ASA Brother Waleed advised me to forward my comments on your post to you. I have seen your posts before and I am very impressed with the Tawqah demonstrated in your points of view. To present Islam proper to the world, we have to resolve blatant contradicitions to it, such as all the dictatorial governments in predominantly Muslim countries and our masajids.
The Holy Quran prescribes, and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) established and practiced, shura based government both in the masjid and the state. Shura based government has to replace dictatorial governments in every level of Islamic life, from the masjid to the nation.
Peace, Curtis Sharif
Houston, Texas
"G.Waleed Kavalec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:SA
Have you shared this with Mike Ghouse?
On 6/29/06, Curtis Sharif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Bismillah, FYI
I would add to these, "Those in positions of authority in the masjid have an obligation to recognize, respect and protect the freedoms and rights of every ummah member as documented and detailed in Human and Citizens Rights in Islam publications."
This would bring an end to the practice of official dictatorial punishment and banishment, without proving anyone guilty of any punishable offense, within our Muslim communities.
*GUIDELINES FOR ISLAMIC ORGANIZATIONS*
Excerpts:
"*ACCOUNTABILITY & ADMINISTRATION*
"- No one should run the Mosque like the Patriarch of the family does -
i.e., no unilateral decisions."
"- A major overhaul needs to be considered in Administration of
Mosques and Islamic Centers."
"- Who do we want to run our Mosques?
- If we do not have a manual specifying it, it is time we develop it.
- A Manual will keep the politics, favoritism, nepotism at a lower
level."
"- All the financial transactions must be audited by a CPA."
"- We need to make our mosques visitors friendly."
"The first battle field of change is our institutions. We need to plan long
term and short strategies/ solutions to our issues if we have not already
done it."
"We must follow the Islamic tradition of good record keeping - every
thing our prophet has said is recorded."
"We must acknowledge that no one is above the long term goodwill of
our community."
Peace, Curtis Sharif
Houston, Texas
*GUIDELINES FOR ISLAMIC ORGANIZATIONS*
Mike Ghouse
Much of the maligning of Islam we see and read in the news papers stems from
the speeches and the management of our Mosques, and it also fuels the talk
show hosts. The best way to fix the problem is straighten out ourselves
first.
The first battle field of change is our institutions. We need to plan long
term and short strategies/ solutions to our issues if we have not already
done it.
In the interest of our community's long term peaceful un-fearful
co-existence, we may have to take up this topic and discuss it within our
organizations. A national policy would be of greater value. Most of us are
familiar with our problems, and as such I have not explained the background
for each item, you can complete the list with your own situation. Here are a
few solutions to consider.
*SPEAKERS/ SPEECHES/ MEETINGS*:
- We must keep a record of what we say in public forums.
- We must keep records of speeches or scripts to go on the website.
- We must invite all the major media outlets, even if it is a vain
exercise.
- We must cultivate the habit of having the same speech in public and
private domains.
- We must have a formal system to appraise the values of our
organization to <guest/ Imam speaker>
- We must follow the Islamic tradition of good record keeping - every
thing our prophet has said is recorded.
- We must ask the new Imam speaker to present the scripted outline of
the Khutba prior to speech
- We must ask all our speakers to provide an outline to keep it as a
record and perhaps put it on the website.
- We must trust our speakers, but having a record of the speech is
greater trust we owe it to the Ummah.
- We must advise our speakers to open up the eyes and understand that
they are not speaking to a monolithic group.
- We must advise our speakers to cut down any kind of incitement,
microphone will be turned off for violations.
- We must let them know their boundaries - let it be in a manual, and
every speaker has to follow the guidelines.
- We must advise our speakers to be Women sensitive and guest
sensitive (as non-Muslim guests attend Juma)
- We must acknowledge that no one is above the long term goodwill of
our community.
*ACCOUNTABILITY & ADMINISTRATION*
- A major overhaul needs to be considered in Administration of
Mosques and Islamic Centers.
- Qualifications must be verified by a paid third party CPA for
serious accountability.
- All the financial transactions must be audited by a CPA.
- Women and Youth must be represented on the board.
- Board Voting must be confidential and un-identified to keep the
freedom alive.
- No one should run the Mosque like the Patriarch of the family does -
i.e., no unilateral decisions.
- The Board members must have the experience in management of
professional, civic or community based organization, preference must be
given to those who have served in non-Muslim organizations. We live in a
real World, let's our actions be based on real world interactions.
*PUBLIC RELATIONS*
- We need to hire a public relations firm on a part time or full
time.
- We need to verify all literature that is put out there.
- We need to *remove* the Hilali Translation of Quran from our
Mosques.
- We need to learn to explain our Deen in more understandable terms,
not the old English.
- We need to make our mosques visitors friendly
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "By Allah, if Allah guides one person by you, it is better for you than the best types of camels." [al-Bukhaaree, Muslim]
The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all." [Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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