Interior design elements and facilities for elderly in the mosque: are we providing the needs?
Mosque is the place of people or ‘jammah’ to pray in worship of ALLAH serves more than as congregational prayer places five times daily .The mosque is as a community centre, learning centre, the seat of government, Welfare centre, Prison, Hospital and legitimate recreational activities which is stat...
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| Language: | English |
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ZES ROCKMAN Resources
2017
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/60431/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/60431/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/60431/1/60431_INTERIOR%20DESIGN%20ELEMENTS%20AND%20FACILITIES%20_complete.pdf |
| Summary: | Mosque is the place of people or ‘jammah’ to pray in worship of ALLAH serves more than as congregational prayer places five times daily .The mosque is as a community centre, learning centre, the seat of government, Welfare centre, Prison, Hospital and legitimate recreational activities which is stated in the holy Quran and hadiths. Means that all Muslim generations, races whether normal and handicapped community to enjoy the facilities at the mosque for the seek of one ummah.
Due to welcome all the Muslim community to the mosque, the facility and requirements as the above mentioned matter shall be fulfilled in a certain limit of expectations especially for the elderly, disabled people personally and his categories to enjoy and also to communicate well during the occasion happened in the mosque. However the mosque was asserting itself as a nucleus of the Muslim Lives as gradually as a majority of percepts of Islam, a code of ethics had to be established.
“Those who reject Faith, Neither Their possessions Nor their numerous progeny Will avail them aught Against Allah: they are themselves but fuel for the fire.”
The establishments of the Code of Practice and the Law of Practice have to be implemented and the necessary bodies to monitor and ensure to fulfill the overall ummah needed. The recommendation of the design as proposed items at the external and internal will make the space more organized, having aesthetic value and practical for thus elderly and disabled people especially and all Muslim Ummah generally. This is will be blown up the integrity of Muslim ‘Ummah’, elderly and disabled people especially to achieve the real ‘ummah’ as a real Muslim.
Keywords: People with Disability (PwD), Jammah, Ummah, Code of Ethic, Code of Practice and Community |
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