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.
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