Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Zakat Foundation’s president Dr Zafar Mahmood has urged Muslims to refrain from offering “namaz”— even Friday’s— on roads outside the mosques as it is not good for Muslims, we will have to follow the religious dictum that our acts should not cause any hardship to people at large and to non-Muslims in particular”.
He said even in Muslim localities, small children coming back to homes from schools face great difficulties because of the use of roads for offering prayers. In this regard, he has urged ulama and trustees to suggest ways and means and hinted that these prayers can be offered on nearby vacant lands, plots and factories with the permission of the Muslim owners of these places.
It might be mentioned here that the Delhi high court had asked Muslims not to offer prayers outside the mosque of a South Delhi apartment as it was creating problems for people (Sahafat 22/4).
End item/ 129
