A Muslim wrote a letter to the editor of the Jammat newspaper and
complained that it made no sense to go to Mosque every Friday.
"I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard
something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me I can't remember
asingle one of them. So I think I'm wasting my time . . . and the
Imaam they are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the"Letters to the Editor" column,
much to the dismay of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone
wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has
cookedsome 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall what
the menu was for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: they
all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If
my wife had not given me those meals, I would be dead today."
No comments were made on the sermon contents anymore.
"The lips of the righteous nourish many .. ."
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