r/pakistan • u/PearMaleficent7333 • 1d ago

Discussion Show theft in masjid

My Husband’s shoes were stolen from the local Masjid today at Friday prayer. I tried to console him that the person may have accidentally taken his shoes, but my Mom told me it’s commonplace in Pakistan to have shoes stolen during prayer. My Husband ended up walking home barefoot, in the rain and cold.

I’m wondering why the Masjid’s in Pakistan haven’t thought of a solution to the shoe theft problem if it’s commonplace there?

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u/Umerr 1d ago

Not common but it happens at times, there's also a slight chance that someone mistakenly wears yours. Hard to find a solution though, unless there's a locked cabinet for everyone, which isn't possible.

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u/PearMaleficent7333 1d ago

My Husband said that the only shoes left behind were broken slippers. He had just bought his winter shoes, so they were brand new.

Why can’t each person put their shoes in a locked metal container and open it with their own keys after salah?

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u/Jade_Rook 1d ago

The only thing you can realistically do is to wear inexpensive footwear to the mosque. Any other solution is far too expensive or far too hard to manage. We are talking about hundreds of people, thousands in some mosques. How on earth are you going to find the funds, then manage lockers with all those keys and everything when there is such a crowd of people, many of them visiting that particular mosque for the first time without any idea of the procedure? It's not practical.