UPDATED Community Iftar Guidelines for 2024

Important Ramadan Iftar Updates

Assalam Alaykum IAFLM Community!

IMPORTANT RAMADAN IFTAR UPDATES!

Ramadan is a little over 2 weeks away! Insha'Allah throughout the month we will try and support our brothers and sisters in hardship overseas. As such, out of respect for the many who are struggling for basic human needs such as food and clean water, we are implementing some changes this year to our Iftar programs at IALFM.

BYOWB - Firstly, to minimize waste, this year we encourage everyone to bring your own water bottle to the Masjid. For those who forget to bring water, we will offer bottles for purchase at $1 each with all proceeds going for Palestine relief Insha'Allah.

Abbreviated Iftar Menu - Secondly, we are asking hosting families to scale down iftar menus to 1 rice dish, 1 salad, and 1 meat item to also minimize excess and waste out of respect for our brothers and sisters suffering around the world. We encourage any money that has been raised that would have been spent on additional items such as appetizers, desserts, drinks, decor etc. instead be donated for Palestine relief. It is up to the hosting families ultimately what they want to do with their excess funds, we are merely making a suggestion. However, IALFM will be collecting funds for Palestine relief.

Sponsor an Iftar - We are still looking to fill 4 slots for a group of families to sponsor Iftar. The dates are:

Friday March 15th

Sunday March 17th

Friday March 22nd

Sunday April 7th

We are also looking for additional individual sponsors for our Interfaith Iftar on

Saturday, March 30th and Laylatul Qadr Iftar on Friday, April 5th.

The link to sign up is:

https://tiny.cc/IalfmIftarSignup

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Volunteers Needed - Lastly, we've only had a few people sign up to volunteer during Ramadan. Volunteers are essential for us to put on these iftars for the community, so please sign up if you are willing to help out at all during the month:

tiny.cc/IalfmRamadanVolunteers

As always thank you for your cooperation and support. Feel free to email [email protected] with any questions or concerns.

Jazakallah!

IALFM Board of Directors.