Message #10355

[Ruhi_Rose]

O yes ,, just about everyone I know who attend Tarawih complain of the imams bad manners during Quranic recitations .. like they're about to catch a train.  I don't go for Tarawih, instead I say my Nafl salat after Isha at home.  But my husband has been going since childhood.  There's a masjid close to our condo complex (5 minutes' walk) and my husband goes there for Tarawih with his father, brothers, cousins and a couple of uncles - they make a group of 10 or 12 of them.  But they are all quite disheartened with the way the imam handles it.  And there's no point going to another masjid.  They all follow the same style.  They go so fast that often the beautiful verses sound incomprehensible & distorted because of the stupid imam's hurried mis-pronunciations.   What's worst is that such a rude practice has become a tradition.  It's absolutely inexcusable!  People need to group up and raise their voices, telling the discourteous imams to stop insulting the Noble Quran this way. 

My husband, his family and extended family along with my family intend to start Tarawih sessions at home from next Ramandan in 2012, InshAllah.  By the Grace of Allah, our family and extended families make up several homes.  Through mutual consultations, one house can be picked for each year and everyone can gather there every evening after Isha instead of going to the masjid.  A one-hour session of Tarawih will consist of reading not more than 3 or 4 pages in Arabic in the traditional way as done in the masjids, and then followed up by translations with full tafsirs.  Sounds great to me and very different from the way it's conducted in our masjids.   We won't aim at necessarily finishing the Quran in 30 days.  But we'll surely, InshAllah, learn more and of course enjoy more.