Alhamdulillah, on Wednesday 4th May 2022, the sisters’ celebrated Eid with a coffee morning at KMWA Gillingham mosque. The turnout was great with some new and other familiar faces enjoying tea/coffee and cakes. The occasion was also a much-needed opportunity to reconnect in person after the COVID pandemic.
We hope to continue to offer this wonderful opportunity on a regular basis for sisters and their children on Wednesdays from 10:30-12:30 at Gillingham mosque (Canterbury Street), InshaAllah.
As of December 2021, we had 87 standing orders of the target of 1000. This is a great baseline to start with, if you haven’t setup a standing order, please use the form on the last page.
Our aim at ARK is to increase this total tenfold, which means that the standing orders will need to increase.
We need people that are not just willing to give once, but month in month out until the project is completed. Faithfully fighting to build the new mosque and the services it will provide.
We subscribe to things every month, streaming services, magazines, internet, movies and music. We are loyal to these things because they benefit our lives. The new mosque, that KMWA is building, benefits the entire lives of our community.
It only takes everyone one to give £25 every month, some of you can give that, some of you can give more and some of you less. Everything you give will go to building the mosque.
Until the day we can finally say the mosque has been finished.
If you can afford just £25 per month.
Question: Do you have time/space for women to ask questions or seek advice?
Answer: To seek Imam’s advice or ask questions in the first instance please contact Sister Rizwana Shelly, the KMWA Co-Ordinator. Sister Shelly will make necessary arrangements to make this possible with due discretion and confidentially.
Question: How can a female who doesn’t have a living mahram perform Hajj?
It is compulsory for a woman to be accompanied by a mahram to travel for Hajj. If at present she does not have a mahram then she must wait in the hope that one becomes available. In the meantime, she should make financial provisions for the journey and appoint an advocate/trustee with the instruction that if she died before being able to perform Hajj then they are to arrange a Hajj by proxy on her behalf.
Question: Why is it free for a man in the UK to give talak but costs a woman hundreds of pounds to get a khula.
Find the answer to this question, more, and translations in KMWALTR #003