This Friday, March 31, 2023, young Guineans cheered an artist (Gazo) in the great mosque of Conakry. This aroused a wave of indignation from this good number of Muslims. This Sunday, the Secretary General of Religious Affairs, Elhadj Karamo Diawa returned to the sanctity of the mosque for croissants and invited young people to observe good attitudes there.
Here is the call of the religious:
The place of mosques in Islam!
The mosque is a place of worship that God has consecrated to himself, in which Muslims perform the 5 obligatory prayers and the supererogatory ones. It can also be used for sermons, sermons, invocations or religious ceremonies. Accordingly, a mosque deserves all consideration and respect, as it is consecrated to God.
From Fatako, where I am currently staying for the funeral of our late Elhadj Ousmane Fatako Baldé in this holy month of Ramadan, I invite all Muslim youth in Guinea to observe calm and good behavior in mosques and places of worship during and after the holy month.
To abstain from noises and uncontrolled movement when expressing joy or discontent.
God says in the Koran: “Mosques are consecrated to God and do not worship anyone with him (in a mosque)”.
In accordance with the Koranic verse cited above, no personal, tribal, community or regional name should be glorified within a mosque except that of the creator of the universe (ALLAH swt).
Despite the behavior of some young people yesterday at the Faysal Grand Mosque, we very fraternally invite the valiant Guinean youth to fulfill the obligation of prayer in the mosques with all responsibility, calm and the fear of God during and after the holy month of ramadan.
May Allah forgive all the sins and mistakes we made before and during Ramadan;
May he bring his clemency, mercy and forgiveness upon us;
May he accept our benevolence during and after this blessed month;
AND, may he grant us his paradise firdaws.