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Through the corporation and activism of our community partners and county supervisor we celebrated today a new sidewalk between the apartment complex and the mosque. This will save we believe many lives and make it a better community for all. Building bridges through faith.
(Falls Church, VA., 03/08/10) Through the invitation of Adam Ebbin, delegate from the 49th District to the Virginia House of Delegates, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik will deliver the opening prayer to the General Assembly on Thursday, March 11th, 2010. The invitation is co-sponsored by freshman Delegate Kaye Kory. She has worked closely with the mosque during her tenure on the Fairfax County school board and with the mosques sponsorship of the Students on Suspension (SOS) program with the Fairfax Partnership for Youth.
Dar Al-Hijrah hosts a number of social services programs in partnership with government, faith-based and community organizations including Supervisor Penny Grosss Kaleidoscope dialogue, Emergency Overnight Hypothermia sheltering, weekly food-bank, regular health clinics and citizenship education forums.
Under Imam Joharis leadership the mosque is active in interfaith dialogues, partners with the UPF 20,000 Dialogues project, the annual Culmore Community Clean-up project, Habitat for Humanity NOVA and plays a central role in Virginias Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement (VOICE).
Imam Johari said, "After 911 everything changed, there was fear and mistrust from some of our neighbors. My job is to lead my community to build bridges of faith through understanding and service.
The scriptures teach us, You have been created into tribes and nations to know each other. Verily, the best among you in the sight of God are those who are the most (Taqwa) aware and in relationship with God.
Dar Al-Hijrah and our community are honored by this opportunity to help forge relations in order to build a new dominion of progress and peace in the Old Dominion.
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How you can continue to support your child's Islamic education during these difficult times.
"And then I thought that maybe because we're in this sacred environment, we can transcend our fear, transcend our racism." Imam Johari Abdul-Malik tells a powerful story of an encounter near the Kaaba in which faith overcame the fear of strangers.
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BDeshFoundation has organized a commercial kitchen to provide precooked meals for our neighbors in need. They are interested in partnering in the DMV and in The Gambia with Soulful Muslims!
How do you make interfaith dialogue work? At an interfaith service, Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, and Bruce Feiler spoke on how interfaith cooperation can transform the ongoing conversation on faith and extremism at the local and national levels.
On Eid Al Adha, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik shares the celebration as a global day of thanksgiving and generosity. He appeared on "Meet Us on the Abraham Path" with host Anisa Mehdi, and best-selling writer Bruce Feiler, July 28, 2020.
This is not a lecture. I am staining woodwork the newly renovated brownstone in Brooklyn that I grew up in with my mom. She would have loved this. She made sure I learned how to do this kind of work. How to use my hands, to hold a paint brush and swing a hammer and save a dollar. May Allah continue to bless her.
