Dorincard: BBC News - Paris ban on Muslim street prayers comes into effect. My comment: "allāhu akbar"? In his greatness, Allah probably hears your prayers just as well (or better) INDOORS. Leave the streets alone, for the normal traffic. Don't confiscate the streets, especially in the Western world. Blocking people may result in people blocking you. In the privacy of a building, you can pray all you want, in peace.

"A ban on saying prayers in the street, a practice by French Muslims unable to find space in mosques, has come into effect in the capital, Paris.

Interior Minister Claude Gueant has offered believers the use of a disused fire brigade barracks instead."

BBC News - Paris ban on Muslim street prayers comes into effect

Interior Minister Claude Gueant has placed a crowd - better than crowding a place.

"allāhu akbar"? In his greatness, Allah probably hears your prayers just as well (or better) INDOORS.

Leave the streets alone, for the normal traffic. Don't confiscate the streets, especially in the Western world.

Blocking people may result in people blocking you.

In the privacy of a building, you can pray all you want, in peace.

"The Takbīr or Tekbir (تَكْبِير) is the Arabic term for the phrase Allāhu Akbar (الله أكبر). Usually translated "God is [the] Greatest," or "God is Great", it is a common Islamic Arabic expression, used as both an informal expression of faith and as a formal declaration. It has been used in prayer, in times of distress, Islamist protests when facing regime clashes like in the Arab spring, Islamic extremism, and Islamic terrorism.

The form Allāhu is the nominative of Allah "[the one] God". The form akbar is the elative of the adjective kabīr "great", from the root k-b-r. As used in the takbir it is usually translated as "greatest", but some authors prefer "greater".^[1] The term takbīr itself is the stem II verbal noun (tafʿīlun) of the triliteral root k-b-r "great"."

Arabic

الله أَكْبَر

Transliteration

Allahu Akbar, allāhu akbar

Translation

God is greater/est