The Chinese Mosque

THE CHINESE MOSQUE


Fadzli Cheah Kow Chye , you are embarking on a visionary venture
to build a mosque reflecting Chinese architecture..
for the spiritual needs of your Chinese Muslim community
i salute your leadership and quiet dignity.

The muezzin can call from a pagoda, minaret or hilltop
to the faithful, that whatever they are doing , to stop
to wash up and to pray
not once, not twice but five times a day.

Your community's spiritual home
can be under the open sky, Chinese moongate or Moorish dome .
Where you congregate to pray, that's your mosque
be it on a carpet of fine Persian silk or on fresh green moss
a mosque in whatever shape is still a mosque.


i wish you fortitude in your great task
the strength to ignore your detractors who mask
their narrow mindedness , these champions of "religio-cultural" purity
exposing their global ignorance , what a pity.

With strong and gentle Nurul by your side
your noble focus will be kept in sight.
To Nurul , Fadzli and family i wish you all the best,
in this quest, by the Almighty you will be truly, truly blessed.
Amen.
yahya

06 February 2007
Dr. Fadzli Cheah Kow Chye and his Chinese Muslim Community were trying to build a mosque in Ipoh .