o_19glomkvb115s1e215jitd1q42a.pdf
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
soldiers celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr with their Muslim colleague in the ICRM<br />
Social activities at ICRM<br />
Here in Rolla, ICRM provided our community with a unique venue<br />
to practice our social life not only with Muslims from more than 30<br />
countries with different languages, ethnicities and backgrounds but<br />
even with non-Muslim brothers and sisters. It is a salad bowl of many<br />
different ingredients from all over the world!<br />
We live here as one family who consider Rolla as their hometown<br />
and its local community as their big family. At ICRM, we share our<br />
knowledge, experience, concerns, happiness and sadness social<br />
activities conducted at ICRM are hard to be mentioned all in one<br />
page as they range from daily, weekly, monthly to annual and occasional<br />
activities. Daily social activities as an example represented<br />
mainly by meeting five times a day to practice our daily prayers.<br />
Furthermore, the whole community along with visitors and Muslim<br />
travelers are gathered every week for Friday speech, prayer and<br />
lunch. On weekly bases too, ICRM conducts educational, entertainment<br />
and religious sessions for both adults and children. From<br />
Month to month, several activities took place such as volunteering<br />
in (distributing food), cleaning and maintaining ICRM facilities, fund<br />
raising and many other activities for the whole family. Annually,<br />
ICRM hosts great event of The Open House, Eid ul-Fitr celebration,<br />
Eid Aladha celebration and several blood drives along with the<br />
greatest social events of Ramadan.<br />
In Ramadan, we as Muslims fast for 30 days from dawn to sunset and<br />
we all gather in ICRM every day at sunset to enjoy the feeling serenity,<br />
and tranquility when we break our fast together. During each<br />
day of Ramadan, ICRM is shining with social stars where you will find<br />
volunteers arranging, cleaning, teaching and always you will find<br />
one family or more volunteering to cook for the whole community.<br />
So you can guess how many cuisine we enjoyed tasting before the<br />
end of Ramadan.<br />
Moreover, we have many other occasional social activities such as<br />
the wedding celebration for an American brother who converted to<br />
Islam and married a Moroccan Muslim. Also, we at ICRM celebrate<br />
the newly born babies by performing “Aqiqah”, an Islamic tradition<br />
which including sacrificing an animal on the occasion of a child’s<br />
birth and all the community gathers to dine together and congratulate<br />
the parents. At the end of each semester, we conduct a picnic<br />
for the whole community providing a great chance to welcome the<br />
newcomers and bid farewell for the leaving members.<br />
On the other hand, we announce major health issues that might<br />
happen to any member in order to provide a chance for the other<br />
community members to pray for them and visit them either at the<br />
hospital or at the home. Also, we gather to condolence any member<br />
who lost a relative or a friend and pray and ask forgiveness for him.<br />
In hard financial situation for anyone, we provide that person with<br />
his needs in full confidentiality and privacy.<br />
All these activities and many others are totally free of charge and<br />
always attended and appreciated by our Muslim community members<br />
are welcomed non-Muslims friends who always honored our<br />
social activities by their attendance and contribution providing us<br />
in every social event with a great opportunity to meet, eat, have fun<br />
and gather in a very comfortable environment that full of love and<br />
peace.<br />
Designfreebies Magazine • www.designfreebies.org • 13