Prayers and Dramas

Assalamualaikum and greetings fellow readers.

How's your third day of fasting in Ramadhan? Well then, write it down and keep it in a journal. 

Here, I have a story for you. A story of a lil kid learning how to pray.

When I was in pre-school, I was a kid and I don't know how to perform Subooh prayer the right way. Well, probably because Subooh has du'a qunut. That's all, but it was a big deal to me.

Clearly, I was following blindly. My dad performed solat sunat qabliyah for Subooh and I followed. I was confused, as I thought that he's doing his Subooh prayer, but no. Plus, why did he pray by himself? He should pray all together, with the whole jemaah in the masjid. 

Straight to the point, I put my hands on prayer, while reciting Al-Fatihah. 

Few minutes later, the bilal recited the iqamah, and everyone completing the saff, takbir and performed their Subooh. Now, I'm worried. Cause, I had my Subooh just now. That's what I thought. Heh.

Few days later, I told the story to my ustadz in school and asked him. Giggled with his hand covering his mouth, he told me what'd happened. =_=

Why do I have to tell you this story? 

Nowadays, there are so many videos in Facebook, videos of people praying, the way that they have never seen before and wrong, or that's what they think it is. 

The problem is not on their prayer, entirely. 

Instead of approaching them, we record and post it on Facebook 

with a caption, 

"The fastest prayer I've ever seen"

"What is this? Syiah"

"Look the way he did his rukook"

and more!

Now, you think it stops here? People will comment and share. You know the rest, it's all collateral damage. A continuous thread of hatred, and ignorance.

Alhamdulillah, during my time, nobody recorded the way I did my Subooh prayer, well maybe because nobody cares about Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Hahaha. It's a shameful memory of my childhood, but I learnt my lesson.  

Happy fasting. Salaam Ramadhan Kareem. :D