Salman Charnia
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Mr. Khan of Atl. (ICNA representative of Marietta)
Do you have a name?
You know the art of calling names. You know Sohail Akram's name. You know Mushtaq's name. Why are you hiding your identity. Are you afraid people will identify you. Are you one of those munafiq that are so afraid of ICNA that can't expose yourself but still want to show that you are loyal to Marrietta community.
In your heart you know ICNA will never build the masjid and will find ways to delay. They will ask for donation and people will refuse to donate. They will then say Sorry no money no masjid. Then you will join marietta comunity but people will know you.
This makes perfect sense to hide your identity for now.
Good Luck on your effort.
Wake up my brother identify
yourself. Remember the toughest decisions are made by men and men only.
Brother Khursheed Khan, Please advise if he represents your esteemed organization? If So ask him to identify himself or stop representing your organization.
khan atl <khan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Stop calling me Erfan. Can't you read.
>From: "Akram, Sohail"
>To:
>,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
>CC:
>Subject: Current status at Masjid Al-Hedaya
>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:03:56 -0500
>
>
>
>Assalam-O-Alaikum
>
>Br. Faique thanks for the well detailed e-mail about property issue
>between ICNA and Marietta Muslim community may Allah guide every one to
>follow the right path I hope this mail from Br. Faique will help to open
>the eyes from both sides and resolve this issue peace fully
>
>in favor of Marietta Muslim community we community has nothing to loose
>but ICNA is well known org. and they are putting there name on the line
>one more thing the point Br. Faique has raised this is very notice able
>for all ICNA worker who lived in Marietta your kids are going to grow in
>this community unless you move to other city or state. As you know every
>single Muslim org. is on the watch list from FBI or from the homeland
>security if in the
future the found any thing wrong doing by ICNA they
>are going to freeze all there accounts and U.S. Govt.
>
>Will acquire all the properties on ICNA name that why I have been asking
>for long time we need to build our masjid totally independent we don't
>need any org. umbrella so please all ICNA members in Marietta come join
>us and help us to make Marietta Muslim community as one
>
>Body be unite and strong.
>
>Wasalam
>
>Sohail Akram
>
>
>________________________________
>
>From: Faique Sayeed [mailto:fai...@nextfrequency.com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:59 PM
>To: 'Iqbal Kalla'; 'Ayub Badat'; 'Naeem Baig'; 'Mohammad Ilyas';
>sh...@icnait.com; 'KHURSHEED Khan'; secra...@icnait.com
>Cc: 'Arif Aziz'; 'Samer Bashir'; 'Ramzy Hajmurad'; 'Javaid Sayeed';
>'Mushtaq Khan'; Akram, Sohail; 'Altaf Jangda'; 'Amjad Taufique';
'Gus
>Ibreak'; 'Hoorbano Arif'; fozia...@yahoo.com; 'Nawaid Inam'; 'Wahaaj
>Khan'; 'Shehla Altaf'; 'e b'; 'Sadika Dada'; adna...@hotmail.com;
>ida...@gmail.com; 'Waseem Mohammad'; 'Abimbola Bishi'; 'Baig, Jim';
>'Naushad Ahmed'
>Subject: [BULK] RE: Current status at Masjid Al-Hedaya
>Importance: Low
>
>
>Asalam-u-alaikum my dear respected elders,
>
>
>
>Let me first introduce myself. I have been part of the Al-Hedaya
>community since 1991. I am currently the Youth Director for the boys at
>Al-Hedaya and was involved with the Drafting committee of the new
>constitution. I am giving this background so you'll understand I am not
>someone who simply saw the signs in the parking lot, but someone who has
>been actively involved in the community for the past 16 years.
>
>
>
>I had seen the main sign in the parking lot, but simply had shrugged
it
>off. But after seeing the pictures that Br. Iqbal sent out, I feel I
>must say a few things. As I looked at the picture of the masjid door,
>it brought back memories of the countless number of overnight programs
>we held in that building for the young, the old and everyone. I was
>also reminded of the different meetings, gatherings, events, Sunday
>school, and other programs that we used to have there. Then I saw the
>picture of the sign on the door. DO NOT ENTER.
>
>
>
>Wow. That was my only response.
>
>
>
>DO NOT ENTER. You, who grew up in this community from 1991 and was
>there when we prayed in a hallway and outside because our permit had
>been taken away. You who saw the uncles you respected and learned from,
>spend hours, days, weeks in building not a masjid, but a community for
>you and inshaAllah your kids. You are no longer welcome in this
simple
>building. Wow.
>
>
>DO NOT ENTER
>
>
>
>Who is legally, morally, ethically, physically, spiritually entitled to
>the property? Which organization owns it? Does it really matter who
>'owns' it if we are all struggling in the path of Allah. We're all
>struggling to build a masjid so why argue? Why not just share it and
>put it in a trust of equal membership?
>
>
>
>The community who paid for it, nurtured it, and worked to grow it,
>should be the one who owns and operates its. Not any one person and not
>an organization that has had done little for the community other then
>helping them to raise some funds initially and serve as a 401-3c entity
>so the donors could get tax benefits.
>
>
>
>The Community itself should be legally, ethically, physically,
>spiritually and morally entitled to the property. The community
who
>spent hours maintaining, building, nurturing, and growing it. From the
>old respected brother in his 70's who stands outside on Sunday's and
>uses his blower to clean the area around the masjid. (In his 70's with
>many ailments May Allah grant him Jannah!) To the young child who runs
>up and down the stairs and makes noises while the prayers are going on.
>The Community!
>
>
>
>DO NOT ENTER
>
>
>
>Who should lead the community? A national organization dedicated to
>relief and da'wah or the community itself? Should the local community
>be put in a situation in a post-9-11 world, where if tomorrow the FBI
>freezes funds of ICNA, the local masjid's funds will be frozen also. Are
>we thinking long-term and strategically for our youth and the next
>generation?
>
>
>
>DO NOT ENTER
>
>
>
>What about the hundreds of
thousands of dollars and thousands of hours
>of time spent on the masjid since its purchase? In the scope of things,
>do funds raised in the "name of" mean as much as hundreds of thousands
>spent on supporting a piece of property since the beginning?
>
>
>
>DO NOT ENTER
>
>
>
>5 years of asking, how many countless hours of meetings, discussions,
>emails, but no response. What makes us think a joint trust will not
>cause further fitna in the community? How can a masjid be subjected and
>run in this manner. A local community masjid being run by a national
>relief and dawah organization with not much exposure to the day to day
>happenings of the community. Would we not be setting ourselves up for
>more pain and fitna. Is this how we repay our beloved 70 year old
>brother for all his hard work and the hundreds of others in the
>community, we subject them to further
fitna? Is this how an
>organization who's goal is Unity of the Muslim Ummah operates?
>
>
>
>DO NOT ENTER
>
>
>
>And finally, an edict - DO NOT ENTER - we are building a new masjid. We
>don't care that you've already spent tens of thousand of dollars on a
>plan for a masjid that the COMMUNITY agrees to. We don't care that
>you've implemented a new constitution, had your board resign, and are
>putting a democratic Islamic shurah process in place. We don't care
>that your youth question you each day about this issue and shake their
>head in disgust. We don't care that we've divided hearts of the
>musaleen, so that while they pray salah, they are filled with anger to
>their fellow Muslim next to them over this issue.
>
>
>
>DO NOT ENTER
>
>
>
>My dear respected brothers, I'm one of the members who has grown up in
>this
community, who has seen it grow from a small apartment to where it
>is today. I'm not Punjabi, Urdu speaking, Memond, Pakistani, or
>anything. I am only MUSLIM! I am saddened and angered over this fitna
>that has been created in one of the most forward thinking, most active,
>and strongest Muslim communities in Atlanta. I work a lot with the
>youth and find it hypocritical that I'm talking about how Muslims should
>struggle for unity at any costs, however through actions of our
>community and national organizations they see Muslims causing fitna and
>disunity in our community.
>
>
>
>I was also an active worker for ICNA (1994-1997) and helped with the
>Annual convention in Atlanta , dawah activities, and many other
>programs. I had a deep admiration for ICNA and the work they did. I used
>to see baraka in their work and I loved their focus on tarbiya. I never
>harbored anything
but utmost respect for ICNA and the work they do.
>However, after these events, I no longer can say that. I am deeply at a
>loss. How could such an esteemed and reputable organization fight over a
>piece of land and then say to me -DO NOT ENTER
>
>
>
>I pray that Allah forgive us all and I apologize if I have offended
>anyone of you. I speak from my heart and I am deeply saddened by what is
>happening to this community. May Allah guide us and may He focus our
>efforts on building our hereafter rather than wasting it on issues like
>this that cause Fitna.
>
>
>
>My dear respected brothers of ICNA, I ask that you transfer the property
>to the Islamic Center of Marietta and let the community work to grow and
>not fight. We have too much to struggle against, with poverty,
>homelessness, and Muslims being killed all over the world, then to focus
>on one 4-acre piece
of land with a dilapidated building simply to have
>the name of ICNA on it and not the community that cultivated and
>nurtured it.
>
>
>
>Walaikum Asalam
>
>Faique Sayeed
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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