Mosques should be welcoming for all, says PM

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Orang-orang yang jarang pergi masjid/surau sering tertanya-tanya,
menganalisa malah boleh memberi pelbagai alasan dan sebab  kenapa
orang (termasuk depa sendiri) jarang pergi masjid/surau.

Orang-orang yang selalu ke masjid/surau pula tak perlu sebarang sebab
dan alasan, mereka cuma pergi.

Ada satu cerita tentang Tuan Guru Nik Aziz. Pada satu waktu dia lalu
dekat area Seberang Perai dan dah lewat malam, tak ada hotel, maka dia
dan rombongannya beberapa orang singgah berehat dan bermalam di sebuah
masjid lepas solat Isyak. Tok Siak masjid tersebut pun berkira-kira
disebabkan TG Nik Aziz ada di masjid, maka dia perlulah datang awal
sikit ke masjid pada pagi hari berikutnya. Dia pun mai pukul 5.00
pagi. Alangkah terkejutnya dilihat TG Nik Aziz tiada di tempatnya dan
tiada di dalam masjid (kot-kot dok solat tahajud). Setelah mencari di
sekeliling, dia berjumpa TG Nik Aziz di bilik air masjid. Terkejut dia
tengok TG Nik Aziz tengah dok basuh lantai bilik air tu dengan air dan
berus!!


Kesimpulannya, banyak sumbangan yang kita boleh buat kepada
masjid/surau di sekeliling kita. Rumah Allah tu! Selalu-selalulah kita
pergi dan imarahkannya. Jangan dok cari alasan tak nak pergi.


Mosques should be welcoming for all, says PM
By SHAHANAAZ HABIB

KUALA LUMPUR: Mosques should be places where people, including the
young, love to spend time, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

The Prime Minister said mosques should be clean, comfortable and
pleasing to the eye.

"It should not be just a place to pray. People should want to go there
because it gives them a sense of calmness and peace of mind," he said
Tuesday at a conference for imams at the Federal Territory Mosque.

He said imams too should be people whom the public respected and
looked up to and not feared.

He suggested that the state religious departments conduct counselling
courses for the officers of mosques and the imams, in particular.

"I want them to use their positions well and be the ones that the
young people come to seek advice from when they are faced with
problems, be it personal or otherwise," he said.

He pointed out that if the imams were very "harsh" in their approach
and always emphasised punishment, then people, especially the young,
might be turned off.

"Why not start from a point of love and compassion and try and
understand their problems and get to the bottom of why they are
feeling in such a way? Show love and tell them that Allah loves them
and accepts repentance. Don't start with anger," he added.

Abdullah also stressed that sermons should be non-political.

He noted that some of the imams had preferred to cast aside the
sermons that were prepared by the state religious departments in
favour of their own.

"The prepared sermons actually are based on what is going on in
society and the problems; so it should not be cast aside unless there
is a more suitable and cogent sermon to address the specific needs or
problems in a particular area," he said.

He said at times when sermons deviated from the state-prepared line,
it caused problems and brought out anger among people especially when
it is related directly to politics.

"We want the Muslims, regardless of their political ideology - be it
Umno, PAS, or PKR - to come to the mosques and be respectful to one
another.

"We do not want a situation where people think this is 'their mosque'
and that is 'our mosque'. We want people to feel comfortable in all
mosques," he said.

ussopp

pendekatan yang baik.....

saya pernah dihalau sebab masuk surau pukui 10 lebih kat k.l....hehe....

tapi nak tanya.....kalau kita cuba bersikap realistik......

memang surau sepatutnya jadi tempat yg disenangi....tapi apabilaorg mengahalau sy dari masuk masjid, sy faham depa tak mau org yg tak sepatutnya masuk...seperti org gila dan sebagainya....

macamana kita nak jadikan massjid ni tempat lepak pada masa yg sama tidak mengumpan org2 seperti org gila, atau org merempat dari lepak kat masjid....?

niceghost2005

Assalamualaikum semuer,

Teman pung biasa gak kena halau dari mesjid n surau.
Biasa laaaaa.................

Udah AJK tak berkenan dgn kiter.
Haper nak di buatkan.....

Tapi no hal.
Kiter oghang bley pergi ke tempat mana yg oghang sudi menerimer.

Mcm Rasulullah saw laaa......ketika di halau dari Taif.
Last last............Madinah yg mendapat Rasulullah.
Islam berkembang pesat dari Madinah.

Wsalam
p/s lain mcm plak saranan Pak Lah nie. (dah tukor hangin ker??)