If one is late for congregational ritual prayers and finds it impossible to join the congregation if he parked properly and walked given the time and distance from parking spot to place of congregation, then by all means miss it and go the following week without having to be a nuisance to everyone else on the road due to double/triple parking had he remained insistant on attending anyways. The following week, learn from past mistakes. Leave early, avoid traffic, get a good parking space by turning up early and pray as long as and repeatedly as he likes. Heck, he can even stay on for the next few congregational praying sessions if he wants. Whats the problem if he isnt troubling or bothering anyone else. What he does with his own time, so long as he doesnt break any laws or morals of common decency is his business and no one elses. We are humans with brains. Use them. Live, learn and evolve. Having to miss one congregational session taking being a nuisance to others as a reason is a good start followed by learning from mistakes and finally not repeating those mistakes. Thats how we evolve. If we keep being a dick and double/triple park taking up lanes and blocking other road users and congregation members repeatedly each week it just shows that we dont evolve and are no better than goats in the arabian desert. Trouble is many think rituals are more important than deeds and values while evolving is a word completely alien to them. Now look at Malay society in general. Why are they stuck in a time warp of some distant desert dweller culture of the 15th century? Its because they dont evolve. So please, use your brains, learn and evolve
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:56:37 +0000