little care they bare.

The Far Mosque is not built of earth and water and stone,but of intention and wisdom

and mystical conversation and compassionate action. 

-Rumi-

on our way back today. 

we stopped by a mosque.

and my heart sunk to the bottom while i roamed around it while waiting for ma,ayah and ted to finish.

the half side of the mosque,hidden from the view of the entrance was densely littered. 

a whole huge black bin just by the side of the women's ablution place.

filled with food and other rubbish.

becoming the source of breed for maggots and rottens. 

and there i thought.

this should be the place of sanctuary.

concrete walls  and timber roof built to shelter the worshippers. 

a place where we channel our faith.

where God becomes nearer than the vein.

but.

it was badly treated.

no running water in the toilet.

and people seem to use the available pipes to wash their babies wastes.

instead of their faces.

and i cried inside.

what have become to this community? 

this is not among the first time i encounter this.

truthfully.

more than once.

i have.

and have they no courtesy.

simply.

if we can't respect the house of God.

there is not a way that we can respect ourselves as creations of God.

and i left the compound.

waited for ted to finish and come around.

and when he asked.

'why did you wait by the car?'

in silence.

i answered.

because i can't bare.

to see such mockery people make.

in a boastful parade of little care.

over a house of their prayers.

:(

Islam is clean.
Be clean.