TOWN MASJIDS VS VILLAGE MASJIDS Part 2

We are lucky to have plenty of masjids throughout the country. When I was small the masjid was very important to be the center of congregation of Moslems meeting and performing good deeds. Those years were gone. The masjids in my village are now collecting dust; except on Fridays. The government is generous, very kind to replace the old ones with new sophisticated, well-designed, so-called "user friendly" and the lists go on. The village masjids are sprawling throughout Perak. BUT, lets go there during the FIVE PRAYERS. Only a few people, maybe five or six senior citizens perform prayers. Let me illustrate, a grand masjid, sprawing and grandeour, near the district administration building was built and completed to cater the people around the area. When I went inside, only one fifth of a ROW occupied the masjid to perform a prayer. User friendly? When it rains, you get wet...from the wudhu area. 25 km from it a masjid is locked from outsiders to perform solat. The masjid officers said, to prevent theft. Another one is being built 30 km away. These are examples of village masjids that are extremely UNDER UTILISED. Lets go to a town masjid near a former royal town. A recent Jumaat prayer shows me how DESPERATE the place needs a NEW MASJID. People prayed on the grass field. They brought sejadahs with them. FUNNY thing, the areas is NOT Moslem densely populated. An experience praying Jumaat at a masjid near the state hospital adds to my battlecry. I actually prayed on the drain covers near the fence, in a hot sun. A masjid in the largest Malay community in the world desperately needs enlargement. You go inside or check out the bulletin boards. Many activities are carried out in the TOWN MASJIDS. You go to a VILLAGE MASJID, you will be surprised how EMPTY it is at nights, FREE from activities. Any ustaz will be dishearted to see only 3 or 4 people to his ceramahs. Surely, he will not come back. If he goes to a TOWN MASJID, people flock to listen to his ceramahs. These people drive BMW's, Mercedez's, CAMRY's of course and in Perdanas. But how about the old people who were raised by their fathers and fore-fathers to love Islam in the village? BUSY ?.........Those who are involved, don't listen to people who rarely go to masjids to erect new masjids. Go around in the cities. Compare... GET REAL.....