Teaching the Quran in Soviet Union
He was twenty-five years of age when the execution and oppression of Muslims commenced and he witnessed the entire period.
"We used to construct large homes with an open hall in the center. On all sides of this hall, we would build sound-proof chambers. There was a secret door, leading out of the hall towards these chambers, where we would place a show-case displaying bottles of liquor. We would place portraits of Lenin and others, a television screen and other such obscene data-x-items close to the wall where the secret door was situated.
Whenever the police arrived and searched the house, they would find nothing. They would notice the liquor bottles and assume that the residents’ beliefs and ideologies were in conformity with their own. They would leave, satisfied, but deceived by what they had observed. Little did they realize that just a few meters away from those bottles of liquor, were young innocent children reciting the Quran. We would lock ourselves up in those chambers for six months at a time, teaching our young children how to recite the Quran. The Sahih Bukhari was taught there as well. Beyond the confines of those chambers, the black winds of communism were blowing unabatedly, but within, the words of Allah and His Naba(peace and blessings be upon him) were being recited and memorized.”
Source: World Bulletin
