The imam of Masjid Madinah, Imam Hassan, is an energetic young man absorbed in the work of dakwah and tabligh. He read Riyadus Solihin after asar and Hayatus Sahabah after Isya'. He is fluent in English and acted as our translator, together with a couple of Malaysian students who accompanied us. From Masjid Madinah, the many dedicated brothers made intikali jaulah and tasykil at the surrounding masjids. There used to be bitter and cruel opposition against them from the wahabbi or the so-called salafi hardliners. But their constant tireless effort managed to end the harsh treatment and some of them rough wahabbis even join the effort of dakwah and tabligh and turned to soft and pleasing mannered person.
Dr Wa'el, a Palestinian brain surgeon working at Erfut Hospital organised a masturat bayan (ladies discources) at his house. As with every other masturat bayan, it had been delivered behind a veiled door as a measure to strictly separate men from women, with Dr Wa'el himself sitting beside translating the bayan. I just do not understand why the so-called learned men of deen here in Malaysia could let the veils separating the two genders in our masjds to be wide open, inviting all sorts of fitan in the pretext of teaching deen. It is such in contrast with any masturat bayan that I and my wife had been, where there was no sound of a woman's voice behind the veil, even their shoes were concealed from any man.
Dr Wa'el later told us that he is married to an American lady who had reverted to Islam. After involving in the work of dakwah, Almighty Allah totally changed their lives, turning their concern for the narrowness of this world to the concern for everlasting aakhirah. The couple shared the hope that one day Almighty Allah will change the environment of Erfut to the environment of Madinah Munawarrah during the time of our Prophet SAW.
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