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I went to the mosque tonight. Hadn't been there in two weeks because I felt I was doing better at home.

The isha prayer was at 7:33 pm. It finished just before 9:40 pm.

The director of the mosque interrupted the prayer and started by asking who was willing to give $10,000. Nobody raised their hands. He lowered the price to $5,000 and so on and so forth.

I felt like I was taken hostage.

When he finally lowered the price to $500, a few people raised their hands. It still took way too long before he let us finish our prayer.

I don't think I will be returning to the mosque any time soon.

Ben Verret · 4d

There's also that time during jumuah when the director of the mosque delayed the prayer so much that it started during the time of al-Asr.

ابو مريم · 4d

unfortunately this has become very common at most western mosques. i hate it too. wrong financial incentives. this is why many of us on here only build in bitcoin.

Privacy Is Dignity · 4d

That sounds like a pretty slimy extortion technique. Your director has been reading Art of The Deal.

Karadenizli · 4d

Sounds like you just have a bad mosque. Mine pays a donation hustler like 5k every Layl Qadr to hype up the crowd and he actually pulls 20k+ donations. He holds the most crowded taraweeh crowd hostage until he gets 200k for the masjid.