Russia and the CIS (bbabo.net) - A resident of the city of Tara, Omsk region, came to the local mosque to complain about the adhan, but after a conversation with the imam, she left with a desire to hear the daily Muslim call to prayer.

“The sounds of the azan“ interfere ”with some people, regardless of their nationality and religion,” the imam of the Tara mosque, the head of the Omsk mukhtasibat, Akhmed-Ratib Akhmetov, told bbabo.net. “When we built a mosque and began to recite the adhan, it was the“ ethnic Muslim ”who lived nearby who came with indignation first. And this time a Russian woman came with a complaint. I invited her to go to the mosque, told what was the meaning of the five-fold “loud cries”, that this is a call to worship the only God, to whom Jesus addressed with the prayer “Our Father”: wouldn’t it be better for you to say: “Glory to God, praise to God! When you hear the adhan before dawn, I am convinced that it will become easier on my soul. We talked for about an hour and a half, found a common language, came to the conclusion that we are all the creations of one Creator. She left, wishing that the adhan always sounded in our mosque.

According to the imam-mukhtasib, at the congress of imams of the Omsk mukhtasibat held at the beginning of the year, in addition to the main issues, the participants in the meeting discussed the response to complaints from residents of the settlement regarding the azan.

- Some may answer that "bells are ringing in churches, we are not indignant." So we will only aggravate the situation, - the imam believes. - The Almighty said in the Quran "Call to the Lord's way with wisdom and good admonition, and wage a dispute with what is better." Leadership of the holy Koran changes a person before our eyes.

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