The Eighth Circular - your publication (25/7/2020) The story of the sword carried by Friday sermon, Turkish Minister of Religious Affairs Ali Arbash, was monitored as he climbed to the pulpit to deliver the sermon, where the scene caught the attention and the singers wondered why.
But the story has historical dimensions, as the sword returns to Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, who was the first to deliver the Friday sermon holding his sword in the Great Mosque in Edirne, the capital of the Ottoman Empire at the time before the conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul), to be a tradition followed by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire for six consecutive centuries.
The significance of this custom that Turkey revived in the Hagia Sophia mosque is to show the supremacy and light of Islam in the territories that Muslims have conquered for centuries.
Interactions and widespread controversy on platforms between supporters and opponents .. As the Saudi writer Munther Al-Sheikh said, "In a terrorist message, the head of Turkey's religious affairs in his hand, Seif, in a dangerous signal, shows that they missed another Konya and yearned for another break !! Years and I write that The scheme is bloodshed .. Today this is evident, so are we aware of the danger and begin to fortify ourselves by eliminating all sympathizers with them before they are a betrayal of ours? "
The Palestinian academic Abdullah Maarouf replied, "We have seen wonders in our time as wonders ... To lead such a person who does not know that the habit of carrying a sword in the sermon is taken from the Hanafi jurisprudence is an issue that does not offend him alone ... but offends the name of the scientific family whose name bears this .. This is what happens when you shy away from what you do not know while you think of yourself as a scientist, so embarrass yourself and appear with this superficiality ..!
Sultan Al-Tayyar said, referring to the Saudi flag, "If the sword is in a sermon of a terrorist message, then what do you want them to say about it if it is in the flag ... You are offending your country in terms of understanding or not understanding."
Iman Farid wrote, "The preacher of the Hagia Sophia Mosque at the first Friday prayer after 86 years, carrying the sword of Muhammad al-Fatih and the pulpit appeared to him, which is usually from the days of the Ottoman conquest and during 481 years they used to do it. This is the result of secularizing religion and renewing religious discourse.
And not far from the first Friday prayer at the Hagia Sophia mosque after an 86-year hiatus, there was talk of a cat called "Boil", which was recently famous for the Hagia Sophia cat, where it has tens of thousands of followers on the communication platforms.
After the Hagia Sophia museum was converted into a mosque, officials confirmed that she remained in her home where she had lived since her birth in 2004.