Confusion and turmoil in the valley of tears

Kožo called me once at two past midnight to tell a joke. He has this habit of calling in the dead of night from the pub to tell a joke.

Elem, sold Mujo to his neighbor Bobby the parrot - a big and beautiful green Amazonian parrot - and the latter put him in the hallway to greet guests right from the door. And indeed, soon the man's friends came, and the parrot will readily say: "Peace be upon you!"

The people laughed, Bobby laughed too, he explained to the green bird that it was a Catholic house and that in it he greeted with "Praise be to Jesus and Mary", but the next day, when the man came home from work, she screamed: "Selamaleikum!" "Praise be to Jesus and Mary!" repeated the owner patiently, then the bird again "Peace be upon you", and finally, now a little angry, he threatened to end up in the basement without food and water if he screwed up one more time.

On the next occasion, of course, the parrot again without fail greeted the guests with "Selamaleikum!", and really put the angry boss in the basement. A month had passed since then, and finally Bobby took pity on the poor bird, and took her a glass of water and a handful of seeds to the basement.

"Shućur Allah", rushed the hungry parrot, "and this Ramadan will pass!"

Okay, that's just a joke, but it's not fundamentally different in life. Like other rituals from the practices of Abrahamic religions, the concept of strict fasting, starvation and renunciation has long since had - if it ever had - a spiritual, transcendental meaning, so it really functions as a punishment from the parrot joke: Jews, Muslims and Christians renounce their needs and pleasures, but not because of ennobling and improving one's own person, but because of the fear of God, that is, social or even very state conventions. A month or forty days of fasting is thus a kind of suspended sentence, after the expiration of which Jews, Muslims and Christians will continue with their needs and pleasures with a clear conscience as before, just like that parrot, which - thank God - will greet the guests again the very next day with "Salamalekum".

If it weren't so, it wouldn't be so important neither who greets, nor when a ritual starts, nor whether it is determined by Mujo or Bobi. A good example of this is the now traditional ujdurma with the Ramadan vakti, i.e. the exact sehur and iftar itinerary, which is determined by the religious law by the authorized Islamic community in Bosnia and Herzegovina: again, namely, the unauthorized vakti of some para-Islamic weather service without a license has spread on social networks among Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims. , so the mufti of Sarajevo, Enes ef, had to speak. Ljevaković, publicly warning the faithful not to "fall for the tricks of those who, with their malicious or irresponsible actions, try to bring confusion and confusion among them".

I don't know if it's about those, as they are called, the Ahmadiyya, a sect that - you'll remember - mocked Oslobodjenje with its incorrect Sharia worship, even this Ramadan there is general disorder, "confusion and confusion" among the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina , you don't know when it's a false dawn, and when it's a real dawn, alarm clocks ring all night long in Sarajevo, one fasts as early as three, another from four, a third sleeps until five, and the more liberal ones, by God, until six. For practical believers, this matter is of great importance, and for impracticals, it will be fun and funny until, of course, an angel on duty with that little black Energoinvest notebook welcomes them at the gate of the heavenly garden.

It goes without saying that only Muslims do not have these protocol-related ritual problems with qualifications for paradise fields. Here, for example, just these days the Mufti of Zagreb, excuse me, Archbishop Josip Bozanić, spoke about it.

Namely, a certain Monsignor Bernard Tossier de Mallerais from a certain Priestly Brotherhood of St. Pius X appeared in Zagreb, and to the joy of the Croatian Catholic population, he announced the Holy Mass and the distribution of the sacrament of Holy Confirmation according to the pre-conciliar rite - it came to him something like Catholic Sharia - and Cardinal Bozanić immediately publicly warned the faithful that "it can greatly confuse and disturb, because according to the Code of Canon Law the sacrament of Holy Confirmation is administered by the diocesan bishop personally", while "the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X is not in full communion with the Catholic Church" and "the bishop in question does not have permission to distribute the Sacrament of Holy Confirmation in the area of ​​the Zagreb Archdiocese, nor the legitimacy to distribute the Sacrament of Holy Confirmation in the Catholic Church", and, "since that event is organized by those who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church, all those who would participate in it expose themselves to the danger of are themselves excluded from the full communion of the Catholic Church", because "the sacrament of confirmation imprints the mark by which the baptized are enriched with the gift of the Holy Spirit".

In other words, you understood that "they do not fall for the tricks of those who, with their malicious or irresponsible actions, try to bring confusion and confusion among the faithful".

Admit it, isn't that fun? One sorcerer, invoking the Spirits in a silk embroidered dress with a golden staff in his hands and a pointed cap on his head, publicly calls out another sorcerer who is also invoking Spirits, in the same silk embroidered dress with the same golden staff in his hands and the same pointed cap on his head, and accuses that he is not a real, authorized druid, and that his ritual of summoning the Spirit is not only fake, but also dangerous!

It could be more fun than that only if God really somehow existed, so that he could watch from above the complete "confusion and confusion", the general "confusion and disturbance" in that building below: one neighbor's alarm clock rings at two, another at four, the bishop rings at the third at five, on the fourth at six, Mujo wakes up until three, Suljo until five, Bobi at mass with one bishop, Rudy with another, one "Praise be to Jesus and Mary!", and the other shouts "Praise be to you!".

So that Bata Stojković approached Him from behind and said: "But you made them, kudos to you!"

(oslobodjene.ba)