Plainfield ComeYounity Day

2-4 PM.
Sunday, October 13
Settlers Park
24401 W. Lockport Street
Plainfield , IL 60544
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ABOUT AMAN

AMAN USA INC. is a registered  Tax Exempt private not-for-profit Foundation (501(C)(3) incorporated in the State of Illinois . Our mission is to “Change the narrative” by providing service to our neighbors, following in the footsteps of our beloved prophet Mohammed (PBUH) and his companions.
All donations to AMAN are tax deductible as charitable contributions as applicable under the law.

MISSION

To follow in the footsteps of Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him),  and implement the Islamic ideology of service to the community we live in, without regard to race or religion.
As Muslims we must improve the communities we live in by visiting the sick, feeding the hungry, teaching people to read, helping people who have no one to turn to.  It is by translating our love of God into good actions that we can strengthen our faith and make this world a better place for all

VISION

Following in the footsteps of  Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him), create a righteous society where we can all live in peace and harmony in spite of our differences. As Allah says in the Quran 49:13 (Al-Hujurat) 

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. Indeed, Allah is Knowing and Acquainted.

 

RECENT PROJECT - FREE COVID-19 VACCINATION CLINIC

RECENT PROJECT - THANK YOU DINNER DELIVERED TO PLAINFIELD AND NAPERVILLE FIREFIGHTERS

AMAN PARTICIPATED IN THE BIG SERVE

SPEAKING AT THE LOCKPORT CHURCH

SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE

PROMOTING COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT

  • Paint park benches
  • Donate used books to your local library
  • Become a tour guide at your local museum
  • Repaint community fences
  • Plant flowers in bare public areas
  • Organize a campaign to raise money to buy and install new playground equipment for a park
  • Participate in or help organize a community parade
  • Clean up vacant lot
  • Produce a neighborhood newspaper
  • Campaign for more lighting along poorly lit streets
  • Create a newcomers group in your neighborhood to help welcome new families
  • Petition your town leaders to build more drinking fountains and public restrooms
  • Volunteer to clean up trash at a community event
  • Adopt a local highway or road and clean up trash along it
  • Help fix or raise funds to repair a run-down playground
  • Clean up after a natural disaster

HELPING SENIOR CITIZENS

  • Give a ride to a covid vaccination event
  • Read to residents at a nursing home
  • Deliver groceries and meals to elderly neighbors
  • Teach computer skills to the elderly
  • Drive seniors to doctor appointments
  • Mow an elderly neighbor’s lawn
  • Host a holiday meal for senior citizens
  • Make birthday cards for the elderly
  • Donate and decorate a Christmas tree at a nursing home
  • Organize a family day for residents of a retirement home and relatives to play games together
  • Ask residents of a retirement home to tell you about their lives
  • Pick up medicine for an elderly neighbor
  • Perform a concert or play at a senior center
  • Help elderly neighbors clean their homes and organize their belongings
  • Rake leaves, shovel snow, or wash windows for a senior citizen
  • Deliver cookies to a homebound senior citizen

HELPING ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

  • Take care of cats and dogs at an animal shelter
    Clean up a local park
  • Raise money to provide a bulletproof vest for a police dog
  • Plant a tree for Arbor Day
  • Place a bird feeder and bird fountain in your backyard
  • Start a butterfly garden in your community
  • Sponsor a recycling contest
  • Grow flowers in your backyard then give bouquets to hospital patients or people who are housebound
  • Help create a new walking trail at a nature center or park
  • Update the signs along a nature trail
  • Adopt an acre of park district park land
  • Help train service dogs
    Participate in the cleanup of a local river, pond, or lake
  • Foster animals that shelters don’t have space for
  • Organize a spay and neuter your pet program
  • Care for a neighbor’s pet while they are away
  • Sponsor an animal at your local zoo
  • Train your pet to be a therapy animal and bring it to hospitals or nursing homes
  • Build and set up a bird house
  • Organize a carpool to reduce car emissions
  • Campaign for more bike lanes in your town
  • Volunteer at a nature camp and teach kids about the environment
  • Test the water quality of a lake or river near you
  • Plant native flowers or plants along highways

REDUCING CRIME AND PROMOTING SAFETY

  • Volunteer at a police station or firehouse
  • Become a certified lifeguard and volunteer at a local pool or beach
  • Paint over graffiti in your neighborhood
  • Organize a self-defense workshop
  • Organize a drug-free campaign
  • Sponsor a drug-free post-prom event
  • Start or join a neighborhood watch program
  • Create and distribute a list of hotlines for people who might need help
  • Teach a home-alone safety class for children
  • Create a TV or radio public service announcement against drug and alcohol use
  • Become CPR certified
  • Volunteer as a crossing guard for an elementary school

WHO IS A NEIGHBOR?

A neighbor is the person who lives near one, regardless of whether he is a Muslim or a non-Muslim. Scholars have different opinions regarding the boundaries to which one is considered a neighbor. The closest opinion to the truth is that they are determined according to what people are accustomed to regarding such a limit, and Allah Knows best. The degrees of neighbors vary: there is the Muslim neighbor who is a relative, the Muslim neighbor who is not, the non-Muslim who is a relative, and a non-Muslim neighbor who is not. All these types of neighbors share many rights as human beings made in the image of God.
Some people think that the neighbor is only the one who lives near your residence. Undoubtedly, this is one of the commonest forms; however, there are other forms that are included in the concept of neighborliness. There is the neighbor at work, in the market, on the farm, in the classroom, and many others.
 

RIGHTS OF A NEIGHBOR

Islam considers the rights of the neighbor to be extremely important. The angel Jibreel (Gabriel), may Allah exalt his mention, continued to urge the Prophet, (PBUH) to treat neighbors with kindness until he thought that he would have to  assign him a share of his neighbor’s inheritance. 

The Quran recommends treating neighbors kindly. Allah The Almighty Says: {Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side…} [Quran 4:36] 

Loving goodness for one’s neighbor is considered a part of faith in Islam. The Prophet, (PBUH) said:“By the One in whose Hands my soul is, no slave of Allah has true faith unless he likes for his neighbor what he likes for himself.” 

A person who is good to his neighbor is the best of people in the sight of Allah The Almighty, as the Prophet  (PBUH) said: “The best companion in the sight of Allah is the one who is best to his companion, and the best neighbor in the sight of Allah is the one who is the best to his neighbor.”