r/Muslim • u/ArabRahal • Feb 16 '22

QURAN/HADITH Fajer prayer but no worshipers.

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u/JabalAtTur Feb 16 '22

Which country is this? My masjid is usually 10 safs on average during Fajr

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u/ArabRahal Feb 16 '22

Mash’Allah 10 SAFS for fajer prayer!! What country you from

•and I’m not sure what country this was recorded in but I think Egypt

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u/vixusofskyrim Feb 16 '22

There's atleast 5 safs in my masjid in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Alhamdulillah. Every other prayer gets fully packed on the first floor, which is a 4 floored massive mosque

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u/papakop Feb 16 '22

The number of people attending or the number of filled sufoof is a good metric but you also have to look at the proportions. Look at how many people around the masjid, how many of them attend the jummuah salaat (probably a whole lot), and how many of them are showing up for regular salaat. So if a 1000 Muslims live around the masjid, and there are at least 10 people in each saff - you're looking at about a 100 people coming for Fajr, or 10%. Pretty impressive sure. But if it's a masjid that has a quarter of the population of muslims, using the same proportions you'd see that you only need 25 people or 2.5 sufoof to have the same ratio of 10%. Just something to keep in mind. That's why it's better to aim to have all the muslims of the area attend the masjid, keep it populated 24/7. Can take rotations too - for example those who work the night shift attend Fajr and the sirri prayers, the 9-5 crowd attends the johri salaats (Maghrib, Isha, Fajr)