对比当今我们清真寺的状况与虔诚的先辈们的状况，可以看出：过去他们注重的是实质而非外观，而如今我们往往注重外表，却忽视了清真寺的根本作用。

A brief comparison between the state of our mosques nowadays and that of the righteous ancestors reveals that in the past they used to concentrate on the essence and not the appearance, whereas nowadays we tend to concentrate on the appearances and disregard the essential role of the mosque.

一切都变得相反。清真寺的作用被局限于举行五拜，此后便关门闭户。结果，清真寺在“将宗教与世俗生活分离”的旗号下与生活隔绝。政府的宣教人员和咨询人员走到了舞台中央，依照统治者颁布的指导方针行事，以重申他们“宗教与政治无涉”的口号，声称他们是与政治毫不相干的教士；然而，伊斯兰是一种宗教，而政治、经济、社会和司法制度正是伊斯兰不可分割的组成部分。

Everything seems to be the opposite, the role of the mosque became restricted to the establishing of the five prescribed prayers, and then it would shut its doors. Consequently, the mosque has become isolated from life, under the banner of separating the deen from temporal life. Governments preachers and councillors took centre stage and began acting according to guidelines issued by the rulers to reiterate their slogan of ‘no politics in religion’, claiming that they are the clergymen who have nothing to do with politics, even though Islam is a deen and the political, economic, social and judicial systems are an integral part of Islam.

最后,清真寺是伊斯兰信息得以发起的地方,也是穆斯林领袖们开启光荣征程、将安拉(swt)的使命传遍全世界的起点。那是一座简朴的清真寺,地面铺着鹅卵石,夜间点着灯,屋顶用棕榈树枝搭成。因此,我们不应当把精力用于装饰清真寺,而耽误了它真正的作用,也不应使它变成争端、纷争与种族主义的场所。我们已经堕落到这样的地步:如今我们看到清真寺却在替不信者效力,使我们因民族而分裂。

Finally, the mosque is the place from which the Message of Islam was launched, and the place from which the Muslim leaders began their glorious journey, carrying the Message of Allah (swt) to the whole world. It was a modest mosque, its carpet was pebbles, lit at night, and its roof was made of the branches of palm-trees. Therefore, we should not occupy ourselves with the decorating of the mosque at the expense of stalling its real role, and turning it into a place of strife, disputes and racism. We have sunk to the level where we are nowadays witnessing our mosques playing into the hands of the disbelievers by dividing us into nationalities.

我们如今有巴基斯坦清真寺、叙利亚清真寺、波斯清真寺、库尔德清真寺、土耳其清真寺等等。还有隶属于各种伊斯兰团体、政党和学派的清真寺，而每一方都以种种借口阻止对方传播信息，同时掩盖真正的原因，那就是对权力、领导权和权威的渴望，以及满足生存本能。尽管清真寺是为安拉（SWT）而设，而非为某个团体、某个政党、某个民族或某个特定种族而设，这一切如今仍在我们的清真寺中发生。安拉（SWT）说：“清真寺是为安拉而建的，所以你们不要在安拉之外祈求任何人。”[TMQ 72:18] 因此，必须特别向伊斯兰团体、政党和伊玛目们强调，他们应当在安拉的清真寺中敬畏安拉，向真诚的穆斯林、有学问的学者、礼拜者、为宗教提供建议者以及致力于重建伊斯兰生活方式的人敞开清真寺的大门。只有这样，安拉（SWT）的名号才能在清真寺中居于至高无上的地位，人们才会劝善戒恶，并关心乌玛的事务。那时我们便可以放心地说，清真寺已经恢复了它应有的角色，宗教和安拉（SWT）的名号重新居于最高之处。

We have nowadays a Pakistani mosque, a Syrian mosque, a Persian mosque, a Kurdish mosque, a Turkish mosque and so on. We have also mosques belonging to various Islamic group, parties and Schools of Thought, and each one prevents the other from carrying the Message with excuses, while concealing the real reason which is the yearning for power, leadership, and authority, and the satisfying of the instinct of survival. All this is taking place today in our mosques despite the fact that the mosques are for Allah (swt) and not for this group or that party or that nationality or that particular race. Allah (swt) says, “And that the mosques are for Allah so do not associate with Allah anyone.” [TMQ 72:18] Therefore, it must be stressed, especially to the Islamic groups and parties and the Imams, that they should fear Allah in His mosques, and to open the doors of the mosques to the sincere Muslims, to the learned scholars, to those who prostrate, to those who advise on the deen and those who are engaged in re-establishing the Islamic way of life. Only then will the name of Allah (swt) reign supreme in the mosques, and people will enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil, and take concern themselves with the Ummah’s affairs. Then we can safely say that the mosques have resumed their rightful role, where the deen and the name of Allah (swt) are once again the highest.

安拉(SWT)说:"在安拉允许被提及、被尊崇的房屋中,(人们)都在那里赞颂祂的名。"[TMQ: ] 祂(SWT)还说:"在每座清真寺都要正面朝向(祂),并以纯正的信仰向祂祈祷,全心归顺祂的宗教。" [TMQ : ]

Allah (swt) says, “In houses Allah permitted that His name is mentioned and upheld.” [TMQ : ] And He (swt) says, “And turn your faces at every Masjid and supplicate Him with sincerity to His deen.” [TMQ : ]