Question: What was wrong in Kabir's observation ?
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Kaankar- paathar jori ke masjid lai chunai/ Ta chadhi mulla baang de kya bahira hua
khudai?- A mosque is built with stones and pebbles/ A cleric from there calls; Is God hard of hearing?
This is an oft - quoted doha attributed to Kabir. But the great social-reformer thought that azaan_a call
for Islamic prayer-was invoking God or praying to the Almighty, despite his being a brilliant observer of
social and religious aberrations and anomalies.
Azaan is a call for prayer.The muezzin calls the faithful to the mosque for offering namaaz. Here lies
the relevance or irrelevance of azaan. Gibb wrote a letter to Allama Iqbal in Arabic. Gibb asked
Iqbal,"Shouldn't the faithful and devout Muslims come on their own to offer namaaz to Allah? Why should
they be called when it's their fundamental duty? This is like a shepherd calling his sheep when it's time to
go back home in the evening. Human beings are not sheep."
Iqbal wrote to Gibb, quoting the Hadis that prophet Muhammad said to Bilal_ Islam's first
muezzin,who was a slave from North Africa, freed by the Prophet_ "Bilal, neo- Muslims need to be called
to get accustomed to the newfound ways of Islam from their Pagan beliefs. But as they'Il evolve, they'll
come on their own. There might not be any calling in future because faith is a matter of heart and one
listens to his inner voice when it comes to worship." An evolved Muslim or any evolved worshipper needs
no azaan or a call for prayer. So the issue of using a loudspeaker or any modern technological
equipment to call for prayer, gets redundant because elsewhere prophet Muhammad himself opines that
azaan should be so musical that it Shouldn't break the slumber of others.
Moreover, Islam puts an accent on musically of prayers and prayer related aspects. That's why
Qeerat is so euphonic and when you get to hear the recitation Quranic verses, you are moved beyond
words. So it's really incongruous to use loudspeakers to call the faithful to the mosques.
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