Re: Maasajid - What is the status of mosques that don't fulfill basic criteria ?
Sorry to say Qaiser Sb. You are in Canada and saying "unseen powers Berooni Taaqtein" "destruction of mosques".... You are living abroad and your thoughts, ideas are contradictory. You must go to a mosque and start preaching true Islam if you feel. If you find that there's something wrong, say directly to the people that they are doing wrong. If you have courage like this then you can say destroy the mosques. Anyhow, sorry, this is something personal but its not the solution we destroy mosques.
Once I visited Mississauga and offered my jumma prayer there. I saw a digital screen, a good collection of books. I found this a good attempt for attraction and comprehension. I think there are many mosques, islamic centres in Canada. For me, prob is the lack of education, lack of Arabic knowledge, so people wanna fill this gap of unawareness with religion. And the method of practicing their religion they find their own ways . Once a scholar says that "Early Muslims believed in Allah and modern Muslims believe in Islam". So the sact, firqa, etc which suit to them, they mostly adopt. We all do the same, if we do bad with other muslim brothers, we are Hazrat sb, Haaji Sb but we do business of "Soodh", we have girlfriends, we drink...... but we say "sabb jaayyazz haey". If this kind of Islam, then the consequence is always there.
There's a story in Hikayati roomi: Once there was a camel, a sheep and an ox (male cow). Three of them were walking and walking, tired and hungry in a forest. Suddenly they found a heap of grass tied with a rope (fodder for cattle something like that). Sheep says that I'm sacred than both of you, I'm an animal from paradise, prophet used for sacrifice. So this food goes to me. The Ox sys that I'm sacred and pious. Prophets used me for agriculture etc etc. Camel was listening, he picked up this heap of grass in the air and says I don't know who is sacred and pious. But the direly need of the time is this grass belongs to me and I'm going to eat this. If you could grasp this you can try.
This is the thing, what is the need of time. I think in this digital era, we must make our mosques as libraries, online solution to religious problems, internet connection or connection to other world mosques through satellites, easy and understandable collection of books in Urdu even in local languages. This way we can make our muslims get engaged in Islam. Otherwise they will always do conflicts and get involved in sacts, firqas.
