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Dear Champions Community,
Assalamu Alaikum
Inshaa Allah, starting from Friday, March 15th (1st Friday in Ramadan), we are changing the Friday Prayers schedule at Masjid AlSalam (Champions) to be unified year-around as follows:
1st Jumaah: Khutba begins at 12:15 PM, Prayer at 12:40 PM
2nd Jumaah: Khutba begins at 01:35 PM, Prayer at 02:00 PM
3rd Jumaah: Khutba begins at 03:15 PM, Prayer at 03:30 PM
Reason for this change:
The issues above required the administration to investigate alternatives to the status quo.
How we arrived at the Proposal:
As part of Masjid AlSalam's journey toward becoming a Center of Excellence (CoE) and enhancing the Quality of Experience (QoE) for our community, we conducted a survey to gauge community feedback on alternate Friday prayer timings which provide the necessary 45 minutes buffer between prayers. Approximately 75% of the survey responses were in favor of the new times.
These alternate times were brought to Dr. Salah Elsawy, the Chair of the Religious and Ulema Committee (ISGH) and the Secretary-General for the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA), on the permissibility of starting the first Friday prayer before the normal time for Dhuhr due to necessity.
These proposed timings are endorsed by:
Furthermore, there are other non-ISGH Islamic Centers nationwide that currently hold Friday prayers before Dhuhr time.
ISGH Board of Directors (Shura) approved these new timings at their last February meeting.
The administration realizes that these changes may inconvenience some members of the community but the intention was to make things easier for the vast majority. None of these decisions were taken lightly and underwent detailed discussions and deliberation.
May Allah SWT put barakah in this decision and overlook our shortcomings. Ameen.
Jazak Allah Khairun.
Your Masjid AlSalam Team for 2024