Mosques Refuse Egypt’s Decision to Not Live Broadcast ‘Taraweeh Prayers’

The Ministry of Religious Endowments had announced that a ban will be placed on using speakers, throughout the entirety of Taraweeh prayers.

The decision came as part of a series of decisions containing instructions that emphasized the importance of ensuring all preachers were licensed speakers; that all charity Iftar tables (Mawa2ed Rahman) on territory are licensed beforehand, and all mosques stick to the officially announced unified call for prayer times.

Finally, the Ministry ordered mosques to only use speakers to announce the call for prayer (as is the case with all other prayers), and not to live broadcast the entirety of the Tarweeh prayers.

This final decision is the one that was met with most public uproar. For example, Egyptian football star Ahmed Hassan, sarcastically commented, “How about we just not pray Taraweeh at all, and spend Ramadan watching TV series?!”

Yesterday, Saturday May 27th, marked Ramadan’s first day, yet the Ministry of Religious Endowments’ was not put into effect in most of Egypt’s towns and governorates.

Indeed, Shobra, Qalyobeyah, Monofeya, were all prime examples of locations with a majority of mosques that refused to abide by this rule. So far, however, no serious official action was taken by the Ministry of Religious Endowments against these mosques.

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