Your information is being handled in accordance with the ABC Privacy Collection Statement. Now she is homebound, with my uncle who still has to leave for work during the day, leaving her alone. That is where she meets friends her age and where she socialises daily. She goes to the mosques every day for both prayers and religious classes. She would often cancel plans if they coincide with the congregational prayers. My grandmother turned off the television nonetheless, complaining about why we should not have brought her to Malaysia to spend the long weekend there. Just a month ago, the Qatar-based International Union for Muslim Scholars prohibited such practices by means of a (live-streamed) fatwa, which was echoed on the very same day by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America. Now I can see him.”īut I was not alone in this view. Even if I’m there, I’d still have to rely on the speakers to hear him, and I would be far from him in the ladies’ section.
My grandmother challenged me, “But this is live. I stopped her, saying that that was impermissible in Islam. It was broadcasting live the Friday prayers being led by her favourite Imam in a mosque in Singapore. On another Friday, just a couple years ago in Malaysia, I saw my octogenarian grandmother praying in front of the television. But what would the Prophet have done, if he had access to live streaming and tele-conferencing technologies? This tradition has since been brought back, in a time when mosques are closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the Prophet then explained, “I disliked putting you to task by bringing you out walking in mud and slush.”
He was trying to build and nurture a nascent community through communal worship. The Prophet had once considered burning the houses of those who refused to pray the congregational prayer in the mosque. On one rainy Friday noon, in the seventh-century Arabian city of Yathrib (now Medina), the Prophet Muhammad ordered his caller-to-prayer ( mu’adhdhin) to announce to the city to “pray in your houses,” instead of the usual “come to prayer.” The city’s residents were surprised.
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