals but he had not been planning to buy anything.
"We started to have a look at the Oscar fish because they had such an unusual colour. Then I saw that one of them had the word Allah. It was so clear, and it made me very happy," he said.
"Then we saw that another one had the word Mohammed, and that was even better. To see the Allah fish was exciting, but to have the Allah and Mohammed fish in the same tank was unbelievable."
"Then we saw that another one had the word Mohammed, and that was even better. To see the Allah fish was exciting, but to have the Allah and Mohammed fish in the same tank was unbelievable."
Allah is the word for God in Arabic and Mohammed is the prophet who received the word of God, the Koran, through the angel Gabriel.
"I believe it is a message from Allah to me, a reminder, and it makes my faith even stronger," Waqedi said.
* No picture yet available of the sacred fish couple.
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