London Central Mosque Trust & The Islamic Cultural Centre

The Publication Distribution section (here after P.D), distributes various types of Printed materials and the Holy Quran to different types of organisation related to different walks of life.

The stock of the Publication Distribution consists of the Holy Quran and Translation of the Holy Quran in different languages including Arabic, Arabic and English, Albanian, Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hausa, Indonesian, Korean, Macedonian, Mandarin, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Uyghur.They are provided by the "King Fahad Quran Printing Complex Medina Munawarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia", Auqaf ministry of Qatar and others.

POLICY & PROCEDURES

Following are the procedures that are required to be followed by all the Mosques, Madrassas, Schools, Colleges, Societies, Organisations and Universities when requests are made to the Publications Distribution Section of The Islamic Cultural Centre.

The outline of Publications Distribution policy as directed to our customers; is as follows:

Note: Our books are for free distribution and should NOT be sold under any circumstances.

If you are an organisation or an individual who would like to get hold of literature for free distribution these are the procedures that you need to follow. Present to the 'Publication and Book Distribution Department' a Project Portfolio which should contain the following:

• Please provide Name of organisation on official letterhead.
• Purpose of organisation. (The mission statement)
• Size of organisation. (Number of employees & whether it is a local, national or international organisation)
• Details of activities. (please mention activities of the organisation that may help us get an idea about your organisation)
• Why you need the literature? (Please mention how you are planning to use the literature you are ordering from us)
• Specific details of Islamic programmes. (Please mention about your Dawa related activities and how they are governed)
• Numbers of people served in a year. (Please tell us how many people per every year, benefit from your Dawa program).
• Feedback from your customers. (Please tell us how your Dawa Program has affected the community in your area in terms of progress etc.)
• Numbers of converts in a year.
• Photographs of Islamic events/Islamic awareness days. (Please do send us photographs of any events especially Dawa events organised by you).
• For new Mosque/Organisation, a recommendation from a known leader in the Muslim Community may be required. (This applies if you are requesting Dawa material for the first time).
• There will be no material for Dawa table. (We do not support Dawa tables set up at random places and do not provide any material for them).
• For individual there will be only one Quran or Dawa book at a given time.
• Request for Dawa material will be refused to Organisations/Schools/Madrassas, who charge their students for it.(This is to encourage availability of free Quran & Dawa material to the public).
• Those Organisations/Individuals will be 'Black Listed' who are selling our materials. (We will use our sources to keep check on organisations and check if they are breaking our terms of Dawa Material distribution).
• We may not be able to supply you with all the literature requested. (The ICC reserves the right to partially fulfil any request and order as per stock availability and other management decisions).
• We need a week or more to process your request. (orders may take more than 15 working days to complete).
• We mostly distribute only those materials which are authenticated by 'King Fahad Quran Printing Complex' Saudi Arabia
• We have our own Dawa Department within the ICC, giving Dawa and distributing Dawa materials is the sole responsibility of this department. This is to avoid people distributing materials from possibly unknown sources.(our Dayee is well trained and equipped for Dawa and he deals with visitors/guests on regular basis).
• We do not send books or Quran copies to other countries.
• If someone from another country request for publications, we give them a letter to the nearest Saudi Embassy to their address to give them books directly from there.
• All discretionary powers rest with the Director General of the Islamic Cultural Centre.

We would also to encourage you to report to us on:

• Usefulness of supplied material
• Potential improvements to material
• Suggestions for new material
• Also submit on a separate paper your request for literature

A list of available literature can be found at the end of these guidelines.

A copy of all our literature is available in the librarv to view.

Once we have received your Project Portfolio we will put you on file and issue you with a reference number. In future when you require any literature from us all you need to do is quote your reference number and submit your request.

The requested literature will be available for collection on Thursday from after Dhur prayer until 5:00 pm.

Please note

By following these procedures we aim to:

• Make the distribution of our literature efficient and easy Increase the co-operation and understanding between the ICC and other organisations
• Keep track of the literature that we distribute
• Improve the quality of literature available
• Help raise funds for Dawa activities