One of my organised occasion:
Before I start, I would like to tell you a little about to our neighbours around
our Mosque here in my country.
The
neighbours here who are living around the Mosques have a
very different concept or image about Muslims. People thought that Muslims are no
good people and were afraid
to keep any sought of interaction. As you know the Media
has portrait a different image about the Muslims in the World and so for these reasons
people the think that we were their greatest enemies.
I
decided that we will change the minds of our neighbours. So the people
here in the mosque put there heads together and decided that we should
make room into the hearts of our neighbours, which will gives us all
an opportunity to get to know each other, and get closer to each other
and prove to them Muslims are not bad people.
......
In 2010 we organised
a small occasion and invited to all our neighbours by sending them
invitations from which we only 2 guests a couple had come, we treated them
so much hospitality that were so impressed that they said " we had a
different image about you people ". This was our success ..... !
So the Mosque gave me
the responsibility of organising
the whole occasion yearly.
Oh yes by the way, I forgot
to mention , that on the morning of the occasion, the organisations president
received a threat through a email. saying that he will come and shoot all
of us, both organnisers and guests, we were a bit nervous,
but weren't afraid at all, because we fear only Allah, and thank Him,
He kept us safe and moreover, gave us success Alhamdulillah.
This occasion took place in the
premises of the Mosques garden and we also had
an Islamic exhibition in the Mosque garage.
We showed the hospitality, kindness and true morals of
a muslim community or a muslim individual.
We gave 2 short presentation (lectures) about
„Neighbourhood is Islam” and „Muslims public appearences in Hungary”. We also
invited a Munshed (singer) to entertain the guests. We also made
arrangements for a reception treat for our neighbours with turkish cuisine and
arabic sweets and made an international tea house. Also our guests were able to
have anything written with arabic calligraphy by some good calligrapher
brothers at our calligraphy corner.
The guests had also an opprtunity to have light
shit-chat or do dive deep in some topics related to islam and etc.
Thanks To Allah , the guest were
so engrossed that they did not want to leave, always had a new idea
or a new topic to discuss and talking circles were created, were everybody
could express his/her feelings, opinions and could gain new knowledge and true
informations about islam. We had over 40
neighbours and from all over Budapest, the capital city of Hungary.
All our guests left the Mosque with hands full with
gifts and with hearts full of positive opinions.
The Occasion was very succesful thank Allah, Who
accepted our honest intensions,
Next occasion coming soon in May 2012, insha Allah.
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