Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Microphone Man

I went to a I had to lead Joomla in a masjid last week. And as I'm

doing the bar, and I realized that there's some problem with the

microphone, it keeps cutting out.

And then in solid, sorry, then during the hot water, same thing.

So, after the hotbar, before the salad was about to begin before I

was about to listen, start the prayer. I said, Have you got you

know, is there something else? Have you got another microphone?

But the people there they said, Oh, it's okay. It's alright. Now

they've got a floor above and there's probably 1500 People 2000

People in that machine and then a woman section as well. So I

thought okay, with I'm the it's an hour away from here. So I don't

know the ins and outs of the Masjid. So I thought maybe they

know what they're talking about. But because I've had that

experience before, I asked, Do you have another microphone? Can you

sort this out? And I said, Look, some people make sure they do tech

beers, so that people in other places can hear. But apparently,

this was the first time we were experiencing this or whatever the

case is, the sound was not reaching the top. So I remember

when I started my prayer, before I went into Roku, I heard a

commotion at the top, which means that they did the Roku and search

that before I did I that's what I thought in my prayer. And that is

what had happened. There were about two or three different

sources of information upstairs, one person had put on his phone to

see if he can broadcast it through there. And another person thought

something else. So they had various different people leading

the prayer up there.

So a lot of them ended up having to just repeat the prayer with

Dora. Because they actually did it. They didn't know whether they

did it with the imam or not. That's why for a Friday prayer,

it's that one prayer when you get your biggest crowd.

That's why there needs to be three microphones here.

In any masjid, there used to be three microphones. In our

massager, we just don't have a microphone, man. It's like some

guy in the committee who just takes it and thinks he knows

everything about and takes a crash course or doesn't even take a

crash, he thinks he knows about it, we seriously need it, you go

in any other functional into a church or any place, they'll have

a person for that they will test it out every week before the

function. And in joules, we need to test our microphone beforehand.

Because if you mess up somebody's Juwan, that experience of even the

Beyonce or whatever the case is, that is really detrimental. It's a

worship, it's not, it's not just the it's not just a normal

occasion. It's not just an entertainment, it's worship,

especially if you've got more than one floor and the person that Imam

cannot be seen. So in every masjid, they should at least be

three microphones at the front. So if that one goes in, they should

probably be even a second amplify just in case one goes down. It's a

crucial moment as 20 minutes or so very crucial.

People should really have that in place.

And I don't know, it's just

people are used to it. It's okay. JLJ it's alright, you know, people

will understand. I don't think people will understand any more.

Because when we go outside, it's very professional in many other

places you go to, why can it not be like the why is it always in

misogyny, that the microphone keeps going off?

It's because we don't have professionals doing it is some

volunteer doing this? May Allah bless those volunteers, but come

on, go and take a course if you're going to be a serious volunteer,

go and learn about it. You know, maybe it's asking too much to have

all the committee members gone. Take a course on what it means to

run a charity, or a nonprofit organization. In fact, for every

committee member of any masjid, they should take a basic course,

on running a charity and running a nonprofit, because there are

certain ways to do that, that there's a whole science behind,

there's a whole theory behind it. Otherwise, that's when you get

problems with Imams and communities and committees and all

that because everybody's just doing their own emotional little

thing. So we need qualified people. So okay, fine. Let's start

with the microphone guy.

Then we move on to the rest.

But that's very important. You don't want to mess up. You don't

want to you don't want to spoil somebody's job opera.

Because after joins, so many people came to me, I said, Look,

this is what happened. We didn't know and says, Did you do your

thought after this? Yes, we did our thought after that

Hamdulillah. But for somebody to feel that they missed their

Jumeirah.

And their Joomla are spoiled as a big deal.

That could start a revolution in some places. That's how bad it is.

I'm not saying go and start a revolution. But that's how bad it

is.

And you know what? masajid have money. It's not like they don't

have money to buy a microphone. But they don't have the expertise

for that microphone. So every committee member who has access to

the it's a good job if it's actually locked away. Otherwise if

it's open, then every person that comes into Masjid keeps moving. I

want a bit more echo and a bit less echo. I want a bit more tone.

I want a bit more pitch and they don't even know what they're doing

and just keep moving it around.