Re: Pakistan’s first sect-free mosque calls for end to discrimination
This is going to cause confusion. People will be doing one Salam, two salams, have enough time to pray their sunnahs and not on other occasions… Informed about how to perform salah and then told differently by another Imam.
They are saying that they don’t mind if they are led by Shi’a imam who will hit his thighs three times and miss out required positions in his prayer for the Sunnis, in khutbah the names of the khalifs will be mentioned in praise. If anything people will hear about who is doing the talk or leading the prayer at a given time then people will adjust their attendance accordingly.
This is not going to work … It has been tried before
the way to be inclusive and non-sectarian is to be good and well mannered. This mishmash of madhabs in a single majlis is a move to madness and if anything will bring the sectarian conflict on to a debate under the same roof.
when are the prayer times? Hanafi fiqh or Shafi fiqh for Asr … And Isha? Whose Azan will be called?
I have no problem in a masjid welcoming all people … But it needs to take a single homologous stance or else it will trip over itself … Trying to please all people.
Oh peaceful psyah…you always manged to see the glass half empty. Why not appreciate the effort? Personally, I would like govt to register and regulate every mosque & appoint imams that don’t preach hatred and bigotry in the name of Islam.