Is the main modus operandi of this parliament, and further solidifies the opinion of not only their uselessness, but also their one-track mindedness which lost its compass.
We read this in this morning’s papers:
مكاÙÂآت للأئمة والمؤذنينتتراوؠبينألÙÂينو5 آلا٠دينار
مكاÙÂآت للأئمة والمؤذنينتتراوؠبينألÙÂينو5 آلا٠دينار واÙÂقت لجنة الشؤونالمالية والاقتصادية بمجلس النواب على الاقتراؠبرغبة (غير ملزم للØÂكومة) المقدم منكتلة المنبر الإسلاميÙÂيشأنتكريم الأئمة والمؤذنينبصورة مجزية، وخصوصاً منأمضوا ÙÂيالخدمة ÙÂترة طويلة ولا يتقاضونمعاشات تقاعدية.
واقترؠأعضاء الكتلة أنتتÙÂاوت المكاÙÂأة المالية ØÂسب سنوات العمل، إذ تكونألÙÂيدينار للذينعملوا منعام إلى 10 أعوام، وألÙÂينوخمسمائة (من11 عاما إلى 15)ØŒ ÙÂيما تبلغ المكاÙÂأة 3 آلا٠دينار لمنعمل Ù„ÙÂترة تتراوؠبين16 إلى 25 عاما، وتكون4 آلا٠لمنعمل ÙÂترة بين26 Ùˆ30 عاماً، ÙÂيما تبلغ المكاÙÂأة 5 آلا٠دينار لمنعمل لأكثر من30 عاماً. كما أوضؠالاقتراؠأنالمكاÙÂآت توزع ÙÂياØÂتÙÂال خاص يقام لذلك، كما ينظر Ù„ØÂال الأئمة والمؤذنينالذينيتقاضونأو يستØÂقونمعاشات تقاعدية، وذويالدخل المØÂدود وخصوصا الكبار ÙÂيالسنمنهم، بØÂيث ينم إدراجهم ÙÂينظام التقاعد أو التأمينات على انتقوم الØÂكومة بدÙÂع جميع مستØÂقاتهم إلى هيئة التقاعد أو التأمينات الاجتماعية
الوقت – ١٤ أبريل ٢٠٠٧
Parliament’s Finance & Economic Affairs Committee has accepted the motion submitted by Al-Menber to “generously reward” religious imams and mo’athins (callers to prayer), and this is what you and me will be paying them, if this motion is actually passed by parliament and accepted by the government:
Why?
I would rather spend that money in other more creative avenues; collect all that budget – if in fact it is to be given, and we know how the government loves Al-Menbar and readily acquiesces to their various requests – and:
- Provide part of it to a Bahraini inventor who can invent a way to synchronise all calls to prayer between the 20,178 mosques that we have (and that’s just in Bani Jamra probably)
- Record a decent sounding call to prayer and get that to play at the synchronised times through remotely controlled MP3 players; this invention must also provide a necessary time-shift delay to compensate for the differing adjudications of actual prayer times
- Get those now out-of-work-and-almost-ready-to-contribute-something-tangible-to-society mo’athins to go through vocational training
And in this day and age when a normal knowledge worker does not last in a job for more than 2 to 3 years by their own choice because that person requires change of environment and job situation to enrich their experience and learn some new skills, why is parliament rewarding stagnancy in a job? Who in their right mind want to do a numb-skulling job like that for more than a few weeks, let alone more than thirty years!
Taken from another perspective; if the mo’athin’s job is an honour that is handsomely rewarded by God both in and after life, shouldn’t that reward to allowed to percolate within society by forcing mo’athins to give the job up after a week so that others would step forward to bask in God’s benevolence? Why the selfishness and why does a so called Islamic society reward hording God’s Light?
What about those imams then? Who put them there and what qualifications (other than memorising the Quran, that should not be a qualifier because a lot of good muslims do memorise it) do they possess to reward them like this? These people, other than the traditional religious qualifications should be further trained by insisting that they also take sociology, psychology, counseling and critical thinking courses in order to really be effective in their jobs.
Wouldn’t this generous distribution of wealth be better put in retraining these people and fostering inventions? I think that it will for sure.
But even much more important than these, if they are to give these rewards, they should start with long suffering teachers! Teachers who take abuse from students, the administration, the government and community for imparting much needed knowledge and trying to prepare the community for a better future.
It is they who deserve this generosity, not people braying into microphones a simple alarm clock would do a better job than all of them combined!
Comments
Can women be mo’athens? My voice isn’t that bad after all..
ok…the first piece of news i read this morning and it’s already messed up my day. the parliament should hire budgeting, investment and economics experts to come in and give them a training course before they fritter away the next generation’s lifeline.
you had a great suggestion there, with the invention (astaghfir allah iladheem!!). as for learning the Qorán thing, don’t you remember when Saidi (i think) recommended that all prisoners should have their sentences reduced for learning it? makes you speechless, eh? some of them are still living in the fourteenth century!
this money they are giving away is just BRIBERY, they give money left and right to shut everybody up and appear as if they are doing something. IDIOTS!!!
you jest, methinks?? your voice is a “awra”, woman, go back into your cave and wait for your masters!!!
It’s not a voice competetion… I can be a mo’athen if I wanted to..
Anyway it’s only a suggestion that is not compulsory for the government to reply on.. If they do, they’ll do their math and see does it sound reasonable or not.
It’s only a one-time thing.. and the guys have been doing “a’athaan” for like 20-30 years now while not expecting anything on return.
I am not saying that it’s a very importnant suggestion, but خلوا الناس تعيش
اØÂنا للØÂينما Ø´ÙÂنا قرش اØÂمر طالع منالØÂكومة
MPs suggested 20BD for every citizen but the government still didn’t reply on that suggestion!
The first person who gets some money from this government will get a 20BD gift from me! yalla, how’s that for a money distibution! 🙂
Do you mean that they pay people who call for prayer ?????
do you mean that they don’t do it from the goodness of thier heart ???
well i’m shocked :shocked: …
Can i call prayer :w00t: i’m jobless, may i mention that i’m not muslim is it a problam ????? :cwy:
Btw, “Al-Menber” stratedgy is so obviuos.. Try to suggest hundreds of “money-distributing” suggestions and expect the government to reply on one of them, which will sound like a victory if was proven.
Just like a small kid asking for money which sounds unpractical from the father’s side while it sounds very practical from the kid’s side.
The government, in this case, is the un-caring father who is watching TV while his kid is making a fuss about money beside him on the floor trying to get some attention from the father.
I like the sound but hate the amplification.
How about this for an idea? An annual mo’athin competition to be held at the Al Khamis Mosque. The competitors would perform from the top of one of the minarets with no amplification. The audience and jusges would sit in the mosque ruins below.
I like this idea as:
1) It capitalises on an important part of bahraini culture
2) It could reconnect listeners with the beauty of the human voice rather than the competitive sqwaking of an electronic sound
3) It could be combined with educating non
oops (3) should read “It could be combined with educating Muslims and non Muslims on the keanings and derivation of the call to prayer”
وماذا ÙÂعل النواب ليستØÂقوا الرواتب والمزايا التييØÂصلونعليها ومازالوا يطمعونÙÂيالمزيد!
مكاÙÂأة لمرة واØÂدة Ù„ÙÂئة ÙÂعلا Ù…ØÂتاجة Ø£ÙÂضل بكثير منميزانية ضايعة على نواب مب عارÙÂينوينالله ØÂاطهم
To be a mo2then is a religious choice. It is a negative social externality infact for some people to have that as a “job”, think about the opportunity cost in terms of loss of productivity. If it is to be governments business at all, then the government should tax it like cigarrettes and any pollution producing activity.
Talking about pollution, the voices of some of these guys… So if it is to be considered as a good for its own sake such that it outweighs all the externality effects, then the rewarding should be performance based, u know, who attracts more people to mosques, or a qualitative elements about their voice.
In reality however, it is a religious activity, government should not be rewarding it or even interfering with it except insofar at affects the wellbeing of others. If it did reward those people for being such good servants of allah, aside from the motivation of the motion being somewhat hypocritical, it is unfair on minority religions in Bahrain, surely it is a form of religious discrimination, unless pastors and the such are rewarded as well.
So whichever way you look at, these menbar dudes are not only a waste of space but also wasting the resources of the parliament and government. I say they should be all sentenced to 5 years prison time to reflect on there heinous blasphemous actions, unless of course they know the Qura’an off by heart, it will be only 3 years.
I rest my case
I agree that what you said Mahmood…
Nothing more to add…
Cheers!
Hey, don’t you guys whish that you voted ME as your MP? Why? Cuz my plan involves less money to be spent for our future generation:
Plan A: Buy a stereo. Insert “Prayer” tape. Press Play. (Make sure volume isn’t that high).
There! I’ve saved the nation a lot of money.
This is pure, grade A, top of the line BULL SHIT.
I will, and I’m not joking, will leave this country for good if this is passed.
What should we call this? The i-adhan? Or, more appropriately,
the MacAdhan?
I couldn’t think of anything worse. The same recording, day
after day. At least a real human voice has subtle variations,
from day to day that prevent it from becoming an aural water
torture. If I’m to hear the adhan, then let it be the organic one.
Culture should triumph over automation sometimes.
I feel sure that this is a storm in a teacup. What’s wrong with
these guys making some cash? It certainly is not a huge sum
of money, by any measure. If I can make money using my voice
to advertise an event or a consumer product, then why can’t
these guys make some money from what many see as calling
Muslims to their holy duty? The human voice is a valuable asset
and why should anyone have a problem with financial reward
for vocal work?
Is this what we are to become now? All of us looking sidelong
to see how many shekels our neighbours are making? Or is
there a genuine religious principle of which I’m ignorant being
violated here?
Just for the record, I am in total agreement with this paragraph.
I don’t want anybody thinking I became Salafi overnight or
something.
Scott
Don’t the Moithans and Masjid Imams get something from the Awqaf?? I’m sure they do get a basic salary of BD80 or BD100, that’s what I heard?
Consider it a leaving indemnity. In my books if religion is your career, then perform in it like Allah is the CEO. Your reward is in this world before the next.
Whatever next….