Please be objective and if possible cite a source ie koran etc.
2007-08-01 12:07:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because the 3 major religions judiasm, christianity, islam all stem basically from the Old Testament foot washing has been an involvement from the very beggining but originally in cristianity and judiasm this isn't consider as much a religious practice as it is a practice. I assume that because of the many aforementioned rules for cleanliness in praising the lord in the Old Testament, Islam though dissattached from the latter 2 adhere to these rule less lightheartedly. This isn't the only practice that you see similarities in though, some denominations of christianity adhere very strongly to some Old Testament rules such as catholisism. In the end people choose what they want to believe in regardless of how stupid it may be usually in order to best suite there lifestyle.
2007-08-01 12:38:56 · answer #1 · answered by silencetheevil8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a cultural activity, since it is practiced by many other Middle Eastern cultures independently of their religious beliefs, and it goes back to well before the founding of Islam.
The most familiar examples to many Christians is the scene in the Bible where one of the disciples of Jesus washed his feat with her hair, because there was no other basin available.
It is also a religious practice, since the Koran (like most other religious texts) incorporated many of the cultural behaviors of the time into its teachings.
2007-08-01 19:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Foot washing certainly is not limited to Muslim culture and goes back thousands of years. Mary Magdalen washed the feet of Jesus when his hosts failed to do so. Hand and foot washing was a routine practice in Biblical times. People didn't know about bacteria, but they had very definite ideas about purity and cleanliness in the religious sense. And besides, they walked everywhere and if they didn't "shake the dust off their feet", then they had to wash it off!
2007-08-01 19:18:33 · answer #3 · answered by Civis Romanus 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Answer: I thought Christ washed the feet of the apostles at the last supper...
You think that it is some kind of Mid-Eastern fetish or something.
2007-08-01 19:14:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's not just Muslims that do this. Some Christians do it as well on or around Easter.
2007-08-01 19:30:42 · answer #5 · answered by trevor22in 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get rid of tar and cement roads and they'll get so tired of washing their feet from dirt and gravel roads... And we wouldn't have a problem now would we?
2007-08-01 19:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have read they do it before the prayer.
I think they also wash their faces and hands and simultaneously say that god is great and Muhammad is his prophet.
2007-08-01 19:18:21 · answer #7 · answered by Page 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I really do not give a sh*it as long as it does not infringe on MY lifestyle.Get it?
2007-08-01 20:05:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both.
2007-08-01 19:22:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not the Islamists, I can tell you that!!!
It is what we 'Christians' partake in!!!
2007-08-01 19:21:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋