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22 November 2009
Posted in Services - Dawah

Our Direct Link: http://www.theBuildingBlocks.org/dawahtraining

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What is this forum
This forum addresses the important need of bringing those who want to learn Islam and share its teaching with others in the Twin Cities area.  We are currently focusing on preparing for speaking assignments in educational institutes where information is shared in a casual environment 

What is the goal:

  • Fill the void about information on Islam without compromising on the authenticity of islam
  • Be able to discuss any topic in an effective and convincing way
  • Be able to provide resources related to Islam

Items pertaining to training:
  • Knowing your audience and preparing accordingly
  • Having Quran/books and other resources as needed 
  • Having business cards for further contact 

 Some Topics for training eventually:

  1. Human Rights in Islam
  2. Women's Rights in Islam
  3. Islamic Art and Architecture
  4. What is Shariah & Islamic Legal system
  5. Explaining Jihad
  6. Abraham [as] and Islam: What's the Connection?

Our past efforts which led us to current structure, Alhamdulillah:

 

Scheduled Trainings and Current Action Plan

Show/Hide MeetingNotes

  1. Our Milestone Meeting Notes: Training will be centered around 11 discussion topics.  Details are here
  2. 11/17/2009 & 11/22/2009 @ MCC:  Introductions and concept of Islamic celebrations discussed.  Motivation for our work.
  3. Sunday 12/06/2009 @ 5 PM at MCC (Topic: Concept of God in Islam)
  4. Sunday 12/20/2009 @ 5 PM at MCC (Topic: What do Muslims believe in)
  5. Sunday 1/10/2010 @ 5 PM at MCC (presenting with confidence Concept of God in Islam & What do Muslims believe in)
  6. Sunday 1/24/2010 @ 5 PM at MCC (Presenting The Prophets, The Hereafter & the concept of God in Islam)
  7. Sunday 2/7/2010 @ 5 PM at MCC (Presenting The Prophets, The Hereafter to a younger audience & the concept of God in Islam)
  8. Sunday 2/21/2010 @ 5 PM at MCC - same topics as before
  9. Sunday 3/7/2010 @ 5 PM at MCC - (Presenting Hereafter and articles of faith)
  10. Sunday 3/21/2010 @ 5 PM at MCC - Finishing rest of the presentations
  11. Sunday April 4th @ 5 PM at MCC: Presenting all pillars of faith and discussions related to them
  12. Sunday May 16th & Sunday May 23rd @ 5 PM at MCC - Agenda
    1. Preparing for county fairs - Fielding PR and questions at a table
    2. Questions from Holy Angels school
  13. Sunday, June 6th & June 13th @ 5 PM at MCC - Preparation for fair, understanding the visitors, their expectation, their Q/A, relating our knowledge with them and planning for the logistics
  14. June 17th till 20th: Our first fieldwork experience in Hennepin County Fair.  Photos of dawah booth in Fair, Videos of dawah booth in Fair
  15. Sunday June 27th @ 5 PM at MCC - we reviewed the fair and important lessons learnt are all listed here
  16. Sunday July 11th @ 5 PM at MCC - We discussed our wider role for dawah team and We prepared for the Ramsey County Fair held on July 14th till July 20th.  Video & Pics coming soon
  17. Thursday July 22nd - appreciation dinner for all dawah booth volunteers
  18. Sunday, August 1st @ 5 PM at MCC - We formed our BB Dawah team (Alhamdulillah).  BB Dawah team Details
  19. Sunday, August 22nd @ 5 PM at MCC (Agenda below) - New Topics List decided, discussed our role with ICNA-MN & introduced MCC Dawah Team
    1. Topics - Women's/Human Rights in Islam; Drugs, Alcohol, and Gambling; Economic System; Prayer and Zakat; Problem of Poverty; What is Shariah?; Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations; What is the Qur'an?
  20. Sunday, September 19th @ 5 PM at MCC 
    1. Topic presented: Women in Islam, 10 minutes

  21. Sunday, Octover 3rd @ 5pm at MCC, Clinic building
    1. Br Waleed and Sr Sarah both presented on the topic of Women's Rights in Islam
    2. Going forward, our topics will be Human Rights in Islam and Muslim/Non-Muslim Relations.  
      1. Resource: Maududi's book Human Rights in Islam. Can be found here
    3. Dawah Meeting scheduled at 7pm. Talked about dawah tables at the U and how to address the missionaries that are coming to the Somali mall.
  22. Sunday, October 17th @5pm, Building Blocks Office
    1. Br. Tareq presented on Human Rights in Islam
    2. Dawah Meeting at 7pm
  23. Sunday, October 31st @4pm, MCC, Masjid Building
    1. Dawah Meeting started at 4pm. Future event with Yusha Evans at the U of M and dawah tables at local colleges were discussed
    2. Sr. Shannen and Br. Tareq presented on Human Rights in Islam
  24. Sunday, November 14th @4pm
    1. Presentation Topics:
      1. - Human Rights in Islam
        - Muslim/Non-Muslim Relations
    2. Dawah Meeting scheduled at 4pm. Training to start at 5pm sharp.
  25. Sunday, November 21st @4pm, MCC
  26. Feb. 13th, 2011 @ MCC
  27. Feb. 27th, 2011 @ Building Blocks Office
    1. Topics discussed: Jihad in Islam, Apostates in Islam
    2. Meeting Items: Spring Event at U of M, Sh. Hatem's idea about responding to Star Trib comments
  28. Mar. 13th, 2011 @ MCC
    1. Topics discussed: Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim/Non-Muslim relations
    2. Meeting items: Vision for Dawah group, updates from each group
  29. Mar. 27th, 2011 @ MCC
  30. April 10th @4pm, MCC, Clinic Building
    1. Topics to discuss/present: Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, Shariah, Apostates
  31. May 8th @4pm, MCC, Clinic Building
    1. Discuss Misconceptions about Islam, status with blog response group, shahadah party, and resources
  32. May 22nd @4pm, MCC, Clinic Building
    1. Discuss status with blog response group, shahadah party, what the banning of Sharia means to us
    2. Cover the items that need to be discussed with presenting Sharia to a non-Muslim audience
    3. Present a preliminary presentation on Sharia
  33. June 12th @4pm, MCC, Clinic Building
    1. Learned what it means to ban Sharia
    2. Training from CAIR on how to interact with the media
    3. Discuss the upcoming fairs
    4. Discuss important points to touch on when talking about Sharia
  34. June 26th @ 4pm, MCC, Clinic Building
    1. Presentations:
      - Waleed: How Sharia protects religion for both Muslims and non-Muslims
      - Masood: How Sharia protects the right to life
      - Farooq: How Sharia protects property
      - Tareq: How Sharia protects the right of mind/reason
      - Sarah: How Sharia protects honor
    2. July 9th @5pm, Building Blocks office, Minneapolis
      1. We will train the new signup (30+) and will not lose our current momentum
      2. We must keep learning to present Islam using presentation model as it allows thoughts to be organized and modulizes the topic of presentation in logical part
      3. Team environment is our strength and we must foster it.  Having trust in the capability and being able to complement colleagues is important for many occasions and provides good support for each other
    3. July 30th @ 4pm, Masjid Al-Huda
      1. New volunteers meet and "debrief". Again, discuss experiences and interactions that happened at the fair. Learn from each other.  Survey & Comments
      2. Introduce training format, a demo presentation, a group activity (concept of God in Islam vs Christianity)
      3. Talk about importance of dawah
    4. August 21st @ 5:30pm, Masjid Al-Huda
      1. Presentations were given by 6 dedicated volunteers with feedback on each item.
      2. Panel discussion group activity with Q & A surrounding the topics of The Concept of God in Islam and The Prophets
      3. Hot Topic group activity
      4. Iftar together as a group
    5. August 21st @ 5:30 pm, Masjid Al-Huda
      1. Reviewed a presentation from the repository for ideas and discussion
      2. Discussed the role of Paul in modern Christianity and history of Christianity from a sect of Judaism to what it is today
      3. Worked in groups to present how we would discuss the Hereafter with a 6th grader
    6. August 21st @ 5:30 pm, Masjid Al-Huda
    7. September 11th @ 5:30 pm, Masjid Al-Huda
    8. September 25th @ 5:30 pm, Masjid Al-Huda
    9. October 8th @ 5:30 pm, Masjid Al-Huda
    10. October 22nd & 23rd All day, Da'wah Boot Camp
    11. Nov 5th @ Masjid Al Huda - New Boot camp Daee joined in
    12. Mostly Admin and restructuring meetings took place on Nov. 12th, Nov 23rd, Dec. 10th, Dec. 24th, Dec 31st
     
  35. Jan 13th 2012: Worked on Misconception 1 (Concept of Tauheed in Islam) with Br Samir
  36. Jan 29th 2012: Review of New Team Structure, planning for alMaghrib (Fiqh of Dawah with Sh. Makki), Importance of Speakers training & bringing back presentation based training insha-Allah
  37. Feb. 11th: Worked on Misconeption 2 (Islam is a new religion) & Sr. Shannen presented "Shariah"
  38. Next Scheduled Training - 2nd Saturday of the Month & 4th Sunday of the Month @ 4 pm, Masjid Columbia Heights
    1. Present assigned topics including The Concept of God in Islam, The Hereafter, and Prophets in Islam
    2. Email Hot Topic discussions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it


    39. Future meetings agenda
    1. In near future: New batch of speakers comes in while previous speakers will apply their skills to dawah opportunities and keep getting trained at newer topics.
    2. Our delivery: We will meet and use Br Kemal's worksheet to improve our presentation styles and delivery.  He will be with us sometimes in August/September so we need to do our homework ahead of time.
    3. Updates about our powerpoint presentations repository
    4. Future topics: Drugs, Alcohol, and Gambling; Economic System; Prayer and Zakat; Problem of Poverty; What is Shariah?; Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations; What is the Qur'an?

       

       Our resources:

      • Local Da'ees
        • Our Trainers: Br Samir Saikali, Br Arafat AlBakri, Br Ghazali Thompson, Br Saeed Purcell
        • Br Yusha Evans, Br Julian Chippendale
      • Local Scholars: Sheikh Hatem al Haj, Sheikh Jamel Ben Amer, Sheikh Waleed
      • Visiting Scholars: Sheikh Mamdouh Mahmoud
      • Visiting Da'ees: Br Soussi

         

      I need Quran and Literature

    1. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
    2. Free Brochure about Islam
    3. Concept of GOD in Islam
    4. Concept of Worship in Islam
    5. Islam in USA
    6. Origins of Quran
    7. Life After death
    8. Who is Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
    9. Who is Jesus
    10. Women In Islam
    11. Day of Judgement
    12. What is Shariah 

      13. Reimbursements

      • Gas Expense
      • Resources bought in reasonable amounts

      When someone comes to Islam

      Resources

      1. Islamic Architecture
      2. Yusuf Estes sites
      3. Guide US TV
      Please contact us if you are interested in becoming part of this team (da'ee of islam)  Dawah Training Team