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Celebration and food Eid ul-Fitr Celebration, 2010 SOCIAL EVENTS Eid ul-Fitr Celebration, toys for kids Ghaith Al Shaia “Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.” Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah T he foundations of the social system of Islam rest on the belief that all human beings are equal and constitute one single fraternity. Islam is a practical way of life as it has responded to reality and necessity. It has also put a check on human tendencies and ensured balance. In the holy Quran, Allah says: (O mankind, WE have created you from a male and a female; and WE have made you tribes and sub-tribes that you may know one another. Verily, the most honorable among you, in the sight of ALLAH, is he who is the most righteous among you. Surely, ALLAH is All-Knowing, All-Aware) Chapter 49, Verse 13. Therefore, part of being a Muslim is to be positively active in your society as Prophet Mohammad PBUH simplified the relation of the believer with the society by saying: {the believers, in their love, mercy, and kindness to one another are like a body: if any part of it is ill, the whole body shares its sleeplessness and fever.}. 12 • Designfreebies Magazine • www.designfreebies.org
soldiers celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with their Muslim colleague in the ICRM Social activities at ICRM Here in Rolla, ICRM provided our community with a unique venue to practice our social life not only with Muslims from more than 30 countries with different languages, ethnicities and backgrounds but even with non-Muslim brothers and sisters. It is a salad bowl of many different ingredients from all over the world! We live here as one family who consider Rolla as their hometown and its local community as their big family. At ICRM, we share our knowledge, experience, concerns, happiness and sadness social activities conducted at ICRM are hard to be mentioned all in one page as they range from daily, weekly, monthly to annual and occasional activities. Daily social activities as an example represented mainly by meeting five times a day to practice our daily prayers. Furthermore, the whole community along with visitors and Muslim travelers are gathered every week for Friday speech, prayer and lunch. On weekly bases too, ICRM conducts educational, entertainment and religious sessions for both adults and children. From Month to month, several activities took place such as volunteering in (distributing food), cleaning and maintaining ICRM facilities, fund raising and many other activities for the whole family. Annually, ICRM hosts great event of The Open House, Eid ul-Fitr celebration, Eid Aladha celebration and several blood drives along with the greatest social events of Ramadan. In Ramadan, we as Muslims fast for 30 days from dawn to sunset and we all gather in ICRM every day at sunset to enjoy the feeling serenity, and tranquility when we break our fast together. During each day of Ramadan, ICRM is shining with social stars where you will find volunteers arranging, cleaning, teaching and always you will find one family or more volunteering to cook for the whole community. So you can guess how many cuisine we enjoyed tasting before the end of Ramadan. Moreover, we have many other occasional social activities such as the wedding celebration for an American brother who converted to Islam and married a Moroccan Muslim. Also, we at ICRM celebrate the newly born babies by performing “Aqiqah”, an Islamic tradition which including sacrificing an animal on the occasion of a child’s birth and all the community gathers to dine together and congratulate the parents. At the end of each semester, we conduct a picnic for the whole community providing a great chance to welcome the newcomers and bid farewell for the leaving members. On the other hand, we announce major health issues that might happen to any member in order to provide a chance for the other community members to pray for them and visit them either at the hospital or at the home. Also, we gather to condolence any member who lost a relative or a friend and pray and ask forgiveness for him. In hard financial situation for anyone, we provide that person with his needs in full confidentiality and privacy. All these activities and many others are totally free of charge and always attended and appreciated by our Muslim community members are welcomed non-Muslims friends who always honored our social activities by their attendance and contribution providing us in every social event with a great opportunity to meet, eat, have fun and gather in a very comfortable environment that full of love and peace. Designfreebies Magazine • www.designfreebies.org • 13
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