First Friday prayer for Islamic new year 1429 -11 January- in Paris Grand Mosque, that sidi Ahmed Alawi himself opened up back in the 1920's.
Today's sermon was very nice, talking about the migration of the prophet sws to Medina Munawara; how the prophet left his house reciting a verse of the Koran, upon which his ennemies did not see him.
The imam also told the story of when Abu Bakr and the prophet sws were standing next to the ka'aba, and Umm Jamil (Abu Lahab's wife and fierce ennemy of the prophet sws) went up to them to hit the prophet with a stick I think and asked Abu Bakr: "Were is your companion?", meaning the prophet sws. Abu Bakr replied he was next to him, upon which Umm Jamil said: "Are you mocking me??" The prophet was hidden to her eyes!!
Just after the prayer people quickly get up to go back to their daily life. Whenever I visit Paris Grand Mosque I immediately feel transported in Morocco! The mosque has been nicely renovated recently.
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Cette mosquée me manque aussi, Sidi.
As salam 'aleykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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