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A Concerned Brother from Newcastle complains:
May you Allah preserve you and reward you abundantly.
Jamiah Darul Uloom Newcastle Musjid personnel prohibits us from performing salah standing shoulder to shoulder.
One would think a Darul Uloom would uphold the Sunnah and holdfirm on the Quran. The opposite is true. The gaps they the authorities have made and we are forced to pray our salah are so horrendous and despicable.
Some Mussalees are standing literally five meters apart. It is such a disgusting and incomprehensible situation to be in. Wallahi this is insanity in the extreme. Words fail me. How can our salah ever be accepted and complete ? What answer will we give to our Rabb on yaumul qiyamah ?
Are we so pathetic and weak that we grovel and worship the filthy regulations that our salah is compromised in this fashion ?
I brought this to the attention to the authorities as I refused to social distance yesterday. I was forced to social distance despite my objections. I was reprimanded and hammered to do so. I do not want to expose their inconsistencies and hypocrisy yet they force us to social distance. I decided to just make sabr and make dua for this to end.
My heart bleeds every single time the imam says Allahu Akbar and we are standing like there is a blazing fire like a trench filled with smoldering coals between us mussallees. The sad reality is that even the mussallees now believe it is incumbent to social distance.
The very same mussallees who shout at the top of their voices to social distance are the ones who have massive wholesales yet their customers conveniently do not social distance on their premises.
Such is the deplorable state of our affairs.
Kindly proffer advice to those who have made this incomprensible decision and please make dua for us here in Newcastle.
Jazakallah
(End of letter)
We had received a similar complaint as well as many other complaints from many Muslims across the country. Our response has been standard and stated below:
Our advice is to various Imaams, Trustees and those in charge as well as to every Musalee is:
1. Do not perform nor force or even request anyone to perform Salaat in this manner.
2. Do not join a Salaat performed in this manner
3. Perform your Salaat by yourself (alone) in the Musjid
4. Perform your Salaat alone and preferably with the Sunnat Jammat with family
Issued by: Jamiatul Mu'mineen of South Africa
