[IGV] Thank You

[Ahmed Elmalky]

Assalamu alaikum, 

Alhamdulillah wa' Shukru Lillah for another great year at ICOI's Irvine Global Village booth and performance. 

I just wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank all the AMAZING volunteers that with Allah's help made this a memorable event. 

I'd like to recognize each and every one of them (wala nuzakki ala Allahu ahadan) but the brothers and sisters showed how great our community is mashaAllah. 

From sr. Farhana who was the first to show up in the morning and help set up the booth beautifully, to sr. Marwa who was so dedicated working non-stop and beyond her shift to keep the coverage, to sr. Tiffany who did a great job on stage representing Islam, to sr. Aisha who worked hard behind the scenes and did an amazing job gathering the striking photos of our presentation; to sr. Andrea who was so responsive and helped with printing, supplies, etc.; and all the sisters Zaynub, Yasmine(2), Malak, Ayda who volunteered and manned the booth with such professionalism. 

As for the brothers, we got equally great support... with br. Hiro who worked tirelessly for the last several weeks basically co-managing the entire effort plus doing a great job on stage as MC; and br. Tamer who also co-managed and got us all the literature/qurans/pamphlets/websites, and spent all day at the booth and setup the day before; and br. AbdulJabbar who offered his truck and drove us back and forth; and br. Imran who also co-managed and worked quietly behind the scenes but basically did all the difficult work obtaining supplies, driving our sheikhs, and organizing/planning all along; and br. Ahmad who trusted us with his valuable equipment that made our presentation look pretty 'awesome'; and br. Shahid who manned the booth and was so proactive that he wrote on every handout until the Open Mosque Day fliers arrived; and br. Ahmed Z. who's great work from last year was the model/template that made it easier on us; and br. Umer who supported us and even bought lunch; and of course our stars shk. Mohamed and shk. Jamaal who always make us proud to be part of ICOI. 

I know it's dangerous to try and mention everyone since I may forget someone (i truly apologize if I did) but I really believe knowing each other by name and working together builds a stronger community.  The teamwork, dedication and selfless work makes me happy to be part of the ICOI family and my only duaa is for Allah subhanahu wa taala to accept all our deeds for His sake alone. 

While it's still fresh in your minds, please send me any lessons learned and areas for improvement so I can document them for next year inshaAllah. 

May Allah reward you all and looking forward to the next big event!

Wassalam,

Ahmed. 

[Ahmed Elmalky]

Jazak Allah Khair Ahmad. 

Just wanted to clarify that the presentation you mentioned in item #4 below was developed by br. Imtiaz and was playing at our booth computer all day. It included all the points you mentioned like great mosque pictures from around the world, hajj pictures, statistics etc.

We couldn't use that on stage since it was not relevant to the theme of our presentation. 

I'll send you a copy. 

Wassalam 

Ahmed. 

On Sep 29, 2013, at 12:43 AM, Ahmad El Gamal أحمد الجمل <ahmade...@gmail.com> wrote:

Salam Ahmed,

Thanks for your kind words. We all want to thank you for organizing this great effort. There's definitely vast improvement from previous years. JAK :)

As for comments, and I will try to be critical and not complimenting ;):

1- I think it would be a lot more sincere if the person on stage speaking about their journey to Islam talks without a script to read from.

2- The Muslims should leave the seats of the audience to non-Muslims during our presentation. It's so funny and redundant having our Sheikhs preach to "us" at the interfaith events :)

3- No more than 3 reps should be manning our tables at any given time. Less is more, and having a lot of people blocks our banners/posters.

4- We need a much stronger presentation, such as:

   A- Pictures of mosques from all over the world.

   B- Pilgrims at Mecca from all over the world.

   C- Something to show the diversity of Muslims and it's spread all over the world.

   D- Figures and statistics about the number of Muslims in the world and USA, their composition, rate of conversion, rank amongst other religions, etc.

   E- The 5 pillars of Islam

   F- Who is Allah SWT? Who is Muhammad PBUH?

Etc

Thank you,

Ahmad El Gamal.

[Vaidehi]

MashaAllah great job! :) Congratulations!!! 

WS

Best regards,

Sincerely,

Marium

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On Sep 29, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Ahmed Elmalky <ahme...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[umer habib]

Walikum Salam, Alhudulillah Year over Year significant improvement has been made to this event due to the volunteer passion ICOI community have inside it for such activities. Ahmed and all the team members, May Allah bless you and reward your for you intentions and efforts. Please keep it up and ICOI management appreciates and supports you fully for these activities InshAllah.

Wasalam
Umer

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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:27:30 -0700
Subject: [IGV] Thank You
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[Jamaal Diwan]

WS

Agreed.  Great job by all. Special duas for ahmed for all his efforts. 

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Jamaal Diwan
Resident Scholar, ICOI

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