MADINAH, 3 November 2006 — A soap product was pulled out of the market two weeks ago after members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice expressed concern that a letter in the logo on the covering of the soap resembled the name of Allah.
Spokesman for the commission Muhamad Al-Ahmadi said, “The product was taken down from shelves last month and will now be reintroduced with a new logo.
The letter ‘W’ in the name ‘Wadi’ resembled the name of Allah in Arabic. People seeing the product for the first time could be mistaken.” Meanwhile, Al-Ahmadi also added that the commission had distributed more than 1.3 million religious books, tapes to pilgrims and visitors to Madinah during Ramadan.
“The purpose of this is to increase religious awareness among pilgrims and visitors so that they can benefit from them,” he said. “This is a yearly activity done by the commission during the holy month.
We have teams near the Meqat Mosque and on checkpoints distributing material. The distribution generally begins in the afternoon and continues until a few minutes before Maghreb prayer,” he said.
