In the Right Path

Here's the photo of the biggest Mesjid in our city here. In all, one can find over 20 mesjids in The Hague.

Hari Raya will fall on Monday as announced. Today we took a train from the office for Friday prayer as nobody was driving. The Nusantara gangs obviously went to the Indonesian one, the Arabs to their Moroccan Mesjid.

Today's khutbah was interesting. The Imam started by mentioning about the recent statement from MUI (Majlis Ulama Indonesia) that the death of the 3 Bali bombers can not be declared as martys. These people and the recent attackers in Mumbai were on the wrong path. Rather than talking about these people who obviously made a big mistake in their life, the Imam quickly focused the khutbah to the Jemaah - asking whether we ourselves are leading and living in the right path. Rightly so. We seem to be preoccupied in our life in quickly judging other people but are less critical of ourselves.

The actual mass prayer was quite solemn, the Iman read the Surah Al-Rahman, half in tears.