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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.
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