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The Only Latino Muslim- Led Islamic Center in The U.S. needs your help

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Impact: Houston, TX

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This campaign will collect all funds raised by January 18, 2020 at 12:00 AM EDT

Invest in your home in Jannah, by investing in our Masjid reaching 500+ Million Latinos Worldwide from America. Help us to complete the center!


Urgent Appeal: Help Re-Open Masjid "Centro Islamico" 


Your help is the key that will unlock the doors to this masjid and Islamic center. Can you help us open the doors this year?

Alhamdulillah, with your generous support we were able to raise what we needed to purchase the property. In order to open the doors to pray inside, host Non-Muslims and re-start our many programs, we need $550,000 to complete the Centro Islamico Masjid. Just imagine the reward you will get for all the worshippers who pray there and all of those who may embrace Islam!


Here's how it looks inside right now:

Currently, our community is without a center. We moved out of our previous rental location. Most of our programs and services are have stopped. We have the building there, but it's not quite ready for use. 

To complete this project and open the doors to the Latino Muslim community and their Non-Muslim neighbors, the building needs to be converted from an industrial building to a Masjid and Islamic Center. With your continued generous support, we may once again offer non-Muslim tours, use our production studio, stream our weekly classes, and conduct our Islamic history museum tours.


Over 160 people embraced Islam over three years at our old location.  Hundreds of new Spanish speaking Muslim families come in for our services in the city of Houston, Texas. 500+ Million people worldwide view the media that we create. 


The prayer area in our previous center (rented):

This is the ONLY Latino Muslim-Led Mosque and Islamic Center in America. IslamInSpanish is appealing to all Brothers and Sisters in Islam, locally and internationally to help and financially support the completion of this amazing building project. 

When you help us, you are getting the rewards of:


We appreciate your dua and support!

Even if you can’t give at this time, you can still get the rewards! Share this page widely on every one of your social media networks. 

Prayer in our previous center in the studio:

Do You Want To Have A House Built In Jannah For You? 

The Beloved of Allah, RasulAllah SAWS said: 

“Whoever Builds a Mosque For Allah, Allah will Reward them with a Palace in Paradise” - (Hadith Al-Bukhari)

This is an amazing opportunity. When the thousands of people pray in this mosque for centuries onward, you will get the reward. The knowledge people learn at this mosque will be heavy on your scale of deeds. The good deeds done by those who accept Islam at this mosque will surprise you on the Day of Judgement because of your generous support. 

How often can you help build a piece of a house of Allah? 


Be sure this mosque is needed and will be well used. 

Click the picture below to watch the video of our impact on our community.


WHO WE ARE?

We are a Latino Muslim Community led by Latino Muslim Leaders and Educators who have taken it upon ourselves to establish Islam among the Spanish speaking community in America and around the world. For the past, near three years we were renting a unit which has been featured on many national and international mainstream media outlets. Over 160 people embraced Islam in our current facility in only three years and we now serve hundreds of new Spanish speaking Muslim families in the city of Houston, Texas. We provide a welcoming environment for people to come to get to know one another, eat together, pray together, learn, teach and grow as individuals and as families. 

But we were told we must vacate the building since our lease has expired and now that we have an industrial building we need to build it out even better than our previous rental facility.  After consulting many of the Muslim scholars and leaders in America who advise us for our 18 years, we were told that it's time to build a permanent center and then finally found the perfect building by the mercy of Allah.  Anyone who ever visits Houston is more than welcome to visit our Masjid and Islamic Center to see how we carry out our vision of transforming lives into productive global citizens collaborating for the common good of humanity!


What Do We Need?

We need your help! YOU have the ability to help us Re-Open this Masjid

If just 5,000 Muslims donated $100 we would raise the money we need to complete this masjid! 

There are 1.5 Billion Muslims.  Will you be one to help build the house of Allah?


What kind of Masjid?

Picture a full-packed masjid that offers services to cater to ONE and all…

We’re talking about Islamic programs in Spanish and English streamed online worldwide, educational classes, physical and social activities, youth developmentfaith, health, spiritual and relationship counseling









Who are we?

IslamInSpanish is an educational non-profit organization that was established out of the need to educate Latinos about Islam in the Spanish language worldwide after the devastating incident of 9/11. It is was founded by Jaime “Mujahid” Fletcher, a Colombian convert to Islam who needs to share Islam with his father and family led to discover that there was no material in the Spanish language. 

After his father’s conversion 3 months later, both of them and his recently converted wife all worked together to bring about a balanced understanding of Islam within a culturally relevant manner which lead to the creation of the 1st cd produced entitled “La Religion de la Verdad” (The Religion of Truth) which became the means to his wife’s aunt embracing Islam before her death from Cancer.


On January 30th, 2016 after 15 years of working out of many Masajid and traveling nationally in the U.S. and throughout Latin America; IslamInSpanish opened the 1st-of-a-kind Spanish Speaking “Centro Islamico” in the city of Houston, Texas and in only 2.5 years 140 people have accepted Islam. 

Via its state-of-the-art Production Studio in 2018 in the month of Ramadan, our video production reached over 14 million people worldwide. IslamInSpanish has currently outgrown its current rental facility and has now acquired a 2-Acre Property with an existing 10,000 Square foot facility newly built 8 years ago. 

Our goal is to reach the 500+ Million Spanish-Speakers that exist worldwide. Today IslamInSpanish represents Muslims in the Spanish language by speaking on the mainstream media outlets such as CNN in Spanish, Univision, Telemundo and has been featured on NPR, The Guardian, L.A. Times, Al-Jazeera, and many other international channels worldwide.


Share our videos on Facebook and all social media platforms!

"Those who spend their wealth [in Allah 's way] by night and by day, secretly and publicly - they will have their reward with their Lord. And no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve."

[The Qur’an, Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayah 274]


​Shahadas at our Center:

Sister Amelba accepts Islam after the Friday sermon (Jummuah). Amelba is from Mexico and started learning about Islam from her neighbor, Ra'ad. Today she came to know the IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico in Houston, TX and gave us the honor in giving us the opportunity to witness her shahada

[Click the image to watch the video]


Sister Rosa (in pink) accepted Islam after our first Jummuah in our temporary location.

[Click the image to watch the video]


Growing up as a Catholic, Roberto would go to church and attend the usual services and felt he was pretty religious but the more he looked into Islam he felt that many of his doubts were cleared up. He preferred watching and listening to the Spanish Islamic material available from IslamInSpanish online since it was in his native language. 

[Click the image to watch the video]


This sister Sandra was given a Quran in the Spanish language by Abu Mujahid Fletcher 12 years ago. She has been following and learning on Facebook. Today she visited us for the second time at the Centro Islamico to take her shahada! 

[Click the image to watch the video]


Sister Blanca accepts Islam MashaAllah after seeking the truth all her life!

[Click the image to watch the video]


Vanessa of a Mexican background has been looking into Islam over 10 years. She found IslamInSpanish online and instantly felt like driving 1 hour over to our center and after discussing, embraced Islam alhumdulillah.

[Click the image to watch the video]



Our work has been supported by many reputable scholars Alhamdulillah!  

Click the images below to watch their video:

Shaikh Yasir Qadhi (click the image)

Shaikh Omar Suleiman (click the image)

Shaikh Abdullah Hakim Quick (click the image)

Imam Siraj Wahaj (click the image)

Shaikh Yasir Birjas (click the image)

Imam Zaid Shakir . (click the image)

NBA Basketball Player Hakeem Olajuwon (click the image)


Sister Dalia Mogahed (click the image)


Brother Boona Muhammad (click the image)


Shaikh Saad Tasleem (click the image)


Azhar Azeez, President of Islamic Relief  (click the image)


Sister Dunia Shuaib (click the image)


To Support us using PayPal

please click the following link: bit.ly/paycentro


Watch the Vice Minority Report: 

Why Latinos Are Converting to Islam


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"Latino Accepts Islam. See how his mother reacted":


In the press:

Philly.com

Univision

HoustonChronicle

LATimes

Visit our website: islaminspanish.org


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IslamInSpanish4 years ago

Can You Believe This?

AsSalaamu Alaikum Dear Supporter,

Did you receive the message we sent yesterday? We mentioned Giving Tuesday!

Launchgood wants to get in on all the charities’ good deeds TODAY, which is "Giving Tuesday."

They are giving $100,000 to the top charity fundraisers! SubhanAllah!

This gets us at IslamInSpanish excited because to raise the money to purchase our building,
our Launchgood fundraiser was the first non-emergency to raise $1 million. So we expect to win
in either, or BOTH the categories with the support of our existing donors like you:

1. Have the most donations in 24 hours
2. Have the most donors in 24 hours

Launchgood’s Giving Tuesday deal lasts the whole day long. So will you join this global giving
movement, and help your charity win $20,000?

Donate to our campaign by clicking here.

Where will your money go? To finish building out the IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico. Just
imagine the rewards you’ll get for those who

● Offer salah in a proper masjid area
● Accept Islam in our beautiful, comforting dawah lounge and museum
● View around the world our media productions


We are already 93% funded. Less than 35K to go. 

Will you help us complete the Centro?

Please click the link below or the image above:
https://www.launchgood.com/ReopenMasjid


Donate Here


Or you can use one of the following options as well, together we can make this happen InshaAllah:
 

  • Mail a check payable to IslamInSpanish (6200 Hwy 6 S. #101, Houston, TX 77083)

  • Text the word “GIVE” to 832-589-1489

  • Donate with the “Venmo app” @islaminspanish


  • Share with your friends and family and gain the reward of their support
     

JazakAllahu Khairan again for your generosity! May Allah (swt) multiply your reward and make it a means to gain the highest level of Jannah, ameen. Thanks to supporters like you, IslamInSpanish can continue to nurture, educate and empower the Latino community as our Vision is “To see lives transformed into productive global citizens collaborating for the common good of humanity”.

 

Sincerely,

 

Jaime “Mujahid” Fletcher

Founder and CEO

IslamInSpanish4 years ago

Special news for YOU from the Centro Islamico

Asalaamu Alaikum Dear Supporter, 

What a year this has been already! In March, we were asked to move out of our rental location. Then, from the grace and mercy of Allah, over ten thousand donors from around the world helped us purchase a new building of our own! 

All those who donated to help us buy the new location are rewarded for 

● All those who prayed Taraweeh with us and broke their fast at our community iftars 

● All those who pray the 5x daily salawaat at the new building 

● All children and adults who come to study the Quran and the Arabic language 

● Everyone who hears our Jumuah khutbah (in Spanish or English) at the Centro, and streaming online 

● All the people coming into the new building accepting Islam 

● All the Muslims and non-Muslims sharing food at our community potlucks 

It feels so great to give back to our community and share together. 

While we’re on the subject of giving, I wanted to draw your attention to ‘Giving Tuesday’, which is coming soon. 

Since 2012, this day which takes place after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, focuses the world’s attention on charitable giving. Huge companies as well as individuals and families raise funds for the charities nearest to their hearts. 

It’s beautiful to see what a movement like that can do. This is the time of year when people want to buy more things. But Giving Tuesday is all about giving back. It takes place this year on December 3. 

There is something exciting that happens when you give through Launchgood this Giving Tuesday (Dec. 3) Wait for our next message and I’ll tell you what that is. 

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