June 4, 2006

Are those horns?

Do you know why these guys have a mark on their forehead? Because during prayer they press their head on the "mohr" for a long time, or they pray often.

[Apparently it is mostahab to show your extereme devotion to god and pray to him by this symbolic sign of "overused"! forehead. In reality though, this darker forehead scarf is created through pressing hot Mohr to the location between and above the eyebras. It causes a burned wound that after healing will remain as a darken circle on the forehead. And there goes the story. -- Rend Ayyaar]

Winner: Simin Habibian. Sad Afarin!
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