Programmes & Projects
ASHRAAF Islamic Foundation is a faith-based and not-for-profit organization through Islamic and Humanitarian programmes.
The specific objectives of the have been devolved into Programmes and Projects towards the realization of the Foundation’s goal. These are subsequently explained.
The Foundation has carefully designed a series of programmes and projects to achieve its noble aims and objectives in conveying the message of Almighty Allah(SWT), His noble Prophet Muhammad (SAW) as well as socioeconomic programmes and projects that can impact positively in the lives of Muslims and non-Muslims. They are as follow:
- Rural
- Urban
- National
- Global Da’wah
As part of the Specific objectives in achieving the goal of the Foundation, Ur-ban, Rural, National and Global Da’wah (Evangelism) was designed to invite people, Muslims and non-Muslims, to understand the worship of Allah as expressed in the Qur’an and the sunnah of Muhammad and to inform them about Muhammad and with the power of internet and Social Media we are reaching out up to the global world at the same time.
ASHRAAF Zakat Administration
ASHRAAF has taken into cognizance the socioeconomic imbalances as well as understanding the position of Zakat as one of the pillars of Islam, which is an obligatory charity that has the potential to ease the suffering of millions of people. As contained in the mission statement of the organisation, the Foundation is using Islam as a driver from community to national development and has been walking the talk of the essence of Zakat to achieve in the lives of Muslims and Non- Muslims in reaching out to the needy with strong believe that paying zakat purifies, increases and blesses
the remainder of their wealth as well as affecting positively to ease the condition of the less privileged for the better.
ASHRAAF Islamic TV Programme
Without any doubt, the media has a significant positive impact on Islam if properly utilised; it helps to spread the cause of Allah (SWT), improve the lives of humankind, and help reduce vices in society. ASHRAAF with a very strong conviction that the Media has a role to play in today’s Dawah. The organisation has been working with the professionals in the industry to look into the possibilities of having ASHRAAF TV Channel to further the organisation’s cause and achieve one of its specific objectives in Islamic evangelism. Meanwhile, for the past four years, ASHRAAF has consistently produced a Daily Ramadan TV Programme tagged: Voice of Islam, which is currently on air on AIT for this year’s Ramadan.
ASHRAAF Islamic Monthly Magazine (Print)
The fall and fall of Islamic print media was part and parcel of a broader gap occasioned in information dissemination even in Muslim-majority societies. Islam and Muslims are at the mercy of
conventional Media owned by non-Muslims, where a page or two highest is being dedicated to more than 140 million Nigerian Muslims and the Islamic religion. It was a time of the decisive passing of an old order of urban notables by which prominent religious, economic, and military chiefs served as mediators between ruler and ruled.
Online Platform
The social media has a significant positive impact on the Islam if properly utilised, it help spread the cause of Allah (SWT and Prophet Muhammed, SAW, improves the lots of human kinds and helps reduce vices in society. But the loose or free run of social media is detested by Islam. The Foundation has registered her presence online and is equally working with Media professionals to put up a befitting online platform that will adequately represent the interest of Muslim and a veritable platform where Muslim and non-Muslim can get quality and credible Islamic news.
The Muslim Forum
The Foundation has designed an achievable plan to provide an arena for Muslim groups and state officials to discuss issues in a private sphere played outside of the public eye, with a strong hope and conviction that the space will foster relations between the two and build trust within the country and amongst, with a multiplier effect of stabilising the country for socioeconomic growth and development.
Community development
Community development improves quality of life and Zakat is an ideal example of it in Islam. Islam guides its followers to help the needy through various services and community development. It also emphasizes the provision of services. With this, ASHRAAF has taken upon itself as an Islamic organisation a responsibility to positively impact the alleviation of suffering and improvement of lives within its reach.
Capacity Building
ASHRAAF is poised to organize International and National Lectures, Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops to involve international Islamic organizations for the promotion of Islam and educating Muslims, as well as to build their capacities in leadership, entrepreneurial, vocational, and skill acquisition programmes.
Interfaith Discussion Forum
In showcasing the beauty of Islam, the Foundation has it as one of its specific objectives to organize interfaith dialogues and discussions, owing to an increasingly popular response to religious conflict. ASHRAAF Islamic Foundation has a robust plan to employ a variety of approaches, particularly the interfaith dialogue projects to enhance religious tolerance and promote peaceful coexistence in Nigeria, Africa and the global world.
“And who is better in speech than one who invites to Allah and does righteousness and says indeed, I am of the Muslims”
Quran 41 v 33