Masjids – What do they look like and why are they needed?

Our goal is to build practical centres which serve Islamic and educational needs of the community. Our programs comprise a network of modest and functional multi-purpose community centres to complement the Government secular education system which lacks the basic teachings of Qur‚an and Sunnah of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). As a minimum, all our centres include:

1. A masjid, madrasas for girls and boys.
2. Waterwells to supply the scarce water resources to the centre and the entire village at large.
3. Our community centres are constructed in under privileged and highly populated villages for the benefit of larger populations and for serving surrounding villages.
4. The centres serve as spiritual networks which facilitate the upbringing of a new generation of young men and women through an understanding and appreciation of the spiritual meaning of the great sources of Islamic teachings and way of life.

Al Noor needs sufficient funds to establish and sustain a large number of centres and the activities surrounding them, in order to provide services to the destitute communities and establish revenue generating assets to complement and sustain community charity work. We have 20 running projects – 10 fully operation as Islamic centres with madrasas and all facilities, and the other 10 as Masjids and water wells.

The later 10 are part of the plan to develop them into Islamic community centres with full facilities. All our projects are constructed by Al Noor’s own engineers, hence there are no overhead costs. Our Engineer Al Hajj Mohammed Kibwana (among 3 of the founding members) undertakes full construction responsibility and is doing this as charity on his part.

A special presentation of our work is available for you to view here.

He only shall tend Allah’s sanctuaries who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor-due and feareth none save Allah. For such (only) is it possible that they can be of the rightly guided. Surah 9 (Al-Tawbah) Aya No. 18