05-09-2007, 02:45 PM
Bismillah
as salam alykom brothers and sisters
Alhamdulelah I just came back from Ummrah, and Karbala I have a lot to say here. BUt since I also have a lot to catch up with, will just give a quick comment on something to let everyone knows why Iranians pray after Fajr and After Asr..
As u may have noticed, it did bother me to see us Muslims go like this, so in Medina I tried to talk to one of the ladies in charge, she told me this is their belief, we respect them. We do have Farsi speaking ladies who look after women's attitude during Zyarah, but we dont have much to also assign them in the masjed to give proper direction. Any way, I saw a group of 3, I approached them and they spoke little English. I asked them for the reason, they told me, they pray on behalf of those who cannt come to Medina, or those who are dead. They also explained that they dont do this back home, but because they have limited time, they want to invest as much as possible. Alhamdulelah I explained nicely that this is Haram, they can pray as much as possible any other time. They answered no one told us it is Haram and we will not do it.
I also wrote a comment asking the authorities to try and give them dawa, that we shouldnt stereotype as this is their belief. When we explain the wrong, they listen, that we should approach them as Muslim who are doing something wrong. Just as many others do.
Alhamdulelah at least I did my best.
So this is the case. Karbala, not all of them pray on their own, but still I did observe a number of them this year who did so. May be it is a personal approach, may be even they are told not to, but they do it, just like many others who for instance keep touching gates of Ka`ba or gates of Masjed Nabawy, or even here in Egypt go and pray and touch Maqam of Hussain, Sayeda Zaynab ..etc. In some cases, scholars are free of responsibility, this I understand.
Alhamdulelah, will come back Insh a Allah. :)