I went for my usual  walk/jog this morning but I felt a little sad and disturbed even.  The still morning air is
marred by the loud sound of mega amplifiers of the big mosque about 200 meters from the lakeside.
The usual loud sound from the mosque for the call to prayer - the azan - is OK, quite acceptable as
its duration is around 5 minutes. But if the same loud sound continues in the form of a religious lecture,
after the prayer proper, for up to an hour ( fortunately this happens only occasionally) - then I feel
that we, people indulging in Tai Chi, aerobics, walk/jog at the lakeside become captive audience
and suffer considerable discomfiture and loss of concentration in performing our exercises.
I do hope the religious authorities are more considerate and tone down the volume of the speakers -
or better still, confine the lecture sound to inside the mosque only, as the religious lecture audience
are all inside the mosque, and hence no necessity to broadcast it loudly to the outer environment.
Must we suffer in silence just because there are religious people who are inconsiderate?