What 5 Pune Mosques Plan To Do This Eid Amid Row Over Loudspeakers
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Local resident and former corporator Yusuf Shaikh said the decision not to play DJ music during the Eid celebration has invoked a good response and they hope the same will be emulated in other parts of the city.
In the wake of a controversy over the use of loudspeakers at religious places, authorities of five mosques in Pune and some other senior Muslim community members in Pune have decided to shun DJ music during the upcoming Eid celebration and utilise funds collected for it to help the poor and needy people.
They also appealed to the youth from the community not to play loud DJ music during the Eid al-Fitr celebration on May 2.
Everyone knows the ill-effects of such loud DJ music, which is not good for sick people and those with a weak heart, said Maulana Mohsin Raza, the imam of the Bhartiya Anjuman Qadariya Mosque in Lohiya Nagar area in Maharashtra's Pune.
"So, we formed a core committee of five mosques in the area and convened a meeting of their imams and functionaries along with other senior members of the community and decided not to have DJ music during the Eid celebration," he told Press Trust of India.
