Making Fond Mention of God
City youth are turning out in large numbers, remembering God to achieve self-consciousness, or just to take a break from their daily work routine.
March 25, 2003
IT is dusk on a rainy day, and Ahmad Fauzan sits silently, pondering to himself in the prayer hall of Baitul Ihsan Mosque. He arrived one day in early March to make religious invocations, known in Arabic as thikr, during a break from work. This was the first time he had ever taken part in this kind of activity. It was the middle of the week, but the lively atmosphere in the courtyard of Bank Indonesiawhere the mo
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