Religious and incessant other noise - the 26th reminder

Last night, the MWA Hall was again hired for a noisy function and despite calling our cops, nothing much changed in the way of decibels....., again, as usual. Why can't the people/person giving permits for these noisy functions, give the organizers a condition and ultimatum that considering this hall is in a residential area and right next door to Aga Khan Hospital, the noise should be minimal and not be heard outside the confines of the hall? Is this such a complicated issue?

As regards the organizers themselves, don't they have enough sense, not to make noise and to keep their function's noise level to be heard within the hall and not outside knowing that there is a hospital near as well as residential houses around and people might get disturbed? It would seem that short of the cops arriving there with warnings, these people are too daft to realize this on their own!

Next, comes the Imam and the patrons of the neighbourhood mosque and also the ones further afield. Since around last weekend, a new guy seems to be giving the early morning call to prayer as well as leading the morning (especially), prayers.

Regarding the first issue, he, too, does not seem to have the sense that every neighbourhood has at least one mosque and therefore when he gives the call to prayer, does NOT need to be heard right across town. And the second issue about his leading of prayers, he does NOT need to be heard outside the confines of the little mosque. Should he or his followers have a problem hearing him and who are in the mosque, they can fix a set of speakers INSIDE the mosque so that the ones outside don't hear him leading the prayers.

As matters now stand, I, who am at the other end of this mosque (estate), can hear each and everything that he's reciting and in the process am getting disturbed (many Muslims and non-Muslims, alike), and it interferes with my own prayers and subsequent recitation of the Holy Qur'an. For his information, and everybody else who make a racket and sound like they are fighting when giving sermons, etc., they are incurring God's wrath when disturbing others while worshiping.

For example, the mosque that I go to, has many others all around it. While we are trying to listen to our own Imam giving a sermon on Fridays, first, the loud recitation of the Holy Qur'an before Friday prayers and then, the equally loud and raucous sermons of different kinds from all of these mosques, has no sweetness to them but, sound more like they are competing and fighting with each other, than giving guidance to their followers.

Was this the practice of the Holy Prophet(pbuh), and his companions?

And tomorrow there will be the noise of the Christian variety for HOURS on end that this neighbourhood will have to endure, unfortunately. Not to mention, who might have hired the MWA Hall, tonight and tomorrow night, as well!

We are being inundated by noise. Doesn't officialdom know that this is a pollution, too, and equally harmful to our well being? In fact, it is sheer torture and a violation of human rights.