“His masjid was not just a place to pray,” Isa said. It also serves the Muslim community, offering young students classes on the noble Qur’an.Īccording to the mosque managers, the organization’s model is based on the masjid built in 622 by Muhammad, the Islamic prophet.
The mosque also has an on-site medical clinic for low-income and uninsured members of the community, open each Saturday.ĮPIC also supports local food pantries, works to educate the community about Islam and collects donations for charities and needy families. I saw all of these different people coming together. “I saw people working here, volunteers who inspired me. “I was not a very religious person,” volunteer Sameer Siddiqui, who is on the construction committee and has been congregating at EPIC for years, said. The center has been attracting volunteers who work in its outreach programs and community services. The new facility will have about 3,200 prayer spaces. The campaign is based on the principles of the Qur’an that if a man builds a mosque, Allah will build a home for him in paradise. Later on, the administration launched a unique plan to get funding by asking people to sponsor one prayer space with a donation of $1,000, or half of a space with $500. ‘You guys are just sitting on the money,’” Isa said. “We had a lot of pressure from the community. The project had been envisioned since the organization’s inception, but work began when the organization had collected about $900,000. With the increase in the number of Muslims, the need was urged for a larger place to host Muslims congregational prayers and special Ramadan and `Eid events.Īt this point, the dream for the new 33,000-square-foot facility appeared, for which an estimated $5 million was needed to complete construction.Ī construction company is working on the building’s foundation and steel structure at a cost of about $2 million, which they hope to be completely funded by the end of July. “The plan is that eventually, this will be rented out.” “This is called a temporary mosque, called a musalla,” he said. The organization moved five years later to its current facility, a building of about 10,000 square feet, in 2008. “It started in someone’s garage, doing prayers,” Isa said. “The reward will continue as long as people continue to pray.”įor years, EPIC small center and mosque used to attract about 1000 worshippers from East Plano and neighboring cities.ĮPIC began with small gatherings of local Muslims in 2003 in east Plano. “The Quran teaches you that whoever helps build a mosque, Allah helps them build a home in heaven,” Muhammad Jawaid Isa, the center’s board president, told Dallas News website on Friday, May 30. Send us feedback about these examples.Facing funding problems for months, the council of Dallas’ East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) has found a creative way to get donations by asking Muslim worshippers to sponsor prayer spaces for which the reward is a home in Paradise as stated in the Qur’an. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'warlike.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug.
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Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2012 But there remains a sharp divide over whether a mounting series of individual and small-group attacks could add up to a warlike conflict that destabilizes the country. 2022 Rather, the personality traits and dispositions are inherited, and these are the basic raw materials that lead to warlike tendencies. 2023 But according to myth, Freyr gave up his sword to marry the giantess Gerd - an action the warlike Amleth would view with contempt. 2016 The three judges deciding the appeal didn’t give clear indications of their thinking, though one questioned how Merck could be the victim of a warlike attack if almost all the damage occurred in the U.S. David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022 That could mean that, despite evidence of early warfare from other sites around the world, early Holocene hunter-gatherers weren’t innately warlike. Miriam Berger, Washington Post, The character’s origin story reminds viewers of Ragnarok’s pointed depiction of Thor and his Asgardian cohort as warlike colonizers. 2021 The video has sparked protests in his hometown and calls for justice across Brazil, where police are notorious for warlike raids - heavy-handed actions encouraged by far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of his populist crime-fighting agenda. Recent Examples on the Web Brazilian police killed at least 25 people in a warlike operation against a heavily armed criminal gang on Sunday, marking a violent escalation in the country’s ongoing struggle against sophisticated criminal groups staging elaborate bank heists in southern Brazil.
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