I've been a muslim for 24 years, and along my life, I've been going to different mosques to do Friday afternoon prayers. However, no matter where the mosque or who the preacher for the afternoon is, the pre-prayer speech always seems to spread sad messages, either how we're all doomed if we're not following the Qur'an by the book (no pun intended) or a tale about how Allah was angry at a particular person for not following his tenets. With no intent on sounding sacrilegious, it just gets boring after a while.
There's an old proverb that goes like this: "you'll catch more flies with honey". I understand that Friday preaches are not intended to convert more followers into the religion but you're not going to get much appeal by scaring them with doom and gloom. At that point, it just sounds like you're scaring them into obeying the tenets of Islam and that's not a good thing. There are some happy verses in the Qur'an as well like An-Nahl: 97 about how to live in happiness and Ali Imran 190-191, they still encourage people to worship Allah but they don't give the impression of sadness or the consequences of not worshiping Him outright.
There's an old proverb that goes like this: "you'll catch more flies with honey". I understand that Friday preaches are not intended to convert more followers into the religion but you're not going to get much appeal by scaring them with doom and gloom. At that point, it just sounds like you're scaring them into obeying the tenets of Islam and that's not a good thing. There are some happy verses in the Qur'an as well like An-Nahl: 97 about how to live in happiness and Ali Imran 190-191, they still encourage people to worship Allah but they don't give the impression of sadness or the consequences of not worshiping Him outright.
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