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Welcome Page.........................................................................................................4

2018/19 Overview..........................................................................................................6

Our Vision & Strategy....................................................................................................8

Global Outreach Activities..........................................................................................10

Our Outreach Specialists.............................................................................................12

6 Continents & Growing..............................................................................................14

Outreach Specialists - Key Pro�les...........................................................................16

Latin America Dawah Centres...................................................................................24

Africa: Masjid Hannah...................................................................................................27

Dawah Materials, Books & Distribution..................................................................29

Activities In The United Kingdom............................................................................19

New Muslim Support....................................................................................................22

We are pleased to announce that we have been blessed with completing another ope-rational year, which starts in July and ends in June. The year that has just passed has been unlike any other - all praise and gratitude be-longs to Allah.

We grew our number of outreach specialists to 36, spanning 6 continents, sharing Islam to over 40 countries. As a result, and through Al-lah's will and mercy, we have been blessed with over 4,000 people embracing Islam. We also distributed almost 400,000 dawah materials to 100 countries.

However, it is not just about numbers. We are reminded about Nuh (peace be upon him) who tirelessly shared Islam with his people for 950 years with relatively few followers. Success and results are from Allah, we just have to be sincere and do the work.

Compassionately and intelligently sharing Islam with humanity is our task at hand. We believe this work is one of the most rewardable acts of worship. If one person became Muslim because of your support, you would get the reward of all of their acts of worship. This is

based on the following Prophetic tradition: "Whoever guides someone to goodness will have a similar reward." [Narrated by Muslim]

If this new Muslim gets married and has two children, you will get the reward of all of their worship too. This includes their charity, prayers, fasting and pilgrimage. You will see all of this on your scales of good deeds, insha’Allah. In fact, if you have been supporting us, you could get a lifetime of prayers, fasting, zakat, sadaqah and good deeds of over 4,000 people on your scales on the day of judgement, alhamdullilah.

We are pleased to provide you with a summary of what we achieved last operational year. We would like to thank all of our donors and supporters for helping us to make these achievements. We also believe this will inspire and motivate others to support us too.

May Allah reward you for supporting us and getting us closer to our vision: a world reconnected to Allah.

M E S S A G E F R O M O U R C E O

Hamza Andreas Tzortzis C E O

" [ P R O P H E T ] , C A L L [ P E O P L E ] T O T H E W A Y O F Y O U R L O R D W I T H W I S D O M A N D G O O D T E A C H I N G . A R G U E W I T H T H E M I N T H E M O S T C O U R T E O U S W A Y ,

F O R Y O U R L O R D K N O W S B E S T W H O H A S S T R A Y E D F R O M H I S W A Y A N D W H O I S R I G H T LY G U I D E D . "

[ T H E Q U R ’ A N , C H A P T E R 1 6 , V E R S E 1 2 5 ]

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WE HAVE COMPASSIONATELYAND INTELLIGENTLYSHARED ISLAM WITH HUMANITY FOR 10 YEARS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. Over the years we've been growing from strength to strength with the permission of Allah. This year alone we've seen unprecedented growth. We currently have over thirty outreach specialists across six continents, Alhamdulilah.

A B D U R R A H E E M G R E E N F O U N D E R & C H A I R M A N

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O U R V I S I O N & S T R A T E G Y

Our vision is of the Prophet Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him):

A world reconnected to Allah.

We believe we can achieve our vision by fo-cussing on individuals. It is through empowe-ring, developing and supporting individuals that bring about positive change. Individuals build and lead teams; create organisations and build relationships; engage in community work and deliver training programmes.

How many people initially went to Medina and Yemen? It was Musab-ibn-Umair and Muadh-ibn-Jabal respectively. They laid the groundwork for the populations of these places to embrace Islam.

We want to create the Musabs and Muadhs of today. Focussing on individuals involves, but is not limited to, the following:

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RECRUITING AND HIRING MUSLIMS TO BECOME OUTREACH SPECIALISTS, WHO WILL COMPASSIONATELY & INTELLIGENTLY SHARE ISLAM ACROSS THE GLOBE.

MAKING MUSLIMS MORE CONFIDENT IN CONVEYING ISLAM BY PROVIDING SPEAKERS, TOOLS, PUBLICATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS.

EDUCATING MUSLIMS ON HOW TO COMPASSIONATELY AND INTELLIGENTLY CONVEY AND SHARE ISLAM.

RECRUITMENT

E M P O W E R M E N T

E D U C A T I O N

ROLLING OUT CAMPAIGNS, DELIVERING LECTURES AND DIRECTLY ENGAGING IN. ENGAGEMENT

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G L O B A L O U T R E A C H A C T I V I T I E S

TWENTY COUNTRIESI E R A O U T R E A C H S P E C I A L I S T S Our 36 outreach specialists work in 20 countries across the globe. We aim to have an outreach specialist in every country in the world by 2030.

FORTY-FOUR COUNTRIES W E G A V E D A W A H I N 6 C O N T I N E N T S

Our dawah trips involve the following:

• Outreach training• New Muslim development and empowerment• Lectures• Community outreach• Relationship building• Seeking future outreach specialists

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“ W H O S P E A K S B E T T E R T H A N S O M E O N E W H O C A L L S P E O P L E T O A L L A H , D O E S W H A T I S R I G H T , A N D S A Y S , ‘ I A M O N E O F T H O S E D E V O T E D T O A L L A H . ’ ?

G O O D A N D E V I L C A N N O T B E E Q U A L . R E P E L E V I L W I T H W H A T I S B E T T E R A N D Y O U R E N E M Y W I L L B E C O M E A S C L O S E A S A N O L D A N D V A L U E D F R I E N D . ”

[ T H E Q U R ’ A N , C H A P T E R 4 1 , V E R S E S 3 3 A N D 3 4 ]

OUTREACH SPECIALISTI E R A P R O F I L E

Projects & CampaignsParticipate in, and manage, iERA HQ and local outreach campaigns and projects.

Health CheckPerform an analysis of their area to ensure the health of outreach activities and organisations. Where relevant, ensure any ‘gaps’ are filled and activities and organisations are fit for purpose.

New MuslimsEmpower, educate and motive new Muslims. Create awareness of the importance of New Muslimempowerment.

EducateDeliver outreach training on how to convey Islam at varying levels. This includes lectures, talks and the utilisation of social media.

RelationshipsBuild long-lasting, strong relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate out-reach work.

SpecialiseWhere applicable, specialise in a specific outreach area. For example,academic development in theology. Publications & Materials

Help translate, distribute and produceoutreach materials.

CommunityRegularly engage in community work to empower others to be a true manifestation of Islamic ethics and values.

ShowcaseRegularly communicate their work on social media and other platforms to showcase their work and key narratives and ideas.

InspireMotivate, inspire and encouragecommunities to engage with theProphetic Mission.

A breakdown of the Outreach Specialist role includes the following

O U R O U T R E A C H S P E C I A L I S T S

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“ B Y A L L A H , I F A S I N G L E P E R S O N I S G U I D E D B Y A L L A H T H R O U G H Y O U , I T W O U L D B E T T E R F O R Y O U T H A N T H E B E S T O F C A M E L S ”

[ N A R R A T E D B Y B U K H A R I ]

One aspect of our strategic focus is to support Muslims by developing, recruiting and hiring them to become outreach specialists, who will compassionately and

intelligently share Islam across the globe.

No. OUTREACH SPECIALIST COUNTRY

1 *ABDULAH HAMIMI AUSTRALIA2 *SERTAC OBADAS AUSTRIA3 ALI BESHARA BAHRAIN4 *JOSE FERNANDO ANDREDE PEDREGAL BOLIVIA5 EDMAR CANDIDO BRAZIL6 *DR MUSTAFA KHATTAB CANADA7 *ALI USMAN CANADA8 *PABLO HUSEIN REZUC CHILE9 AYMAN HAMMAMI HONDURAS

10 *AYAZ ASAD INDIA11 *SALMAN SUGIMOTO JAPAN12 *IMAM SHAMSUDEEN STANBULI MALAWI13 *QASIM LLOYD DICK MALAWI14 *UTHMAN ABUBAKR MALAWI15 *ZUBAIR SHUAIB MALAWI16 *RAMADHAN KAJAWO MALAWI17 *FADHLI BURHAN MALAYSIA18 RAFAEL BARAJAS MEXICO19 *NANCY IBARRA PARAGUAY20 *OMAR TEHERAN PERU21 *USTADH NOHR SAWATO PHILIPPINES22 *FAHAD ABDULLAH PHILIPPINES23 *IBRAHIM JIMMY PALAWAN PHILIPPINES24 *MIKHAIL ZAFRA LIM PHILIPPINES25 *ABU BAKR ARABIS PHILIPPINES26 *USTADH ANAS CHING LAURIO PHILIPPINES27 *USTADH YUSUF CHING LAURIO PHILIPPINES28 *ABDULGHANI DAACA PHILIPPINES29 *HAMZA TIONGSON PHILIPPINES30 *KUABOB DE LA CRUZ PHILIPPINES31 SUBBOOR AHMAD UNITED KINGDOM32 IMRAN HUSSEIN UNITED KINGDOM33 MURTAZA CHAUDHARY UNITED KINGDOM34 ABU TAYYEB UNITED KINGDOM35 FAHAD TASLEEM UNITED STATES36 *SERGIO PENAZOLA VENEZUELA

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We currently have five outreach specialists in Malawi and Masjid Hannah that is used for events, development and community outreach.

In Africa, we will be looking to expand outreach activi-ties into twelve new coun-tries. Spearheaded by our Africa Consultant, Adnan Rashid. We will be looking at new countries including South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria to conti-nue the great work and to possibly hire global outreach specialists who will continue the great work already hap-pening in Africa, insha'Allah.

We have one outreach specialist in Australasia who has been working hard delivering dawah training and engaging in community outreach.

Following the unfortunate events at Christchurch in New Zealand, our team helped the local communi-ties by running a range of outreach activities to bring the people together.

As a result of working on the ground, we have identi-fied candidates to be hired for the role of outreach specialist for New Zealand and to continue the great work there.

We have fourteen outreach specialists in Asia sharing Islam in villages, town and cities in Asia.

With the upcoming Olympics that will be held in Tokyo in 2020, We will be hoping to run a campaign to help consolidate and expand the educational and outreach activities in Japan headed by Japanese outreach specialist Salman Sugimoto.

Future plans for the region include visiting and hiring ou-treach specialists in Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea and Taiwan.

AFRICA M A L A W I

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AUSTRALASIA A U S T R A L I A ..................................................

ASIA BAH | IND | JPN | PHI | MLY ....................................................

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NORTH AMERICA C A N | H O N | M E X | U S A

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SOUTH AMERICA BOL | BRA | CHI | PAR | PER | VEN ......................................................

EUROPE A U S | I R E | U K ......................................................

We have five outreach specialists in North Ame-rican. We have been wor-king in Canada and the USA for almost a decade. Our work includes delive-ring workshops, seminars, exhibitions and distribu-ting material, creating and developing teams. In Mexico, we have been giving talks on Islam to non-Muslims and distri-buting a new range of Spanish dawah materials. We also have one dawah centre in Honduras.

In Cuba, we are going to be hiring an imam, which entails teaching new Muslims, using the mosque as a dawah centre, delivering talks at uni-versities, schools and other institutions about Islam.

We have six outreach spe-cialists in South America. We also have one dawah centre in Bolivia.

We are looking to hire outre-ach specialists and expand further to Argentina, Colom-bia and Ecuador.

These outreach specialists are going to give dawah to the public through street dawah, exhibitions, university talks, open days at mosques and interfaith dialogues. They will also empower other Muslims on how to share Islam through dawah training courses and lectures. A significant part of their role will include taking care of new Muslims.

We have five outreach specialists in Europe with a whole team in Ireland. Our current crop of ou-treach specialists have been travelling across many countries in Europe, delivering outreach trai-ning, lectures, engaging in community outreach and stakeholder building.

The priority in the upcoming year is to cover twelve coun-tries (Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, Swit-zerland, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia and Croa-tia). We want to support new and existing teams; develo-ping their capacity through a range of training program-mes, setting up new Muslim infrastructures.

NANCI IBARRA | PARAGUAY

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALFORMER NUN

MUSTAFA KHATTAB | CANADA

CLEAR QURAN TRANSLATOR

AL-AZHAR GRADUATE

QASIM LLOYD | MALAWI

ISLAMIC SCIENCES GRADUATE

ARABIC SPEAKER

Living in a devoutly Christiancountry with an estimated96% of people identifyingthemselves as Catholics —giving dawah has its obviouschallenges. As a former nunwho accepted Islam a fewyears ago, Nanci has beeninvolved in numerous dawahactivities to invigorate herpeople to understand moreabout Islam.

Speaking the indigenouslanguage of Guarani gives herthe opportunity to tap intothe most remote indigenoustribes in the world. Most ofthese indigenous people haveaccepted Christianity over thecenturies through missionaryactivities, however few ofthem remained true to theirindigenous beliefs. Throughher efforts, many peoplehave learned about Islam andsome have even acceptedIslam

With an increased interest ofIslam in North America, iERA’sdawah efforts are neededmore than ever — to enlighten our neighbours andthe larger community aboutwhat Islam really is and whoMuslims are. Leveraging goodrelations with fellow Imamsand chaplains as well as theMuslim and interfaith com-munity enables the Canadianteam to build alliances andopen doors for outreach.

With the help of Ali Usman(outreach specialist) and adedicated team of volunteers,Mustafa’s work includestalks to university students,street dawah, training, leadingmosque tours, feeding thehomeless, answering que-stions by school students(mostly about Allah, creation,and the problem of evil, etc.),helping those interested inIslam, and providing supportto new Muslims.

Having studied with an IslamicInstitution in Malawi, Qasimgraduated in Islamic Sciences.Along with being a fluent spe-aker in Arabic, he possessesa good knowledge of Islamictheology. This is essential forthe dawah in Malawi due to aheavy missionary presence.Qasim's knowledge alsoenhances the way the teamdevelop and support newMuslims.

Currently, a full-time iERAoutreach specialist in Malawi,he organises dawah on a dailybasis. He heads out to remo-te villages to positively engageand share Islam with them.

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O U T R E A C H S P E C I A L I S T S - K E Y P R O F I L E S

SALMAN SUGIMOTO | JAPAN

JAPANESE QURAN CO-TRANSLATOR

REVERT 20+ YEARS

FADHLI BURHAN | MALAYSIA

ACTIVE SPEAKERPROMINENT TRAINER

RAFAEL BARAJAS | MEXICO

STUDIED IN MADINAHLOCAL IMAM

Salman, who converted toIslam in 1997, is the chairmanof NPO Chiba Cultural Centre.He has an MA in Global Stu-dies and has studied at theInternational IslamicUniversity of Malaysia. He isthe elected chairman of theJapan Dawah Alliance andalso the co-translator of thefirst translation of the Qur'anin easy Japanese.

Salman intends to play apivotal role in the upcomingOlympics which is beinghosted in his home nation in2020.

Japanese people are known for being quite introvertedand this would be the perfectopportunity to approachthem with what they aremissing. Salman’s lifelong vi-sion is to convey the message of Islam to all homes in Japan by 2050!

Fadhli Burhan studied undera renowned scholar incomparative religion. He hasorganised outreach missionsin more than ten countriesthroughout the world anddelivered many talks andconferences in Malaysia andSouth East Asia.

Fadhli has establishedexcellent relationships withgovernment officials andnon-Muslims of all faiths, andhis focus is on sharing thecompassionate message ofIslam to the people of Asia.He works with local organisa-tions within his localityand abroad, finding effectivecollaboration for the better-ment for humanity. He helpstroubled youth get back toIslam and is an advisor toindividuals who are on theverge of losing their faith. Hismission is to establish outreach teams cities all across Asia.

Rafael wants iERA to be thestrongest force of dawah andnew Muslim support in Mexco as well as Latin America, as he envisions the potential forIslam to blossom in this re-gion of the world, insha'Allah.

He wants to establish stron-ger relationships with univer-sities, academic scholars, or-ganisations, the government,media and the press. AllowingMuslims to have a positivepresence in Mexican society.

Alhamdulillah, after comple-ting the initial phase ofiERA’s vision, Rafael needs tokeep up the momentum andcontinue working on the nextphase to make Mexican Mu-slims a cornerstone of theirsociety — the upcoming yearwill be crucial.

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A C T I V I T I E S I N T H E U N I T E D K I N G D O M

T H R O U G H O U T T H E Y E A R W E D E L I V E R B E G I N N E R A N D A D V A N C E D O U T R E A C H T R A I N I N G A N D E D U C A T I O N A L L O V E R T H E U K . T H I S I N C L U D E S L E C T U R E S ,

C O U R S E S A N D W O R K S H O P S A T U N I V E R S I T I E S , M O S Q U E S , C O M M U N I T Y C E N T R E S A N D O U R I N - H O U S E C L A S S R O O M .

M O S Q U E S U N I V E R S I T Y I S L A M I C S O C I E T I E S

3421No. MOSQUE CITY/TOWN

TALKS, TRAINING & WEBINARS

1 AL-HIKMAH ABERDEEN 2

2 AS-SUFFA BIRMINGHAM 2

3 BMHC MANCHESTER 1

4 GREEN LANE MASJID BIRMINGHAM 1

5 EXETER ISLAMIC CENTRE EXETER 3

6 MASJID AL-FAROOQ GLASGOW 1

7 WISE HIGH WYCOMBE 2

8 MASJID AT-TAQWA LEICESTER 1

9 CITY RETREAT LEICESTER 1

10 ST HELENS MOSQUE LIVERPOOL 1

11 EAST LONDON MOSQUE LONDON 3

12 REGENTS PARK MOSQUE LONDON 1

13 IBRAHIM MOSQUE LONDON 1

14 EDMONTON ISLAMIC CENTRE LONDON 1

15 HOCKWELL RING LUTON 2

16 NORBURY MUSLIM CENTRE NORBURY 1

17 NOTTINGHAM ISLAM NOTTINGHAM 2

18 PIETY PLYMOUTH 2

19 THE MESSAGE ISLAM INFO CENTRE SHEFFIELD 3

20 AL-AZHAR SOUTH SHEILDS 1

21 AL-FALAAH GLASGOW 1

W E H A V E S I G N E D M E M O R A N D A O F U N D E R S T A N D I N G W I T H K E Y M O S Q U E S A N D O R G A N I S A T I O N S A C R O S S T H E U K T H A T F O R M A L I S E O U R W O R K I N G

R E L A T I O N S H I P . T H E S E A G R E E M E N T S E N S U R E T H A T W E D E L I V E R T R A I N I N G , P R O V I D E O U R M A T E R I A L S A N D S U P P O R T T H E M U S I N G O U R D E D I C A T E D T E A M .

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S T U D E N T S A R E O U R F U T U R E . W E ’ V E B E E N T O 3 4 U N I V E R S I T I E S U P A N D D O W N T H E U K , V I S I T I N G T H E M O V E R 5 0 T I M E S . L E A V I N G T H E M W I T H

T H E C O N F I D E N C E T O P R A C T I C E & S H A R E I S L A M I N A N Y E N V I R O N M E N T .

No. ISLAMIC SOCIETY CITY/TOWNTALKS,

TRAINING, WEBINARS

1 BUIS BATH 1

2 ASTON ISOC BIRMINGHAM 1

3 BCUSU BIRMINGHAM 1

4 UBISOC BIRMINGHAM 3

5 BRADFORD ISOC BRADFORD 2

6 ISOC BRIGHTON BRIGHTON 1

7 CU ISOC CAMBRIDGE 2

8 ESSEX ISOC COLCHESTER 1

9 DUNDEE UNI ISOC DUNDEE 1

10 DUIS DURHAM 2

11 UHISOC HERTFORDSHIRE 1

12 LIVISOC LIVERPOOL 2

13 LSESU LONDON 1

14 KINGSTON ISOC LONDON 2

15 GOLD ISOC LONDON 1

16 KCL ISOC LONDON 2

17 SOAS ISOC LONDON 1

18 GREENWICH ISOC LONDON 3

19 MIDDLESEX UNI ISOC LONDON 1

20 ST GEORGE'S ISOC LONDON 1

21 WEST LONDON LONDON 1

22 UNI OF MANCHESTER ISOC MANCHESTER 1

23 TEESIDE ISOC MIDDLESBOROUGH 1

24 NORTHUMBRIA ISOC NORTHUMBRIA 1

25 NEWCASTLE ISOC NEWCASTLE 1

26 NOTTINGHAM ISOC NOTTINGHAM 1

27 PLYMOUTH ISOC PLYMOUTH 2

28 ISOC PORTSMOUTH PORTSMOUTH 1

29 USIC SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD 1

30 ISLAMIC CIRCLE SOCIETY SHEFFIELD 6

31 SHEFFIELD HALLAM ISOC SHEFFIELD 1

32 SOUTHAMPTON ISOC SOUTHAMPTON 2

33 SURREY ISOC SURREY 1

34 WARWICK ISOC WARWICK 1

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Our new Muslim development program-me is amongst the most important work that we do. Our programme in-cludes a welcome pack, local weekly classes, online resources and support, as well as a two four-day educational retreat programme.

Every year, thousands of people accept Islam and embark on a gra-dual journey of self-improvement and discovery. In some cases, with a supportive community or family behind them, it can be quite a smo-oth and easy transition. However, in most cases, entering into Islam on their own can be quite challen-ging. We are here to empower and provide them with a strong foun-dation, easing their transition into Islam so that they can become the best version of themselves, to be-nefit humanity and attain piety.

Our four day all inclusive residen-tial retreat empower new Muslims to grow in knowledge and build a deeper connection with Allah.Their day starts with fajr followed

by a prayer workshop designed to help them progress in having a deep and meaningful conversation with Allah each and every time they pray.

After that, classes, interactive work shops and thought-provoking bre-akout sessions will make them appreciate the true beauty of this religion both in theory and in practice as they bond with their fellow attendees.

This retreat is a rare opportunity to eat, pray and live Islam in an upli-fting environment, with a guarantee that when they return home, they are able to implement what they have experienced for life.For the new Muslims who cannot physically attend our retreats, we offer online classes throughout the year, where students can engage with the instructor on a weekly basis.

We also train mosques, organi-sations, teams and individuals on how to develop and empower new Muslims.

N E W M U S L I M S U P P O R T

" T H I S M A T T E R W I L L C E R T A I N LY R E A C H E V E R Y P L A C E T O U C H E D B Y T H E N I G H T A N D D A Y . A L L A H W I L L N O T L E A V E A H O U S E O R R E S I D E N C E

E X C E P T T H A T A L L A H W I L L C A U S E T H I S R E L I G I O N T O E N T E R I T . . . " [ M U S N A D A H M A D ]

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Having established two Islamic centres in both Bolivia and Honduras, we look at our first one that we opened in 2018 the capital of Tegucigalpa.

Currently, there are only about 1,500 Muslims within Honduras, which are mostly made up of immigrants heralding from either North Africa or the Middle East. When compared to the overall population of 10 million, the tiny Muslim popu-lation did not even have a single Mosque within the whole nation — something that in today’s day and age was inconceivable to our team.

The centre is located near the main Mall — in the heart of the capital Tegucigalpa — which is close to the main bus station, presidential palace and the national bank. Numerous people are out and about within the confines of this during the whole week and the high volume of footfall is directly outside the main entrance to the Mall. The centre serves as a permanent drop-in cen-tre for non-Muslims and a teaching centre for new Muslims.

There is a permanent install of iERA's Jesus Exhibition. The aim of the exhibition is to invite others to learn more about one of the greatest prophets of God. The local visitors are usually bemused because the pre-conception of Islam amongst Catholics and Evangelical Christians — is that it’s an archaic and ruthless religion where its followers are unwilling to adapt to the times. However, after meeting iERA outreach specialist Ayman Hammami and his team — their percep-tion of Islam quickly changes.

H O N D U R A S D A W A H C E N T R E

" T H E O N E W H O G U I D E S T O S O M E T H I N G G O O D , H A S T H E R E W A R D S I M I L A R T O T H A T O F I T S D O E R . "

[ M U S L I M ]

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Muslims make up just 0.02% of the population of Bolivia. As a remote, landlocked country in South America, it has had little interaction with Islam. A small community of native reverts set up the first mosque in the capital La Paz, about 20 years ago. The mosque 'Jesus: Son of Mary' served the growing community of Muslims. Even though they were small in number, the Muslims reached out to spread the message of Islam.

iERA visited this community in Ramadan 2018 and saw an opportunity to make their activities much broader and effective. We set up a dawah centre, where we collaborated with the local Mu-slims to run it. The local community of Muslims and non-Muslims wholeheartedly accepted the project.

The centre serves as a full-time drop-in centre for non-Muslims and a permanent placeholder for the iERA Jesus Exhibition which is open to the

public. The centre holds open days which is atten-ded by a university student, Christian faith leaders and anyone curious about Islam. It serves coffee, finger food and Islamic literature free of charge to attendees.

As a result of the centre's activities, many non-Muslims learn about Islam where their common negative misconceptions are dispelled. Alhamdulillah, every month, approximately a few people accept Islam in the centre. The centre serves as a hub where new Muslims can meet up, attend classes explaining the basics of Islam and discuss some of the difficulties they may be facing.

Taking care of new Muslims is an essential and vital part of building, sustaining and growing the small community of Muslims in Bolivia, where the centre has had a significant positive effect on the Muslim community's life here.

B O L I V I A D A W A H C E N T R E

" T H E M E S S E N G E R O F A L L A H S A I D : ' W H O E V E R I N T R O D U C E S A G O O D P R A C T I C E T H A T I S F O L L O W E D , H E W I L L R E C E I V E I T S R E W A R D A N D A R E W A R D E Q U I V A L E N T T O T H A T O F T H O S E W H O F O L L O W I T , W I T H O U T T H A T D E T R A C T I N G F R O M T H E I R R E W A R D I N T H E I R S L I G H T E S T . . . ' "

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This is our first mosque and we have decided to call it Masjid Hannah. A Jewish, Christian and Muslim female name that means affection and love. This is exactly what we want the project to achieve. The mosque project is managed by Sheikh Shamsudeen Stanbulli who is our full-time ou-treach specialist in Malawi. He has a very close relationship with the village.

Malawi is a unique country with its own challen-ges. There’s a massive missionary movement in Malawi. The Christian missionaries build churches and provide humanitarian support. This occurs within the backdrop of a communal and tribal atmosphere, unlike what happens in the West. In this context, the new Muslims will require immediate development and empower-ment. Additionally, in the context of missionary activity and communitarian social pressure, they will need to acquire tools to be able to convey Islam with compassion and reason.

In November 2017, our Founder Abdurraheem Green, and Global Outreach Manager Salahud-din Patel travelled to Malawi to provide training for the team in Africa, to facilitate outreach activities in various Malawian villages.

Since then, our team have visited Malawi four times and from all the grassroots work we've

done, we're able to account for over 1,500 shahadas!

Regarding new Muslim development, our main strategy is to train outreach specialists, to support the development and empowerment of new Muslims. However, the assumption behind this strategy is that the new Muslims will be Western. Typically in Western societies new Muslims tend to live in less communita-rian societies than the new Muslims in African nations. Communitarian communities seem to identify the individual as an entity linked to social obligations and attachments.

This context requires that we shift our strategy on new Muslims for Africa. In a communita-rian and tribal context of Malawian villages, developing outreach specialists so they can educate and empower new Muslims may not be adequate to fulfil the goals of maintaining an individual’s imaan (faith). What is required is a localised, community-centric approach. The development of new Muslims should be done via people and institutions that are perceived as influential and part of village community life.

Masjid Hannah continues to serve as an epicentre on the com-munity. With an imaam, the mosque is used for events for surrounding villages, to feed them, give them water and give the Dawah!

F R O M A L L T H E G R A S S R O O T S W O R K W E ' V E D O N E W E W E R E A B L E T O A C C O U N T F O R O V E R

1 , 5 0 0 S H A H A D A S I N M A L A W I A L O N E !

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" N O N E O F Y O U T R U LY B E L I E V E S U N T I L H E L O V E S F O R H I S B R O T H E R W H A T H E L O V E S F O R H I M S E L F . "

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The materials we distribute were written and designed to promote a warm and intelligent case for Islam, in a style and language that is easy to comprehend.This year, we focused on the following topics:

• Life After Life • Making Sense of God • The Last Messenger • Jesus Book • Jesus Booklets • Eternal Challenge • Word of Mercy • Cards of Mercy • Know God, Know Good • The Man in the Red Underpants • Love of God • Forbidden Prophecies • Quran: A Short Journey We distributed over 391,239 of our dawah ma-terials to 125 countries in the world:

Our most popular materials last year was the new publication Life After Life, of which we di-stributed over 72,000 across the globe, accoun-ting for 18% of our annual distributed units.

Making Sense of God were still popular; we distributed 67,300 units, which over 17% of our annual distribution. The three new publications launched this year distributed over 190,000 units; these three publications accounted for

under 60% of distributions this year. Our most popular book was the Eternal Challenge, distri-buting 7604 units.

Sheikh Abdurraheem Green reviews all of our materials, provided free of charge, with custo-mers only paying for postage and packaging. We have also collaborated with teams and organisations across the UK to advance the prophetic mission. We regularly check on the progress with these teams to offer support on ways and methods to support the outreach work they are carrying out in their local community.

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D A W A H M A T E R I A L S T O 1 0 0 C O U N T R I E S

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D A W A H M A T E R I A L S , B O O K S & D I S T R I B U T I O N

" C O N V E Y F R O M M E , E V E N O N E V E R S E " [ N A R R A T E D B Y M U S L I M ]

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