See photos from our 25th Anniversary Dinner! Watch video from our 25th Anniversary Dinner! Listen to Dalia Mogahed's keynote address about "Reimagining Muslim Spaces"! The CIOGC board and staff express their deep gratitude and appreciation to the sponsors, guests, and volunteers of our 25th Anniversary CommUnity Dinner. The mission of CIOGC was in action at [...]
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. Indeed, we belong to Allah, and to Him we shall return. We are sad to announce the passing of two Chicago Muslim community giants, Dr. Zia Hassan and Br. Abdul Hameed Dogar, and offer our prayers and condolences to their family and friends during this difficult time. May Allah (swt) grant them mercy and accept them into the highest levels of Jannah, insha'Allah. Br. Abdul Hameed Dogar Br. [...]
The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC) is pleased to announce our second Top Muslim Achiever of 2017, Dr. Ragab El-Rashidy. He will be recognized at our 25th Anniversary Dinner on Saturday, November 4 at Shalimar Banquets in Addison, Illinois. Dr. Ragab El-Rashidy is the founder and CEO of Genix, a pharmaceutical research and [...]
The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC) is pleased to announce our first Top Muslim Achiever of 2017, Dr. Dilara Sayeed. She will be recognized at our 25th Anniversary Dinner on Saturday, November 4 at Shalimar Banquets in Addison, Illinois. From the moment Dilara Sayeed graduated from Headstart preschool for low-income children, she understood the [...]
CIOGC is pleased to announce that Sister Dalia Mogahed will be the keynote speaker of our 25th Anniversary CommUnity Dinner, "Unity In Diversity," on Saturday, November 4, 2017. Mogahed is the former Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, where she led the analysis of surveys of Muslim communities. Mogahed also has testified [...]
Dr. Mohammed Kaiseruddin, CIOGC Chair April 2016 Celebrate and Protect Planet Earth A token unto them is the dead earth. We revive it, and We bring forth from it grain so that they eat thereof; And We have placed therein gardens of the date palm and grapes, and We have caused springs of water to [...]
"O you people! Eat of what is on earth, lawful and clean..."(Quran 2:168) Eating Halal is a primary concern to majority of Muslims in North America. Halal consumption is not just a ritual or a matter of fulfilling an obligation. It is a lifestyle, a mindset, and a way of staying faithful to what Allah [...]
Samana Siddiqui You may think everything you get from your local Halal grocery shop is as Halal to the tee: Islamically slaughtered, pretty fresh, free of germs, etc. But you may be in for a surprise. Some of the meat sold in smaller Muslim grocery stores may actually be bought from the non-Muslim wholesale market [...]
Choose what you will, but Zabiha clearly has more advantages over non-Zabiha meat available in supermarkets. Here are some MAJOR reasons why: 1. YOU CAN BE SURE THERE'S NO PORK IN IT In the last few years, revelations of pork being mixed with meat have surfaced. According to Ahmad Sakr, Professor Emeritus of Food Science [...]
The lists below have been taken with permission from the book 'Islamic Dietary Laws and Practices' by Mohammad Mazhar Hussaini and M S Ahmad Hussein Sakr, Ph.D .It should be noted that a product being imported from a Muslim country is not necessarily a guarantee that it is completely Halal. In fact, food is often [...]