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Q: Large red spot on forehead - NOT like an indian bindi, bigger...what does it mean?
I live in a part of the city with a reasonably sized Muslim population and believe their might be some kind of connection...
I have noticed several women and one white guy with large red spots on there foreheads since arriving here. After seeing the first lady, I thought she'd either been beaten with a wok or been in an scooter accident!
But then I noticed a few more people with the same thing. It is a large red spot, about 1.5" in diameter on the forehead. It isn't a bindi spot as there are no Hindus here, only Muslims and Buddhists. The local Mosque is some kind of sufi related Islam I think...
I want to know, is it religious and if so, what does it mean. Just interested. I want to get to know the locals!
Thank you
It's definitely muslim.. It's a mark on your head from "touching the ground in prayer". You ever see those muslims get together in that big group, sit down facing mecca and bend over so far their head touches the dirt? Some of the prayers are where you keep touching your forehead to the ground and the mark is from that. According to their religion, if you pray enough then you gain a "third eye" that gives you supernatural powers... Really it's just that mark from bonking your head on the ground too much.
http://blingdomofgod.com/2007/12/bonk_like_an_egyptian--the_zebibah_as_t...
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebibah
Is it a mark on their skin? Or something they've put on their forehead?
If it's something they put on, the last paragraph in the "Related Customs" section might explain it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindi_%28decoration%29#Related_customs
It means their teacher just gave them a large red happy face sticker because they did well in class. Don't be surprised if you see the following large dots; yellow, pink, blue, orange, green. Just saying!
Well - i think sidicas was probably the closest, im guessing. Weird...most Chinese seem to have no knowledge of this population of people, about there culture or anything, like they dont exist...probably from headbutting for allah.
justin...large capital letters in question, saying NOT a bindi, so a link to bindis = no! Good effort!
silva, ive seen red, blac and blue - so maybe those wok-beaters are everywhere!
You may be referring to the "Mark of the Suk".
Suk doctors are marked with the seal of "Imperial Conditioning" which makes them safe to work on the Emperor himself.
Dr Wellington Yueh is the only doctor ever to have been broken of his conditioning, but that was at the hands of the evil Baron Harkonnen.
it is a prayer mark . saw it a lot times before . it is normal.
source : i am from a Muslim country and saw this all the time.
cheers
