what's the perfect mosque?

the perfect mosque

when the seal of prophets, mohammad (peace be upon him) was constructing the
1st mosque in al-madina, he was helpin his companions in the construction by
carrying the bricks by his hands, while repeatedly saying "no life but the
hereafter, O Allah have mercy on the muhajeroon and the ansaar"
.

source: https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/4/8

in case you don't know who are the muhajeroon and the ansaar:

  • muhajeroon: muslims that left their home to go with the prophet to madina
    (away from the harms of the pagans that conspired to kill them for refusing to worship
    their idols).
  • ansaar: those from al-madina that supported and welcomed the prophet.

when the prophet made the mosque, he did not make a luxurious fancy temple like
the wasteful muslims do today, or like christains have been doing (and still do), or like jews
have been doing (and still do).

instead, the prophet (peace be upon him) made the simplest most practical
mosque. the mosque only had a rain/sun shelter, and a simple boundary wall to
keep those inside away from distractions outside, so that they focus on the
prayer and the preachings.

a small reconstruction of mohammad's original mosque

1400 yrs have passed, and today, when i think about it, mohammad's mosque is
still the perfect mosque. what have we done? we wasted money on luxurious
mosques, for what benefit? does Allah need fancy bricks in the mosques? is
this how we are supposed to worship Allah? by wasting money in luxurious
buildings?

have The Lord of Glory and Majesty, Allah, not told us how to maintain mosques?
yes He did, but we forgot and transgressed.

quran 9:18:

The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe in Allah
and the Last Day and establish prayer and give zakah and do not fear except
Allah, for it is expected that those will be of the [rightly] guided.

today's mosques

sadly, many muslims have transgressed into wasteful superficial
buildings, in the footsteps of christians and jews before them, despite the fact
that the propohet (peace be upon him) told them to not be wasteful, and despite
the fact that Their Creator, Allah, told them how to maintain mosques.

I was not commanded to build high mosques. Ibn Abbas said: You will certainly
adorn them as the Jews and Christians did.

source: https://sunnah.com/abudawud/2/58

how can one claim to be creating a house to worship Allah, while in the construction
of the very same house he is sinning by wasting money and defying Allah's orders?
indeed very hypocritical, and stupid. layers of stupidity upon stupidity.

sadly, even the door of ka'ba is made of gold-like material, with engraven texts
saying "Allah - Mohammad", despite the fact that the prophet, peace be upon him,
strongly denied people from putting him next to Allah. mohammad, peace be upon
him, is only a creature and a slave of Allah, whom was blessed by guidence from
Allah, and chosen to be His final messenger.

here are a few photos of an example of an extremely wasteful and unislamic mosque:

qatar mosque
qatar mosque
qatar mosque

may Allah remove the love of material out of hearts, and return us to His original
pure path.

conclusion

quran 17:29:

And do not make your hand [as] chained to your neck or extend it completely
and [thereby] become blamed and insolvent.

we should save our money and use them for constructive projects, such
as funding scientific research, helping poor people, or investing in successful
business opportunities to do further good.

but spending money to build fancy mosques is a waste that does not help anything
good, but leads to many things bad. sadly, meanwhile, many of us are not even
praying. many of us are transgressing by copying false western cultures such as
consumption of alcohol, drugs, immoralities, etc (which lead to nothing but sorrow:
increased divorce, increased suicide, increased health issues, increased wated money,
etc), and ignore good aspects of the western culture such as focus on science (which is
highly regarded in islam as on-going good deed).

we should return to the pure bright path that mohammad (peace be upon him) left us
at 1400 years ago. amazingly, this pure bright path is still the perfect path despite having
1400 years pass. one wonders: how can islam be so perfect? how can all the genius
philosophers fail to bring a social order better than islam? not a single philosopher who
has defied islam reached anything but destruction. the perfection of islam is by itself
a miracle.

quran 67:14:

Does He who created not know, while He is the Subtle, the Acquainted?

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Pub: 17 Jun 2020 18:05 UTC
Edit: 08 Jul 2020 01:37 UTC
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