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Ya Salaam 3la Baladeey
Asalam Alaikum,
Hope everyone is enjoying thier Eid inshallah ;) I am currently in Egypt, and wanted to share with you guys in the States how the prayer was in Masr...
Get to prayer, and find everyone is quietly sitting, and the place is...(closing my eyes...and taking a moment)....ORGANIZED!!!!There were young children, who didn't make a single sound, when women were asked to move forward to make room for others...or to straighten their lines...no one responded rudley or refused to move.....when the khutbah began there was a little bit of talking initally but stopped shortly, I didn't hear a single kid cry.....it was the BEST prayer I had ever gone too, to be honest...
Why can't we do the same back in the states?? Why are the muslims back home so much more committed to deen on more complicated tasks, but have a hard time moving up a row without frowning or complaining.....is it because we have a hard time accepting orders from someone who is not of the same race as us? feel that children crying over the khutbah is a blessing? Talking during the khutbah is permissible? Obviously, I don't know the answer...but all the same, I found it very interesting.
I won't discuss how good the fattah is here too...I'll save that for another journal, lol.
Hope everyone is enjoying thier Eid inshallah ;) I am currently in Egypt, and wanted to share with you guys in the States how the prayer was in Masr...
Get to prayer, and find everyone is quietly sitting, and the place is...(closing my eyes...and taking a moment)....ORGANIZED!!!!There were young children, who didn't make a single sound, when women were asked to move forward to make room for others...or to straighten their lines...no one responded rudley or refused to move.....when the khutbah began there was a little bit of talking initally but stopped shortly, I didn't hear a single kid cry.....it was the BEST prayer I had ever gone too, to be honest...
Why can't we do the same back in the states?? Why are the muslims back home so much more committed to deen on more complicated tasks, but have a hard time moving up a row without frowning or complaining.....is it because we have a hard time accepting orders from someone who is not of the same race as us? feel that children crying over the khutbah is a blessing? Talking during the khutbah is permissible? Obviously, I don't know the answer...but all the same, I found it very interesting.
I won't discuss how good the fattah is here too...I'll save that for another journal, lol.
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Eid mubarak everyone *smile*
Our imam does this. Over and over, especially in Ramadan. I believe many do. Works for a few minutes and then once people start praying, kids go back to making noise.
Short-term solution: ask a couple of young people or women who are not going to pray to babysit the kids and provide a separate room for them. You can charge a small fee per child ($2 - 5). You can give this to whoever will babysit. It will also encourage some people to keep their kids home.
Long-term solution: Educate the parents on how to raise their kids. Hold parenting workshops at the mosque or any other place and encourage Muslim parents and young couples who are planning to get married to attend. You can invite Dr. Ekram and Mohamed Beshir who have several books and great experience in this area. I personally would like to do this at our mosque soon insha'Allah to educate myself first as well as benefit others.
I think that what happens in masajid here is lack of discipline and respect to other muslims who are praying. I also do not understand why are the Imams not taking this matter seriously, this should be part of their leading the prayers to indicate to parents that their kids should not be running around and screaming during the prayer. Otherwise, they should not bring them to the masjid. A simple message that I wonder how it is not applied.