To Celebrate Ramadan, The Quran Is Being Tweeted One 140-Character Verse At A Time
Inspired by rabbis using Twitter to tweet snippets of the Torah during Shavuot, Hussein Rashid is encouraging those celebrating Ramadan to use Twitter to share their favorite verses from the Quran.
During Ramadan, Muslims abstain from food, drink and sex between dawn and sunset, and immerse themselves in the teachings of the Quran.
As USAToday reports, Rashid, a professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary, is interested in using Twitter to make the Quran accessible to people around the world:
“What verses speak to you when you read the Quran this day? That’s what we’re looking for.
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