Paigham: One Sermon to Unite

Abstract

Our idea is to develop mobile applications both for Android, iOS, and a web-based admin panel. Through these applications, every Imam of a mosque in the country will be given a specific topic for Khutbah by the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs of Afghanistan to talk about in the Friday prayer. This will help the Ministry to easily deliver the topics for Friday prayers. The Ministry will give only useful Islamic topics that will have a positive impact on society. To avoid any violation from the Imam, public users can give feedback and then the concerned authorities can take action. This project is based on the idea that in Afghanistan every Imam talks about different topics, in which some Imams instead of talking about (an Islamic topic that is being given priorities, that can help people in their daily life affairs), they talk about something irrelevant. For example, they talk about some political parties and ask people to support them, or the Imams talk about something that will have a negative impact on society. Aside from solving such problems this application will have many more features that will enable users to get prayer times, find nearby mosques, track their prayers, Islamic events, blog where both Imams and public users can post and discuss different Islamic topics, and will also help the public specifically the kids, teenagers and the young generation to learn more about Islamic teachings and will also help the parents to teach their kids about the basics of Islam like; how to perform prayers, surah for prayers and other basics. We will develop cross-platform mobile applications both for Android, IOS, and a web-based admin panel using the latest technology React Native and MERN stack.