Early Eid Salat ICOE – 5:45 AM (Address: 14230 NE 21st Street, Bellevue WA 98007) We wish community a blessed month of Dhul Hijjah and encourage observing the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah with utmost spirituality. May Allah SWT accept our duas, fasting, and all our Ibadaah in the month of Dhul Hijjah. ICOE board would like to congratulate the Muslim community and pray that you and your families have a happy, joyful and a blessed Eid-ul-Adha. Eid-ul-Adha - Wednesday, June 28th, 2023.Yaum-ul-Arafah - Tuesday, June 27th, 2023.1st Dhul Hijjah - Monday, June 19th, 2023.Therefore Dhul-Qadah will complete a 29-day cycle and Dul-Hijah will begin at Maghrib on Monday, June 19th. The moon was sighted in multiple locations in USA. “For me, it will be a family place for us to play basketball and attend programs.1st of Dhul-Hijjah 1444 will be on Monday June 19th. “We’re a growing community that’s trying to do a lot of programs,” said EPIC member and volunteer Obaid Siddiqui. When completed, the center’s family programs would be launched to served the Muslim community. They dress differently, but that doesn’t make us any different or prevent them from doing things men do.” “There are a lot of ideas about women in our community. “I hope people come to our open houses and give us a chance to explain who we are,” he said. Isa said EPIC’s role in the greater community is to change wrong perceptions of Muslims and Islam in the American community through its outreach programs. It’s a place with “counseling, help to the community, medical clinic, outreach.” “His masjid was not just a place to pray,” Isa said. It also serves the Muslim community, offering young students classes on the noble Qur’an.Īccording to the mosque managers, the organization’s model is based on the masjid built in 622 by Muhammad, the Islamic prophet. The mosque also has an on-site medical clinic for low-income and uninsured members of the community, open each Saturday.ĮPIC also supports local food pantries, works to educate the community about Islam and collects donations for charities and needy families. I saw all of these different people coming together. “I saw people working here, volunteers who inspired me. “I was not a very religious person,” volunteer Sameer Siddiqui, who is on the construction committee and has been congregating at EPIC for years, said. The center has been attracting volunteers who work in its outreach programs and community services. The new facility will have about 3,200 prayer spaces. The campaign is based on the principles of the Qur’an that if a man builds a mosque, Allah will build a home for him in paradise. ![]() Later on, the administration launched a unique plan to get funding by asking people to sponsor one prayer space with a donation of $1,000, or half of a space with $500. ‘You guys are just sitting on the money,’” Isa said. “We had a lot of pressure from the community. The project had been envisioned since the organization’s inception, but work began when the organization had collected about $900,000. With the increase in the number of Muslims, the need was urged for a larger place to host Muslims congregational prayers and special Ramadan and `Eid events.Īt this point, the dream for the new 33,000-square-foot facility appeared, for which an estimated $5 million was needed to complete construction.Ī construction company is working on the building’s foundation and steel structure at a cost of about $2 million, which they hope to be completely funded by the end of July. ![]() “The plan is that eventually, this will be rented out.” “This is called a temporary mosque, called a musalla,” he said. The organization moved five years later to its current facility, a building of about 10,000 square feet, in 2008. “It started in someone’s garage, doing prayers,” Isa said. “The reward will continue as long as people continue to pray.”įor years, EPIC small center and mosque used to attract about 1000 worshippers from East Plano and neighboring cities.ĮPIC began with small gatherings of local Muslims in 2003 in east Plano. “The Quran teaches you that whoever helps build a mosque, Allah helps them build a home in heaven,” Muhammad Jawaid Isa, the center’s board president, told Dallas News website on Friday, May 30. Facing funding problems for months, the council of Dallas’ East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) has found a creative way to get donations by asking Muslim worshippers to sponsor prayer spaces for which the reward is a home in Paradise as stated in the Qur’an.
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