da'wah project drawing board

[ImranQureshi]

Assalamualaikum, brother Ashiq inspired me to start a "dawah project drawing board" thread. Lets start the brainstorm! No idea is a bad idea. InshaAllah, all the ideas here can be established as MAJD projects.

[ImranQureshi]

1) MONTHLY NIGHT PROGRAM (another Majd Project; possibly be used as marketting for seminars) - Me and another brother started a night program in Houston, January 2002. Goal was to do something small but consistent. For the first 6 months we had a turn of 80 to 100 higschoolers on a monthly basis. After the 6 months, we trained the youth and passed the leadership down, while still keeping an eye on them. The same sunnah was followed every 6 months to a year. Now the night program has expanded to 3 to 4 masajid, and the turn out is always above 200 and frequently reaches 300. Do able in Toronto?

[ImranQureshi]

2) SIMPLE ONE (another Majd Project): Dawa table on campus at lunch break during the Almaghrib class. How many of you brothers went up to the Chinese security dude in the Medical building, who saw us pray dhuhr and asr an introduced Islam to him?

[ImranQureshi]

MY Conversation with Sh. Muhammad (paraphrased):

Imran: All the dawa ideas that you throw out in the class room, do you plan to do them under Almaghrib, or do you expect the students to take your ideas and do them?

Ustadji: Yes, I expect for the students to do them. Theres nothing that makes me more happy then when someone takes from what we have Taught and applies it in their dawa.

[ImranQureshi]

I've deleted majority of my personal dawa ideas until I get a clarification on the forum rules. It won't happen until the Hurricane warning in Houston ends. Please pray for our brothers and sisters there.

[ImranQureshi]

Woohoo, got approval from da MAN, himself!!!

[ImranQureshi]

3) MUSLIM OUTDOORS CLUB (objective: Majd brotherhood) - After passing on the leadership on the night program, I started a monthly outdoors trip. The number varied from 3 to 30 depending on the cost. While the night program was every first saturday of the month, the outdoor trips were every second saturday of the month. Activities includes hiking, kayaking, boulder climbing, paint balling, etc.

[ImranQureshi]

4) DAWA IJAZA PROGRAM (another Majd Project): 1999 after taking classes with sh. Yasir Qadhi for an entire 3 months, we were sad that he was leaving back for Medina. Sad for the fact that we won't have the same emaan in the absence of his classes. So 4 of us went to him and Irtiza Hassan asked, "What do we do now?" And he said in a very strict tone, "GO AND TEACH IT TO OTHERS." So I asked him as a joke, "Do we have your Ijaza?" and he emphatically said, "YES." What if many people are shy of doing dawa because they are not confident? And perhaps an instructor giving them the authority to do dawa will boost that confidence. How about a program where different shuyukh are invited to give courses on dawa, and each course accompanies a test, and passing mark earns you a certificate. The certificate expires every year, so each year there is a renewal courses. So you have Khalid Yaseen giving one course, Bilal Phillips giving another course, another sheikh giving a course on comparative religion. .... and each is accompanied by its unique "Ijaza certificate." Sheikh Muhammad’s course on Fiqh ad-Dawa can be fitted in properly as well.

[ImranQureshi]

5) QUIZ BOWL: Qabeelat Hosna is helping a few brothers design a class on Conquest (HOK) to teach it around halaqas in Houston. From that class, questions will be made and Quiz Bowl will organized in December.

[ImranQureshi]

6) STRONG MUSLIM: Based on the hadeeth: "A strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than a weak believer." A program that is designed to keep the Muslims physically fit. How does that fit in with Almaghrib or Majd? After taking Conquest, I truely understood what it meant to be strong, and that was from the example of the Sahabah themselves. Example of Abdullah b. Zubayr: When there was a flood in Mecca and the rain water gathered around the Ka'aba, Abdullah b. Zubayr (radiallahuanh) did tawaf around the ka'aba while swimming.

[yasser_z]

ma sha Allah Imran those are some really neat and acheivable ideas. too bad you're not in the toronto area!

how did houston market these ideas? cause i find there is an overwhelming (but conquerable) 'apathy' in our city when it comes to people and their time. family, work and school always seem to take precedence over COMMUNITY

any ideas on how can we break that?

[Jafa'rbinTayyar]

[QUOTE=ImranQureshi]DAWA IJAZA PROGRAM (another Majd Project): 1999 after taking classes with sh. Yasir Qadhi for an entire 3 months, we were sad that he was leaving back for Medina. QUOTE]


First he left us for Medina and now for Connecticut. Subhan allah.

[ImranQureshi]

how did houston market these ideas? cause i find there is an overwhelming (but conquerable) 'apathy' in our city when it comes to people and their time. family, work and school always seem to take precedence over COMMUNITY

any ideas on how can we break that?

I'm assuming that you're assuming that what worked in Houston will work in Toronto as well. And that is not necessarily true. However, the "apathy" factor does exist at many levels. The best thing to do would be to sit down as committed organizers and go through an intense brainstorm session. Each project is different and can be marketted differently. Sometimes the uniqueness of the project would be sufficient, sometimes we would create a completely different dawa project, in order to market for a more beneficial project.

Btw, I am in Toronto almost every weekend or every other weekend.

[ImranQureshi]

7) YAHOO GROUP DAWA PROJECT: "This one isn't unique!"

I love to learn Islamic knowledge by teaching it to others. And when I can't find anyone to teach it to, I create a ppt class and teach it to an imaginary person.

What if we all started our own personal yahoo group. The invitees would be no other than our own family and family friends. We can teach what we learned in the previous Almaghrib class via email to our own family and friends that didn't attend the class. We will be able to benefit ourselves by reviewing the material, and we will benefit others, because they missed the class and they won't be able to catch that class until after 5 years (unless they travel to a different city). At the end of each email, we can include a small advertisement for the next Almaghrib class.

Imagine if we send one email every week, our relatives will recieve the advertisement of the next Almaghrib class atleast 12 times.

"Why don't we just start a yahoo group as Majd and everyone can invite their family and friends to it?" Because we will lose the personal touch. Only one person will be writing those emails, where as if we all do it individually, our family and friends will feel comfortable with us, and all of us will benefit by writing those emails.

[ImranQureshi]

Assalaamualiakum, It seems I am the only one contributing with dawa ideas. I was hoping someone else would contribute something and that i would fall in love with their idea and steal it and make it my own. ;) I won't be discouraged, my goal is 100 dawa ideas (inshaAllah) ... I will be going back and numbering all of the dawa ideas.

[ImranQureshi]

8) WRITE A BOOK: "101 things to do for bored Muslims"

[ImranQureshi]

9) SCIENCE CLUB FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS: Remember Bill Nye the Science Guy, how 'bout "Dr. Hood, the Science Dude!" I think this would be an excellent way of teaching Ruboobiyyah of Allah. Invite them to a doughnut and give them an apple.

[Islaahd]

10/ Sponser an event;
It can be at the college symposium or a school day function. We can conduct a simple quiz or more fun filled Family feud type quiz and then give lots of prizes.

(b/w hope posting it here with points is ok!)

[ImranQureshi]

11) ADOPT A HIGHWAY (89 more to go): adopt a highway, and put up a sign "adopted by Muslims" and then a website. I'm not sure if that is allowable by the state.

[ImranQureshi]

12) CONCESSIONS: This may not work well in Toronto during our winter, but perhaps when the summer rolls back around ... Setting up a concession stand that gives cold water, and the cups have small dawa message printed on them. This can also be applied at a Masjid during jummah, water is replaced with Rooh Afza, and the advertisement is the next Almaghrib class.

May Allah have mercy upon my brother from Hosna for assisting my quest. I am definitely stealing your idea.

[ImranQureshi]

13) DAWA MOBILE: I don't think many people will be willing to sacrifice their hoopties(cars), however what if there are stickers for cars that can advertise Islam. "AskMeAboutIslam.com" and you can sacrifice one of your car doors to ALMAGHRIB.ORG, and all the cool kids at the masjid will come to you and ask you, "what is Almaghrib?"

Or you can have cooler stickers, instead of "My Kid is an Honor roll student" you can have, "My Kid Prays Five Times A Day." And if your kid ever becomes mischevious, you can always threaten him/her, "Do you want me to take that sticker off my car?"

Downside: you have to stop cutting off people on the highway, and start being a nice driver.

[Islaahd]

14. Newspaper column on Eid or Ramadan

A lot of newspaper have a small inconspicious section about fetivals or spiritual guidance. We can send them a brief dawah oriented write up on special occasions.

[Islaahd]

15. Choose a local school or kintergarden

Organize a small painting or essay or elocution competition on a very sweet (subtle Islamic subject).

Give away lots of prizes, besies first & seconds, as in consolation, creativity, judges choices etc. Call them to the prize distribution ceremony (now these young kids would accompy their parents) and you have a platform for a nice Dawah lecture.

[UmA]

9) SCIENCE CLUB FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS: Remember Bill Nye the Science Guy, how 'bout "Dr. Hood, the Science Dude!" I think this would be an excellent way of teaching Ruboobiyyah of Allah. Invite them to a doughnut and give them an apple.I know one family that had "Mad Science" for the kids at their Eid get together. I've been thinking about the same thing for our extended family, but if only the mad science host was Muslim and islamically aware, it would be much better. So it's a twist on the above idea.

[UmA]

(Jazakumullahu khayran..numbering the projects gives me permission to post ideas. Before, I felt that I would be on someone else's territory)


16. Buddy up with your local librarian and put up seasonal Islamic displays. I do this for Ramadan, Eid ul Fitr and Eid ul Ad-ha.

And I have the photos if anyone wants to copy the idea.

[ImranQureshi]

(Jazakumullahu khayran..numbering the projects gives me permission to post ideas. Before, I felt that I would be on someone else's territory)

Wa iyyakum Jazakhair ... 84 more to go.

[ImranQureshi]

17. FUNDRAISERS: A dawa project that is strictly dedicated to fundraising for other dawa projects. Alot of marketting ideas would go into it, but imagine the reward if we can get it up and running. For every dawa project our dawa project supports, we will get reward for those, inshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

18. ASK ME ABOUT ISLAM T-SHIRTS: what better accessory to go with your brand new dawa mobile (no. 13). Create a website just incase people don't get the oppurtunity to talk to you.

[UmA]

17. FUNDRAISERS: A dawa project that is strictly dedicated to fundraising for other dawa projects. Alot of marketting ideas would go into it, but imagine the reward if we can get it up and running. For every dawa project our dawa project supports, we will get reward for those, inshaAllah.Siraj Wahhaj was always there to fundraise for so many communities in N.America and beyond,ma sha Allah. And a few years ago it was so nice to see some T.O Muslims giving back. They hosted a fundraiser for his community.

[ImranQureshi]

19. FLIER MAILING PROGRAM: Jehova Witness meets the Lazy Muslim who has access to the post office. Okay, so the Muslims are too lazy to get up and go door to door, are we too lazy to pick one building every month, and send bulk mail to every apartment in that building.

[Noor Al-Majd]

assalamu 3alaykom,

these are all really good ideas mashallah...inshallah we can start on them soon

i just wanted to add something inshallah...i remember qabeelat durbah had this da3wah project where they had a few brothers just meet up at a mall or somewhere like that, and they would pray in jama3a right then and there, in front of everyone. They also had some pamphlets to give out after the salah. I think this would be a really easy one to do. i mean, not much preparations needed and it can be done at any time, anywhere. and mashallah, people find our salah pretty intriguing. they just sit there and stare sob7anallah



anyways, let's keep the ideas coming inshallah

[ImranQureshi]

21. ADOPT A MASJID: Every month a masjid is chosen. We clean it up from top to bottom. Plant a few plants, and make it all pretty, and wear our Almaghrib t-shirts while we do that. ;)

[ImranQureshi]

22. SUMMER INTENSIVE: Can't go overseas to study over the summer? How about we organize a summer intensive camp for ourselves, and in the process benefit others as well. Alot of students of knowledge return back in the summer, they are looking for a job to support themselves their family overseas. A summer intensive could be that means.

[ImranQureshi]

23. MINI KHUTBAH DOT COM: Mini-Golf, Mini-Me, Mini-Cooper ... Mini-Khutbah dot com??? ... Okay maybe you don't want to call it that. Everytime a dawa idea comes to my mind, the immediate following thought that comes to mind, it must have been done already. But then, why are people still seeking those services?

Project: "How to give a Khutbah" online course, after completing that course, there is a small 20 question quiz. Passing the test will allow you to have a username/password to a database of mini-Khutbahs. The Khutbah's are designed for jummahs that take place in highschools. Brief (maximum 15 minutes, but around 10), to the point, motivating, and ability to drive people into action. We can make so many khutbahs from each Almaghrib class. The entire BOC was a several mini-khutbahs.

Why? Because, Recently I was pulled in a principal's office of a highschool in Scarborough, who expressed her issues with sermons and jummah salaah in her highschool for 30 minutes.

[ImranQureshi]

Siraj Wahhaj was always there to fundraise for so many communities in N.America and beyond,ma sha Allah, and it was so nice to see some T.O Muslims giving back by hosting a fundraiser for his community.

Assalamualiakum, perhaps what we need to do is find a young student of knowledge (recent graduate) who is an amazing speaker. We ask Imam Siraaj to train him in Fundraising. We ask sh. Muhammad to train him in business. And employ him for our Fundraising dawa project.

[ImranQureshi]

24. HOLDING A POSTER BOARD AND STANDING ON THE STREET: this is such an easy dawa project. I just saw some people on the street with signs "Abortion Hurts Women" and "Jesus Loves You." We can do something similar to that. "Allah Loves You" ;) or a little bit more creative.

We can have 5 brothers with 5 - 6 seperate posters (nicely made ofcourse; gotta be eye-catching). And as you drive down you see something like ...

"One Originator of the Heavens and the Earth"

"One Nourisher of All the Creations"

"One Owner/Master on the Day of Judgement "

"ONLY ONE DIETY WORTHY OF WORSHIP"

"NUMBER ONE MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION IN THE WORLD"

"ask us about ISLAM"

And as the cars drive by we wave with a smile on our face ... How cool would that be?

[Namarig]

Assalamualiakum, perhaps what we need to do is find a young student of knowledge (recent graduate) who is an amazing speaker. We ask Imam Siraaj to train him in Fundraising. We ask sh. Muhammad to train him in business. And employ him for our Fundraising dawa project.
wa3alaikum assalam,

I LOVE THAT IDEA!!!!!!!!! I hope you didn't mean it as a joke........... :-S

[Barakah]

subhanAllah these dawah projects are amazing, hope we can implement them one day.

25. CREATIVE DAWAH

have dawah stalls in the town centre, titled 'have your name in calligraphy for free' then whilst they wait for this, there can be a person talking about islam and giving dawah for that waiting period.

i know alot of people queue up for this, as almost everyone is fascinated by calligraphy, and the paper that the name is wriiten on can have like 5 basic facts about Islam on it.

[ImranQureshi]

I LOVE THAT IDEA!!!!!!!!! I hope you didn't mean it as a joke........... :-S

No Joke, only touches of humor so we enjoy our dawa work. :) (WAVES AS THE CARS DRIVE BY)

[-ilmseeker-]

I’ve been meaning to read this entire thread for the longest time……SubhanAllah these are awesome ideas!! I think now its time to actually select one or two of these ideas and actually start working on them!

At the Ryerson Marhaba dinner, Shaikh Muhammad said that Ramadaan needs to be less about consuming and eating and more about giving and helping those in need. Unfortunately most of the time, we end up doing the opposite. How about this Ramadaan us Majdians volunteer at a local Food bank or a Soup Kitchen?

Something similar to the ‘Concession’ idea (# 13), is what a few sisters and I from YM have done in the past called ‘Feed the Streets’. We prepare lunch bags, usually containing a meat sandwich and a bottle of water, along with a ‘one-minute’ dawa messages and go all over the streets of downtown distributing these bags to the homeless. SubhanAllah, it’s a very humbling experience.

Another idea I liked a lot was the ‘Adopt-A-Masjid’ (#21). We all know how many Masajids we have here that need some major clean ups! So let's be the first ones to actually do it as a group!

I say we get crackin'. Set up a date and actually start implementing these ideas. What say you?

[Islaahd]

subhanAllah these dawah projects are amazing, hope we can implement them one day.

25. CREATIVE DAWAH

have dawah stalls in the town centre, titled 'have your name in calligraphy for free' then whilst they wait for this, there can be a person talking about islam and giving dawah for that waiting period.Masha Allaah this one is so very nice. People like anything free.

26. A mobile Library
Set up small libraries in hostel rooms on the campuses and colleges.
Then put a few books every frothnight or month, near the college canteen, so that people can borrow or become immediate members.

[ImranQureshi]

27. the following counts as 27.

[font=Times New Roman][size=3] ‘Feed the Streets’. We prepare lunch bags, usually containing a meat sandwich and a bottle of water, along with a ‘one-minute’ dawa messages and go all over the streets of downtown distributing these bags to the homeless.

[ImranQureshi]

I say we get crackin'. Set up a date and actually start implementing these ideas. What say you?

Assalaamualaikum, I have no problem with us getting "crackin," and with that, there is one rule ... whatever we do, we do it with IHSAAN.


Heres what Ihsaan means to me

1) It can't be a one time deal. It has to be established as a project that is be done on a consistent basis, rather than once a Ramadan. I prefer monthly. One weekend day every month. Thats how we have *established* our projects in the past.

2) What we do has to be well planned out, can't be done haphazardly. There has to be pre-planning, a pre-meeting, and goals have to be set.

3) There has to be an accounting on whether we met those goals or not. Maybe do a post-meeting to grade how well or how poorly we did. 3 things we can improve on, three things we shouldn't do, 3 things we should continue to do. something like that.

4) It can't be a one man (or one woman) show. There has to be proper shoorah, and EVERY volunteer MUST give their input. Thats what i consider proper shoorah.

Thats all that comes to mind at this point. This is just how I operate, and it should not stop anyone from doing any action. (How I operate is not fard, nor mustahhab).

If you decide to do any activity, please let me know, and inshaAllah, i would love to join the event as a volunteer/man-power (since Toronto brothers are so lazy). If possible, start a thread on whatever activity that is chosen (maybe even a poll to see which project should be chosen), and perhaps, inshaAllah, that thread can benefit other cities on how we succeeded in our dawa mission ... ThuS, Majd being the leaders of everyone else.

Too many words, i hope it benefits. Jazakallahukhairan.

[ImranQureshi]

28. EID GIFT BASKET ... Theres a thread under fiqh ad-dawa on Ramadan Gift Baskets. Not to seem a little bit uncreative, but how about an Eid Gift Basket for our neighbors? You can pass out something as simple as samosay, they're loved by everyone, and you can get them for 5 for a $1. Lets say, you spend $50, 5 per house, you got yourself a $1 per house, and 50 houses.

Accompanying the samosays, perhaps an eid card. 4x6. What is EID? why is it celebrated (Bring in Tawheed here)? The brothers/sisters who are doing ramadan gift baskets, we can ask them to assist us.

[ImranQureshi]

29. A BOOK CLUB: Every month pick an Islamic Book. Read it thoroughly (study it). End of the period assigned to a book, many book clubs would have a meeting and everyone would talk about that book. We can do the same with a small twist. Instead of giving our own discussions, invite the author of the book, have him summarize the book, and then we take that oppurtunity to get all of our questions answered on that topic (and that would be the main benefit of this project).

Forexample: Yasir Qadhi wrote a book Dua: Weapon of the Believer. He also gave 9 lectures on the same book given on a weekend. (Lectures can be found online on audioislam.com).

[ImranQureshi]

30. MAJD KHATEEBS: mobilize a fleet of khateebs that are Almaghrib students for highschools. If any highschool in our city need an outside speaker, they can reach out to Majd.

[ImranQureshi]

31. BUSINESS CARDS: Alot of stores have a section where people leave their business cards. The idea here is to create a simple Islamic Website which gives basic-basic information, which benefits both non-Muslims and non-practicing-Muslims. Initially the business cards only has that website address, but eventually we add a phone number once we start a dawa call center (the next idea).

[ImranQureshi]

32. DAWA CALL CENTER: It will require alot of marketing and ofcourse funding. I don't have any ideas on how to make it a successfully profitable, so that we can pay our Muslim "volunteers." But if someone can think up of something, I think it would be an excellent project. inshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

33. FAJR PROGRAM: Ofcourse this is Ramadan, and few have trouble waking up for fajr, otherwise they'd be quite hungry throughout the day. Alhumdulillah, not us, but alot of motivated people may have problems waking up for fajr. For the purpose of purely pulling in more rewards, we can create a network where those who are waking up are calling those and waking up those who aren't. You slowly expand add more to the network, not by calling more people, but making sure those who you call, wake up on their own and call others.

[ImranQureshi]

34. SMART SCHOOLS

"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education." - John Updike

Ever watched the show Malcolm in the Middle? Okay, so we're not suppose to watch TV, but there are lessons to be learnt, how the smart kids have an advantage of learning in special classes taught the unconventional way. What if the "dumb" students learned better the same way? What if it isn't the students who are "dumb" but rather the teaching methodology.

In my highschool days, l learned more english in my robotics class than in my technical writing class. Because, while we were making automated robots and trying to get them to play basketball, we had to write weekly reports on what we accomplished. We also learned more physics in our robotics class than we did in Physics I.

The Project: A school ... primarily for Muslims (can be openned up to others) which uses unique teaching methodologies and unconventional methods. I believe, if students attend a school like this from grade 1, we can put them in universities by the time they are 12, latest 15.

The school would obviously need to have an Islamic program that is totally unique compared to anything out there. At the same time, we need to use techniques that were used on the children around the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and children of the sahabah. Obviously, alot of research would be required.

How many parents will pay alot to send their kids to an accelerated school?

[yasser_z]

35. SAWM TRACKER
A check-in system for people who do voluntary fasts. After passing certain landmarks/thresholds ie. 30 fasts, the individual receives a reward like a t-shirt and/or can travel up a hierarchy of levels.

[yasser_z]

36. PARENTAL BROCHURE SERIES
A series of brochures addressing common issues with children like "Why does my daughter have a boyfriend?", "Why does my child not want to pray?", "Why is my child choosing bad friends?" etc. etc. and in each case outline the causes, cures and pre-emptive measures a parent can take to avoid these fitnas in the first place.

[yasser_z]

37. TRADE-IN YOUR USELESS JAHILIYYA THINGAMABOBS
People can submit old cd's, posters, clothing, and other material things which remind them of jahiliyya. What we're going to do with them? Please refer to da'wah idea #38.


38. ANNUAL JAHILIYYA THINGAMABOBS BONFIRE
I dont know if i'm kidding or being serious. I'll check in again later.

[yasser_z]

39. NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL OUTREACH
Each municipality seems to have a local newspaper. ie. the Brampton Guardian, the Mississauga News etc. Have one or two designated writers to consistently write the local papers on municipal, provincial or federal or issues, demonstrating Islamic character and beleifs. No hate, no slander, no complaining.. nothing but pure optimism and confidence in our local leaders, muslim and non.

[yasser_z]

40. ART & STORY WRITING CONTESTS FOR PRE-PUBESCENT TEENS
Its no mystery that in the younger years we form critical paradigms through which we live the rest of our lives. The intention here is to create 'positive media' for our kids to get involved in, so in their future as adults they can continue to create positive, Islamically-oriented programming and content for the following generations, and so on.

I am talking comic books, cartoons, novels and television shows. Creating characters based around the sahabah, taking the stories, and transposing them to modern day. The TV is a part of our lives, its critical we start using it for benefit rather than harm.

[ImranQureshi]

AWESOME!!! I knew Yasser would come to my rescue, I was running out of ideas. 60 more to go. I'll just have to come up with a few corny ones.

[ImranQureshi]

41. PROJECT CONVINCING NIQAAB: Draw a moustache on your wife's face with a permanent marker.

[ImranQureshi]

Just so people don't get a negative idea, I plan to initiate every single project that I find feasible (inshaAllah) if noone else does. Those ideas that i like alot, and someone else may do it before me, I'm not worried, inshaAllah they will lay down a foundation for me, and I will learn from their mistakes, and I'm sure they would love to advise me from their experience.

I am currently developing many of these ideas ... quite a few are in the "proposal" stage, and one is already being marketted in Toronto. I request that if you plan to initiate of the projects on your own, let me know, so if I am already working on it, we can just work together or I can simply pass the ideas down to you. Jazakallahukhairan.

[yasser_z]

60 more!?
sabhanallah!
and i thought 'pre-pubescent teens writing contest' was corny enough! i cant wait to see what we come up with now. LoL

get me in touch with your Toronto guys, email me about it. i'll put some time into the projects, insha'Allah. Are you going to make it to bruthaz nite? I hope you can, cuase there's going to be a couple elders who have some excellent wisdom to share. hope to see you then, insha'Allah

wa aslaamu aleyk

[ImranQureshi]

Yasser, E-mail me your email address please (MIQ999@hotmail.com).

[ImranQureshi]

Lets start the brainstorm! No idea is a bad idea.

Your writing contest wasn't corny at all. Infact, I have full intention of implementing it for highschoolers this year, just not for the pre-pubescent teens just now, maybe next year. inshaAllah.

The only reason I am taking baby steps with my dawa projects here in Canada is because I don't have any brothers helping me. zero.

[ashiq]

MashaAllah. Keep up the awesome work, bro...some really awesome ideas here.

Here's an interesting one I asked ustadh Muhammad about: da'wah video games. How many computer nerds do you know who probably haven't the faintest clue about Islam? I know several...

And of course, the whole thing about, propogating good, sound social values. But unless your stuff is widely-played, it's likely not worth the time...

[ashiq]

37. TRADE-IN YOUR USELESS JAHILIYYA THINGAMABOBS
People can submit old cd's, posters, clothing, and other material things which remind them of jahiliyya. What we're going to do with them? Please refer to da'wah idea #38.


38. ANNUAL JAHILIYYA THINGAMABOBS BONFIRE
I dont know if i'm kidding or being serious. I'll check in again later.
I support these ideas 100%. Especially if you reverted at some point--you likely have lots of little things you have to get rid of, but can't quite give away, like that carved wooden indian totem pole you bought from eBay...well, you get the idea.

But, won't we be polluting like maaaaaaaaaad? Is there a better, more recycling-oriented way to get rid of jahiliyyah stuff?

[zawjatuKashif]

41. PROJECT CONVINCING NIQAAB: Draw a moustache on your wife's face with a permanent marker.


bhaijan i'm sure bhabi will appreciate me very much *smiles @ bhabi*

PROJECT CONVINCING DARI : draw dari on ur brothers face with a permanent marker. (thats if they don't have beards)

bhaijan, remember that noor masjid hmm near the apartments we used to live in ... every eid they would have loads of toys for children and after salaah they would give it to the children. we can do that at the masjid. that'll encourage the children, i dunno to come to masjid or at least attend eid salaah. or we can give toys to the non-muslims kids on eid. get them into islam. ok prob. dumb idea.

[ImranQureshi]

42. "da'wah video games. How many computer nerds do you know who probably haven't the faintest clue about Islam? I know several..."

[ImranQureshi]

43. A TRAVEL MAGAZINE ... I know alot of magazines are out there, from simple all out Islamic to community related magazines. But how many actually cover travelling to those Muslim communities throughout the world or even just North America.

Project: a Magazine that covers area where Muslims can travel to, not just for the sake of tourism but get a higher purpose behind their vacation, at the same time benefit Islamically. An issue can cover an area, its geographics, its nature, its community, and heres the important stuff, its masajid, its imams, where can they go on their vacation to learn a few stuff?

Example: Toronto: We can cover the beautiful nature in Ontario. We can cover the halal outdoors activities that a couple or family can partake in. We can cover the beautiful mosques of this community. We can cover the imams of this community (Basheer Shill - scholar in Hadeeth). And then we can even have an Islamic section for those of us who want to add some Islamic knowledge - "Advice from the scholars of Toronto." And ofcourse, cover hospitality of the city of Toronto - I haven't seen much of that, so we can instead write about the hospitality of qabeelat Ansaar (they're awesome). ;)

Each issue can cover a different location, and it can be such an awesome tool that if it become big, we will cause the Muslims to travel to those cities we write about. InshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

44. FINANCIAL EDUCATION for MUSLIMS: Its amazing how we are not taught on how to manage our money and become financially independent in our schools. Funnier thing is that non-Muslims have their seminars to teach financial freedom. But how many Muslims are educated regarding that. How many Muslims fall into the trap of interest and don't know how to get out of it, and dig themselves deeper and deeper into the hole, using one credit card to pay of the other, while some even try to pay off their credit card bills by using that credit card (fyi: it can't be done).

So why aren't there any seminars of this nature. If it is built, they will come (inshaAllah), specially because it is needed, and they will pay for that education.

[ashiq]

44. FINANCIAL EDUCATION for MUSLIMS How about a quick summary/brochure, in the style of Young Muslims Canada (http://www.youngmuslims.ca/publications/ (http://www.youngmuslims.com/publications/))? If you're willing to write the outline/content, I can help write + edit + design + get it printed and everything inshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

I was playing basketball a few days ago, and I saw on the court an upside down moth moving. I moved closer to it to see what was going on, and it was a dead moth being dragged by a ant, which was so small compared to the size of the moth that the first thing that came to my mind, thats impossible. But then I remembered the verse, that Allah does not burden a soul more than it is capable.

And when I see all the absence of dawa, sometimes I think, its not possible for us to be the movers and shakers. But then I realize, there is a burden, and we are capable. Its not the question of whether it is possible or not, its a question of whether we will take on the takleef or not.

[ImranQureshi]

How about a quick summary/brochure, in the style of Young Muslims Canada (http://www.youngmuslims.ca/publications/ (http://www.youngmuslims.com/publications/))? If you're willing to write the outline/content, I can help write + edit + design + get it printed and everything inshaAllah.

I dont think its as simple as a brochure. However, if you wish to do it, you have my moral support :)

[ImranQureshi]

45. ONE VERSE A DAY: a campaign that motivates people to memorize one verse of quran every day. It could be a web project or an email project, or any other creative idea someone comes up with. No matter how small the verse is, you only memorize one verse a day. Even if it is Alif Laam Meem. Thats it for the day. Basic meaning of the verse and a brief explanation can be included, but it has to be less than two minutes read.

The whole goal here is under achieving, while teaching people consistency. It will take a full 8 years or more for a person to memorize the entire Quran this way. But once you learn consistency, the under achieving will keep the people unsatiated and will eventually drive them to do more than just one verse a day. inshaAllah.

[yasser_z]

How about a quick summary/brochure, in the style of Young Muslims Canada (http://www.youngmuslims.ca/publications/ (http://www.youngmuslims.com/publications/))? If you're willing to write the outline/content, I can help write + edit + design + get it printed and everything inshaAllah.
I actually think this is a GREAT idea... a brochure series. Short, summarized and sweet.

[yasser_z]

46. LET ALLAH HELP YOU QUIT SMOKING
All you got to is ask for His help! Have a sort of tracking system, motivational lectures, health benefits (not detriments), testament from people who've been smoke free for 'x' months or years etc. Teach and show people that its only tough if they make it tough for themselves.

Also a 'relapse prevention curriculum' to help people understand that they need to really ask why they began smoking in the first place in order to conquer it. Its the same as someone who always has a messy room. They need to dig deep and deal with their 'inner mess'. Then the inner cleanliness will manifest itself outwardly.

[ashiq]

I actually think this is a GREAT idea... a brochure series. Short, summarized and sweet.

Awesome. Looking back at Br. Imran's idea, he's talking about a wide-breadth full-scale seminar system kinda thing. I was thinking more, eh, basics about living in a riba-oriented system.

How would you like to churn out an outline? We can bat it around ... see if we get something worth carrying forward.

[yasser_z]

Awesome. Looking back at Br. Imran's idea, he's talking about a wide-breadth full-scale seminar system kinda thing. I was thinking more, eh, basics about living in a riba-oriented system.

How would you like to churn out an outline? We can bat it around ... see if we get something worth carrying forward. an outline. lol well i have barely the knowledge to fill it in, but I imagine this is what needs to be said.

- What is happening these days about money. what are we doing (ie. mortages, stock trading, other investments)
- What is right about these things, and what is wrong about these things. with breif proofs.
- The Alternative Mindset. this is where we explain such enligtening concepts like 'give in the cause of Allah, and Allah will take care of you'. it seems like people these days are fixed on gaining assets and property, but dont realize the long-term consequences of it. They need to lighten up and trust in Allah a bit more.
- Practical steps. ok so you're 30 years into a mortgage, how to ensure your children are protected from it, and do some long-term planning for yourself.


personally i have people telling me that ribba in any form is haram. then i have others telling me that interest technically isn't ribba. Allahu-alam, it is not pertinent to me right now and I pray that Allah protect us from this fitna.

perhaps we could collect some more information from br. Al-Shareefs "who wants to be a millionnaire" lecture.

ps. did you ever check the etymology of the word 'mortgage'? in french: it means 'dead pledge'. you keep paying til your dead!

[ashiq]

Cool. I'll see if I can snoop around later, see if there's anything out there already on this subject, specifically for our context. We can also talk about credit cards and stuff (since you practically need one to sign up for AlMaghrib classes ;))

[ImranQureshi]

Sh. Muhammad recommended me two books to get my mentality straight regarding money: Rich Dad Poor Dad, and Cash Flow Quadrant. So if you wish you can summarize portions of those books for brochures.

[ImranQureshi]

47: A MOVIE MAKING COMPETITION: Competition in making documentary/educational type movies with 15 minute limit, for highschool and college youth. One practical aspect could be finding people who are good at it, so we can use their abilities to make learning tools. We can also use the videos as dawa tools.

Sample Idea: Foul mouth of Muslims on a Basketball. What drives them to be so aggressive. A video like this can be shown prior to a basketball tournament as Orientation.

Sample Idea 2: What is a masjid? A video designed to give dawa to non-Muslims.

[yasser_z]

48. FRIDAY NITE DOWNTOWN DAWAH TABLE
Setup a table and Younge & Dundas or some other busy intersection and take TRAINED da'ees to inform people about Islam

[yasser_z]

47: A MOVIE MAKING COMPETITION:
LoL halaqa police!

[ImranQureshi]

49. HOW TO BUILD A NATION: Its not exactly about building a nation. Its training on how to organize and run an Islamic Organization in the best way possible. Call it a consultancy group which assists small projects by making them into large organizations. The consultancy group can also cover topics like "how to monetarily support oneself while you're devoted to your dawa project," and sticky subjects like "an uncle just threatened my dawa project, what do I do?"

[ashiq]

... and take TRAINED da'ees to inform people about Islam
Will you accept Fiqh of Da'wah students as trained? What qualifications do you hold are the minimum requirements? (I listened to the course via CDs, but I wouldn't count myself as qualified.)

[ImranQureshi]

50. ISLAMIC LIBRARIES: With books!!! :) and computers with all possible free Muslim audio from the net. The internet is limited to only those sites that have accurate Islamic information. Have a CHAI shop inside the so all the uncle can come. Have a *PAAN* shop so that all the aunties can come. Have a rooh afza joint so all the youth can come. You can even operate the library as a bookstore, dual purpose.

51. SOUND BOOTH for Islamic Speeches: Inside the library, you have a room where speakers are invited. Only the dedicated are allowed to sit in that room. The room itself is a sound booth, where the speeches are recorded in the highest quality possible.

52. COFFEE shop (it can go in your library)- TIM HORTON style, but a hangout place for Muslims to go and get some real junk food like baklava and rasgullah and sambuza. Instead of chocolate danishes you can have chocolate samosas. a halal hang out joint. Call it Taimoor Jortons, or not. NAJM BUCKS

[ImranQureshi]

53. Islamic Napster

54. Islamic IPODS

55. LCD SCREEN for your car which displays Quranic verses as you memorize while being stuck in traffic.

56. SEARCH ENGINE that searches through all the selected accurate islamic website about any Islamic topic that you want.

[ashiq]

53 is not limitable by technical standards, for various reasons; it suffices, inshaAllah, to share lots (me and my brother have about 50GB) of stuff (books, Harun Yahya, audio lectures, etc.) on P2P networks.

56, wallahu alim, Google has something similar for secular purposes called Google Scholar, so it should be do-able inshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

57. 3-D ARTS PROJECT: You know how non-muslims try to recreate the Civil War, how about if we create a project that recreates the Muslim battles. It doesn't have to be outdoors, we can create this whole 3-D art that depicts the entire terrain of the battle field, then describe the entire battle, such as battle of Uhud.

[Namarig]

brotha, mashaAllah, ur ideas are 'off the hook' ... now seriously, get 'launching,' Of the 57 (soon to be 59 :P) i'm sure 10 are do-able as we speak.

58. Make dawa-based shirts ... where individuals can read it easily. I thought of this for a while, something like, "THE QU'RAN IS A MESSAGE TO HUMANITY, YOU OWE IT TO URSELF TO READ IT"

59. This is cheating, but i'm going to say it anyways, we should have a 'PURPOSE OF LIFE' centre... where individuals can just come in and BOOM the purpose of life is solved for them, inshaAllah.
(Khalid Yasin and his wife have one in Australia, apparently it is very nice and they have like three people working for them...mashaAllah)

[yasser_z]

Will you accept Fiqh of Da'wah students as trained? What qualifications do you hold are the minimum requirements? (I listened to the course via CDs, but I wouldn't count myself as qualified.)
hmm. my ideas: i would think some course training + role-playing + 5 hours of supervised 'dawah' time... where we hit the streets, and under the supervision of our trainers, approach people and gain experience. at a bare minimum. what do u think? ashiq i wish you could come tomorrow, there is a guy who has run dawah training top to bottom... he'll be there insha'Allah.

also with such real-world experience, we can get a better understanding of who works better with what sorts of people. know what i mean? i remember my breif time working in sales, there were particular customer types who i could handle no problem, others i had to enlist the help of fellow associates.

[yasser_z]

53. Islamic Napster


56. SEARCH ENGINE that searches through all the selected accurate islamic website about any Islamic topic that you want.
sabhanallah
this would be a SICK project!
(for the FOBS: i mean 'sick' as in cool, nifty, neat, beneficial)

[ImranQureshi]

Will you accept Fiqh of Da'wah students as trained? What qualifications do you hold are the minimum requirements? (I listened to the course via CDs, but I wouldn't count myself as qualified.)

Wallahualam, I don't think there is a minimum, meaning sky is the limit if you talk about qualifications. I have a friend in Medina university, who is in his forth year of just learning Dawa, and he often emphasizes that he still will need to learn alot afterwards.

Fiqh ad-Dawa course is something that lays down the foundation for you, just like BOC and COS laid down the foundation for us, and it did not make us experts on the first Juz and usool al-fiqh. With that foundation we should be able to do research where it is needed or/and when it applies to us. InshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

With all these ideas everytime I think of another, it seems that I already have written that idea out already, and its causing me to skim through the entire thread to make sure I didn't.

60. ARTS COMPETITION

Purpose: to create an art that calls others to Islam.
What type of Art: Any, as long as its 2-D. Drawing, Computer Graphics, Photographs, etc.
Benefit: when we have a competition, then we will have a few entries. All of the competitors will try to come up with a superior Art because they are trying to win the competition. Also with all of that hard, there will be one entry that will be superior to the rest. We can take that entry, create it into poster, and post it around the city.

[ImranQureshi]

61. PRACTICAL TRAINING: The purpose of this project (or rather one of the purposes) is to train people to work in an Islamic organization, and give them experience in organized dawa. It is to allow people, who lack the experience, to learn from their mistakes and practical applications of dawa. You can create an actual dawa organization and fill its positions with those that need to be trained, or you can create an imaginary dawa organization. This can include, street dawa training, but the idea is mainly concerned with organizational skills.

[ImranQureshi]

62. CLEAN UP YOUR LOCAL AREA: As a means of dawa, 10 brothers come together and clean up their community, in clothes that are distinct so that they are recognized as Muslims (thawbs or shalwar-kurta).

[ImranQureshi]

63. MUSLIM BASKETBALL LEAGUE: yeah, there are tons of them already out there. However, this idea is a tad bit different.

1) Basketball (or any other sport) is only a doughnut, but there will be apples too.

2) Its limited to the highschoolers.

3) The objective is not to play basketball, the main objective is not brotherhood (its only secondary), the main objective is to provide a coach to each team that acts more as a mentor; ie. takes them out for pizza, talks to them about Islam, and its not about the wins, but rather Islamic Tarbeeyah that is emphasized by the coach. Pre-game motivational talk may include having good manners and not using foul language.

4) Majority of the tournaments, competitors come up with their own teams. Here the idea is different, that you don't pick your team, you're assigned to it. This I think is a better means of building brotherhood as the teamates may not even know each other.

5) Community building: the competition is between mosques rather than just teams. You have a try out at a masjid, 24 kids show up. 3 teams can be made. The try out determines who is strong in what skills, and the teams are divided evenly. 3 coaches from that community is assigned to the team. Now, teams from that masjid will compete with another masjid in Toronto. The qabeelat concept comes in here, as each team will want their masjid to win. So they build themselves as a commuity. Secondly, they get to meet other youth from other community, its not just a competition, you get to know them through sports (due to proper mentorship), and maybe the two coaches will take them out to eat together.

6) This takes place in the summer. When the youth don't have anything else to do except watch TV and play video games.

If you wish to start it, I have a partial proposal already prepared, which can be used for any sport. Just email me.

[ashiq]

61. PRACTICAL TRAINING: [...] You can create an actual dawa organization and fill its positions with those that need to be trained ...
61-b: You can assign each one of the organizations of these da'wah projects (under the senior supervision/management of someone while they get it going). This gives them a "sprinter's block" to start out with, they don't need to spend the 2-3 weeks to come up with and assess (for feasability) the project for themselves--though they can, if that's part of their training. Wallahu alim, it's pretty open-ended.

[ImranQureshi]

64. An ISLAMIC CLOTHING LINE: After listening to a sh. Yasir Fazaqa Lecture, "Are you a Monkey?" and a statement that sh. Bilal Phillips made, I definitely wish to start an Islamic clothing line for the brothers. At the same time, I don't have a problem with competition and I welcome it. Or if someone wishes to work with me, then you're welcomed. Fashion Industry is a huge industry, you just need to be creative.

Just some sampe ideas:

Dawa Gear: for the purpose of giving dawa. This is where your dawa t-shirts fit in. At the same time you can be creative and include cargo long shorts, with pocket fitted to carry fliers and CDs.

ILM Gear: mostly white, comfortable, casual, the kind you would want to wear to Almaghrib class.

36 more to go.

[ashiq]

sabhanallah
this [search engine] would be a SICK [i.e. beneficial] project!

Perhaps, Allahu alim, instead of building it (very, very costly to build and maintain) we can capitalize on the method used by the DogPile engine: make a search engine to search other search engines...

[ImranQureshi]

65. HALAQAs: how come noone has mentioned this yet?

If we take what we have learned in Breach of Covenant, we can easily make a 3 to 4 month halaqa topic. Almaghrib was your training, now go and teach it to others in your community. Same goes for Usool al-Fiqh course, and the same will go for Conquest.

The real question is, how do you make a halaqa unique and different from all other halaqas? ICNA had an extremely good idea, which they called "neighbornet" where all the families from a neighbor or the same area would meet up on a Saturday. It would be a one dish party, but prior to food a person would be assigned to talk on an Islamic topic. Once a month, they would let a highschoolers speak, and then the uncles would give them advice. I'm not sure if those still exist. A unique idea like that would be beneficial. Its an awesome way of getting the entire family to learn.

How about once a month halaqa at a picnic? or in the outdoors? hike a couple of miles, meet up at a bonfire and talk Conquest:HOK. (I don't mind the minus 27 weather, but once it hits minus 40, i'm not coming to those picnics). :)

[ImranQureshi]

66. Islamic Billboards

oooh, this is my 100th post on these forums. Does it count as a sabab for celebration?

[ImranQureshi]

For those of you wondering, where is the action? There is action, one of these projects is already out in the market, and about 13 highschools are ready to participate in it. Its called "MO'MINTUM" (www.momintum.com). Other projects that I like, I will work on their proposals, but even then I can only do 1 project at one time. The purpose of this thread is for you to start a project, and hopefully you get a creative edge by reading these ideas.

My personal goal is to start a dawa project, train others to take over it, and then take a role as a board member where I keep an eye on them and give them ideas when they need it or correct them when they err. Then I will move my focus to a newer project. InshaAllah. If everyone else does this, or creates a system that is better than this, then I believe we can have numerous QUALITY dawa project, and continue to increase them in numbers. INshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

67. MATRIMONIAL SERVICES: I stated, "A respectable auntie in the community would be a good person to do this project." Sheikh Muhammad responded, "An imam would be better." Alot of brothers need to get off my back and stop requesting me to find them a spouse. Someone definitely need to start on this project.

Theres alot of money to be made in this as well.

[ImranQureshi]

68. A TRIP TO MECCA AND MEDINA: You know how Jewish Americans as youth have to travel to Israeel atleast one to learn about their culture and ancestory. Shouldn't the Muslim youth be doing to same thing, reimphazing their deen. A trip to Mecca for Umrah, and then Medina to learn their culture, and then maybe organize a few halaqaat with the scholars for them. It can be a yearly thing, where a package is set and there is mass marketing done for the youth.

[ImranQureshi]

69. MAJD SCHOLARSHIPS: heres what we do ... we sell candy and cookies and other treats at the next almaghrib class. 40% profit. This goes to your highest scoring Almaghrib student and it pays up to half of their class payment, other 50% have to pay themselves. If we have extra, it can go to the next highest test scorer.

[ImranQureshi]

70. PROJECT THROW OUT YOUR TELEVISION

"Television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us."
-Edward R. Murrow

A presentation that travels from masjid to masjid, halaqa to halaqa, bringing awareness about the ill-effects of TV, Islam's view concerning it, and alternatives. The project can be as creative as one's imagination. Its just an idea, but one possible thing that can be done is clips from completely seemingly innocent shows are taken and we show how bad influence it has.

[ImranQureshi]

71. ROAD TRIPS for the sake of Knowledge: throughout North America, there are several Students of knowledge and shuyukh that we need to take advantage of. In our era of convenience, we like to bring them to us; however, during the time of the sahabah and our imams, the sacrifice was made by the students not the teachers.

What if we organize a class, week to two weeks long in the city of the sheikh we want teaching us. We travel to his city, spend time with the community and learn from the sheikh. The road trips can be fun as well. For example, sheikh Jamaal Zarabozo lives in Colorado, which is an awesome place to go. In addition to that, sheikh Jamaal is a certified Back country hiker, we can take advantage of that as well. Ofcourse, that is if the sheikh is up to. There are many other shuyukh around North America like that I'm sure.

As kids, we used to go on road trips with our parents. As univ students, we went with our friends. How about if we make these road trips of the Muslims truly beneficial.

[ashiq]

72. The Un-Pirate Challenge: Many brothers (and, Allahu alim, sisters) fall into the nasty trap of software piracy. Their Windows is bootlegged. Their Office is bootlegged. Their graphics software is bootlegged...Allahu alim what else is bootlegged.

They all need to be educated, firstly, about why piracy is bad. Then, give them a CD compilation of freeware software--free OS, free Office, free graphics software, free everything (all legitimately free, alhamdullilah, thanks to the open-source software movement and some kind people).

Then the 50% challenge--survive with at least 50% legal software for a year. Then 25%. Then 10%. Then 5%. Then home free inshaAllah.

Towards this end, I already have a partial list, in case someone wants to pick this project up.

[yasser_z]

73. VISIT A SICK MUSLIM
Find out if there are any children or adults who are in the hospital, and get a group of brothers or sisters together to go and visit that child/parent/grandparent and bring them some gifts, spend some time with them while they recover, or visit them regularly if they are hospitalized for a prolonged or indefinite time.


I love this one, Allah talks so much of it in the Qur'an. I wonder if we can bootleg a list of all Muslims registered in our local hospitals. LoL Ashiq =]

[ImranQureshi]

74. TRICK OR TREAT: Before I used to just trick by shutting down all the lights and pretending that I'm not home, but now I'm thinking more in the lines of treating with an Islamic flier.

Any one has any thoughts on how I can take advantage of Holloween as a dawa oppurtunity?

[ImranQureshi]

73. VISIT A SICK MUSLIM

Very important, can't believe its number 73 ... we should have thought of it alot sooner. And it should not be limited to visiting sick Muslims.

[zawjatuKashif]

75 I was looking at the world genius record book and i believe its china they have the world largest indoor pool. Why don`t we have the world largest *duff roll* MRC Muslim Recreational Center - we can have 2 , one for brothers and one for sister. i like having 2 MRC shows the non-muslims that sisters can have fun too. Or just one and we can share. we can have swimming pool, football field (we can turn this into soccer field) we can have basketball court (also turn it into hockey field ) and we can have Baseball court (turn it into kickball field). And we can have a restraunts like my mom`s restaraunt ... popeyes, kfc, subway...what ever... but it has to be dedicated to me (okay i`m dreaming)



76 In Dubai they have this ---> Dubai International Holy Quran Award (DIHQA) event in the month of ramadan. I guess its a competition thing. so we should should have Al-Maghrib Holy Quran Award or what ever you wanna call it. Its a good opportunity for muslim to practice they quran with tajweed n stuff. and even have it more challenging , Memorize it with meaning and Tafsir *insert question mark here* ( my question mark isn`t working :D )

[ImranQureshi]

Number your Ideas, please. I get confused easily.

[ImranQureshi]

77. ARABIC CAMP: So you can't go over seas to learn arabic? But, you need an arabic atmosphere to learn the language? Well, come join me in the outdoor world in Tobermory, where every attendee of the camp must speak arabic and nothing but Arabic for 30 days. We'll have you thinking in Arabic in no time. Learn to scuba dive in Arabic!

[ImranQureshi]

Please do du'a for our brothers and sisters in Pakistan.

[zawjatuKashif]

dedicated to the victims of earthquake...

78 EID BOXES for lil kids: we have dollar stores here ... which in pakistan dollar equals more than a rupee. and plus lil kids can't buy toys for a rupee.we can have Shoe boxes wraped in wrapping paper. and have toys for lil kids such as a lil teddy bear for girls or dolls or fake jewelry and lil make up, and the boys u can get em those hot wheel cars and stuff. we can have candy in there too. nahh not chocolate (can easily melt) and someone who is willing to go to pakistan for the sake of Allah can hand these boxes out to the needy and poor kids. and while they are there they can meet their relatives.

[ImranQureshi]

79. Organizing the Monthly Conferences: Throughout the year I'm sure there atleast one conference every month. some maybe huge, but there has to be the small one day conference as well. This project isn't about start new conferences, but organizing the already existing conferences and marketting them out properly. So every month, there is something going on, where every one can go, chill out and learn some deen. 1 out of every 4 months will be the ALmaghrib month.

Corny? I think so.

[ashiq]

79 b. Organizing the Monthly Conferences
Instead of seperate, one-shot conferences that, Allahu alim, don't benefit that many people that much, organize an on-going conference. Apart from building up topics, you can also remind people of the same thing over and over, check up on them, and so on.

[ImranQureshi]

79 c. Many of the big conference invite an all star team of shuyukh and they give maybe one of two speeches on various topics. A monthly conference should be designed in a manner that we take full advantage of one sheikh covering one topic.

[Namarig]

79. Organizing the Monthly Conferences: Throughout the year I'm sure there atleast one conference every month. some maybe huge, but there has to be the small one day conference as well. This project isn't about start new conferences, but organizing the already existing conferences and marketting them out properly. So every month, there is something going on, where every one can go, chill out and learn some deen. 1 out of every 4 months will be the ALmaghrib month.

Corny? I think so.
uncorny (is that a word, anyways, u get the message)

There should be like a yahoogroup or something that can link us all together concerning these conferences, and having one once a month is a great idea!! However, we need crazy marketing ideas!!!

[ashiq]

80) P2P Islam: share Islam from the comfort of your home. Utilize P2P networks--Shareaza, KaZaA, etc. to share Islamic multimedia--from Yusuf Estes VCDs to "In the Middle of the Night" audio, to Qur'an, to eBooks, pictures of Palestine, you name it.

By Allah, with a cable connection, you can easily share 100GB per month, consistantly, every month. (Me and my brother have done so for quite a few months/years now).

Apologies if this has been mentioned before.

[ashiq]

81) Islamster: Friendster boasts 19 million subscribers. That's 19 million people waiting for da'wah.

InshaAllah anyone with a good grasp of the basics of Islam can sign up for free, propogate a proper profile ("If you have any questions about Islam, feel free to ask") and instigate da'wah under cover of multi-faith discussions, intellectual discussions, calling to a purpose in life, and so on.

From the brief (~5 minute) look I took, you would probably need a network of da'iees hooked up together--or at least one shaikh, for when difficult questions come up. Allahu alim.

It is also riddled with fitna, and Allah knows best if this kind of project would wear down the da'iee.

If anyone's actually interested in trying this, I'm semi-interested in trying it out--it makes for an interesting sociological experiment in what kind of topics people respond to, if nothing else.

[zawjatuKashif]

82] EID MELA :) .... u no how these typical pakis have music and all these bolly wood stars come in the mela ... we can get some islamic speakers :D yeah segregated but ... have candy booth and bazaar and have game booths ( booths that they have in wonderland)

[yasser_z]

82] EID MELA :) .... u no how these typical pakis have music and all these bolly wood stars come in the mela ... we can get some islamic speakers :D yeah segregated but ... have candy booth and bazaar and have game booths ( booths that they have in wonderland)
excellent idea
educational AND fun

[yasser_z]

83. Muslim Scouts/Guides
You know how they have boyscouts and girl guides for the white kids. We develop something just like it, cept for the Muslim kids. The good thing is that with each level they move up, they earn awards and merits and badges and there are real ceremonies and appreciation nights of the kids who go through these programs. It also involves parents, who are the leaders and coaches.

By the time a kid is 12 or so, he or she knows how to pitch a tent, has learned orienteering, knows basic wilderness survival, fishing etc. And we can throw in our own curriculum like knows x amount of Qur'an.

Far better than leaving kids on a basketball court where they learn arrogance and behave like scavengers.

[ImranQureshi]

83. Muslim Scouts/Guides

Awesome idea. Yasir (Qadhi) bhai's older brother recommended that to me once. Can't believe I forgot totally about it.

84. Purchasing an island (w/ freshwater) and creating a retreat for the Muslims around the world. Organizing activities such as scuba diving, kayaking, hiking, biking, etc, while maintaining a halal environment, whether it be a segration of males and females or isolation of Muslim families from others so they enjoy the activity as a family. And at night time, we have a dynamic story teller (student of knowledge) who tells stories of the sahabah, history, and seerah by the bonfire.

[ImranQureshi]

85. TASK FORCE OF DAWA VOLUNTEERS: trained individuals who are called upon at times of need.

You can have a task force for fund raising. When we have a tragedy (may Allah protect all our Muslim siblings) around the world this task force is activated immediately.

You can have a task force of trained workers. They are too busy to organize an entire dawa project (perhaps due to their obligation to their families), but very willing to help out when assistance is needed. So if there is any event and workforce is lacking, this task force is called upon.

Task force of Problem solvers: Theres a problem/conflict in the community ... [perhaps there is an organization whose shura can't come to a decision without being violent (j/k)]

[ImranQureshi]

86. SPORTS TRAINING CAMP for middle schoolers: How do you teach discipline through sports? Teach martial arts! But in addition to that, add other sports.

Teach full body training through indoor rock/wall climbing.

Teach team building through paint ball.

Teach self defense through martial arts.

Teach creative thinking by building shelter in the outdoors. Or creating a bridge by which you cross an obstacle.

Perhaps all of this can be incorporated in the Muslim Scouts

[ImranQureshi]

87. INVESTOR RECRUITMENT:

If you get a 100 investors to invest $2000 you can purchase a house for someone who wishes to attain one by a halal method.

If you get a 1000 investors to invest $100 every month for 3 years you have $3.6 million. What type of awesome business can you create with that? A self sustaining Muslim community center with a professional gym, pool, courts, health food restaurants, etc. etc.

Its not a donation, its an investment, and you get a share of the profit in return.

This dawa project is not concerned with the investments, it concerned with investors. How do you recruit them? What financial lessons will we need to give them in order to attract them? A project, that recruits investors, gives them education on the investments, help them invest in an islamic project, and then follows up and makes sure that they are happy.

[ashiq]

88) Taraweeh Jr.: From the Brothers Qiyam last night, I realized something. Youth (say, 12-17) are interested in taraweeh, but find it too long.

So for them, have a seperate mosque/area/prayer--keep the rakaahs shorter then usual, and if possible, cater to their educational background. For example, if they all came from ISNA and know Surah Waqiyah, use that. Or try, say, 10 ayat of Surah Baqarah per rakaah.

And inshaAllah they'll be more motivated to join.

[ashiq]

89) Tahajjud Jr.: Same as above, but for Tahajjud. Hold the event, say, once every week or once ever two weeks, and build hype.

[ImranQureshi]

89) Tahajjud Jr.: Same as above, but for Tahajjud. Hold the event, say, once every week or once ever two weeks, and build hype.

If this means that coming together (jamaat) outside of Ramadan for the purpose of tahajjud, sheikh Waleed Basyuni informed us that would be considered an innovation, and the burden of the proof is on the person who does it, and he will need to bring proof from the sunnah for that.

However, if you organize a night program, and the advertisement is not for the qiyaam, but rather just for the night program, and then someone stands up for tahajjud and others join him (all this is done without pre-planning) then there is not a problem with that. inshaAllah

Wallahualam.

[ashiq]

Subhanallah, that seems almost counter-intuitive. Wallahu 'alim, I haven't researched it. Will make a note to ask a scholar/shaikh/person of knowledge inshaAllah. Jazakumullahu khairan for bringing that up.

[ImranQureshi]

90. MUSIC SUBSTITUTE PROJECT: you know how you're on the phone and you're put on hold and you have to listen to music. What do the Muslim companies do? Play Nasheeds? Why not?

Okay heres a better need for this project. What do the Muslim Restaurant owners play? Music or Nasheed? What do you listen to when working out?

TEN MORE TO GO!!!

[ashiq]

91) The Science of Revertism
Da'iees would be an awesome resource for this.
Once people become Muslim, what's the best way to get them into it gradually? Should they pray 5x a day right off, or 1x? Which salaahs are the best to start with? How soon do you know if they're ready for halaqahs?

To find out requires a massive effort and undertaking in research. People are all different, but inshaAllah general rules will work for the majority.

[ashiq]

92) Revert Support Group
"In America, 50% of those who become Muslim, turn back."
A shocking statistic a brother told me. We need to build some sort of social networking group for new Muslims, something light and not brain-pounding like a halaqah (though halaqahs are good if they can take it).

I would suggest a lot of (Islamically correct) social gatherings (like a Brothers BBQ) as well as light intellectual gatherings (no lectures on deep fiqh differences among madhabs, for example).

Wallahu 'alim.

[ashiq]

93) Youth Marriage Bursaries
Revive the practice of one of the khulafa (I believe it was 'Umar, wallahu 'alim) who used state money to help young brothers and sisters get married.
You can also couple it with the marriage hook-ups da'wah project for an more powerful effect inshaAllah.

[ImranQureshi]

MashaAllah, awesome ideas

[ImranQureshi]

94. UNITED TORONTO: An Umbrella Organization (Corporation [like in Resident Evil]) for all the masajid and Islamic organizations in Toronto.

[-ilmseeker-]

94. UNITED TORONTO: An Umbrella Organization (Corporation [like in Resident Evil]) for all the masajid and Islamic organizations in Toronto.
SubhanAllah.....you beat me to it. I was going to suggest pretty much the same thing. After the Pakistan Earthquake, we all are witnessing countless Muslim relief organizations willing to help out.......essentially doing the same thing, accepting donations and supplies for the victims. However it sometimes feel like its turned into a sadaqa competition between all these various organizations.

A few sisters and I were talking about how we should have a formal meeting with all reps of various charity organizations and Masajids... sit down and discuss how we can all work together more effectively and efficiently during times of crisis, such as the one we're witnessing now.

Wow.....6 more dawa ideas to go! MashAllah........

[ashiq]

95) The Dignity Project
Work on a one-to-one level with homeless persons. Get them temporary housing, a small income, training and education, rehabilitation, etc. whatever it takes to get them into the work-force and back to being self-sustainable. Feeding a homeless person is a one-time fix; getting them out of homelessness is more permanent inshaAllah.

[ashiq]

I suspect this has been mentioned before, but here it is (again?)

Fajr Network: Need a wake-up call for Fajr? Sign up and a brother or sister will call you EVERY DAY for Fajr inshaAllah. Once you can regularly wake up inshaAllah, you can help them making outbound calls to others.

Idea is also modifiable to create 96) The Tahajjud Network

[Noor Syed]

97. Quran/Sunnah Lab: A trendy lab equipped with softwares to memorize Quran and research Islamic material.

This project is in the works in Ottawa Islamic School, mash'allah.

[ImranQureshi]

98. UNITED MUSLIM HOME SCHOOLING: This is to unite all the parents who do homeschooling in a certain region, bringing them together to create something unique for their kids, an Islamic environment with high quality education. And then motivating the parents to slowly and gradually evolve their home schooling to united home schooling to muslim schools so that others can take advantage of their methods too.

[ImranQureshi]

99. TEACHING CREATIVITY: one of the main reasons I started this thread, besides brainstorming dawa ideas, was to prove that there is sooooo much that we can do, that is "outside the box". Ustaad Muhammad once mentioned the "read to me again, daddy" principle. Its when a kid enjoys a book so much that he asks his parents to read it to him again. And that is the same for so many Muslims. They enjoy a dawa event so much that they want same event, same topic, even same speakers repeated over and over again.

Teaching creativity would be a project where we organize courses/meetings for the city's Muslim organizations and teach creativity. It doesn't have to be a speech or class base, it could be something as unique as one's imagination. Perhaps just a meeting where everyone is teaching everyone.

[ImranQureshi]

100. THE ULTIMATE DAWA PROJECT: The ultimate dawa project would be a project that takes all these unique ideas and starts implementing them. A group of managers that assigns the projects out to Almaghrib student.

What better Marketting for Almaghrib in your city then the Almaghrib students doing dawa projects and showing the community of what Almaghrib is training their students to do. Marketting for Almaghrib through other dawa projects.

[ImranQureshi]

101. DAWA PROJECT DRAWING BOARD BOOK: As we do every single project, we need to keep proper record of what we do. Then we compile all these ideas into a book with details on how to implement the idea, so that other cities can benefit by doing the same dawa projects.

[yasser_z]

97. Quran/Sunnah Lab: A trendy lab equipped with softwares to memorize Quran and research Islamic material.

This project is in the works in Ottawa Islamic School, mash'allah.
sounds neat..! like u walk in and get robotic implants and become a Quranic cyborg. fajr humor.. gotta love it!

[yasser_z]

102. INFORMATION REVIVAL COMMITTEE
We passed our landmark 100 ideas, ALLAHU AKBAR! I realized that in the 1400 years of Islamic Civilizations on this world, its highly probably that each and every single one of our ideas was implemented at one point or another. Except for maybe the cyborg implants laboratory.

The point is, assuredly all the knowledge we seek is/was documented and is out there, hidden in secret vaults. From the 7th century to the 13th century and onwards, there are hundreds of books available on topics which post-modernists/westerners are still baffled at.. like gender relations, health, administration.. all sorts of things.

So we get some arabic speaking people to a) find b) read and c) summarize these books for us.

[ImranQureshi]

103. Youth Troubles Hotline: A Hotline for the Muslim youth when they are in need. Problem with their parents to drug problems to girlfriend/boyfriend problems to drug problems.

Maybe I stated this one before. but I dont feel like reviewing all the previous posts.

[ImranQureshi]

104. United Youth Conference: A youth conference ... Whats difference between this one and the rest? We bring all the youth groups of Toronto together and do one intense youth group together. Each youth group is assigned a speech/workshop.

[ashiq]

105) Nursing Home Da'wah
Go from nursing home to nursing home. Specialize on whatever topics get old people--life after death, maybe, Allahu 'alim. Give them the message while you pick up their groceries, or give them a foot massage, or whatever.

[ashiq]

106) Eid Neighbour Blitz
What better way to give da'wah to your neighbours and introduce them to Islam then with free food!
That's right! Certain cultures (Allahu 'alim which ones) have a practice of giving food in Ramadaan. On 'Eid day, give your neighbours something nice (maybe a home-made cake) and say "This is for you, I'm Muslim and it's 'Eid, so happy 'Eid!" and they'll be like "oh what's 'Eid?" And it's all easy from there inshaAllah.
And, for those who are shy, perhaps a (nicely printed) little flyer "Eid is about this and that, we're Muslims and here's what we believe: ...".

[Little Charities]

I was re - looking for this thread.. Always has something more..

107. Listen while you wait.
A lot of times, especially during Iftars, most people just wait in the Masjid waiting for the Adhan. Why not play any one of those amazing khutbas from Khubah.com.

They would get tuned, learn something and motivated to attend the next class.. Far better than wait and stare at the food!

[Sincerity123]

108. Try out the survey attached/explained in this thread (http://forums.almaghrib.org/showthread.php?t=15778) with the person you sit besides in a bus, or your fellow class mates, neighbours or at dawah week at school :)

Its been tried a lot alhamdulilaah...if its not being tried at dawah week and you asking 'em to do the survey adn they ask why u doing this... u can simply say "I want to know what understanding u have of islam and us muslims".

[ImranQureshi]

Us humans have this amazing power that Allah, subhanahuta'ala, has bestowed upon us, but few realize that they possess it, and from that even fewer utilize it, and from that even fewer are thankful for it.

If we want we can easily come up with a 1000 ideas for ways to do dawa, but none of that will do us any good until we have intention to actually carry out those plans. And intention is not a simple desire, intention means that you will do it, until there is an external factor that prevents you from doing that deed, and laziness is not one of those external factors.

What factors hinders us from doing any actual work? Is it that we have our own agendas and that we are incapable of working together? Is it that we are too busy with our work and schools so we sacrifice the dawa because it isn't important enough? Is it because shaitan is our Pied Piper and we pay no attention to the good work that is suppose to get down?

All praise and thanks belongs to Allah, and He is far above any imperfections. He is not inneed of us and our good deeds. We are inneed of Allah, we are inneed of rewards from Allah, we are inneed of his mercy on the Day of Judgment.

Are we satisfied and content with the deeds that we will take into our hereafter?

[Shareefah]

Mashallah,
i have to say i have never liked a thread better than this, i love the ideas that are just so outrageous they just might work, Wallahu Alem.

Inshallah, i'd love to implement these wonderful ideas, with Allah's help, in the near future.

May Allah bless those who contributed. Inshallah Ittihadis can take on some of this goodness and become successful~Ameen.

[Rabiah - la Voyageure ©]

Bismillaah..
this was actually the first time I came across this thread, even though, Br. Imran always kept talking abt his da'wah projects... I went through all the posts in one sitting... so this shall be the current right number
108) A league for our Imams - most of the projects are involved around youth and are focused on building the youth. Yes, projects should be for the youth. But what do the youth look at? If the imaams and the people of knowledge are not 'cool' enough for them, why would they even listen to them? So this is what I believe. We should invite our local masajid imam to a night of a soccer game with the youth or even basketball will do (we actually had Sheikh Patel for Islamic Foundation aka Nugget play soccer during the Relay For Life event - happens every summer). This is the best way for the brothers to start getting friendly with the imaams and learn something through them. Words won't create a profound effect unless we have gone through the situation in depth and touched that surface. Therefore, show them Islam by our actions.

May Allaah subhanahu wa ta'la gives us tawfeeq to implement all these ideas in our real life. My eyes are already set on few of them *muhaha*

[ImranQureshi]

May Allaah subhanahu wa ta'la gives us tawfeeq to implement all these ideas in our real life. My eyes are already set on few of them *muhaha*

Ameen, And my eyes are set on all of them. Please keep me updated so I don't replicate anything that has already been planned.

[yasser_z]

ma sha Allah, life has been brought back to this thread

may Allah grant us taqfeeq, ameen.

[ashiq]

109. Paltalk Da'wah
Start a room on Paltalk where people can discuss Islam and take away a proper understanding of what it is. For da'iees, target sisters especially--those of them who stay home can now impart their knowledge electronically.

[Sincerity123]

110. Thank your teachers/profs

1. After the course ends, insha'Allaah get a relevant small gift(that you think they'll like) for your teacher along with an introductory to Islam book or copy of Quran.

2. Go to their office with a friend with you (preferrably taking that same course with teacher).

3. Thank them for teaching you that term and also provide them the gift. When and if they ask you why your giving quran or the islamic book. Its OK to tell them, that you just wanted to give it to them to spread awareness of Islam.

4. (Optional) Give a contact of a trustworthy person whom they can contact if they have any questions regarding islam-- just print that in the book.

Let me know how it goes when you do this insha'Allaah. The profs/teachers really appreciate being thanked! And your doing both -- thanking and dawah together!


PS: IF you feel this will affect your marks...wait till you recieve your grades before doing it lol.

[Shareefah]

109. Paltalk Da'wah
Start a room on Paltalk where people can discuss Islam and take away a proper understanding of what it is. For da'iees, target sisters especially--those of them who stay home can now impart their knowledge electronically.
They already have one, its called Islam Answers Back!