Re: Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. (:
Wa alaikum asalam wa rahmatu Allah wa barakatuhu
Welcome, Inshallah you will enjoy and learn a lot from this place.
The believer has four characteristics: if he is afflicted by any misfortune, he remains patient and steadfast. If he is given anything, he is grateful. If he speaks , he speaks the truth. If he passes judgment on any issue,he is just .
Re: Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. (:
Thank you for the welcome, sisters.
A bit about Estonia now insha'Allah.
It's quite a small country in the northern part of Europe with around 1.35 million people. It's dominantly Lutheran Christian but most people here don't care about the religion at all. I already mentioned it in another post but I think it's worth mentioning again that in a survey 84% of the people here answered "no" to a question whether religion is important to them. According to that Estonia is the most irreligious country in the world.
We have quite few Muslims here, only around 5,000 or so. Mostly they're tataris by ethnicity and only very few are estonians. Till now we don't have a single masjid in the whole country. There's actually a plan to build one and there would be money coming for it from the royal family in the UAE but the capital's city authorities here are not very eager to sell land for building a masjid and they're just delaying it as much as they can.
So all we have now is an islamic cultural centre with a little praying hall. It's also the place where few weeks ago I made my first real contact with muslims in Estonia. I've been there for Jum'ah a couple of times now but seen only about 25 or 30 people attending to it both times. This kind of tells a bit about the muslim community here, or about the lack of it. Unfortunately I also can't go for Jum'ah as often as I'd want to as I live not much less than 300 km from the capital.
In a horror movie, lol. That can happen when a country is really small.
Thanks for letting me know about the photography thread. I was actually thinking about it before whether this forum has something like that.
Insha'Allah I'll upload some photos there.
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