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Visit To A Mosque Essay

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Being the Islamic nation, it is not tough to find a mosque in Dhaka, capital city of Bangladesh. Every zone of the city has, at least, one mosque. For my work, I went to Gausul Azam mosque, located at Shahajanpur Dhaka. The mosque is three storied and is still under construction. Albeit, it is open for the people to pray. I went to the mosque during noon prayer, Zuhr prayer in Arabic. Half of the ground floor was filled during the prayer.
I chose this respective mosque, because it is known to have a Gilabh in it that is hanging from the west part of the wall beside a tiled picture of Rawdah Mubarak, graveyard of Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). Left side of the wall consists of a tiled picture of Kaaba, known to be the home of Allah, God in Islam. The two walls from where the two tiled pictures were glowing is divided in the middle by an empty space where the continuation of the wall has been halted by Minbar, a free space where the Imam recites prayer and take his Salah. The Gilabh is said to have been collected from the shrine where Gausul Azam is enshrined.
The noon prayer was conducted the Imam, whom everyone followed during Salah. Imam is known to be the leader of the mosque and is followed by all ordinary Muslims. The Salah was ended with Munajat, where people hold cupped …show more content…

He grasped my attention as he was of same age liked mine – between 20 and 25 years old. Looking at the group it seems that they are either preparing for a meeting as everyone was glancing at each other in every few seconds, or they are there just to pray some time more in peace inside the house of Allah, the mosque. When I came close to the person. I sat beside him and as soon as he glanced at me and we meet our eyes, I chuckled and approached my hand to handshake. He folded the book by one hand and moved his right hand for a handshake, first step of showing civilized behavior. During our handshake we exchange our

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