BEAUFORT: Jemaah Tabligh members are temporarily not allowed to pray at the District Mosque here as part of the measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19. 

This came from Beaufort Town Mosque’s Imam Matjalin Samarali who said it is to prevent the spread of Covid-19 to other Muslims who come to pray at the mosque. 

“This is part of our precautionary measures. And also there are people afraid of coming to the mosque to pray following the news report of a Tabligh member here who tested positive for Covid-19 recently,” he told Daily Express during a gotong-royong to clean the mosque on Monday. 

The prohibition is in accordance to the directive from State Islamic Religious Affairs Department headquarters which temporarily prohibits Jemaah Tabligh members from attending or praying at mosque.

“We are made to understand that there is one Jemaah Tabligh member in the district who tested positive for Covid-19 and therefore we need to clean the mosque to prevent public members from getting infected,” he said. 

He said the mosque committee and Health Department officials have worked together to disinfect the whole mosque that day. 

The department spokesperson, when contacted, said they always give cooperation to disinfection works particularly at the public places which found to have been infected by Covid-19, as precautionary measures and for the safety of the general public. 

 The sudden steep increase in the coronavirus cases in the peninsula, Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan and even Brunei have been attributed to the members who attended the Tabligh gathering in Petaling Jaya.