The Dawah tu Salafiyyah Sisters Book Club was established in New York City in March 2003 in a sincere effort to address the condition of our Muslim sisters, and in doing so we would read one book a month. Doing this would not only ourselves but our sisters as well to understand, by making up monthly worksheets which have been working very well by Allaah’spermission, so much so that we have decided to help sisters who have been and are incarcerated by doing the same for them and in doing so this encouraged other sisters to take interest in the DTSSBC.

Assisting Those Incarcerated:

Once we established a relationship with some of the incarceration institutes, we asked if we could send them books, khimars, prayer rugs and Al-humdillah permission was granted. From this we helped to develop Salafi libraries at two correctional facilities. We must say that this project could not have happened first and foremost without the permission of Allaah and then if we did not have the support of the Salafi Sisters E-groups. And because of this, many of the sisters were able to benefit from this noble effort.

Students Funds:

We work together with Al-Hujjah Publication to help aide the young brothers and sisters of the New York community to go study abroad yearly and when they return we provide them with jobs at Umm Kutubah’s Salafi Books Store. We have plans to send others to study in Yemen Insha Allaah, so that they too can come back to the community to teach the people.

Monthly Meetings:

We began having monthly meetings so that we could go over the worksheets of the various books to ensure that we all understood what we have read and to encourage each other to implement what we have learned, and this helped to ensure that we stayed on a topic that will help benefit us all. The monthly meetings were going so well that we decided to meet twice a month. And during the summer months we would have book club picnic meetings, this way the whole family would be involved.

Publications:

Alhamdulilllaah, by the grace, mercy and permission of Allaah azza wa jal, Dawah tu Salafiyyah Sisters Book Club has published it's own Book as well as E-book with more publications to come Insha Allaah.  Browse our "Our Publications" section for more info. 

Weekly Classes:

We have established a connection with our noble brother Mustafa George as well as one of the sisters of Yemen thru one of our sisters whom is a member of DTSSBC. Thru this sister we learned from books such as An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadeeth and Bulugh Al-Maram and from this we were also able to benefit from the knowledge of Umm Salamah As’Salafiyyah (hafithahillaah). We ask Allaah that he allow us to continue to connect our sisters to those of knowledge.

Monthly Telelink Seminars:

We were able to establish a relationship with Umm Ahmed Salwaa (hafithahillaah) of Madinah, Saudi Arabia as well as Umm Abdir Rahmaan Al- Imaam (hafithahillaah) and her husband Ash-Shaykh Aboo Nasr Muhammad Al-Imaam (hafithahallaah) of Yemen. She and her Husband agreed to give the sisters Bi-monthly talks and Q and A monthly. We have even been granted permission to call for advice concerning how we as sisters should continue our efforts to help the sisters here in the west.

We ask Allaah that he continue to allow us to assist our sisters in the Haqq and that what we do is pleasing to Allaah and know that “There is no glory and honor for the Muslims, except by returning to learning Islaam on an individual and collective basis, acting upon” His, azza wa jal, saying:

 
إِنَّ اللّهَ لاَ يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُواْ مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ

"Verily! Allaah will not change the condition of a people as long as they do not change their own condition” (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allaah).

{Surah Ar-Ra’d:11}

All of these achievements by the Grace, Mercy, and Permission of Allaah azza wa jal and we remain thankful to HIM subhanahu wa ta'ala.