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AICP Pennsylvania, USA, Islamic Camp 2012 PDF Print E-mail

AICP Pennsylvania Islamic Camp 2012

Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 9:00am until Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 5:00pm

AICP of North America invites you to spend time with us as we learn, play and enjoy the wonderful fellowship of Muslims at our Annual Camp of Islamic Knowledge that will be held in Laurel Hill State Park, Somerset, PA.

DATES:

Saturday, June 23 through Saturday, June 30, 2012.

Each year the Muslim community of the AICP of North America organizes a week of learning and fellowship for the Muslims. We use this opportunity to escape from the demands of work, home and school. Acquire the religious knowledge needed to make you a winner in this life and in the Hereafter. The main focus of camp is to teach the Islamic Obligatory Knowledge, and will include a program of lectures and classes taught by trustworthy, knowledgeable teachers.

Prices:

If you are staying at Camp:

    • Adult (Aged 12+): $150
    • Children (Aged 1 through 11): $85
    • For families of 3 or more children please contact AICP Headquarters of North America main office for rates

If you are staying at Hotel:

    • Adults (Aged 12+): $125
    • Children (Aged 1 through 11): $65

Online registration is now OPEN

*** IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: ***

AICP of North America offers Rustic Group Cabins for men or women with metal cots, central restroom and shower facilities, not located within the cabins.

Participants may also choose to secure alternative accommodations, in which case, you are responsible to contact them directly to secure your reservation. We require a specific donation from each attendee, whether staying in the camp, hotel or acquiring your own accommodations.
We ask that you forward half of the total amount to our Main Office by no later than June 1st, and the balance upon arrival to the campsite. This amount is separate from any fees you may incur by staying at an alternate location such as a hotel.

Check-in begins Friday, June 22 at 5 pm. No meals are served on this day.
Classes are scheduled to begin on the morning of Saturday, June 23 at 10 am
Last class day is Saturday, June 30. Last check-out time: Sunday, July 1 at 10:00 am
After completing the registration form, please indicate whether your child (4~12 yrs old) will be participating in our daily children's program. Also, please use the notes section for any additional information.
Here is a copy of the Camp Grounds Rules and Regulations for you to read: Click here

For more info click here
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The Benefits of Remembering Allah PDF Print E-mail

منافع ذكر الله

The Benefits of Remembering Allah

الحمد للهِ ربِّ العالمينَ لهُ النِّعمةُ وله الفضلُ ولهُ الثَّناءُ الحسن صلواتُ اللهِ البَرِّ الرحيمِ والملائِكةِ المُقرَّبينَ على سيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ أشرفِ المرسلينَ وحبيبِ ربِّ العالمينَ وعلى جميعِ إخوانِهِ منَ النَّبييّنَ والمُرسلينَ وءالِ كُلٍّ والصَّالحينَ وسلامُ اللهِ عليهِمْ أجمعينَ.

أمّا بعدُ، فَقَدْ قاَلَ اللهُ تَعَالَى: ﴿يَآ أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءامَنُوا اذْكُرُوا اللهَ ذِكْرًا كَثِيرًا، وَسَبِّحُوهُ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلاً سورة الأحزاب 41-42. الذِّكْرُ أَنواعٌ، كُلُّ مَا هُوَ مَدْحٌ للهِ فَهْوَ ذِكْرٌ التَّسْبِيحُ ذِكْرٌ وَالتَّحْمِيدُ ذِكْرٌ وَالتَّكْبِيرُ ذِكْرٌ والتَّهْلِيلُ ذِكْرٌ وَأَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ التَّهْلِيلًُ، وَالدَّعاءُ ذِكْرٌ، وَأَفْضَلُ الذِّكْرِ لاَ إِلهَ إِلاّ اللهُ ثم بَعْدَهُ التَّكْبِيرُ وَالتَّسْبِيحُ وَالتَّحْمِيدُ، أَحَبُّ الكَلاَمِ إِلى اللهِ هَؤلاءِ الأربعُ لاَ إلهَ إلاّ اللهُ وَسُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَالحَمْدُ للهِ واللهُ أكبرُ وَقَدْ وَرَدَ في فَضْلِ التَّسْبِيحِ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَالَ "سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ" تُغْرَسُ لَهُ نَخْلَةٌ في الجَنَّةِ.

Praise be to Allah and may Allah increase the honor and raise the rank of our Master Muhammad sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam.

Thereafter, Allah said in the Qur’an:

﴿يَآ أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءامَنُوا اذْكُرُوا اللهَ ذِكْرًا كَثِيرًا، وَسَبِّحُوهُ بُكْرَةً وَأَصِيلاً

Verses 41-42 of Surat al-Ahzab mean: “O you who believed mention Allah a lot and make tasbih <to say ‘subhanallah’> at the beginning and at the end of the day.”

Dhikhr (mentioning Allah) has types: All of what is said in praising Allah is dhikr, tasbih (to say “subhanallah”) is dhikr, tahmid (to say “alhamdulillah”) is dhikr, takbir (to say “Allahu akbar”) is dhikr, and tahlil (to say “la ilaha illallah”) is dhikr.  The best type of dhikr is tahlil (to say “la ilaha illallah”), supplication (du^a)’is dhikr; and the best dhikr is “la ilaha illallah”, then comes after the takbir (to say “Allahu akbar”), the tasbih (to say “subhanallah”), and the tahmid (to say “Alhamdulillah”.

The most beloved words to Allah are these four: “La ilaha illallah”, “subhanallah”, “alhamdulillah”, and “Allahu akbar”. It was mentioned in what pertains to the merit of tasbih that the one who says “subhanallah wa bihamdihi” will have a palm tree planted for him in Paradise.

النَّخْلَةُ التي تَكونُ في الجَنَّةِ وَكُلُّ الأشْجَارِ التي تَكونُ في الجَنَّةِ لَيْسَتْ كَالّتِي تَكُونُ في الدُنيا،كُلُّ شَجَرَةٍ في الجَنَّةِ سَاقُهَا منذَهَبٍ، حُسْنُهَا وَلَذّةُ طَعْمِهَا شَىءٌ فَوْقَ الوَصْفِ بِالنِّسْبَةِ لَنا ثُمَّ هِي دَائِمَةٌ لاَ تَيْبَسُ وَلا يَنْقَطِعُ ثَمَرُهَا كُلَّما أُخِذَ مِنْهَا شَىءٌ يَعُودُ مَكَاَنَهُ كَمَا كَانَ، ثُمَّ لاَ يَتْعَبُ الشخْصُ فِي تَنَاوُلِهَا إنْ كَانَ وَاقِفًا يَسْتَطيعُ أَنْ يأخُذَ مِنْها وَإنْ كَانَ جَالِسًا وَإِنْ كَانَ مُضْطَجِعًا تَدْنو إِليهِ، ثم هيَ أَبديةٌ لا تَيْبَسُ وَكُلَّمَا أَخَذَ مِنها حَبّةً يَعُودُ ذلك المكانُ كَمَا كَانَ، بِمجردِ قَوْلَ "سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ" يُغْرَسُ لَهُ شَجَرَةٌ، بِعَدَدِ مَا يُسَبِّحُ يُغْرَسُ لَهُ في الجنَّةِ.

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The Grand Celebration of the Birth of Prophet Muhammad PDF Print E-mail

A special thank you to everyone who attended and helped in making this wonderful occasion, in celebrating our love for the prophet, a success.  Pictures and audio of the Celebration will be up soon.

Backdrop on Stage

Here is a picture of the AICP Florida Madih Group 2012 consisting of men, teens and kids.

May Allah accept their good deeds and we thank them all for helping us celebrate the Mawlid.

AICP Florida Group

This is a picture taken by a brother during the celebration. The honorable hair of the Prophet, peace be upon him, was brought all the way from Turkey. May Allah accept the good deeds of those men who let us join in the blessing of seeing the Prophets hair on that night. And may Allah grant us Paradise and seeing the Prophet in our dreams.

Hair of the Prophet

ALLAHU AKBAR

 
Celebrating the Prophet’s Birth PDF Print E-mail

Celebrating the Prophet’s Birth is an Innovation of Guidance

Among the great innovations of guidance is the annual celebration of the Prophet’s birth (Mawlid un-Nabiyy). This event is commemorated by Muslims all over the world who join together for such rewardable deeds as reciting from the Qur'an, chanting Islamic praises, telling the story of the Prophet’s birth, teaching Religious Knowledge, slaughtering animals to feed to the poor, and gathering to thank and praise Allah and ask Him to exalt the honor of Prophet Muhammad, . The honorable, knowledgeable, and righteous ruler: al-Mudhaffar, the King of Irbil{1}, initiated this practice about 900 years ago, and he was praised by Muslim scholars of Islam–among them the Egyptian hafidhs: Ibn Hajar al-^Asqalaniyy and Jalal ud-Din as-Suyutiyy. The famous scholar of hadith, Abul-Khattab Ibn Dihyah, wrote a book for the king especially to be read during the mawlid celebration, and there are no great Muslim scholars who dispraised this innovated celebration.


The basis for commemorating honorable events repeatedly every year is evidenced in the Sunnah of the Prophet. As related by al-Bukhariyy, when the Prophet emigrated to al-Madinah he found the Jews fasting, so he asked them why they fasted on the 10th of Muharram{2}. They told the Prophet they do so to commemorate the day Allah saved Prophet Moses (Musa) and the Tribes of Israel (Isra’il) from the tyranny of the Pharaoh. It was revealed to the Prophet what the Jews said was true, so Prophet Muhammad told them: "We are more deserving of Moses (Musa) than you." He said this because Prophet Moses (Musa) was Muslim. Prophet Muhammad ordered the Muslims to fast the 9th and 10th of Muharram, and this Sunnah is still practiced today.

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الاحتفال بمولد النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم PDF Print E-mail

ومن البدع الحسنة الاحتفال بمولد الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم، فهذا العمل لم يكن في عهد النبيّ ولا فيما يليه، إنّما أحدث في أوائل الستمائة للهجرة، وأول مَن أحدثه ملك إربل، وكان عالمًا تقيًّا شجاعًا يقال له المظفّر، وجمع لهذا كثيرًا من العلماء فيهم من أهل الحديث والصوفية الصادقين، فاستحسن ذلك العمل العلماء في مشارق الأرض ومغاربها منهم الحافظ ابن حجر العسقلاني وتلميذه الحافظ السّخاوي، وكذلك الحافظ السيوطي.

فقد ذكر الحافظ السخاوي في فتاويه أنَّ عمل المولد حدث بعد القرون الثلاثة، ثم لا زال أهل الإِسلام من سائر الأقطار في المدن الكبار يعملون المولد ويتصدّقون في لياليه بأنواع الصدقات، ويعتنون بقراءة مولده الكريم ويظهر عليهم من بركاته كل فضل عميم.

وللحافظ السيوطي رسالة سمّاها "حسن المقصد في عمل المولد" قال: "فقد وقع السؤال عن عمل المولد النبويّ في شهر ربيع الأول ما حكمه من حيث الشرع، وهل هو محمود أم مذموم، وهل يُثاب فاعله أم لا؟ والجواب عندي أنَّ أصل عمل المولد الذي هو اجتماع الناس وقراءة ما تيسّر من القرءان ورواية الأخبار الواردة في مبدإ أمر النبيّ وما وقع في مولده من الآيات، ثمّ يمدّ لهم سِماط يأكلونه وينصرفون من غير زيادة على ذلك هو من البدع الحسنة التي يُثاب عليها صاحبها لما فيه من تعظيم قدر النبيّ وإظهار الفرح والاستبشار بمولده الشريف صلى الله عليه وسلم، وأول مَن أحدث ذلك صاحب إربل الملك المظفر أبو سعيد كوكبري بن زين الدين ابن بكتكين أحد الملوك الأمجاد والكبراء والأجواد، وكان له ءاثار حسنة وهو الذي عمَّر الجامع المظفري بسفح قاسيون" ا.هـ.

وقد سئل الحافظ السخاوي عن عمل المولد فقال ما نصه:

- سئلت عن أصل عمل المولد الشريف.

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Arabic Saturday School PDF Print E-mail

The Arabic Saturday School has been serving our Muslim Community and raising children for more than 10 years. Our goal is to preserve our Muslim Identity. All our teachers are dedicated, qualified, and experienced.
We cover the following topics:
-Arabic
-Qur^an
-Islamic Studies
-Islamic History
-Islamic Manners

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