Koran verses 'appear' on skin of miracle Russian baby

this is worse than the "miraculous" images of the Virgin Mary appearing in cheese sandwiches or the like. Here someone is using a baby to further their hoax.

Russians flock to see 'miracle' baby

Oct 24 – Pilgrims flock to see a 'miracle' baby in southern Russia's Dagestan whose skin appears to be a canvas for verses from the Koran.

video  

http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=113581

Published: 12:27AM BST 22 Oct 2009

Thousands of pilgrims queued up this week in blazing sunshine to get a glimpse of 9-month-old baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body verses from the Koran are said to appear and fade every few days.

Pinkish in colour and several centimetres high, the Koranic verse "Be grateful to Allah" was printed on the infant's right leg in clearly legible Arabic script this week, religious leaders said. Visiting foreign journalists later saw a single letter after the rest had vanished.

"The fact that this miracle happened here is a signal to us to take the lead and help our brothers and sisters find peace," said Sagid Murtazaliyev, head of the Kizlyar region about 100 miles north of Makhachkala, the sprawling Dagestani capital on the Caspian Sea.

"We must not forget there is a war going on here," he told Muslim leaders who had invited the press to witness what they claim is a sign from God.

Islam in Russia is widely believed to have originated in ethnically rich Dagestan, where 3 million people speak over 30 languages and whose ancient walled city of Derbent claims to be Russia's oldest city.

A spate of recent suicide bombs and armed attacks on police and security services in Dagestan, Ingushetia and neighbouring Chechnya, where Russia has fought two separatist wars, has shattered a few years of relative calm in the North Caucasus.

Up to 2,000 pilgrims come daily to see the blue-eyed baby, whose pink brick house has become a shrine.

Green satin flags mark the way to the baby's modest family home in Kizlyar, a small town of lime-coloured mosques, cornfields and dirt roads whose dust bellows into the sky.

Dagestan's omnipresent armed police patrol the house while imams change photos of Yakubov's arms and legs covered in Arabic script from previous episodes to both jubilation and wails from the bustling crowd.

They say the fact Yakubov's 27-year-old father Shamil works in the police force – a regular target by militants – is proof of divine intervention.

Sayid Amirov, Makhachkala's influential mayor who has survived around a dozen attacks on his life since the mid-1990s, interpreted the recent buzz around the baby as a warning.

"What happened here is indeed a miracle, but this should also be a message to not take religion too far," he told reporters.

Authorities say Islamist extremism is as responsible for the growing violence as widespread poverty, and experts add the insurgency is also recruiting foreign al-Qaeda militants who seek an Islamic state in the north Caucasus.

Holding up his right foot where a single Arabic letter remained from the latest episode, Yakubov's 26-year-old mother Madina said she had no doubt the verses – which first appeared two weeks after birth – were connected to extremism.

"Allah is great and he sent me my miracle child to keep our people safe," she told Reuters.

Though divine "miracles" are common in Christianity – such as weeping icons and stigmata, bleeding wounds in the hands and feet similar to those of Christ – Islam rarely reports them.

*I’m certain the believers would have presented. *
who told u that there is no present, when i read that news , they mentioned the that the home is full all the day, even the media came!!!!

Yes, the house is full. Many people have seen the verses on the baby's skin.  No witnesses (other than the parents) have reported to have seen the verses appear (only after the fact) No video, no credible eyewitnesses = no evidence.  

Which is a more likely explanation: that the verses magically appeared or that they are being made by someone (probably one of the parents)?

No wonder the baby is in a foul mood after the verses appear. It's skin is probably being irritated to make them and then hundreds of people are coming to bother it.  

btw, there is no need to delude any one coz the area is muslim area, then delude whom???!!!!!!!

There're plenty of reasons, as I mentioned before. Money and attention being the biggest.  

Pmosh, I agree with your sentiment, but I think Ronald mcDonald would be a better god. At least no one's ever blown up a bus full of schoolkids or burned a church or flown airplanes into buildings screaming "Ronald is Great!!!"

Gkiss, is not the god is the people that interpretates. And I have to admit it, your comment sounds islamofobic, and you're talking like if that god even exist.

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

(52) We shall show them Our portents on the horizons and within themselves until it will be manifest unto them that it is the Truth. Doth not thy Lord suffice, since He is Witness over all things?

this is the most suitable reply

Gazaki Allah khairan,Rosella

Gkiss, is not the god is the people that interpretates.

of course, Pmosh, I agree. But it would be hard to interpret Ronald McDonald's appearance or words as incitement to violence, no? 

And I have to admit it, your comment sounds islamofobic, and you're talking like if that god even exist.

Islamophobic, how?     and which god?

I THINK U TUBE U WILL SEE THE VIDEO, WHICH U SAID NO ONE EXCEPT HIS PARENTS!!!!

really   quran  for itself   is miracle…...so we dont need   other  believe this or not…..if  unmuslim dont understand the miracles of quran    never  believe this even if they see  by their eyes….and miracles of quran need  aone  has mind and think well  other wise  their  mind cant take  that geart  thing.,,,,

quran  contains all  kind  of sciences…..math..physic…chemistry…..medicene…etc…..who  can   make  abook  like  this  and tell  human   i made u….

i hope  those  that are so expert  at quran and islamic relegion    explain  the miracles  of quran  at here…..clarrify  all those thing  that are vague for other   and  they took  by wrong way.

me really   i dont believe  these things ....but if  i see  at reallity  by my eyes   then i can.,,