Comments on: Friday Follies: The best of Melbourne’s Masjids http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/ Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:17:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: sindbad http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-46717 sindbad Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:44:11 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-46717 Salaams, Two points: 1) The government should get its act together. 2) I think we can conserve water better by taking short baths, and then improvise on the wudu. Salaams,

Two points:

1) The government should get its act together.

2) I think we can conserve water better by taking short baths, and then improvise on the wudu.

]]> By: James http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45906 James Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:50:44 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45906 mar et al. Dams only go so far. They are hideously expensive in funds and to the environment. You are in long drought, adjust. Your religion has a plan B for when water is short. Hygiene is important, but it is not an excuse for waste. Having been a part of the worlds greatest Navy, I will enlighten you with the routine of the "Navy Shower" 1. Turn on water just enough to wet entire body including hair. 2. Turn off water soap body and shampoo hair. 3. Rinse off 4. Turn off water / towel off Total time of shower: no more than five minutes. This rigorous regime will still keep you clean and hygienic. The point being that you can achieve the cleanliness that is next to godliness with very little water. All you have to do is put your mind to it. On the flip side it is very easy to waste water in overly luxurious showers (or ablutions), Water is a precious and limited natural resource, you should only use what is absolutely needed. God willing the land of Oz may see normal rains soon. Until such time conserve, conserve, conserve. mar et al.

Dams only go so far. They are hideously expensive in funds and to the environment. You are in long drought, adjust. Your religion has a plan B for when water is short. Hygiene is important, but it is not an excuse for waste.

Having been a part of the worlds greatest Navy, I will enlighten you with the routine of the “Navy Shower”
1. Turn on water just enough to wet entire body including hair.
2. Turn off water soap body and shampoo hair.
3. Rinse off
4. Turn off water / towel off
Total time of shower: no more than five minutes.
This rigorous regime will still keep you clean and hygienic. The point being that you can achieve the cleanliness that is next to godliness with very little water. All you have to do is put your mind to it. On the flip side it is very easy to waste water in overly luxurious showers (or ablutions),

Water is a precious and limited natural resource, you should only use what is absolutely needed. God willing the land of Oz may see normal rains soon. Until such time conserve, conserve, conserve.

]]> By: Omar http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45851 Omar Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:09:01 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45851 conserving is surely part of our religion but a point made by "Thumper" is right mismanagement of the water resources all over Australia. instead of rain water being run out from the streets into the sea, the government could have diverted them to the right areas, or the damns that are in need. Australia has both the technical and financial capabilities to do this. we have been in drought for the part 11 years and not has been done. IN QLD WE HAVE LEVEL 5 WATER RESTRICTION, and soon will be 6. conserving is surely part of our religion but a point made by “Thumper” is right mismanagement of the water resources all over Australia.
instead of rain water being run out from the streets into the sea, the government could have diverted them to the right areas, or the damns that are in need. Australia has both the technical and financial capabilities to do this. we have been in drought for the part 11 years and not has been done.
IN QLD WE HAVE LEVEL 5 WATER RESTRICTION, and soon will be 6.

]]> By: Zanjabil http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45811 Zanjabil Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:43:37 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45811 Did our beautiful Prophet (saws) not warn us against innovation in the rules of Islam? Was water not scarce in the seventh century Arabian desert? Water brings hygiene and purification. To conserve it is surely commendable, and to waste it is wrong. But washing is not wasting it. Did our beautiful Prophet (saws) not warn us against innovation in the rules of Islam? Was water not scarce in the seventh century Arabian desert? Water brings hygiene and purification. To conserve it is surely commendable, and to waste it is wrong. But washing is not wasting it.

]]> By: Thumper http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45773 Thumper Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:14:05 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45773 Water conservation isn't our problem. We pay taxes to the government to manage water supply but they've failed to do that. They could have easily built some more dams. Water conservation isn’t our problem. We pay taxes to the government to manage water supply but they’ve failed to do that. They could have easily built some more dams.

]]> By: Shadower http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45752 Shadower Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:18:03 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45752 I have been doing that for years (1 repetition and wiping over socks when possible). It is good advice from the Sheikh and we do need to conserve water wherever we can. I have been doing that for years (1 repetition and wiping over socks when possible).

It is good advice from the Sheikh and we do need to conserve water wherever we can.

]]> By: null http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45744 null Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:31:20 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45744 I agree with dawood above. It's a well-intentioned thought. I agree with dawood above. It’s a well-intentioned thought.

]]> By: Ismail http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45728 Ismail Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:27:51 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45728 Hmmm... someone else prayed at ICV then. Hmmm… someone else prayed at ICV then.

]]> By: dawood http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/comment-page-1/#comment-45704 dawood Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:17:52 +0000 http://austrolabe.com/2007/10/05/friday-follies-the-best-of-melbournes-masjids/#comment-45704 I think the intention was surely in the right place though - I have lost count how many times I have seen the floor flooded because of the copious amounts of water people use to perform wudu. Considering the Prophet (saw) performed his ablution with the minimum amount needed, I see it as a good lesson for us all. I think the intention was surely in the right place though – I have lost count how many times I have seen the floor flooded because of the copious amounts of water people use to perform wudu. Considering the Prophet (saw) performed his ablution with the minimum amount needed, I see it as a good lesson for us all.

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