📌 Important Community Announcement

Important Community Announcement

IMPORTANT COMMUNITY ANNOUCEMENT

Dear IACC Community members,

On Thursday February 8th, we had a townhall meeting at IACC with question-and-answer session where many of you in attendance had the opportunity to express your concerns and comments. Shura responded as best as possible. We ended the scheduled town hall meeting before Esha and prayed Esha together.

After leading Esha, Imam Azhar unexpectedly shared many of his personal grievances with the congregation. Some of them were related to his health conditions. We pray to Allah that Imam is granted a full and speedy recovery.

Imam Azhar also mentioned about commitments made to him regarding his housing, health care benefit, benefit of enrolling his children in Good Tree through scholarship. It is important to note that IACC has adhered fully to the contractual requirements negotiated by Imam Azhar and IACC Leadership both in the initial term and when renewed. None of those items mentioned above were promised except a housing allowance which has been paid to him.

In 2021, when it was time for contract renewal, Imam Azhar had every opportunity to bring those promised benefits to make part of the contract renewal negotiation. Those benefits were never brought up. They were not included in renewed contract that Imam Azhar and Shura together drafted and re-drafted before Imam Azhar and IACC Shura signed the renewal.

Further, the contract outlines a process for resolving disputes under the contract. Voicing such issues on the Mimbar is not the process. We must respect Imam Azhars employment rights including a right to privacy thus we cannot discuss specific employment details with Community members.

We pray that Allah SWT bless Imam Azhar and IACC community.

Sincerely

IACC Shura