One Good Mosque

One Good Mosque

Value is  byproduct  of purpose built products

This is an excellent example of simplicity, beauty and to the point construction. You do not need a boundary wall, a roof and a fan. You do not need the car park. You do not need the pathway and a store. Not sound system, not expensive power backup. You need none of it, to build a mosque. Indeed, Prophet PBUH, encouraged staying low and targeting the purpose through precise set of actions. As you target Value, you solve problems as its by product.

"I see you building your mosque high after I am gone, just as the Jews built their synagogues high and the Christians built their churches high."
- Sunan Ibn e Majah 740

Let us Crib

Cribbing by 傅甬 华, Wuhan

We ended up fighting for our rights, freedom and future. Neither Christians, the lofty ones, nor Jews the cruel one, not Muslims the hypocrite ones, focused on the actual meaning of Life. Instead of living normal, simple, humble and close to the nature, we went haywire defending our ego, wealth and children.

Every sane person, great enthusiast, successful businessman asked us to find our a purpose and defend it. We did not listen to the mentors, counsellors and advisors, instead, we built high rise buildings, larger gardens, sharper fences and un-breach-able borders. We did not defend the meaning of our lives, and started fighting over meaningless ornaments of life.

Kick your Ornamental Life Away

Child Kick by Johnny Wall

One Good Mosque, is not a good mosque because it has a floor and a small wall beside it. Not because it has green trees above it. Not because it is close to simplicity.

It is beautiful because its worth coincides with reality. While a poor struggles to feed outside the fence, the border, the line, I do not afford building a more luxurious mosque.

Until the mosque, the floor and the small wall, fulfils its purpose, you not find a reason to build a wall and a roof around it. Until the pain of poor inside you stays afloat, you do not find a reason to fight for decorations, beautifications and ornamentations of your mosque.

Feel Pain inside, Fix World Outside

Pain by Cristian Newman

If I fix my pain, the depth, the hunger and un-ending thirst inside me, I wont create a conflict. Not in USA, where blacks felt left out. Not in Palenstine, where Gaza-iets felt left out. Not in Pakistan, where poor feel left out. Until, I fix myself, no burning, no chaos and no war, will fix the world around me.

Conclusion

Focus by Sebastiaan Stam

Go humble, whether Trump, whether Imran Khan, whether You, submit to people, walk beside them, protest standing among them, eat with them, hug them, push then forward, destroy White House with them or Parliament of Pakistan with them, but join them. The brick, the window and the door, will find its way back, but a damaged soul, a neglected child and a murdered black, will not find its way home.

Go humble, become the mosque, the Prophet wanted you to be, and honestly, you will lead just like Him. Just like Him you will conquer your own people, first, your enemies, next, and your purpose, last. If you remove curtains of hypocrisy and become the Gandhi, naked and transparent, You will build Madina of 633; the solution to Black Lives Matter, suffocated Kashmir or the broken happiness scale of your life.