Hello there everyone. How important are the masjids on Islam? Is a masjid crucial for a muslim, can you be a muslim without attending a masjid? For example, can a muslim be a muslim in a city like mine, where there is no masjid, and there is no masjid neither in the surroundings or almost the country?
The Quran states that traders should close there stores to attend congregational prayers although I forget if its specifically states jumma prayer or all prayer.
Either way the importance of congregational prayer seems important from a laymen's perspective. Please seek further clarification.. But think of my post as a step in the right direction.
We muslims can pray anywhere, masjid/mosque is not only place for this. Many times women prefer to pray at home. Any places which are clean are ok to pray.
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We have suffered too much for too long. We will not accept apartheid masked as peace. We will settle for no less than our freedom.
Well, what is important is your faith in Allah. Then of course it is to gain knowledge so we achieve wisdom in the path to Allah. So, if it is of no real consequence, then it would be good to move to a place that has a mosque. If not possible, then what is missing is purely the 'support' structure and a community. In the days without Internet, he won't learn much, probably forget a lot. Hence the usefulness of being relatively close to a masjid.
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For when my heart does stop its beat, with truth, I die.
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