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Russian
Summer Camps Teach Islamic Principles
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Summer
camps designed to help Muslim youths have full, correct
understanding of Islamic principles
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By
Dameer Ahmed and Riyad Ahmed, IOL
Russia
Correspondents
RUSSIA, July 24 (IslamOnline) – Religious committees in Russian
Islamic republics have organized 3,000 Islamic summer camps in
different religious schools and mosques with the aim of using the
summer vacation that lasts until September 2002 to teach children the
principles of Islam and the regulations of the holy Qur’an.
“The
Islamic summer camp for children and youth aims at correcting the
misunderstandings about Islam, in addition to helping them study
Qur’an and learn religious regulations,” Irat Goz’ Tolleen, Imam
of El-Jame’a mosque in Elabougha province, told IslamOnline Tuesday,
July 23.
The
children participating in the camps are between 9 and 16 years old and
most of them are residents of the same area, he added.
In
Kazan
, 57 summer camps are held in public schools to teach children the
magnanimous principles of Islam as well as the rules of reading the
holy Qur’an, while many others received these teachings in some of
the mosques of
Kazan
, which has a population of 1.25 million people such as the mosques of
Nour Allah, Zakabania and Al-Margany.
In
the Zakabania mosque, summer activities include a drawing festival in
which children present drawings related to Islam and Muslims.
The
manager of Al-mergeny mosque said that children are going to learn the
Arabic language as well as some Qur’nic chapters.
In
Saratov
area overlooking Folga river, Mayak summer camp in which 137 students
have so far participated, is open. They will learn Qur’an and
Islamic principles from
7-10 am
then spend the rest of the day playing and having fun. Students
are mostly boys of different ethnicities including from
Chechnya
,
Tatarstan
,
Azerbaijan
and
Russia
.
A
few days ago, more than 23 Islamic summer camps were opened in
Nizhny Novgorod
area in the west of the
Russian Federation
.
Dameer
Mohieldeen, director of Mohienour – the biggest Islamic school in
the area – said these camps started their activities in July 2002
with the aim of teaching Islam to Muslim children and acquainting non
Muslim children with its broadlines.
These
camps, he added, will help youths have a full and correct
understanding of Islamic principles. The teaching staff completed
their high school at the Islamic school, and the teaching process will
continue under the supervision of the religious administration of the
area and the school as well.
A
number of Islamic books concerned with teaching children prayers and
principles of Islam as well as the Hadith (sayings) and biography of
Prophet Muhammad (Allah’s Peace and Prayers be upon Him) were
distributed on the teachers in Nizhny Novgorod area, said Religio-Ro
website July12,2002.
Mrat
Gualilonen, head of the religious administration in
Nizhny Novgorod
area, said that it is Mohienour school that offered these books and
distributed them.
Deen
Al-Islam Nizam Al-Dinov, head of the Hant Mansisk area east of
Russia
, told Al-Sandorr News newspaper
July 18, 2002
that 26 Islamic summer camps for children and youths were inaugurated.
Other camps in Benza, Tola, Nizhny Fartovisk and Samara cities were
also opened.
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