ICGC Post-Ramadan Thank You and Announcements
Alhamdulillah it was a beautiful and blessed Ramadan. Inshallah you had a wonderful Ramadan, rich with Ibadat and a very Eid Mubarak. May Allah swt accept all of your fasting, prayers and charity.
This note goes out with the help of so many including Amira in the office. It is on behalf of the Executive Committee and the entire IEC Board to let you know that we are thankful to Allah swt for all his blessings which include community members such as you and to thank you for being a part of the ICGC community. Your engagement and generosity, Alhamdulillah, has allowed us to raise over $300,000, our stretch goal, during Ramadan and Eid towards ICGC's over $1,000,000 budget expenses. We are still processing your donations as many of you have pledged to yet give, doing it through the monthly giving or as a part of ICGC's
Our Masjid, Our Future program. So if you get a call from Sr. Huma or Faiza in accounting, please do get back to them right away with whatever additional information might be needed to help process your commitment. Be fully assured, every penny of your donation is utilized for needs at the Center and betterment of the community. All donors for whom we have any record will be getting a personal note of appreciation and I would like for you to let me know if you do not.
In addition $26,000 was collected and 100% distributed of Zakat ul Fitr to feed and help 165 Muslim families in need in our region. $3,350 in food coupons was distributed to 27 families.
I truly feel we are blessed to be in this community and Allah swt has challenged us to live up to this blessing bestowed upon us. In addition to your generous donations there was much planning and many volunteers involved in Ramadan preparation and implementation. We had yet another year of record number of attendees and Alhamdulillah record number of volunteers!
By reaching out to board, initiative and task leaders we have tried to capture as many of the Ramadan activities and volunteer names as possible. We are sure to have missed many and ask you to forgive us in any inadvertent oversight as each and everyone added value and contributed to a beautiful Ramadan.
We are most thankful to Allah swt and thank every one of you who made this Ramadan and Eid an enjoyable one! May Allah swt bless you, accept your generosity in your book of good deeds and bless your families and our Islamic Center and community. We humbly ask you to keep these thing and all of us in your prayers as well.
Shakila T Ahmad
President
Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati
On behalf of IEC Board of Directors
We would like to extend our apologies in advance if any names are misspelled. We would also like to mention that many on-the-spot volunteers assisted and not all of those names were documented. So, for anyone whose name may have inadvertently been excluded we would like to say thank you and May Allah reward you!
The office would love to know of anyone else who volunteered that is not listed here so please email
[email protected]
to let us know.
2016 Ramadan Planning Committee
Thank you Amir Izhar, Saif Jaweed, Ashraf Traboulsi, Fatima Emlemdi, Samina Ahmed, Fatima Emlemdi, Faiz Sherman, Hosam Mawas, Munam Syed, Imran Khan and Faris Ghani for spearheading this Ramadan.
Let us start by thanking our Staff. This time of year puts strain on an already busy ICGC staff. We would like to say thank you to them for all their hard work, extra time put in and dedication to the Center and its community. We just want to say to our staff- Ali along with Fatima Salahuddin, Amira Batal, Nadia Hidaytullah, Faiza Abid, Huma Khan, Leanna Allouch, Samira Jaweed and Ahmad Saqr; you guys are the best!!
Beautiful, uplifting recitation and moving Duaas were led by our new Imam, Shaikh Hossam Musa, joined by Hafiz Zohaib Bakali, Hafiz Haseeb Bakali, Hafiz Zaid Badihger, and Hafiz Zain Siddiqi during Qiyam and Ashraf Traboulsi for vitr prayer.
Dr. Baher Foad Conducted sessions on this topic that helped people spiritually raise their iman and taqwa.
Sr Fatima Emlemdi did an incredible job again by managing the kids program that helped parents and people pray taraweeh prayer inside the masjid very peacefully. She organized and arranged her volunteer team in to 3 different categories, the girls who ran the program, the moms who helped with signing in and out table, and a few other kids helped with the clean up afterwards.
Fatima Khan, Nina Emlemdi, Nuha Syed, Salwa Syed, Sarah Chaudhry, Myra Ansari, Aleeza
Ansari, Maariyah Ahmed, Maham Usmani, Noor Amir, Norene Elkady, Lujain Jamous, Salma Tahit, Zaynab Syed, and Arhama Ahmed.
Hosam Mawas, Faiz Sherman, Ahmed Sheikh, Nauman Mysorewala managed including Reda Oudhey, Munam Syed, Imran Khan, Faris Ghani, Khalid Inenhe , Shahzafar Khaja, Tarif Hourani, Mohammad Bahri, Tilat Rizvi, Br. Ashraf Traboulsi, Moin Ahmed, Nadeem Qurishi, Rehan Muhammad, Mujahid, Zamir Shekh, Junaid Malik, Saif Ahmed and many other brothers and sisters who helped.
Marwan Hujeij, Nauman Mysorewala, and Saif Ahmed led a great team of volunteers who were invaluable.
Rubina Quraishi, Ghazala Malik, Kamal Jamous, Saif Ahmed, Gias Amin, Shahid Malik led the with a team of volunteers including Nissar Hingora, Fuad Bengali, Masih Anwar, Abdul Mujahid, Mubasshir Ahmed, Mohsin Latif and many others.
Tariq Khan managed tents with the help of many wonderful and generous volunteers.
Youth Board with Volunteers
Youth Board: Sharez Khan, Mariam Soliman, Dana Hanieh, Amal Syed, Mariam Soliman, Lein Ghuniem, Yasmine Quadri, Saaf Ahmed, Summer Soliman, Omar Zayed, Maryam Foruqui, Salma Soliman, Zaid Syed, Fatima Khan, and Mamoun Traboulsi. The Youth Board, with support from their advisors and volunteers, hosted multiple events, spiritual, social and community service focused.
Quran Connections Program
Nehad Omara and Hoda Elgamal managed the super active program during Ramadan, assisted by many teachers and volunteers
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27th Night Community Fundraising Dinner
Camellia Noor led the hosting of the community fundraising dinner doing an amazing job as always.
Iftar Food Distribution
Rahma started the program to donate left over Iftar food to homeless at the Over-The-Rhine masjid and received an overwhelming amount of support for sending excess Iftar food to those who need. The OTR masjid was appreciative of the food. Thank you to Uzma Siddiqui, Warda Safdar, Javaria Usmani, Hina Moin, Seema Arif, and Amira Batal who helped taking the food to OTR.
Rahma Food Drive Collaborators
Rahma Community Services has collected and distributed more than 2,000 lbs of non-perishable food. Every week a team of volunteers would, transfer, sort, weight and make grocery bags. Grocery bags of food were distributed to many Muslim families including Mason, West Chester, Middletown, Lockland and Harrison areas.
Additionally, fresh Lamb was distributed to 20 families the day before Eid, enabling them to have a festive Eid celebration.
Special thanks and duas to Sr. Nasreen Fatima, Sr. Riz Raja, Sr. Samina Rehmaan, Sr. Ayesha Baig, Sr. Saba Ansari, Sr. Wafa Ali, Sr. Dima, Sr. Khuzama, Sr. Hina, Br. Munam, Br. Tariq Sultan, and Br. Ameen Ansari. Among kids we had a lot of helpers Rayyan Khan, Elsa Khan, Wali Khan, Nuha Syed, Sarah Chaudhary, Noor Amir, Emaan Asghar, Albaraa Tarabishi, Serene Tarabishi, Salwa syed, Israa Malik, Amina Malik, Khalid Malik, Safwaan Jaweed, Zain Jaweed, Ameen Jaweed, Nabeel Jaweed, Jihad Khan, Saad Khan, Farhan, Mohammed Markamallah and many more.
Toy drive
We were able to collect around 250 toys that were gift wrapped by ICGC youth and distributed at the Abu Bakr Siddique Masjid (Harrison) and to new Refugee families. Our special thanks to our leaders Fatima Abouelalla and Sr. Amber and the volunteers Melat Mohamoud, Aseel Hasan, and the Youth Group members. A special recognition to the Mercedes-Benz Cincinnati dealership, Modasser Khan and Steve Zubieta for their generous donation of $2,000 worth of toys.
Fitra Distribution and Fundraising Support
This program is led by Gulame Asif was assisted by Tariq Sultan, Yaser Shamsi, Munam Syed, Imran Khan, Junaid Malik, Tilat Rizvi, Sadruddin Malik, Marwan Hujeij, Ashraf Traboulsi, Nazim Fazlani, Huma Khan, Tilat Rizvi, Ali Salahuddin, Mohsin Sultan, Adeel Malik, Samina Ahmed, Zamir Shaik and others.
Eid Day
Munam Syed, Saif Ahmed, Shamila Malik, Tilat Rizvi, Ashraf Traboulsi, Ghulame Asif, Mohammed Sadruddin, Mohammed Bahri, Ghazala Nasir, Samina Ahmed, Shehla and Ghazala Malik, Homa Yavar, Inenhe Khalid, Hicham Benkabbou, and many others who stepped up to lend a hand.
ICGC's 2nd Annual Eid Carnival
Camellia Noor did an amazing job with carnival of this magnitude and had the following amazing volunteers: Shagufta Fazlani, Saba Ansari, Ghazala Nasir, Mujahid Shamil, Jihad Khan, Jani (Johnny), Robina Qureshi, Reyyan, Elsa, Wali & Arif Khan
Eid Bazaar
It was a huge success due to the leadership and efforts of Majid Dosani, will great support from Aamir Hayath, Zumair Hayath, and Ahmed Samad and great participation from 18 vendors and booths.
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