psyah
July 20, 2013, 7:29pm
28
Re: Pakistan’s first sect-free mosque calls for end to discrimination
Why have so many differences been caused in the first place that lead to a division of one whole ummah - same ummah that the Taliban want to take over in totality - a division that causes friends to pray in separate places??
Isn’t there something INHERENTLY wrong when we arbitrarily over time say hey I’ll do an azaan this way, or I’ll do prayer times this way or I’ll do my salaam this way, etc. If the reliigious scholars took it upon themselves to divide the ummah in the first place by creating 100 different ways of doing the same thing when the Prophet (saw) had one way , and this only leads to more division and ultimately deaths, then why should we be listening to mullahs/fiqhs, etc anymore? Just have one standard prayer - that is what they do in American mosques, they don’t necessarily have an American mosque that does Hanafi way and another another way - we have one mosque and everyone comes here, and I can guarantee you that minorities like shias and ismailis and even ahmedies that are in a city where they don’t have their own jamaat khana, they probably attend the regular mosques and pray along side everyone else.
What I don’t get is this sunni desire to do everything the way the Prophet (saw) did it down to growing a beard and using a miswaak when we have toothbrushes, and people can know you’re muslim and respect you without you having to grow a beard these days that would make these old ways of doing things obsolete. Yet when it comes to the simple prayer, we create so many divisions and differences that we force people into different buildings to pray.
As if the maulvis that designed these sects wanted to be followed and revered like the Prophet himself.
Yes, there is something inherently wrong in being exclusive and different. But there in nothing wrong in being inclusive and different.
so long as the difference is rooted in evidence.
I don’t think we can say that RasoolAllah (SAW) had one way of doing something … But we can say he (SAW) did things based on the time and the need of the day.