| Open The Masajid Doors To Non-Muslims!! |
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| Saturday, 26 August 2006 | |
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It is time for us to open our doors to the Non-Muslim Community. The blessed Month of Ramadan is coming up, so MPAC advises all Masajid to invite the Non-Muslim Community who is living around your Masjid. Alhamdulillah many I-Soc's have done this last year by inviting Vice-Chancellors to open their to come and see how Muslim's pray and open their fast. Some even fast for the day to feel how Muslims feel, so we ask our readers to approach their Masajid and ask the Committee Members to invite the Non-Muslim Community or have a Open Day to show the beauty of Islam.
          Readers have left 10 comments.
peace:
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I think the best idea is to invite non-muslims to the Friday prayer i.e. Jumma. So to show non-muslim that we have nothing to hide and that islam is a beutiful religion based on justice and harmony. At the end of the day dawah means invitation and we should invite muslims into the mosque.
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2006-08-26 10:47:22
Muslim:
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Alhamdulillah in Bolton we have the central Mosque, Zakariyyah Mosque, whereby open days for non-Muslims are kept on a regular basis, inviting people of all faiths and no faiths to gain an incite into Mulsim beliefs and Islam in general. They also invite non-Muslims to Iftaar in Ramadhan, from the success of which one person reverted to Islam.
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2006-08-26 11:34:09
Basil:
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A novel idea
What in the UK they will have to speak some form of Pakistani dialect to understand the sermons. Get your house in order before you start inviting friends yet alone strangers
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2006-08-26 20:59:16
Ex - Pollster:
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Polls not to be trusted! BEWARE OF FAKE MESSENGERS
Any one out there who works in these market research companies, and I know several owners as well as their staff will tell you that they can get you the desired results out of any survey. It is a matter of how you phrase the question and if that fails then it is in the interpolating and analysing of the results to achieved the desired outcome one way or the other. Through manipulation white can be changed to Grey. The one I know of is owned by a Jew as are many out there, draw your own conclusions. This particular company instructed staff in response to certain questions to make entries in the survey that are to the approval of their client. For example, you will ask ; “What do you think of Britain’s foreign policy” Very favourable Favourable Unfavourable Don’t Know Refused The field workers would be expected to put favourable on the survey if the answer is don’t know or refused. Examine the answers, only one option to unfavourable and 4 options to the alternative of unfavourable i.e. favourable. If that is not bad enough you can have anti Muslims conducting these surveys and instead of recording the respondents reply put their bias own on the surveys. There are no checks for such interpolation.
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2006-08-26 21:29:42
Sapere Aude:
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An excellent idea to invite non-Muslims to visit mosques.
But first invite the muslimahs. Muslimahs are banned from many mosques in UK. It would be better to follow the example (sunnah) of Prophet Muhammad, sal Allahu alaihi wa salam. In his day muslimahs went into the mosques. Do we follow him or don't we? Brothers and sisters please think carefully about this. The Qur'an tells us that we can be friendly towards non Muslims who do not make war on us. It also says do not take non believers as friends in preference to believers.
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2006-08-27 04:47:08
A Uddin:
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I think people who express a genuine interest in Islam and Muslims should be welcomed into mosques routinely with greater effort - and Ramadan is a good time to do that as well.
But I don't think active promoting/soliciting of non-Muslims to attend ordinary prayers and sermons would be productive or inspiring because the acivities will not be focused or directed at the visitors' interests or enquiries. Besides - how many mosques give satisfactory sermons, prayers and speech in English? Its common for one locality to have several mosques, each catering for particular language and culture - perhaps we need to fix that first? I went to the ExpoIslamia Conference in Machester last week. I thought that was a perfect event to promote and solicite non-Muslims to attend. Non-Muslims would have got a full-bodied sense of who we are, what we think and what we do. It had all the ingredients - English speakers; politics ; new reverts/converts discussing their experiences; Islamic culture and Islamic youth culture - Rap, nasheeds, poetry etc. The speakers were uncompromising and persuasuve. Perhaps future conferences should be organised such that one condition of entry is that a Muslim should invite at least one non-muslim to attend? One sentiment expressed in the conference was that, we should not be having one conversation with Muslims and another with non-Muslims. Islam is for all.
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2006-08-27 15:17:07
ali:
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im honoured to say that my local masjid has being inviting non-muslims to our mosque for many years. we have had regular requests which is catered for, also a yearly open day is organised which gives an opportunity for those attending to meet the imam and speak to them! unlike the typical image of non-eglish speaking imams, we are blessed with Imams who have been eductaed via the british education system and have learnt islam at the various islamic universities.
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2006-08-27 17:18:56
Abu Musa:
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Allah(swt) says: "The Infidels have no right to visit the Mosques of Allah while bearing witness to unbelief against themselves, them it is whose deeds are null and void, and in the fire shall they abide." [Qur’an - Surah At-Tawbah 9:17]
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2006-08-27 23:44:02
Sapere Aude:
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Assalaamu alaikum, bro Ali.
The quotation given by another brother from Qur'an saying non believers should not enter mosques, referred to a specific situation when those very individuals were at war with Islam. If you feel the invitations and visits to your mosque serve a useful purpose and the visitors appear sincere and show respect, may Allah continue to bless you in your efforts. Will you please clarify whether or not Muslimahs are given their right to attend your mosque? Thanks wa salaam.
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2006-08-28 10:04:46
Peter M:
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Difficult to keep this short and to the point...
I am devout Christian and have been for many years. I'm middle aged (?) and though I now live in a city with a significant muslim population, I've never been into a mosque & know as little about Islam. The language issue is one reason - the correct language of the Qu'ran is supposed to be Arabic, I understand - and another is the issue some have mentioned about feeling as if I would be in a very strange place. Stereotypes are interesting - what image do you have of me as a Christian? Or of a church service? - but are dangerous. I'd be interested to know whether you would be willing to come into a church service? Then would you expect that I would be willing to come into a mosque? And yet, that's something I'd love to do. Sometime...
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2006-11-20 18:40:50
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