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Building The Only Latino Muslim Led Islamic Center in The U.S. - IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico

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Invest in your home in Jannah, by investing in our Masjid reaching 500+ Million Latinos Worldwide from America.


Urgent Appeal: Help Complete Masjid "Centro Islamico"

We need your help to complete this Masjid and Islamic Center by Ramadan!

Alhamdulillah, we were able to raise what we needed to purchase the property through your generous help.  However, we still need another $500,000 approximately to complete the Centro Islamico Masjid for us to pray in it and host Non-Muslims this Ramadan. Get the reward of all worshippers who pray there and all of those who may embrace Islam!

Currently, our community is without a center. We have already moved out of our previous rental location and although we have the building there, it's not quite ready for use by the community.  The building was previously an industrial building so it needs to be converted to a Masjid and Islamic Center. Most of our programs and services are have stopped. Our non-Muslim tours, production studio, weekly classes being streamed online, Islamic history museum tours.


In our previous rental location, we witnessed over 160 people embrace Islam in only three years. We 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 while producing media that reaches 500+ Million worldwide.

IslamInSpanish is appealing to all Brothers and Sisters in Islam, locally and internationally to help and financially support the completion of the ONLY Mosque and Islamic Center in America that provides weekly Khutbas in the Spanish language and other ongoing educational programs, media production, and grassroots outreach.

We appreciate your dua and support.

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. How often can you help build a piece of a house of Allah where thousands of people will pray for centuries inshaAllah and you get a share in that reward?  Everything they will learn here will be on your scale on that very important day.  When people accept Islam here, guess who will get a share of the reward and every good deed they go on to do?

Click the picture below to watch the video of our impact in 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 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 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 COMPLETE this Masjid. If just 5,000 Muslims donated $100 we would raise the money we need to acquire 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


So far in three years our center:

_    Has had 160 people have accepted Islam
_    Includes a Museum that highlights the heritage of Muslim Spain (Andalucia)

_   We partner with universities, civic organizations, and the diverse leadership to bring awareness of who we are as Muslims and how we contribute to society

_    A Musallah where we stream weekly Spanish and English khutbahs worldwide into countries in Latin America where no mosques exist

_   We are the only Islamic Center that has a Spanish khutbah weekly in the US
_    A social lounge area where people drink coffee to ask their questions about Islam and enjoy an open home-felt welcoming environment
_    A state of the art production studio where we conduct high-level video production that is distributed worldwide to educate non-Muslims, new Muslims, develop leaders, and film documentaries to tell our story as Muslims in America.





Our Prophet (peace be upon him) said:
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“Whoever builds a mosque for Allah, Allah will build for him likewise in Paradise.” [Sahih Bukhari & Sahih Muslim]
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Please take part in building a house of Allah so that we may all be neighbors with houses of our own in Jannah Inshallah.


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’s need 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 video 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]

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


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




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IslamInSpanish5 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, fundraisers 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. 

In Peace,



IslamInSpanish6 years ago

It seemed impossible, but we did it together! Alhamdulillah!


                                    
                

AsSalaamu Alaikum Dear Supporters,

It seemed impossible, but we did it together! 

Alhumdulillah together we collected over a million dollars to purchase our Islamic Center "Centro Islamico" 2 acre property and 10,000 square foot freestanding building Mashallah!!!

Your donations have allowed us to have a permanent home for the IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico. We may now begin to build out a beautifully-inspired Leading center based on the legacy of Muslims from Al Andalus in order to educate about our Lost Latino Islamic heritage and the contributions from Muslim’s Legacy in Spain for 800 years.

Out of our new property we will establish new programs, and sustain programs of previous impact, as well as continue our ongoing Dawah efforts locally and internationally InshaAllah.

We wouldn’t have been able to do this without ALLAH’s Generosity and without your partnership worldwide.

Our Founder and CEO, Jaime Mujahid Fletcher has made a special video for you.  Please click the link below or the image:

        
    

        
            
            
            

            
            

        
        

            
        

https://youtu.be/Wk-91WA76Lo
 

MOVING FORWARD...

The OPPORTUNITY is now to help us complete the Masjid and Islamic Center and We trust in ALLAH that together we can do it Inshallah!

We only need $500k to convert our industrial building into a unique One-of-A-Kind Masjid, Museum, Wudu area, Production Studio, Children's Zone, Lounge areas, and additional needed parking.

Our hope is to host ALLAH's Guest this Ramadan and by ALLAH's Generous Assistance and Your Support Inshallah we will be able to be up and running once again. At our previous rental space last year during the month of Ramadan and average of 2 to 3 people accepted Islam and in 3 years we witnessed over 160 people take their Shahadah.

We hope to continue serving at the highest level now at our permanently owned Islamic Center with your combined generous support.

May every Salah, Dua, and Shahadah be counted on your scales of Deeds on The Day we'll need it the most!

Please share this link with your family and friends Worldwide!

[Donate for Centro Islamico Masjid]


                        

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

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

2. Donate with the “Venmo app” @islaminspanish

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

IslamInSpanish6 years ago

Purchase of the New Building

Asalaam Alaikum,  May the Peace and Blessings of the Almighty be upon you all.  

Through your generous donations and the help of Allah, we are excited to announce that we were able to raise all the funds needed to purchase the 2 acre land with the building Alhamdulillah!  

There have been some delays, but we are planning to close on the property this coming week InshAllah.  We will update you with videos and images from the building as soon as it closes.

Now we still need to convert this building into a masjid and Islamic Center. Hopefully, we can have as much of it ready as possible for Ramadan so our community can pray in it.  We are counting on your support for this last phase of this project. 

May Allah reward you and your families in this world and the next. And may Allah support you as you have supported Him!

Please watch the latest video from our brother Mujahid:


https://youtu.be/Wk-91WA76Lo



IslamInSpanish6 years ago

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AsSalaamu Alaikum,

We at IslamInSpanish hope this message reaches you in the best state of health and Iman.

We would like to take this time to Thank You - JazakAllahu Khairan for supporting the purchase of "The Only Latino Muslim Led Islamic Center in The U.S - IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico"  and especially for your generous contributions.

To show our appreciation to you, our Founder and CEO, Jaime Mujahid Fletcher has made a special video for you.  

Please click the link below or the image:

https://youtu.be/p36X-9idZzE

Alhumdulillah together we collected $670k on launchgood and have $500k from last Ramadhan.   MashaAllah! Your donations will help us establish and sustain the programs of the IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico and the ongoing Dawah efforts locally and internationally InshaAllah and we wouldn’t be able to do this without your partnership. Click here to watch the IslamInSpanish Impact Video

There is still an opportunity to help us reach our goal. We still need another $250,000 by March 18 to close on the building! 

Please share with your family and friends nationwide

[Donate for Centro Islamico Masjid]

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

 

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

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