Ramadan Announcement by Dr. Ahmed Al-Dubayan
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Dr.
Ahmed al-Dubayan Director General of the Islamic Cultural Centre & The
London Central Mosque Trust issued Ramadan Announcement reminding Muslims about
the Government’s instructions - Stay home, Protect NHS and Save lives and asked
them to stay at home, pray Taraweeh with family members at home and pay Zakat
for the poor and the needy.
Congratulations for all Muslims
Started
with congratulations for all Muslims, Dr. al-Dubayan extended his “congratulations
for all Muslims everywhere in the UK and everywhere also in the world.
Congratulations for the month of Ramadan.”
Ramadan is different this year
Speaking
about Ramadan this year, Dr. Ahmed al-Dubayan said, “It is of course always
important to remind this Ramadan is different from other Ramadan that we have
seen before. Now we are living in this crisis of Pandemic disease – corona.
Things in this Ramadan will change of course.”
“Let
me start by saying may Allah forgive and shower with His Mercy upon those who
lost their lives during this crisis and may Allah help also those doctors and
nurses everybody who is providing service to anybody everywhere in the U.K. and
actually round the globe,” he said.
Ramadan – the month of
care and of generosity
Speaking
about the month of Ramadan, Dr. al-Dubayan said, “Ramadan as we all know is the
month of care and the month of generosity. So it is the month since we are
socially isolating seriously; everybody is staying at home and let us try to
focus actually to concentrate more care about our family members especially our
parents, children, wives, husbands when we are together.”
Follow
the instructions
Speaking
about the protection of life, Dr. al-Dubayan said, “It is also important to
remind everybody Islamically we are asked always to follow the instructions done
by the authority everywhere we are in the world because these instructions are
made for protections and protections of life in Islam is a priority of course.”
Help
the poor and the needy
Speaking
about helping poor and needy, Dr. al-Dubayan mentioned, “And it is the month
that we try to extend help to all those who are around us regardless who they
are Muslims or not who needs our help and can give that help during this month
and also in any other time – it is really a duty of every Muslim who believes
in the Qur’an and also in the Prophet peace be upon him.”
Mosque
is closed everywhere:
Pray
Taraweeh at home with family
Speaking
about the closure of Mosques almost everywhere, Dr. al-Dubayan advised Muslims
to pray Taraweeh at home with families. He said, “Now in this month there are
some points are very important; one of them is, of course, Mosques are closed
now , almost everywhere; so that means we are going to do prayer and Taraweeh
at home. How we do it? We can do together with our children, with our sisters,
with our brothers, a man with his wife, with his children and with his parents.
Someone will lead the prayers; he can lead the Taraweeh. You pray two raka’ats
and two raka’ats till ten and you finalise the Taraweeh with one Raka’at that
is the Witr.”
He
also advised to those who cannot read the Qur’an. He said, “Those who cannot
memorise the Qur’an they can hold a Qur’an copy in their hands and can lead the
prayer and those who cannot memorise and cannot even read the Qur’an, they can
pray the Taraweeh even with little Fatiha whatever they have in the Qur’an. After
they have recited Surah Fatiha and then Surah Iqlas and one another Surah Asr in
each raka’ah, that will insha Allah enough; because Allah Subhanahu wa Taala
was considering their Eklas in their hearts and our intentions more than how
many raka’ats we do.”
Zakat –
al-Fitr and Zakat al-Mal
Speaking
about the Zakat – al-Fitr and Zakat al-Mal, duty in Ramadan, Dr. al-Dubayan
mentioned, “It is also important to remind you that Zakat also in Ramadan is a
duty and we can do from the very beginning, not to delay it till the end of
Ramadan. Because around us we have many people who need zakat and now we have
more poor people we can send it to anywhere.
The ICC Chief also mentioned, “Zakat al-Fitr could be given
at the last two days of Ramadan. Some scholars have given Fatwa especially Imam
Abu Hanifah – Zakat al-Fitr could be given in the beginning of the month. To
pay Zakat al-Fitr which is L7 pounds per head for each Muslim. Zakat al-Mal
which is Zakat from your own saving. This could be also made in the beginning
of Ramadan which is 2.5%. You can do it online – both can be done online of the
website of the Islamic Cultural centre and the London Central Mosque. I wish
good Ramadan Insha Allah.”
Lesson learnt: We need to cooperate
with each other as human beings
Speaking
about what we have learnt from this coronavirus pandemic crisis, Dr. al-Dubayan
said, “We can learn something from this Ramadan. We learn something spiritual,
even from this crisis - we have to be close to each other as human being to
take care of each other and may be this crisis will teach everyone around the
world a lesson – that is a lesson – we need to cooperate together with each
other as human beings – with Muslims, with each other to have a flourishing
society built with love and peace for all people.”
Built society with love and peace for all people
Dr.
al-Dubayan concluded his Ramadan announcement with Assalamualaikum. Ramadan Kareem and prayed: “May
Allah accept your prayer; don’t forget in your dua for those who lost their
lives; don’t forget also in your dua those who are fighting in the front-line
fighting corona-19 and for those also who are poor – May Allah facilitate for
them and Insha Allah shower His Blessings for all of us. Wa alaikum wa salam.”
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