Do you want to help IMI expand and become more sustainable? Are you ambitious and excited by charity finance? If so – apply to become our new treasurer! We want someone who believes in our values and mission, and who understands the issues we face in the charity sector. You must have experience in reading charity […]
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Ya Rabb, ease our fear and remove our hardships. Provide for us from sources we do not expect and make a way for us when all doors seem closed. Do not let unjust policies take away our dignity or our ability to live in peace. Protect us from those who do not value our lives […]
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. To Allah we belong and to Allah we return. We ask Allah swt to send mercy on the household of Imam Muhsin and bring peace and safety to his loved ones, to his community and to everyone impacted by his death. Text in the image above has been copied […]
Our love goes to the families of Elsie, Bebe and Alice who were murdered on Monday 29th August in an unconscionable attack. Many others were injured and traumatised by what happened that day in Southport. They all deserve a moment of national mourning. But this has been stolen from them by the far right who […]
On Friday 26th July 2024 we held a Feminist Community Majlis online. As people arrived, we listened quietly to Du’a Jawshan Kabir, a long prayer that exalts the names of Allah and conceptualises our relationship to Her: Oh Provider in my hardship, Oh Source of Hope in my misfortune, Oh Companion in my isolation, Oh […]
Our halaqas (group discussions) are based on the idea that we cannot know Allah, or Islam, if we do not know ourselves. How humanity experiences the divine is a key part of how we understand the divine[i]. At our halaqa in July (2024), we discussed Salah, ritual prayer and used these questions to guide the […]
Before Ramadan we had a halaqa (group discussion) for Muslims who don’t fast during Ramadan. This was created for Muslims who have a tricky relationship with food or who experience disordered eating or who get a period. We created it for Muslims who are fighting self-neglect and can experience fasting as a danger to their […]
Probably one of our most successful halaqas to date, our group discussion on Muslim Understandings of Justice and Suffering was our last Inclusive Mosque event of the year and included fifty participants who joined us online and in-person. One of our trustees came up with the idea of an event to bring Muslims together to […]
The development of our Imam work is the hardest thing we’re doing (that, and trying to find a permanent space) and we’ve found there is little out there on which to model our ambitious plans. Opportunities to learn from others doing work with similar aims has been essential so I jumped at the chance to […]
There is a lot in the Qur’an about how people with wealth should give it away and use it to benefit those with less but there isn’t much that addresses people in receipt of that money. Why is that? This was the central question one of our volunteer imams was grappling with as she approached […]
IMI exists in solidarity with the people of Palestine who have a right to remain in their homeland and deserve to be free from their occupiers. We condemn all forms of interpersonal and state violence. While the state of Israel ramps up its violence in Gaza, we’re going to highlight the writing of Palestinian journalists […]
Every year, Muslims gather from across the UK to join a procession down Park Lane in London, raising their voices in cries of Labbaik Ya Hussain, I am here, O Hussain. The procession commemorates the Arba’een pilgrimage from Najaf to Karbala in Iraq. It memorialises the death of Imam Hussein (ra) and the death of […]
