Haveri: Muslims throughout the world generally offer their prayers in Arabic, but in Chihkka Kabbar in the Haveri district, they pray in Kannada in Hazrat Mehabob Subani Darga.
The village, in Ratihalli Taluk, has done this for around 150 years.
Most of the 400 Muslim families do not know Urdu and Arabic, so Maulvi discusses the community in Kannada five times a day.
Muslims are proud of local languages and live in harmony with other communities in the village, which at the Main Minister of the Bukavaraj District Bommai.
According to sources, in the past decade, children have started learning Urdu in school.
The mosque, however, has a display board outside and inside that is in Kannada.
“Most Muslims don’t know Arabic and Urdu in Chikka Kabbar village so there’s no point in using this language during prayer.
However, Maulvis had previously spoken in Kannada because it was easy to communicate with people from the community because they easily understand prayer and discourse.
I also follow tradition, “said Mohammad Peeransab, Maulvi.He at this time said that non-Muslims also listened to Kannada’s prayer discourse in the village.
“There is nothing important in that language, his intention is to understand the theme of religion and the importance of prayer,” Mohammad added.
Hussensab Billalli, Chair of the Anjuman Islamic Committee, agreed with Maulvi who prayed at Kannada.
There is no point in Arabic and Urdu in the mosque during prayer because people cannot follow religion without understanding it.
Kannada language is easy to understand in the community, even by people who do not slip, Billalli shows.
“People in our village live in harmony.
There are no differences between Hindus and Muslims in our village.
Hindu participates in our festival and we also join the practice of Hindu rituals,” he said.
“Our three-generation of elders have contributed three Gunta sites.
To build a mosque in our village and I registered property with an Anjuman Committee recently.
There is no dispute in language.
We easily understand their prayers and discourses because in our mother tongue.
Here, there are no differences of opinion in existing religions And we live in harmony, “said Veeranagouda Patil, who has contributed the land to the mosque.
Not Arabs, Muslims in this village pray in Kannada
