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GoFundMe
After recent events, ISCV has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for additional security. We encourage everyone to consider giving generously to help us stay safe. If you would like to contribute, the campaign is here. Thank you for your consideration.
Ramadan Child Care Program
Our Ramadan Child Care Program is off to a fast start SubhanAllah! Thanks to our wonderful organizers and terrific volunteers, we have had the past 3 nights full of Islamic lessons, arts and crafts and fun! Check out the pictures below.
In order to keep this momentum going inshaAllah, we need more volunteers! If you are able to help, please contact Sister Susana: susanamadrigal1979@icloud.com, Sister Zeba: zebarizvi26@gmail.com, or the ISCV Board: iscvboard@charlottesvillemasjid.com.
In order to keep this momentum going inshaAllah, we need more volunteers! If you are able to help, please contact Sister Susana: susanamadrigal1979@icloud.com, Sister Zeba: zebarizvi26@gmail.com, or the ISCV Board: iscvboard@charlottesvillemasjid.com.
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Volunteers Needed
Childcare Providers
ISCV Ramadan Child Care Program 2019
The ISCV is looking for kind, patient, caring sisters to assist in supervising children ages 2-8, for approximately one (1) hour per night during Ramadan. Interested sisters will help adult members have a peaceful tarāwīḥ prayer while our youngsters learn about their faith, make awesome arts and crafts, and do other fun things. Sisters can choose which nights they will volunteer and the more volunteers the merrier! The program will be conducted at the ISCV Islamic Center on the 2nd floor. No special training or experience is required, all lesson plans and required materials will be provided, and the program coordinator will provide explicit instructions before each nightly session. For more information or to sign up please contact Sister Susana: susanamadrigal1979@icloud.com, Sister Zeba: zebarizvi26@gmail.com, or the ISCV Board: iscvboard@charlottesvillemasjid.com.
Childcare Providers
ISCV Ramadan Child Care Program 2019
The ISCV is looking for kind, patient, caring sisters to assist in supervising children ages 2-8, for approximately one (1) hour per night during Ramadan. Interested sisters will help adult members have a peaceful tarāwīḥ prayer while our youngsters learn about their faith, make awesome arts and crafts, and do other fun things. Sisters can choose which nights they will volunteer and the more volunteers the merrier! The program will be conducted at the ISCV Islamic Center on the 2nd floor. No special training or experience is required, all lesson plans and required materials will be provided, and the program coordinator will provide explicit instructions before each nightly session. For more information or to sign up please contact Sister Susana: susanamadrigal1979@icloud.com, Sister Zeba: zebarizvi26@gmail.com, or the ISCV Board: iscvboard@charlottesvillemasjid.com.
Ramadan 2019 - Messages from Imam Abd'Llah
Ramadan Mubarak!!!
Dear Respected Brothers and Sisters of the ISCV Community,
As-salāmu ʿalaikum wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuh,
On behalf of Masjid Omar Bin El-Khattab and the ISCV Board I congratulate you and give you the glad tidings of the arrival of the blessed month of Ramaḍān. Moonsighting.com has confirmed three credible sightings of the crescent moon as of this hour. Based upon these sightings, with more anticipated, we can say with confidence that tomorrow, Monday, May 6th 2019 will be the first day of Ramaḍān, and, therefore, tarāwīḥ will be offered tonight, Sunday, May 5th 2019 immediately following ʿishāʾ prayer.
I would also like to take this opportunity to apologize for any shortcomings in communicating and messaging related to the transition to moon sighting as the method of determining the beginning and ending of the blessed month as well as clarifying the approach to following this method. Although some countries have previously declared Monday as the 1st of Ramaḍān based upon the absence of sighting on Saturday evening it was our desire to wait for an actual confirmed sighting before making any announcement in keeping with expressed teaching of the Prophet – peace be upon him – said: “If you see (the crescent) then fast and when you see it (again) discontinue fasting…” making the actual sighting of the moon the preferred basis for initiating the fast.
Again, I apologize for any shortcomings and promise to learn from this year’s experience and do better in the years to come.
Būriktum,
Imam Abd’Llah
As your Imām it is my sincere desire to ensure that I do all that I can to make the experience of aṣ-ṣiyām and al-qiyām at ISCV as spiritually fulfilling and well-organized as possible all while complying with the regulations and requirements of our dīn. In order to achieve these objectives we will be implementing the following:
Ramaḍan Child Care Program
InshāʾAllah we want the every member of our community to attend the tarāwīḥ prayers and, if possible, the tahajjud prayers at ISCV every night in Ramaḍān, but we realize that parents with small children may be reticent to come to prayers fearing that their children may disturb other worshippers. In an effort to resolve this dilemma and encourage all members to attend the ISCV will provide a well-structured child care program for children between the ages of two and eight (2-8) years old. THIS IS NOT BABYSITTING, but rather a program that will provide brief, age appropriate religious lessons, arts and craft activities, snacks, and prizes for good behavior. The program will be free of charge and all parents with children in this age range will be expected to enroll their children in the program each night that they come to the masjid to offer Tarawīḥ. This will ensure that both our adult and young members will benefit each night.
Khatam al-Qurʾān
For some of our members hearing the entire Qurʾān read in the masjid, in the company of their fellow Muslims, during Ramaḍān is very important. While we realize that this is not required and does not decrease the reward or virtue of our prayers in the least we plan to satisfy the request of those members and complete the recitation of the entire Qurʾān at ISCV. At the same time we are concerned that reciting the amount of Qurʾān required to complete it in tarāwīḥ will make the night prayer quite long and arduous and this may discourage some members from attending the prayer or staying until its completion so in order to complete the Qurʾān we plan to implement…
Short Congregational Reading Sessions
Every night in Ramaḍān, approximately 15 minutes before the ʿishāʾ prayer one of our reciters will lead a short reading (approximately three (3)) pages of the Qurʾān picking up from wherever the Imām of the previous night’s tarawīḥ left off. Any member interested in hearing and following the khatam (complete recitation of the Qurʾān) should come early and attend these sessions and stay until the completion of each night of tarāwīḥ.
Tarāwīḥ
InshāʾAllah, this year, the ʿishāʾ prayer will be somewhere between 9:30 and 10 pm followed immediately by tarāwīḥ. Our concern with such a late start time is that many members, especially during weeknights, will choose not to attend tarāwīḥ prayers because they may run late and impact their ability to awaken for suḥūr and or work/school. To avoid this and to encourage as many members as possible to attend the tarāwīḥ prayers we are planning to limit the tarawīḥ during the weeknights to about an hour or so and increase it, but only slightly, on the weekends. Don’t worry, we will still complete the Qurʾān between the reading sessions, tarawīḥ, tahajjud in the last ten days inshāʾAllah.
Encouraging Young Memorizers
Alḥamdulillah ISCV has many young boys who are in the process of memorizing the Qurʾān. We want to encourage our youth to continue memorizing and we want the community to hear them recite and see how well they are doing and showcase the amazing accomplishments they have made. To achieve this we want to have some of our youth lead the tarāwīḥ prayer or part of it in the last two or three (2 or 3) days of Ramaḍān. If you have a youngster who has memorized the last three (3) ajzāʾ of the Qurʾān and would like them to be included in this program please let us (the Imām or the ISCV Board) know via email so that we can sign him up.
Volunteering
Brothers and Sisters, we want this Ramaḍān to be as successful as possible and we cannot spell success without “U” [you]. Things like serving for ifṭār, cleaning up after, helping in the childcare program, and other Ramaḍān activities will only be done efficiently and effectively if member of the masjid’s leadership team receives support and assistance from its members. So please plan to volunteer and help whenever and wherever you can.
May Allah make this Ramaḍān blessed for you, your family, the ISCV Community, and all the Muslims. Ameen.
Būriktum,
Imam Abd’Llah
Dear Respected Brothers and Sisters of the ISCV Community,
As-salāmu ʿalaikum wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuh,
On behalf of Masjid Omar Bin El-Khattab and the ISCV Board I congratulate you and give you the glad tidings of the arrival of the blessed month of Ramaḍān. Moonsighting.com has confirmed three credible sightings of the crescent moon as of this hour. Based upon these sightings, with more anticipated, we can say with confidence that tomorrow, Monday, May 6th 2019 will be the first day of Ramaḍān, and, therefore, tarāwīḥ will be offered tonight, Sunday, May 5th 2019 immediately following ʿishāʾ prayer.
I would also like to take this opportunity to apologize for any shortcomings in communicating and messaging related to the transition to moon sighting as the method of determining the beginning and ending of the blessed month as well as clarifying the approach to following this method. Although some countries have previously declared Monday as the 1st of Ramaḍān based upon the absence of sighting on Saturday evening it was our desire to wait for an actual confirmed sighting before making any announcement in keeping with expressed teaching of the Prophet – peace be upon him – said: “If you see (the crescent) then fast and when you see it (again) discontinue fasting…” making the actual sighting of the moon the preferred basis for initiating the fast.
Again, I apologize for any shortcomings and promise to learn from this year’s experience and do better in the years to come.
Būriktum,
Imam Abd’Llah
As your Imām it is my sincere desire to ensure that I do all that I can to make the experience of aṣ-ṣiyām and al-qiyām at ISCV as spiritually fulfilling and well-organized as possible all while complying with the regulations and requirements of our dīn. In order to achieve these objectives we will be implementing the following:
Ramaḍan Child Care Program
InshāʾAllah we want the every member of our community to attend the tarāwīḥ prayers and, if possible, the tahajjud prayers at ISCV every night in Ramaḍān, but we realize that parents with small children may be reticent to come to prayers fearing that their children may disturb other worshippers. In an effort to resolve this dilemma and encourage all members to attend the ISCV will provide a well-structured child care program for children between the ages of two and eight (2-8) years old. THIS IS NOT BABYSITTING, but rather a program that will provide brief, age appropriate religious lessons, arts and craft activities, snacks, and prizes for good behavior. The program will be free of charge and all parents with children in this age range will be expected to enroll their children in the program each night that they come to the masjid to offer Tarawīḥ. This will ensure that both our adult and young members will benefit each night.
Khatam al-Qurʾān
For some of our members hearing the entire Qurʾān read in the masjid, in the company of their fellow Muslims, during Ramaḍān is very important. While we realize that this is not required and does not decrease the reward or virtue of our prayers in the least we plan to satisfy the request of those members and complete the recitation of the entire Qurʾān at ISCV. At the same time we are concerned that reciting the amount of Qurʾān required to complete it in tarāwīḥ will make the night prayer quite long and arduous and this may discourage some members from attending the prayer or staying until its completion so in order to complete the Qurʾān we plan to implement…
Short Congregational Reading Sessions
Every night in Ramaḍān, approximately 15 minutes before the ʿishāʾ prayer one of our reciters will lead a short reading (approximately three (3)) pages of the Qurʾān picking up from wherever the Imām of the previous night’s tarawīḥ left off. Any member interested in hearing and following the khatam (complete recitation of the Qurʾān) should come early and attend these sessions and stay until the completion of each night of tarāwīḥ.
Tarāwīḥ
InshāʾAllah, this year, the ʿishāʾ prayer will be somewhere between 9:30 and 10 pm followed immediately by tarāwīḥ. Our concern with such a late start time is that many members, especially during weeknights, will choose not to attend tarāwīḥ prayers because they may run late and impact their ability to awaken for suḥūr and or work/school. To avoid this and to encourage as many members as possible to attend the tarāwīḥ prayers we are planning to limit the tarawīḥ during the weeknights to about an hour or so and increase it, but only slightly, on the weekends. Don’t worry, we will still complete the Qurʾān between the reading sessions, tarawīḥ, tahajjud in the last ten days inshāʾAllah.
Encouraging Young Memorizers
Alḥamdulillah ISCV has many young boys who are in the process of memorizing the Qurʾān. We want to encourage our youth to continue memorizing and we want the community to hear them recite and see how well they are doing and showcase the amazing accomplishments they have made. To achieve this we want to have some of our youth lead the tarāwīḥ prayer or part of it in the last two or three (2 or 3) days of Ramaḍān. If you have a youngster who has memorized the last three (3) ajzāʾ of the Qurʾān and would like them to be included in this program please let us (the Imām or the ISCV Board) know via email so that we can sign him up.
Volunteering
Brothers and Sisters, we want this Ramaḍān to be as successful as possible and we cannot spell success without “U” [you]. Things like serving for ifṭār, cleaning up after, helping in the childcare program, and other Ramaḍān activities will only be done efficiently and effectively if member of the masjid’s leadership team receives support and assistance from its members. So please plan to volunteer and help whenever and wherever you can.
May Allah make this Ramaḍān blessed for you, your family, the ISCV Community, and all the Muslims. Ameen.
Būriktum,
Imam Abd’Llah
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