Zaskia Mecca's Criticism Of Waking Sahur Using Loudspeakers Is Indeed Regulated By Islam Seriously

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JAKARTA - The video of celebrity Zaskia Adya Mecca criticizes the way people wake up the sahur using mosque loudspeakers by shouting, triggering a conversation among netizens. Although there are cons, these criticisms could represent the number of people who feel annoyed when they hear the loud voice from TOA for too long. It's nothing, in Islam itself, such things have laws and cannot be arbitrary. How are the rules?

This discourse emerged when Zaskia uploaded the video via her Instagram account yesterday. He criticized the habit of waking sahur by shouting as not funny, unethical, and disrespectful to other people.

"I just want to ask, build this model again HITS he said ?! Then ethically don't use the mosque toa build this model? Moreover, we live in Indonesia where the religions are diverse. Is that so it doesn't disturb others not to practice Shaur ?!" he wrote.

Zaskia admitted that he was confused by the current situation. He questioned whether he was too serious, or if his surroundings felt even stranger. "What about you? Am I too serious?"

Debate

Zaskia's criticism cannot easily be labeled as "too serious." This is because the use of microphones which are related to the syiar of Islam is indeed regulated quite seriously by Islamic law.

As Ustaz Ahong explained, let alone waking the sahur by shouting using a loudspeaker, reading the Koran aloud, under some conditions it is not allowed. "Whatever, reading the Koran alone shouldn't interfere, that's the word of Allah, let alone shalawatan," he said when contacted by VOI.

Ahong, referring to the fatwa of the Egyptian cleric, explained that using a microphone when praying five times a day and using a microphone an hour before the Fajr prayer with loud sound is not allowed. "Lose see this fatwa (Egyptian clerics) prefer and appeal not to use a microphone."

There is also the first reason could be that the microphone, said Ahong, can disturb people around who are sick, mothers who cannot sleep because their babies are fussy, and workers who are not Muslim. "The two Egyptian fatwa institutions quoted the hadith 'Between you, do not amplify the recitation of the Koran to one another (Al-Nasa'i).'"

But on the other hand, some Muslims also think that raising the sound of the mosque using TOA is part of the syiar of Islam. As explained in NU Online, actually tadarus or playing recitation tapes with loudspeakers for a number of purposes is allowed. But there are limits.

Even though I was reading the Koran, if it was hardened with TOA for more than one hour, "it is not good because it can disturb people who need calm conditions," it was written. "Playing the cassette for too long only causes noise or noise pollution to disrupt the activities of some people."

Let alone tadarus with loudspeakers, NU Online, which refers to Sayyid Abdurrahman Ba'alawi's statement in his book Bughyatul Mustarsyidin, explains that tadarus without loudspeakers then confuses the concentration of people praying which is clearly prohibited by religion. According to Sayyid, the prohibition was not only because it could disturb people who were praying, but also other people who were resting.

Must be wise

Therefore, according to Ustaz Ahong, in addressing the problem of using loudspeakers to wake up the sahur, there needs to be a policy. He proposed by finding a middle way.

For example, waking up the sahur starts at half an hour before Ruling. Or if you want to wake up the meal from an hour before the Imsak, "try not to be full all the time."

6. To find a middle ground, it may be necessary to pay attention to some of these things if you want to use TOA when you wake up for sahur; (1) the dawn of dawn, for example, from half an hour before the Imsak; (2) Even if, for example, you want to wake up the sahur from an hour before the Imsak, try not to be full all the time ...

- Ustadz Ahong (@Ustadz_Ahong) April 23, 2021

According to Ustaz Ahong, waking up for a meal can be done every 15 minutes. "I'm afraid of disturbing other people. But yes, we also have to be wise. I will give you a middle ground," he concluded.

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