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| TARAWIH: Same or Different Masjid Every Night 4 U? |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 11/05/02 at 09:34:33 |
| [url=http://jannah.org/cards]AsalamAlay.com[/url] Peace and e-Greetings be upon you. I used to attend as many different masjids during the month of Ramadan for Isha and Tarawih prayers. Beginning of the month I'd attend the bigger masjids of Toronto. Through the middle, the smaller more neighbourhoody masjid/musalahs. By the 25th, I'd be trying to catch ANY masjid where the Recitation of the Qur'an would be completed that night. One or two masjids might finish by the 25th, most by the 27th, and The Islamic Foundation Masjid at Markham Rd. In Scarborough, East Toronto, has made a tradition of drawing the biggest one nighter tarawih crowd by finishing the reading of the Qur'an on the 29th. It has been many years since I attended a SINGLE masjid every night for Tarawih. What are you all doing for Tarawih? Any of you do what I do? Pros/Cons/Thoughts for Tarawih at one masjid or many? ??? ?? ? ?? ????? I just can't remember what it feels like....the same masjid every night... I'm not sure, I have this idea I might [i]try[/i] Tarawih at the same masjid for the entire month... What Think? ~ HiMY! ~ |
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| Barr |
| 11/05/02 at 12:17:08 |
| Wa'alaikumussalam warahmatullah! MashaAllah, akhi... where have U been? Well, its good that U have gotten over the addiction! I don't know which one is better.. to go ala carte or a buffet with tarawih in mosques. I just go where it is easy for me.. ie. the nearby mosque, or just pray at home, inshaAllah. But sometimes, I'd go just to a different mosque ... , especially if there's someone who can drive me there :) No hard and fast rules for me. Just follow your heart. I'm sure it'll lead you to the right mosque, inshaAllah. Allahua'lam :-) |
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| jannah |
| 11/05/02 at 13:42:40 |
| [slm] Himy!!!!!!!!11 long time no see... you're not becoming one of those Ramadan Madinans are you ;) j/k So buffet or a la carte.. i like that Barr !! :-/ One time I told a girl that I went to a ton of different masjid's for taraweeh in dimashq, and she was scandalized and said 'i thought you're only supposed to go one'. So maybe there is an opinion on this somewhere?? Anyway I think it's a good idea to go to one so you can follow reading the Quran with the Imam, from where he starts to the end. We used to ask what he was going to read the taraweeh before and that night we'd go home and read it and read the English and stuff so we would understand the Taraweeh the next night. |
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| theOriginal |
| 11/07/02 at 12:14:20 |
| [slm] Since you mentioned Foundation....I guess you know how nice the Taraweeh atmosphere is over there...InshaAllah I plan on praying whatever I can at that mosque. It's kind of far, but my brother likes it too, so hey! Wasalaam. SF. |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 11/19/02 at 11:30:59 |
| [quote author=Barr link=board=special;num=1036506873;start=0#1 date=11/05/02 at 12:17:08] Well, its good that U have gotten over the addiction! I don't know which one is better.. to go ala carte or a buffet with tarawih in mosques. :-)[/quote] wow...Madinans [i]do[/i] read profiles after all.... :-| I thought when I first read that [i]a la carte[/i] or a [i]buffet[/i] reflection that it was one of the funniest lines I've read in a post anywheres in a looong time. A La Carte, comes alongside the meal... Buffet, make your own plate.... Yet what about the main meal in the first place? Ramadan's now halfway though, what did ya end up doing for Tarawih so far Barr? ~ HiMY! ~ |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 11/19/02 at 11:33:20 |
| [quote author=jannah link=board=special;num=1036506873;start=0#2 date=11/05/02 at 13:42:40][slm] Himy!!!!!!!!11 long time no see... you're not becoming one of those Ramadan Madinans are you ;) j/k [/quote] Noooo.... just one of them thar Tarawih Madinans.... |
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| SuperHiMY |
| 11/19/02 at 11:50:33 |
| [quote author=theOriginal link=board=special;num=1036506873;start=0#3 date=11/07/02 at 12:14:20] [slm] Since you mentioned Foundation....I guess you know how nice the Taraweeh atmosphere is over there...InshaAllah I plan on praying whatever I can at that mosque. It's kind of far, but my brother likes it too, so hey! Wasalaam. SF. [/quote] [wlm] , I think the past few years when I've done my show-up-only-on-the-29th-of-Ramadan thing, I've come to change my own view about my why I myself really go there on the 29th... Was it [i]just[/i] to catch another 'Finish of the Recitation' of the Qur'an after I had already 'caught' one finish at another masjid two nights earlier? Usually at [url=http://www.taric.org]TARIC[/url] in the north west end of Toronto? Was I somehow cheating ? By not continuing at [url=http://www.taric.org]TARIC[/url] for the 28 and 29th nights as they continued with recitations of short suras to complete their nightly twenty prostrations... I still ain't sure... But, sadly, I am pretty sure about one part of me, that I really don't like the [i]CROWDING[/i] or rather, overcrowding, that happens at the Islamic Foundation Masjid in Scarborough on the 29th. I can't say fer sure, but ah reckon that many of them thar muslims in that thar masjid on that thar 29th night of Ramadan, also are like me, they show up just on the 29th. Hence the big fundraiser that goes on annually. And somehow, I can't articulate it eloquently or even without typing like I'm an Idiot, That kinda turns me off.... Know what I mean? ~ HiMY! ~ |
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| theOriginal |
| 11/19/02 at 13:11:55 |
| [slm] lol. (amusing post) The fundraising on the last day is sometimes really, extremely annoying. For a few reasons. They do it auction style. "This brother in the blue has just offered us the value of $$$$, can anyone top this??" (As it turned out, someone did top his massive amount from the sister's side. She turned out to be his wife. MashaAllah.) And yeah, being female, we end up in the gym due to the amount of people that are in the Masjid. The funny thing is, you can't hear anything, because everything in the gym echoes, even when someone sneezes. And as usual, on the female side, there are those that are chit chatting "OMG what are you gonna wear for 'Eid," and children wailing because another kid stole half their Popeye's meal. ;) (If you've ever been there, you know what I'm talking about.) So you really canNOT hear anything. So then some sister who is getting frustrated at how the rest of the sisters are so disrespectful...turns up the volume. It turns out to be so loud that you can hear the beat pounding inside your heart. So, in the end, you can't even hear yourself breathe, and you begin the last Taraweeh prayer of the month with a massive headache. The fundraising itself goes on for hours, literally. You could be spending that time making the most out of the last minutes of Ramadan....Wallahu Alam. Like I said before, the atmosphere at Foundation is really nice. So it might make up for it, after all. But as far as your concern of "cheating" goes....if you have already caught the finish of the recitation at Taric, I don't see why you can't go to another mosque to hear another finish. btw...if you are just avoiding the crowd...there are many other masjids that might be closer to you, who might be finishing the recitation too. Wasalaam. SF. |
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| jannah |
| 11/19/02 at 14:20:35 |
| [slm] My ramadan pet peeves (sorry couldn't resist): 1. Mothers who bring their kids AND disrupt the entire TARAWEEH!!! For God's sake if you have a brat keep him/her at home. If you have to bring the kids go in another place/room with them and bring something for them to do! I've seen mothers bring their kids and serenely pray taraweeh with them yelling, screaming, running all over the place and disturbing everyone else. Sheesh! In Syria NO one brings their young children to distrub taraweeh, the one time someone tried the kids ran around back and forth in front of the praying women an entire 2 rakats, then some old women got up and started yelling at the entire audience of sisters to fear Allah. It was great! :) 2. Finishing the Quran on the 27th and then the next two nights doing like Qul huwallahu ahad... come on!!!! This happenned to me in Syria too, I was dying to go to this one Masjid (Masjid al Badr) where they have this awesome shaatri like reciter, but finally the day I was able to go after the 27th he did like the shortest surahs in memory I was bitterly dissappointed :( |
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| oneway2paradise |
| 11/21/02 at 02:19:46 |
| [slm] My personal preference is to pray where I usually pray every day all year long. I am familiar with these people and they are like family to me. So, I feel at home there. As for the kids, we have a great set up this year. We have the women's usual prayer room as the room for women with kids. Our "mulit-purpose" room is split in half. The front half for the men spilling out of their room and the back half (behind partitions) for women with no children. Plus, there is a babysitter in a far away separate classroom. So, alhamdulillah, it has been pretty good. I usually end up praying in the room with kids anyway because it is not crowded (only one row) and I'm used to those kids anyway. Just my personal input. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah Amber |
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