Our Service
For the greater part of a decade, we have been having regular Thursday programs as an Anjuman to come together to recite Hadith-e-Kisa and Dua-e-Kumayl as was taught to us by our Imams (AS). Throughout the years, our community members have grown inseparable and we learned through the pandemic when weekly calls were still exchanged by everyone to stay in touch. In an effort to teach our youth the tenets and ideologies of azadari and Twelver Shia Islam, we have organized two youth programs called Sister to Sister and Brother to Brother (STS/BTB). Through these weekly meetings, students ages four and up work with mentors in order to work on their religious education through an approved curriculum, strengthen their math, science and reading skills through study hall, and discuss mental health and other engaging topics through circle times. Through this program, we have been especially successful in increasing youth engagement in programming. From majlis and matamdari to jashans the kids have taken ownership of the Anjuman and community.
Our Community
“I ask You by Your Truth and Your Holiness and the greatest of Your Attributes and Names,
That You make my times in the night and the day inhabited by Your remembrance,
And joined to Your service
And my works acceptable to You,
So that my works and my litanies may all be a single litany
And my occupation with Your service everlasting.” – Dua e Kumayl
As a close-knit community, we have the privilege of knowing one another closely and thus being able to serve one another cyclically. Whether it is a Muharram ashra program or a celebratory Jashan, different community members volunteer to cook for the community, clean-up, or help their peers in need. Food donations to organizations working to address food insecurity and food desert-based issues in the Baltimore area have been made many times and we are currently working to start a youth-based service program in which older students coordinate service activities for our youth cohort to partake in. In doing this, we wish to have our children initiate the manifestation of justice into our lives instead of only learning it through scripture.