Need authoritative reference. Someone asserted that Muslim children
sing a widely-known little song / ditty that goes like this:  "Today
Friday, tomorrow Saturday, then Sunday."  I've seen several websites
that make this assertion.  But I would like to have an AUTHORITATIVE
source that proves they really sing this.

Hello!

Being a muslim myself and having experience about some famous Islamic
songs, I can say that this song is not that "widely-known". Although
some website mention it, I feel that the veracity of the statement
that this song is actually sung is difficult to trace. In India I have
never heard of this song, I can also safely say the same about Middle
East, since I asked some of my friends about this.

I asked a local Shaikh (Islamic Preist) about this question, he
answered "Even if this song is sung by someone, this cannot be called
an Islamic song or a Muslim song since Islam preaches peace and
respect for other faiths. Christians and Jews particularly are
respectfully reffered to as the "People of the Book" in Islam's holy
Book Quran.


Thanks.

I have only found this "song" on three websites, of which two feature
it in the same article.  The content in all cases is very bigoted,
making the credibility very low.

"today Friday; tommorrow Saturday; then Sunday."
http://www.shalom-israel.org/TERRORUS2.htm

I did not see the text for this song on the web-site.  
And the web site certainly does appear to have a "definite" point of
view.

There is a ditty or song that is sung in Iran that mentions the days
of the week in order.  However, it has nothing to do with conquering
the people of other religions.


Excerpt  from the biography of " Khomeini, Life of the Ayatollah"

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/moin-khomeini.html

'Wednesday I think. Thursday I enjoy. Friday I play. Oh unhappy
Saturday: my legs are bleeding from the strokes of cherry-tree
branches.'


Regulations in the maktabs were very harsh and punishment for
mispronouncing a Qor'anic word was by today's standards torture. The
suffering of the children who attended them was legendary. One of the
nursery rhymes of those days was: `Wednesday I think. Thursday I
enjoy. Friday I play. Oh unhappy Saturday: my legs are bleeding from
the strokes of cherry-tree branches.' Schoolchildren dreaded Saturday,
the first day of the Islamic week, and when the days lessons were over
they felt as if they had been freed from prison.

Hello Amalik!

Your comment was extremely interesting.  I wonder if someone,
somewhere, heard the song you described, and got the wrong idea...then
their wrong perception of it was spread around by people who didn't
take the time to check their facts.  Hmmm.  Thanks for the links &
info!

Issachar