Hyderabad: City mosques are now competing for new honor to be the cleanest Muslim places.
Pandemic has helped trigger a campaign – my mosque is the cleanest ‘.
Around a dozen mosques have pioneered a campaign involving youth and local students to clear the place.
Most mosques have collected dust because of the prolonged shutdown during a pandemic.
This campaign was launched to clean up the chaos and keep the mosque clean and tidy ahead of the third wave of Covid-19.
The team that keeps the cleanest local mosque will get financial incentives in the form of payment of school and college fees and scholarships.
Education Syed Zakir Hussain, the brain behind the campaign, told Tii that he had persuaded young men and students to keep their mosques clean after he watched the priest mosque that cleaned the place alone.
“Imam is the leader of the church prayer.
Not his job to clean the place.
I then mobilized a group of young people to clean the mosque,” he said.
Zakir said he was transferred after the Hindu partner, who runs the Sanitaryware store, gave a big discount when they learned that the cleaning material was for a mosque.
“When I asked for a price, the young couple refused to quote prices.
Instead they told me to pay whatever I could be the material for the house of God,” Zakir said.
At the 100-year-old Amjadi Mosque, the Sultan and his friends have guarded the mosque clean.
Leading businessman Abdul Rasheed and his team treated the Shahi Qutub Mosque in Shaikpet.
Mohammad Mozzam Hussain, the founding member of the MS School Group, told TI that his response was very encouraging and many mosques were now cleaner than ever.
ASIM Ahmed, IT experts and members of the Chowk Mosque Committee, said the idea behind the campaign instilled the habit of cleanliness in young people.
Imam and Khatebs from several mosques during the Friday sermon (sermon) said that it was the task of everyone who offered prayers at the mosque to keep the place clean.
Moulana Mohammad Haneef Quadri told people who obey that cleanliness is half of faith and children do not have to wait for the mosque committee to keep the place clean.