DateDrive of شعبان of 1431/July-Aug 2010

Type of DateDrive: Half a date or a pleasant word (financial and word of mouth)
Country: US & Canada

Summary:

There is a Muslim school and masjid in the inner city of Los Angeles that is in dire need to pay for their teachers, the principal and water/electricity bills for both the masjid and school. They have an urgent need for $6000. However, you can’t donate to them directly through this drive, why? Because we want to encourage YOU (Muslim) to explore some other Sadaqah venues. What about the school and the poor teachers? Well, a group of brothers will cover school’s need inshaAllah, IF YOU & other HalfDaters accomplish the goal of this drive: Donate a DVD of “Creative Kids: Stories written by Muslim kids” to your local library. Help native children after school program. [This part is postponed because their event is in October]

How Multiple Rewards?

1. The DVD content is written by Muslim children; and it’s time for us to encourage our children to develop their talents in terms of storytelling and writing skills.
2. Dawah through stories is a good way to share our Islamic values. Here is a sample about fasting.
3. This DVD title is professionally produced by a revert couple. We need to support their Dawah work and buying a DVD and spreading it is the least we can do for their contributions to the Ummah.

Drive Deadline: Aug 15

Drive Target: Distribute 300 DVDs.

Action:

• Ask your local library if they accepts DVD donations. If they do, ask them for the procedure. If public library doesn’t accept, you can donate one to an Islamic school or gift it to a non-Muslim school teacher.
• If you are in the US, the wholesale price of the DVD is $10 plus $6 shipment for up to 3 DVDs that fit a priority envelope.
• For outside the US, buy the DVD at http://ckstories.com/
• Post a comment stating which library that you have donated. Click here to leave a comment.
• If you just want to donate a copy and let us gift your copy away, click on chip in:

Drive Sponsors:

DateDrive of رجب of 1431/June 2010

Type of DateDrive: Half a date (financial)

Pay off this loan

Registered Non-Profit? No

Details:

Drive Deadline: July 1st, 2009

Drive Target:

According to this Hadith collected in Sahih Muslim, one cannot ask for Sadaqah unless he is in dire need and should ask to the extend that suffice him. So, we are only going to ask you to help pay off the loan of the needy doctor, whom we lent several months back and now, HalfDate needs to pay back the lender and we need a helping hand.

We have also asked a shaikh, and he said as for community service organizations and projects that needs collective efforts, it’s okay to ask for such projects in the West. However, HalfDate still feel uncomfortable to ask, may Allah help us to sustain such a project by our admins. If you want to share the rewards and volunteer or help out, that’s your call. May Allah help us all and accept from all of us.

• Help HalfDate pay off the loan of the needy people in Canada and USA $3700

Summary: Over the last few months, you have noticed that HalfDate has slowed down in its growth, part of it was due to lack of full time staff (even that we have over 10 admins working tirelessly Alhamdulillah, but we still can’t meet the demand). Another reason that slowed us is the financial burden. This project is totally ran by private donors and we have lent some money to several worthy/needy people and they couldn’t pay back. So, if you think this palm tree deserves to survive and grow, please support us.

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

DateDrive of جمادى الثانية of 1431/May-June 2010

Type of DateDrive: A pleasant word
Country: Worldwide
Date Palm: Umm Timir (drive team lead)

Asalaamu Alaaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatu

Our newest drive will focus on Healing Hearts, insha’Allah. Sometimes in life, we face hardship and are struck with calamity after calamity, thus leading to feelings of despair, grief and sadness. With this drive, we are hoping to bring happiness, even if it’s with simple words, to the hearts of all believers.

Here are some stories that inspired us to start this drive:

1) Year of Pain for a Sister

This Sister lost both of her parents this year. Her mom passed away a week ago and her father passed away in January. We did a drive on his behalf. This Sister also encountered other difficulties and was tested by Allah (SWT). We ask Allah to make affairs easy for her, ameen

2) A Heartbreaking Message We Received from Youtube From An Anonymous Muslim:

“I need advice please. I really wanted to get married to a family friend of mine, he was also interested but my auntie interfered and made stories up about us so he distanced himself. He has now married another girl recently. I cant think of marrying anyone else but him. I prayed and prayed but nothing happened. mum n dad kept arguing about our marriage as they have 3 daughters to marry, I got really desperate and decided to do [----something haram---] to make the guy fall in love with me and leave his wife. I spoke to this person who does [----haram thing---] through emails and he told me he can help me and that u have to pay him 400 dollars and he will do it and the effect will be within 10 days. Past few weeks I spoke to the person who was going to do it. But then I decided that i didn’t as I know its the biggest sin and that less chances of Allah forgiving me if I did it. So I didn’t send the money and I am not going to do it now. But will I still get sins to have thought about doing it?? I was really desperate and didn’t know what else to do. But I only thought about it and spoke about it but didn’t do it. Will i still get the biggest sins? Please reply back and let me know.”

3) Brother Facing Hard Times

Our Brother had several calamities happen right after each other. Although, he finished with his medical school, he didn’t get his medical license thus leading to his divorce and then he got into an accident. Furthermore, he was unable to pay back a loan (from HalfDaters) that was approximately $3,000. At the moment, we are unaware of his conditon; he is need of our duaas and support.

4) Troubled Brother

This brother who has problems at his work. He suffers from ADD/ADHA and is also experiencing problems at work and other areas. May Allah grant him the ability to pass his tests, ameen

What YOU can do!

1) Dua, Dua, Dua. Please make duaa for all the Muslims worldwide facing hard times.

2) Post inspirational, uplifting stories.

3) Write motivational messages to the above, and all who are going through hardship, difficulty and pain.

4) Invite your family and friends to do the same .

Yes, you might be thinking it’s only words, what can words do? They can do alot! They can heal broken hearts, they can repair and remove damage and scars that have lasted for years in a matter of seconds!

Dua for Muslim Brother/Sister in their Absence:

In Saheeh Muslim and Sunan Ibn Majah, it is narrated from Abu Darda that the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa-sallam) said, ‘The Dua of a person for his Muslim brother in his absence will be answered. At his head there is an angel, and every time he prays for him for something good, the angel who has been appointed to be with him, says, ‘Ameen, may you have likewise.’

Rewards of Reliving Distress of Others:

On the authority of Abu Hurairah that the Prophet said:

“Whosoever removes a worldly grief from a believer, Allah will remove from him one of the griefs of the Day of Judgment. Whosoever alleviates [the lot of] a needy person, Allah will alleviate [his lot] in this world and the next. Whosoever shields a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this world and the next. Allah will aid a servant [of His] so long as the servant aids his brother. [Muslim]

Our Goal:

Post 77 uplifting comments and stories and insha’Allah we will put together a website similar to the website Gives Me Hope. Your comment will insha’Allah continue to inspire hundreds if not thousands more!

DateDrive of ربيع الأول إلى جمادى الأولى of 1431/April-May 2010

Type of DateDrive: Half a date or a pleasant word (financial and word of mouth)
Country: UK is the beneficiary, but activities are world wide, inshaAllah

Summary:

Have you ever been sat in traffic and been facing an advert about random product, and thought would it not be brilliant if this advert was calling people to Allah? Have you ever wanted to invite thousands of people for iftaar in Ramadan and not have had the means to do so? Well if so, stop wondering, HalfDate and its partners have designed a global campaign, World House Party Day, to make this a reality this Ramadan. To be piloted this year in the UK before a global rollout, HalfDate wants you all to register a party at www.justgoparty.com to help make this project real and along the way win yourself, an iPAD, $1000 for the charity of your choice and a full season urban wear collection from Islamic Design House.

Drive Deadline: May 15

The event will be on the 15th of May in your city!

Drive Target:

• Collect sponsorship for UK National Islamic awareness event £2500. Click here to donate.



• Get at least one house party in each continent www.justgoparty.com

DateDrive of ربيع الأول of 1431/Mar 2010

Type of DateDrive: Pleasant Word (non-financials)
Country: Al-Bahrain (wooohooo)

Summary:

I’ve a very small favor to ask of you. I’m working on a project in my uni called “I have a dream”. The main idea behind this is to wake up the Muslim youth into starting to dream for themselves and for the world and to contribute positively to society. I’ll be helping to make a “Dream Arch”. An arch made with dreams on small rectangular pieces of paper and for that I need a lot of dreams. I would be really grateful if you could send me just one of your dreams that you hope to achieve for yourself or for the world in general. Please don’t forget to write your name and your country if you wish to send your dream. I really hope you can help me in this. Thank you very much.

Drive Deadline: March 15

The event will be on the 17th of April, at the Bahrain City Centre, one of the biggest malls in Bahrain.

Drive Target:

• Collect 77 dreams in the comment section (mention your name and country).
  

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