{"id":39882,"date":"2015-08-13T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T09:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/selbstdarstellung\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T08:59:59","slug":"selbstdarstellung","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/selbstdarstellung\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Brochure"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.entry .pdf_icon {<br \/>    background: unset !important;<br \/>    padding-left: 8px !important;<br \/>}<br \/>#attachment_39909 {<br \/>    height: 340px;<br \/>}<br \/><\/style>\n<p><strong>WHO ARE WE?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Islamic Community Milli\u0302 Go\u0308ru\u0308s\u0327 (IGMG) is an Islamic community that gives comprehensive religious, social and cultural services. In this respect, our community presents various activities with the purpose of teaching, learning, introducing and practicing Islam and transmitting it to future generations, while fulfiling Islamic duties. IGMG represents its members in social, cultural and political areas, deals with all kinds of matters of Muslims, and carries out activities necessary for managing their living conditions and ensuring protection of their basic rights.<\/p>\n<p>Quran and Sunnah are the fundamental sources which are decisive in IGMG\u2019s understanding of Islam. In social and individual frameworks, Islam is a religion whose influence does not<br \/>\nend when one exits the mosque and which, imposes a personal and social responsibility on believers regarding certain moral principles in all walks of their lives. IGMG has a perception that practicing Islam should be experienced not according to certain regional or cultural traditions but to the Quranic criteria and Sunnah of our Prophet (pbuh), which considers variety in religious practices based on religious proofs (Quran, Sunnah, Ijma and Qiyas) as richness for religious and social life. Our members see themselves as basic elements of the society with which they live without neglecting the importance of keeping relations alive with their homeland. With the awareness of this, IGMG considers itself responsible regarding the peace and welfare of the societies in which it carries out activities. IGMG, being a part of the Islamic ummah at the same time, accepts responsibility, itself, to act sensibly regarding any problem faced by the ummah.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39909\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"no_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/selbstdarstellungen\/pdf\/IGMG_brochure_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39909\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-31511\" style=\"border: 2px solid #ececec;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/igmg_selbstdarstellung_2015_de1-215x300_en.jpg\" alt=\"Selbstdarstellung der IGMG\" width=\"200\" height=\"279\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corporate Brochure<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/selbstdarstellungen\/pdf\/IGMG_brochure_de.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 17px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/flags\/de.png\" alt=\"de\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/selbstdarstellungen\/pdf\/IGMG_brochure_tr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 17px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/flags\/tr.png\" alt=\"tr\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/selbstdarstellungen\/pdf\/IGMG_brochure_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 17px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/flags\/en.png\" alt=\"en\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/selbstdarstellungen\/pdf\/IGMG_brochure_fr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 17px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/flags\/fr.png\" alt=\"fr\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/selbstdarstellungen\/pdf\/IGMG_brochure_ar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 17px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/igmg.org\/wp-content\/themes\/igmg\/images\/flags\/ar.png\" alt=\"ar\"><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>IGMG sides with the oppressed and the aggrieved with cognition of the responsibility for all mankind and encourages the improvement of basic human virtues such as good deeds and solidarity in opposing all kinds of oppression. This takes place within the midst of the search for solutions to the economic, political and social problems that people find themselves in the middle, and calls for a dialogue for exchanging ideas with political and social institutions in an effort to derive solutions for these problems. Acting with the Prophetic principles \u201cCompete in doing good, and devotion to Allah,\u201d \u201cThe most beneficent of people<br \/>\nis the one who is beneficial to the people,\u201d and \u201cMake things easy, not hard\u201d our organization wishes to take these points, rather than controversial ones, as a shared basis, in social relations.<\/p>\n<p>In the religion of Islam, there are collective obligations as well as individual ones and some can only be performed collectively. In parallel with this, protection of the poor and the aggrieved, struggling against injustice, elimination of evil by spreading goodness, and performing all kinds of social relations on the basis of justice renders necessary a collective effort, thus forming a community. The necessity of being a community also became an incentive factor in Muslims\u2019 gathering under the roof of IGMG in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEANING OF THE PHRASE \u201cMILL\u00ce G\u00d6R\u00dcS\u0327\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Islamic belief, all human beings originate from Adam (pbuh), the first human being and prophet, and Eve, his spouse. Since Adam (pbuh) onwards, Allah (jj) sent prophets and books in order to show the right path to the mankind. As a ring in this chain of prophets, Abraham (pbuh) is the ancestor of followers of the belief in the unity of Allah (monotheist belief). In this respect, the name of our organization makes direct reference to Abraham (pbuh). The word \u201cmilli\u0302\u201d derives from the word \u201cmillah\u201d as a Quranic concept. Following verses are sources for usage of this concept (millah of Abraham) which is frequently cited in many places in the Holy Quran: Surah Nahl verse 123, Surah Al-i \u2018Imran verse 95, Surah Nisa verse 125.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Holy Quran, millah describes a community which believes in a prophet and gathers together around the values, ideals and practices brought by that prophet.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the phrase \u201cMilli\u0302 Go\u0308ru\u0308s\u0327\u201d that describes the organization must be understood as a world view of an Islamic community, which accepts itself as belonging to the millah of Abraham (pbuh) in terms of outlook and belief and follows the path of Mohammed (pbuh), as an endeavour for peace of mankind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF IGMG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, millions of Muslims from Turkey as well as other countries immigrated to Europe in order to work in Germany and other European countries. From the beginning of the 1970s, workers of Turkish origin gathered in small masjids in which they would perform prayer by grouping small communities. When coming to the 1980s, these small communities established regional units and federations by congregating. It became necessary for these organizations to establish a \u201chead office\u201d in order to fulfil various religious obligations such as carrying out mosque constructions, hajj and umrah organizations, procurement and education of officials like imams and those responsible for guidance. Faced with these necessities, Islamic Community Milli\u0302 Go\u0308ru\u0308s\u0327, was established in 1995, and outlined various programs according to social realities throughout the process which was shaped by economic and social developments in its time.<\/p>\n<p>Today, IGMG has obtained its place among the biggest nongovernmental organizations in Europe, increasing in the number of regions, branches and members to which it delivers services through activities carried out in the framework of these plans and programs. As an organization that serves young and old alike, IGMG has around 2500 branches today together with the Women\u2019s Organization, Youth Organization, University Students and Women\u2019s Youth Organization. Being a long-established organization that serves in many European countries as well as in Australia, Japan, the US, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Canada, it continues its services non-stop to hundreds of thousands of people in 40 regions, 3 of which are enterprising ones, with around 20 thousand managers and 170 thousand members.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/selbstdarstellung\/2\/\"><em><strong>STRUCTURE OF HEAD OFFICE<\/strong> read more&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>STRUCTURE OF HEAD OFFICE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Board is the highest decisionmaking and administrative body, which assembles under the chairmanship of the President, consisting of the Counsellors of the President and nine heads of division including Secretary-General, Head of Organizational Structure, Head of Financial Affairs, Head of Irshad, Head of Education, Head of Corporate Communications, Head of Women\u2019s Organization and Head of Youth Organization, and Head of Women\u2019s Youth Organization. Central Executive Board is responsible for carrying out the decisions taken by the Executive Board within the statutory rules and orders. It includes Secretary-General, deputy chairs of Organizational Structure, Irshad, Education and Corporate Communications,Head of Social Services, Head of Hajj-Umrah and Travel, Head of Advertising, Head of Accounting, Head of Personnel and Administrative Affairs, Head of Inspection and Head of University Students as well as the heads of divisions attending the Executive Board.<\/p>\n<p>IGMG divisions are constituted in terms of activities served in different fields and for different audiences; mentioned divisions sustain activities in cooperation with subdivisions formed within their own body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/organisationsstruktur_igmg_en.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/organisationsstruktur_igmg_en.png\" alt=\"Die Organisationsstruktur der IGMG\" width=\"550\" height=\"544\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to their respective tasks, services of the IGMG are either offered by the central administration or by the regional or local communities. The smallest units of our religious community are the local mosques. They provide basic necessities for the daily religious practices as well as comprehensive religious services. Beyond that, they serve not only for carrying out several educational and social activities but also meeting specific needs of target groups related to the Women\u2019s, Youth and Women\u2019s Youth departments.<\/p>\n<p>The IGMG maintains its organizational services in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, as well as in Canada, Australia, Japan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and the US.<\/p>\n<p>The local communities are structurally bound together under a total of 40 regional organizations, 3 of which are enterprising regions. 15 regional organisations are located in Germany. They are Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Hanover, Northern Ruhr, Ruhr-A, Du\u0308sseldorf, Cologne, Hessen, Wu\u0308rttemberg, Rhein-Saar, Schwaben, Freiburg-Donau, Northern and Southern Bavaria. Giving service in five regions (Paris, Lyon, Alpes, Eastern France, Southwest France and South France) in France, IGMG gives services with three regions (Vienna, Arlberg, Linz) in Austria and two regions (South and North Holland) in the Netherlands. IGMG also has regional units in Switzerland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, the UK, the Balkans, Canada, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Japan and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, our regional units constitute a linkage between the IGMG Head Office and local units. On the other hand, they coordinate the work of the affiliated local communities. Besides this, they are responsible especially for the coordination of religious guidance and educational services and for the arrangement of cultural events. Our Head Office ensures coordination of all services, at both local and regional levels, and determines strategies in fundamental matters by preparing general work programs.<\/p>\n<p>Head Office realizes follow-up of delivery of IGMG\u2019s activities, which are extended to large masses, young and old alike, even to the branches, the smallest units, by planning and designing them. In this way, a maximum standard is obtained in services of religious guidance and education, and social and cultural activities carried out by regional units and branches. Moreover, with support of the regional units, central administration organises services which cannot be accomplished locally or regionally alone. Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca), umrah, Udhiyyah campaign (sacrifice), fitrah and zakah organizations, prayer calendars are among such services. It is also Head Office that executes funeral services so as to carry out burial transactions in solidarity, and arranges appointment and education of imams. Furthermore, Head Office meets with the bibliophiles by way of a Book Club through which books on religious, cultural and social subjects are presented.<\/p>\n<p>On the local level, the IGMG is active in 640 communities, 324 of which are in Germany. Adding women\u2019s, youth, student, sports, cultural and educational associations to this number, IGMG maintains a total number of 2440 facilities and has 170.000 members. Taking into account the number of people congregating for Friday prayers, IGMG has a community consisting of 550.000 persons.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/selbstdarstellung\/\"><em>Back<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO ARE WE? Islamic Community Milli\u0302 Go\u0308ru\u0308s\u0327 (IGMG) is an Islamic community that gives comprehensive religious, social and cultural services. 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