As-Salāmu Alaykum Wa-Rahmatullāhi Wa-Barakātuh

Dover Cultural Centre is a registered charity that was set-up in 2012 to establish the FIRST Masjid in Dover. We are a small community where Muslims make up less than 0.6% of the population in Dover. We therefore rely on the generosity of the wider Muslim ummah as a charity.

The registered charity was formed in the hope of allowing the town's Muslim community to have a Masjid at their doorstep and a place to develop and strengthen their Emaan, as well as to ensure generations of Muslims are brought up in the shade of Allah’s سبحانه و تعالى house.

Allahmdulillah! With Allah’s سبحانه و تعالى blessings and through everyone's duas, support and kind donations over the years, we purchased the ideal property for the Masjid during Ramadan 2022 and raised the funds to construct the Masjid in Ramadan 2023.

Before we explain what we are fundraising for this year, we would just like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support. Despite the many challenges we face on daily basis, your continued acts of kindness and selflessness to help others in need illustrates the incredible goodwill, mercy and compassion shared across our beloved Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ ummah.

The unyielding generosity and overwhelming support from donors like you always leaves us amazed. You help this humble congregation every year, in the remembrance of Allah Azzawajal, and everyone here at Dover Masjid wanted to extend our heartfelt thanks to you. We can never thank Allah سبحانه و تعالى enough and pray that Al Karim, the Most Generous, bestows upon you countless bounty. Ameen!

As you can see from the photos in the gallery, the works at the Masjid are largely finished and we have now opened up for daily prayers alhamdulillah. The Masjid hosts weekly sisters’ circle and children play days. Most importantly, we have built a relationship with the local authorities in order to provide dawah to the majority non-Muslim population and opened the doors of Allah’s سبحانه و تعالى house to anyone and everyone that wants to learn more about Islam.

Now that the Masjid has been constructed, one of our remaining key objectives is to pay off the Qarz-e-Hasana. Qarz-e-Hasana is benevolent loan provided in the name of Allah سبحانه و تعالى. It is mentioned in Surah Al-Hadid (57:11):

مَّن ذَا ٱلَّذِى يُقْرِضُ ٱللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًۭا فَيُضَـٰعِفَهُۥ لَهُۥ وَلَهُۥٓ أَجْرٌۭ كَرِيمٌۭ

“Who is it that will lend to Allah a good loan which Allah will multiply many times over for them, and they will have an honourable reward?”

The Qarz-e-Hasana has been provided by very generous members of the ummah and allowed us to get to where we are. As is the case with all debt in Islam, it must be repaid without interest, and what better debt to have the opportunity to repay than the one lent to the Most Noble, Most High?

The Qarz currently stands at £45,000. Repayment of the Qarz would also allow us to focus funds elsewhere to ensure the constant running of the Masjid, including the following:

- Employing a full-time imam

- Establish a maktaab (school) for children to study Islam

- Host halaqas (religious gatherings to study Islam), tajweed classes etc.

- Have huffaz lead prayers

- Run initiatives and programmes to give dawah

- Community outreach programmes

and much more.

We are now pleading with the ummah to once again show their generosity and kindness by supporting us in our efforts to secure and grow the Masjid. Donations have been raised from all corners of the world once people heard about our initiative. This is the ummah's Masjid in the truest sense, please help YOUR Masjid.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said whoever builds a Mosque for the sake of Allah سبحانه و تعالى, Allah سبحانه و تعالى will build for him a house in Jannah. Donating towards a Masjid is an accepted form of Sadaqah Jariyah; a type of donation that attracts a continuous, perpetual reward. The Prophet of Allah ﷺ also mentioned, when a person dies, his deeds come to an end except for three: Sadaqah Jariyah (a continuous charity), or knowledge from which others benefit, or a righteous child who prays for him. Sadaqah Jariyah is a highly profitable investment; the donor benefits every single time an individual prays in the Masjid or acquires beneficial knowledge whilst at the Masjid. It is a source of reward for the donor throughout the remaining days of their life and the reward continues to be written for them even after their death.

As well as that, charity increases your wealth in this world and never decrease it. So please help us secure the future of a Masjid in an area where it is needed the most and help the local community. Please remember, quantity here matters not. You shall Insha'Allah be rewarded for as little as you can afford.

Building Masaajid is one of the most noble and beautiful forms of charity and a vital component of a Muslim community. The first thing the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ did after migrating to Madinah was build a Masjid. Please donate generously in this blessed month of Ramadhan.

May Allah سبحانه و تعالى grant our community with a Masjid in which we can worship him and be close to him and may this property be that Masjid. May this property serve the ummah with a place to pray, worship the Creator and strengthen their Emaan. May this Masjid continue to benefit others and may others, including generations yet to come, benefit from it Insha'Allah. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى make this Masjid a success and protect it until the day of Judgement. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى accept this Masjid, its visitors, its donors and everyone connected to it. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى make this Masjid a means of Sadaqah Jariyah for every person who assisted in this cause. Ameen.

Jazakallah Khair.

Charity registration number: 1155365

Bank: Barclays Bank Plc

Name: Dover Cultural Centre Ltd

Account: 83502058

Sort Code: 20-17-94

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