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MCA Wishes All a Very Happy & Blessed Eid! PRAYER TIMINGS Effective 05/31 MCA NOOR Fajr 15 mins after athan Dhuhr 1:30 1:30 Asr 5:45 6:30 Maghrib Sunset Sunset Isha 10:00 10:00 Juma 1 12:15 12:15 Juma 2 1:30 1:30 Juma 3 - 3:15 Newsletter Published Weekly by the Muslim Community Association of San Francisco Bay Area Ramadan 26, 1440 May 31, 2019 AL-QURAN By the clear Book. Indeed, We sent it down during a blessed night. Indeed, We were to warn [mankind]. On that night is made distinct every precise matter - [Every] matter [proceeding] from Us. Indeed, We were to send [a messenger] As mercy from your Lord. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing. Quran Al-Dukhan (44:1-6) HADITH Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, would go MCA Wishes all a very happy & blessed Eid! out on the days of Eid and lead the prayer. When the Prophet finished the prayer and invoked peace, he would stand and turn to people while they were sitting in their places of prayer. If he needed to dispatch an Without A, B and O, expedition, he would mention it to we can’t save anybody. the people. If he had another need, he would order them regarding it. The Prophet would say three times, Blood Drive Muslim Community Association “Give in charity.” The women would Bay Area give the most of those who gave, Maryam Hall 3003 Scott Blvd then the Prophet would return. Santa Clara, CA 95054 Saturday, June 22, 2019 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sahih Muslim 889 To schedule your appointment or for more information visit redcrossblood.org and enter Sponsor Code: MCAbayarea or call 1-800 RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767). Streamline your donation experience and save up to 15 minutes by visiting RedCrossBlood.org/RapidPass to complete your pre-donation reading and health history questions on the day of your appointment. TO ADVERTISE If you have traveled outside of the U.S. in the past 12 months, and have questions regarding your eligibility to 084109322 • AR84 201120 donate blood, please call 1-866-236-3276. Identification is required. IN THE NEWSLETTER, VISIT MCA WEBSITE: Scan to schedule an appointment. ] • Order ID: 841461 Item 3494012 Qty: 1 of Not enough people donate blood. Only you can fill the #MissingTypes. 211 [ www.mcabayarea.org/newsletter Download the Blood Donor App | 1-800-RED CROSS | RedCrossBlood.org/MissingTypes © 2019 The American National Red Cross | 220001 MCA Board’s Corner Executive Board (EB) Report May 31, 2019 Assalamu ‘alaikum, We pray Allah SWT grants us sinners the ultimate prize of salvation in these blessed last days of Ramadan. And we wish the entire community a blessed Eidul-Fitr. Eidul-Fitr will be on Tuesday June 4, inshaAllah. Three sessions of salatul-Eid are planned at the center. Tak- beer will begin at 6:30 AM, 8:30 AM and 10:30 AM re- spectively. The prayers will begin at 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM, inshaAllah. Eid celebrations for children will be on Eid day from 5:30 PM till 8:30 PM in the MCA parking lot. Then on Friday (June 7) evening an indoor potluck will be held with children’s shows. Khatm will be on Sunday June 2. Given that Eid will be on a work day, we urge everyone to park vehicles responsibly. A good part of the park- ing lot at the Hope building (MCA 3.0) at 3080 Alfred St. will be available. Also, the Vanguard parking lot on Alfred Street will be available all day. Additionally, we have secured use of one of the three parking lots locat- ed at the Shenzhen Bay Innovation Center at 3120 Scott Boulevard. This lot is the one physically closest to San Tomas Expressway. Volunteers will be guiding traffic. We urge you to arrive early and settle down for prayers, and then after the prayers leave quickly in order to make room for those arriving for the next session. As always we have been asking contributions of $125 from families as well as singles toward Ramadan expenses. Our projection is that the total expense this month will exceed $150K. This pays for the following: trash pickup, water bill and drinking water, electricity, babysitting and I Love Islam program, janitorial labor, janitorial supplies, the annual open house program, Eid entertainment program for families, iftar supplies, etc. This Ramadan the Iftar supplies will cost twice as much due to the Green Initiative; we have been buying compostable supplies which cost much more. Another item that will cost more is security. We are hopeful that on average 1200 contributions of $125 each will be re- ceived, inshaAllah, but we encourage you to contribute more if you can. The MCA Eid bazaar was held on Saturday May 25 inside the 3.0 building. A total of 60 vendors partici- pated. We talked to numerous vendors and shoppers to collect feedback. Vendors were very satisfied with fairness of the arrangements. We are adopting institu- tional approach toward our operations. Consequently this year’s bazaar was organized and managed by MCA staff, and not by volunteers. MCA Executive Board 2 3 16 ways to make this Eid special for your family Samana Siddiqui | SoundVision For a number of Muslim families, Eid and plan what you want to do on Eid Get everyone in on this. Make the house is simply a twice-yearly routine that day. Invite others over in the afternoon, as sparkling clean as you can. If there is doesn’t change: get up, pray Fajr, eat and have dinner at a restaurant in the enough time and the weather is warm, breakfast, go pray, hug Eid Mubarak, evening? Or vice-versa? Discuss ideas consider white washing the house and come home, maybe go out, maybe have with the family, including all of the kids. putting mattresses and bedding outside people over, eat, eat, eat, get gifts or Eid to air out. Also, talk about the menu and delegate money, eat and sleep. cooking responsibilities instead of Then, once the house is virtually This year, why not make Eid the special dumping the whole workload on mom. spotless, decorate it with balloons, holiday that it is? Here are some ideas of lights, banners, streamers,etc. Get the And make sure EVERYONE has a day things you can do with the family to get younger kids involved in this process. off from work, school or any other out of the usual routine. Have them make decorative signs saying commitments. “Eid Mubarak” and post these around 1. Plan in advance 2. Clean and decorate the the house. Call a family meeting a week before home Put an Islamic song on the CD on so 4 everyone can sing or hum along while have outgrown. Then arrange to have members of the family. they work. The ideal one would be A them sold through a garage sale and Whisper of Peace which features the give the money to a local Masjid or 12. Head For the open road! song “These are the Days of Eid”. community fundraising event. I can also Drive the family out into the countryside be sent abroad to those in need. 3. Make special food and try to get lost on some unfamiliar 8. Wash the car roads, challenging the kids to help Make something special which the remember the way home. (Always family does not normally eat, it can be Who wants to go to Eid prayers in a dirt keep change for the pay-phone, a map sweet, sour or in-between. The point stained car filled with gum wrappers andsome food for everyone just in case is that Eid is special, and the food we and cookie crumbs? And think about it takes longer to get back). eat on this day should be better and what will happen to everyone’s nice different from our usual meals. Eid clothes sitting in a vehicle like that! 13. Visit a homeless shelter Get the car clean and ready. Everyone or food bank and donate your 4. Set up a family gift should help with this. One person extra Eid food exchange vacuums, another cleans the windows, a third person washes the exterior, etc. Also do some Dawa by telling workers at Put each family member’s name in a the shelter what Eid, charity in Islam and If possible get the car checked and fill up Kufi and have each person pull one Ramadan are about. Bring pamphlets the gas tank so you don’t end up with out. Whoever picks a person’s name and other written material. The visit can any Eid day surprises. has to buy or make that person a gift. help remind everyone what it was like One catch: babies have to get gifts from 9. At Eid prayer, look for when they were hungry while fasting everyone. those who are alone and during the month of Ramadan. 5. Have the kids make gifts invite them over 14. Share Eid with your neighbors for each other At the Eid prayer place, where a lot of If you’re not into the gift exchange idea hugging goes on, you will find some Make dessert (something simple that and want everyone to get a present try Muslims standing alone. They are almost everyone likes, like chocolate this. Arts and crafts are the best tool for either new Muslims or new immigrants cake) and write up a short definition making these gifts.
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