The Islamic Shura Council extends its thoughts and prayers to fellow Californians who were impacted by the recent earthquake. 

 The Islamic Shura Council in coordination with the Fiqh Council of North America expects Eid al Adha to be on October 4th. For details, click here.

 The Islamic Shura Council is pleased to announce its 12th annual Open Mosque Day on Sunday Oct 19th through out Southern California. While more details will follow soon, we request our friends and interfaith partners to save Sunday, Oct. 19th for Open Mosque Day. We also ask the member Mosques to start planning and letting the community and neighbors know of this year's Open Mosque Day is on Oct 19th. Click here and here to see last year's Open Mosque Day. 

 The Islamic Shura Council is working on producing a video news magazine about our communities. While we are developing the content, we invite the community to suggest a name for this video program. Please send your suggestions to info@shuracouncil.org. The winner whose program name is chosen will receive a special prize.

 This past Friday, the Islamic Center of South Bay celebrated its groundbreaking ceremony with the community. Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, the Chairman of the Islamic Shura Council delivered the Friday sermon and spoke to the community before the groundbreaking ceremony. See some pictures here  and click here for a video rendition of the new Masjid.

  Los Angeles based activists of all faiths and traditions joined hands and successfully stopped an Israeli ship from docking at the Los Angeles port. This peaceful action was in solidarity with and in response to a call made by the Palestinian and South African labor and trade unions.

 The Orange County Human Relations Commission recently released its annual hate crime report that lists overall hate crimes are down but hate crimes against individuals are up.

 Sadly, we learn of yet another expose of the FBI and their relentless agent provocateurs' misguided project in Masajid and Muslim communities.

 

We urge the community to actively work to conserve water  and remember the Quranic principle that God loves those who do not waste. 

 

Please consider taking the following steps: 

• We request the Imams and Khateebs to share the Prophetic advice with respect to drought and rain after each daily prayer.
• We suggest Mosques to hold community dialogs on Friday evenings, discussing issues around water, its use and misuse.
• We urge families to study the Holy Quran and discuss matters particularly around wasting of natural resources and the benefits for those who conserve. 
• Calculate your total family water usage. 
• Learn some easy steps to save water indoors and also outdoors.
• Try to water your lawn every other day instead of every day, also water in the early morning or at night.
• Institute shorter showers at home. One way to make this happen is set a timer or take a cold water bath.
• When you visit a restaurant, ask the waiter to not bring water unless you ask for it and ask them to give you water only as much as you need.
• Skip your car washes for a while or use a bucket of water rather than the hose to minimize water usage.

 

 Visit our community calendar that lists various community events.  Below please find just a small sample of the events in our calendar. To view all events, click here.