Tips on how to Revive Islaam in Your Area?

format_quote Originally Posted by IbnAbdulHakim

hey tomtom... i hope you dont mind me asking and perhaps you already have been asked and sorry bro fi for going offtopic but, how is it that your not a muslim? you seem to have the beautiful morals of a muslim woman.


i hope you dont mind me asking...?

if you do feel free to ignore

LOL bro, no I don't mind you asking. Perhaps I should have someone to make a sticky so everyone who asks me that I can point them to the sticky

I have been told that I am a muslim at heart and just don't know it yet. Many of the major beliefs of being a muslim (5 pillars) I think are right. However, when it comes down to it I am spoiled and selfish. I want to be able to take my kid swimming and not just sit and watch. I want to spend christmas with my family. That is just the short of the long list of things that as of right now, I am not yet strong enough to give up. Perhaps one day I will have to strenght and courage to take the final step.

^ i hope you wont hate me for mentioning but you can enjoy all that and muuch more as a muslim, your heart will be filled with new teachings and your son will be given guidance by Allah.

please dont procrastinate, god forbid i wouldnt want you to die before becoming a muslim

and again please dont hate me but :X


if you give up something for the sake of Allah he will replace you with something better , you just got to put your trust in him azzawa jal, he will provide you from ways you never expected

^ from da sheikh

As Salaamu Alaikum,

My sister use to have Taleems at her home for the Muslimah. I strongly recommend Jawala and Alimah Scouts. My ibn's go every friday they help teach the young ibn's how to embrace their religion, they go camping winter/summer. Paint balling, Hiking, archery all kinds of things that keeps them occupied. I love it.

Here in Austin there does not seem to be any major problem. But, we do not face many issues the rest of the world faces.

As a group the Muslims are among the most successful. Nearly all are employed in professional fields or are university students. As a result the Muslim population
is seen in very light. And The wealthy Muslims do contribute much to the commuhity that benefit all, Muslims and non-Muslims.

So I would say that the act of giving back to the community serves several purposes it keeps Islam fresh and shows the truth that we are a benefit and not a threat. as result the Muslims engage in many projects the bring us together. It is jihad but a jihad that builds and does not destroy. We feel good about ourselves and even the non-Muslims can see the love we have for Islam.

Mashallah Tallah , i love to see all you people work like this. May Allah bless u all in ur efforts and make ur ways easy.

i hope this post is started again

its lovely to here such good things and yes the most important thing is AKHLAAQ which today we muslims are lacking here in india in mumbai many ppl think tht muslims are low in sense of tidyness and akhlaaq misbehave or tht and some feel tht its all just dikhaawa i hope its understood tht akhlaaq was themost important thing we shud reallly have to improve for the sake of our islam hope we understand it soon

me and some brothers got together to try to do somethign simular in our area, but it collapsed after a short period due to commitment being lacking and other brothers leaving the area but here is some of the things we decided to work towards...

A. Need to built a Jamaat first, upon the correct Aqeedah and manhaj so we can then go forward together to help the rest of the community.
This first one is most important, as i heard Sheikh Khalid say, you are not going to get orange trees if you plant with lemon seeds.

B. Education of ourselves, and of others to make sure we have the knowledge to do what we need to do.
This is also important and should be ongoing, classes for the people involved in the project or regular classes you all attend together to build brotherhood as well as increase knowledge.
This also shouldnt shop you getting started, but instead be something you look to as you go along.

C. Increase Brotherhood and Sisterhood, to try to help muslims help and support their brothers and sisters, to become one community.
We started youth football and jogging in the park for all the brothers, also held a couple of get togethers at brothers houses where we got some food and just sat and talked after one brother gave us a short reminder whilst we were there.

D. Management and Organisation, to see that the project is correctly managed and led with the right person to do each job and that the project is not under managed or over managed.
I cant stress this enough, if you've got some guy who can hardly speak english in charge of da'wah to non muslims it is really not going to go far.
Also, dont over manage, minute and agendas everywhere, titles etc, this stuff is useful later but clutters things up and stops you going for your other aims in the long run.
But if you don't organise at all, you lose track of what you are doing, it is hard to focus as an organisation.

E. Helping the Youth, to help the youth get away from the street and haram, organizing events and activities for them.
Like i said, we started youth football, but also just talking to the youth and trying to listen to them and help them.

F. Naseehah – Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil amongst the Muslims to see that the Muslim community becomes stronger in the deen.
Very important, but also difficult as many people do not accept that other muslims can try to give them advice and tell them what to do.

G. Dawah to the Kuffar, to call the disbelievers towards Tawhid and Islam.
This is not actually difficult, like others have said, masjid open days, da'wah stall, walking in the street and just talking to people. calling people to islam requires much less knowledge about the deen than calling muslims back to islam.

H. New Muslim Support, to see that when people embrace Islam they are given the correct support and guidance to help them learn the deen.
Lets face it most masaajid haven't got a clue on how to treat new muslims, either they smoother them or they don't know what to do with them so totally leave them alone. Ideally get a brother or sister who has become muslim a few years ago and is practicing to look after the new muslims as they know the pitfalls and problems they will face.

I. Helping the Aseer / Becoming a Local Pressure group, to help the political prisoners amongst the muslims, to try to influence local and later national media towards a more positive impression of Islam and muslim issues.
This last one was something important to us as we all had friends who have been locked up on pretty flimsy evidence or for just speaking the truth and most muslims are not aware of the duty to support the aseer and help their families.
We also wanted to start writing press releases to the local papers and later national papers but never really got around to it.

Ok, those were our ideas, feel free to use and pass on or do what you like with it, inshallah i am hopeful to get another set of brothers together soon and start again but we'll have to see, but i have spoken to the imam of the local masjid and he seems quite supportive of being a bit more organised in da'wah so we'll see.