OPEN LETTER TO THE HEAD OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS

23/07/2014 | Doç. Dr. Ahmet TAN | 341


First of all, let me state this.
This is not my area of expertise.
I tried to express the issue with the sensitivity of only a Muslim and an academician.
A few days ago, the "Religious Life Survey", commissioned by the Turkish Statistical Institute by the Presidency of Religious Affairs, was published.
I had the opportunity to spend some time and examine it.
It contains very important and very interesting results.
I recommend that every educator, every academician, every sociologist and especially every politician should read it.
Some of the results are well-known, some are very interesting.
99.2% of the people living in these lands define themselves as Muslims.
This is a very important ratio in my opinion.
We need to know the value of this, its value and its value.
According to the values we believe in, our otherworldly life is the most important life.
Every issue concerning the otherworldly life is at least as important as the otherworldly life.
Work and transactions related to the otherworldly life should not be neglected.
We need to hand over the works and transactions related to the otherworldly life to the hands of the competent!
You were wondering where to bring the word, right?
People who work in mosques should not look at me.
Maybe there are very good people among them who are competent in their work.
But there are some among them that unwittingly ruin the "religious life" of believers.
An imam does not have that luxury.
"I lead the prayer as I want, I extend the prayer as I want, I lead it as fast as I want".
An imam does not recite attaheyatuyu in 25 seconds in one rak'ah and in 55 seconds in another rak'ah!
The method and style of saying the takbir while standing up from the sajda is different, the method and saying the takbir when going from prostration to the death is different.
Can you imagine this?
The imam utters the takbir, which should be recited so straight and so firmly that all of the congregation, except the congregation, which is concentrating on prayer, are standing, while the others are on the ground!
The imam should direct the congregation in all its aspects.
Imam; he should devote himself to prayer in every way and concentrate.
Another point.
The style and style of a village imam should be different from that of a city, a city slum, a city centre, a bus station, a hospital, or a university imam.
I am a person who witnessed this with my ears; My master does not send us to Friday prayers because the imam makes Friday prayers too long!
No imam can account for this!
Our religion is the most reasonable religion.
Our religion is the religion closest to reason,
Our religion is the religion that facilitates religious life the most.
In a Friday prayer, the preacher in the central system was telling the points to be considered in the prayers performed in congregation.
He says so many beautiful things that the congregation listens with great attention.
"The prayer performed in congregation should be as short as possible. It is possible that there may be difficulties in standing! It may be that someone is in a hurry! It may be that someone has an appointment! It may be someone who is sick in the hospital! It may be that someone is waiting at home! it will happen, it will happen...."
Among those who listen to them is the imam of that mosque!
We stood for the two-rak'ah fard of Friday and Imam Efendi read at least one page of the Qur'an without exaggeration after Fatiha in each rak'ah!
Mosque officials should not be so relaxed.
There is a need for mosque officials to undergo a very serious pedagogical formation on these issues.
With the exception of those who do their duty properly, we have so many imams who only perform their duties in form that the scourge of them is very heavy.
I'm not talking about the incompatibility between the imam and the muezzin!
I am a witness that the imam and the muezzin are offended with each other!
In the language of music, while one of them reads from the note la, the other reads from the left note, the note si.
Prayers performed when recited from different pitches give no taste to anyone!
Both officers should not be on the same level as themselves or with each other.
For all these, the Presidency of Religious Affairs should subject all officials to pedagogical formation under the control of competent people within a certain calendar.
We should continue with those who are sufficient, and part ways with those who are insufficient.
All staff should be trained by competent musicians.
92%

We cannot make people like Islam in any other way.
The scourge of this is very heavy.
It's time to make Muslims "in love" with Islam!
Tell me.

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