Mosque of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques & Islamic Centre of Edinburgh
This time next week we will be eagerly awaiting the announcement of Eid Al-Fitr with mixed emotions!
However, we have been working away in the offices to make sure we can give you a great celebration at the end of this blessed month.
Like every year, it won’t come into full fruition without the help of a team of dedicated volunteers!
If you are able to help out on the day please fill out the volunteer form: https://www.edmosque.org/about-the-mosque/volunteer-with-us/help-us-this-eid/
This year’s Ramadan project is to help implement some upgrades to our security and health & safety facilities at the Mosque.
Like our lighting project last year, this is a great way to reap the benefits of this blessed month and stack up your reward with Allah, inshaAllah!
Please donate cash in a sealed envelope, marked with “Security Project” into any of our donation boxes. You can also transfer by BACS into our donations account using the reference “Security”. Account details contained on the poster.
We’ve got a lot going on this Ramadan for our brothers and sisters to enjoy. Drop in to one of our many sessions throughout the month to improve your Quran recitation and tajweed, learn some Tafsir or Seerah.
We hope our Ramadan Activities will help enrich your worship and relationship with Allah throughout this blessed month.
No booking or sign-up necessary, please just turn up to the session at the specified date and time inshaAllah.
Check back here throughout the month as more sessions might be added.
Edinburgh Central Mosque is pleased to announce that the first day of fasting will be Monday the 6th of May. The first night of Taraweeh will be performed after ‘ishaa prayer on Sunday the 5th of May.
Our Lord has blessed us to see another Ramadan and we ask Him to grant us all a rewarding and successful month full of great blessing and joy. May we be granted the opportunity to engage in extra worship, reflection, generosity and repentance during these precious days. May He accept from us our good works and deeds, and forgive us and guide us when we err. Finally, we ask Allah to forgive those who observed Ramadan with us last year but are no longer with us to reap its rewards again – may He elevate them to the highest ranks and enter them into Paradise.
Warmest wishes and a heartfelt Ramadan Mubarak from everyone at Edinburgh Central Mosque.
With Ramadan (literally) right around the corner we could still use your help! Sign up to volunteer here:
https://www.edmosque.org/about-the-mosque/volunteer-with-us/help-us-this-ramadan/
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This year, for some days in April and in the summer months, the Jama’ah of Ishaa’ at the mosque will be performed combined with Maghrib (Jam’ Taqdeem). This is due to the late Ishaa’ times on these days which make attending the Jama’ah difficult for many in the congregation.
This is an opinion of the European Council of Fatwa and Research, which reads:
The Council confirms its previous Decision no (3/3) concerning the legitimacy of performing the Maghrib and Isha’ prayers together on missing the sign of Isha’ or the delay of its time, in order to save the Muslims living in the West inconvenience and difficulty.
Final Statement of the 12th Ordinary Session of the European Council for Fatwa and Research (https://www.e-cfr.org/twelfth-ordinary-session-european-council-fatwa-research)
It has been reported in an authentic Hadith on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbas–may Allah be pleased with him–that the Messenger of Allah–peace and blessings be upon him–combined Zuhr with Asr prayer and combined Maghrib with Ishaa’ prayer in Medina, without being in a state of fear or severe rainfall. It was said to Ibn ‘Abbas: “What did he intend thereby?” He said: “he wanted that his Ummah should not be put to unnecessary hardship.”
People who will be praying at home should observe the actual times of Ishaa’ as long as there is no unnecessary hardship in doing so. The individuals who find that extremely difficult may use the same opinion and combine Ishaa’ with Maghrib only in the nights when that is necessary. Allah knows best.
