Jummah Masjid

Awake to the call of Islam

The Jummah Masjid of Port Louis has been in the fore to facilitate the Muslim Community of Mauritius in many aspects. After having used radio and TV
transmission through weekly talk/sermon and on special events for decades now, it launched its website in 2005 with online video streaming to serve
the community worldwide. To keep pace with technological development, today the Jummah Masjid is launching the ‘SMS Service’.

Since the beginning of civilization sons of Adam (AS) have been using different means to communicate with each other. However, in this era of
globalisation where mobile technology is the norm, people’s demand for readily available fresh and interactive information is on the rise. As such,
Jummah Masjid SMS service will:-

Contribute to the propagation of Islam as taught by the Holy Prophet “Convey (my teachings) to the people even if it were a single sentence.”
(Sahih Bukhari)
Spread the love for Allah (s.w.t) and his beloved Prophet (PBUH)
Facilitate Muslims in accomplishing their daily obligations
Inform Muslims of activities of the Jummah Masjid
Contribute towards green environment by resorting more to the use of electronic messages

SUBSCRIBE NOW AND BECOME PART OF THIS NOBLE CAUSE BY SENDING reg to 8786.
Type help and send to 8786 for guidance, For suggestion and comment type sug and send to 8786 

The Jummah Masjid is offering two types of services namely, “Push SMS” and “On Request”.

Push SMS is only for registered subscribers and it enables you to:- On Request will apprise you on:-

Namaz/Swalaat schedule including Sehri, Iftar and Zawaal

know the monthly visibility of the new moon
Events pertaining to the current month
obtain weekly short Hadiths
Activities of the Jummah Masjid for the current month
get weekly messages from Mufti Ishaaq Qadri
Short Hadith daily
be aware of events for the current Islamic/Hijri month
Current Islamic/Hijri and Gregorian calendar
be informed of monthly program organised by the Jummah Masjid
Conversion of Gregorian to Islamic/Hijri calendar and vice
get breaking news
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Verses from the holy Quran daily
List of deceased persons for the day
  Halal products, e codes, animals, birds, sea foods,
reg  Register  Type reg send to 8786 to register  ingredients, etc
Type dreg send to 8786 if you do not want to  
Veg ingredients, e codes and products
dreg  Deregister  receive any push SMS from Jummsh Masjid 
  Halal certified restaurants
Definition of some common Islamic terms
Ask question (masla) – Lead time to response will be
within one week
.Terms and conditions:-
Meaning of muslim names
1. The Jummah Masjid, for the benefit of its members and the public in general, has agreed
Moon birth details
with Emtel, Orange and MTML ( “the operators”) for them to provide SMS Short Code
infrastructure to transmit information regarding, inter alia, prayer times and visibility of More to come
moon, via SMS.

2. The costs of sending and receiving the SMS messages shall be borne as follows by the
You do not have to register to get any of the above information. You
subscriber:-
• For Short Code 8786 (pull SMS system) the tariff is the same tariff as normal SMS. just have to type the required information and send to 8786. The
• For Push SMS system the tariff is as normal sms, pushed by Jummah Masjid to the system will automatically reply to your queries
subscribers (same tariff as normal SMS).

3. The subscriber expressly acknowledges and agrees that the tariffs mentioned in 5. Both the registered and the “On Request” Subscriber should ensure that
paragraph 2 above is subject to change whenever such change is imposed by the sufficient credit is available on his/her mobile phone account in order to
operator and/or the ICTA. receive SMS from Jummah Masjid.

4. The subscriber expressly agrees that in no event shall the Jummah Masjid or the operator
be liable in damages of any kind whatsoever should the SMS be queued, undelivered
or delayed and/or for the contents of the communications transmitted via SMS
6. The Operator and/or the Jummah Mosque shall not be liable to any third party
(whether in contract under statute or otherwise) for: (i) any loss (whether
direct or indirect) of profits, revenue, business, anticipated savings, wasted
expenditure, or goodwill; or any other consequential or indirect liability, loss or
damage, suffered by the subscriber and/or third party and arising from or in
connection with this service.
Note: the wordings should be accurate in order to get the correct information.

Keywords  Stand for  Benefits  Steps 

Nam  Namaz  know the namaz/swalaat schedule, sehri, iftaar and zawaal updated on a daily basis  Type nam and send to 8786 

evt  Event  Event for the current Islamic/HIjri month   Type evt and send to 8786 

prg  Program  Activities organise by the Jummah Masjid for the current month  Type prg and send to 8786 

had  Hadith  short hadith to increase our knowledge updated on a daily basis  Type had and send to 8786 

dat  Date  to get the current Islamic/Hijri date  Type dat and send to 8786 

qur  Quran  short verse to increase our knowledge updated on a daily basis  Type qur and send to 8786 

Mayat  Mayat  list of deceased (mayat) persons for current date  Type mayat and send to 8786 

Is  to  ensure  that  you  do  not  consume  haraam  or  doubtful  products,  ecodes,  type hal <product name> and send to 8786 
hal  Halal  ingredients,  land  &  aquatic  animals,  vegetables,  fruits,  chemicals  substance  or  gas  example: hal E471 send to 8786 
available on the system on request.  or hal Sucralose send to 8786 

type resto <restaurant name> and send to 
Before entering a restaurant, you will be able to know if it has been certified by the 
resto  Restaurants  8786 
Jummah Masjid as Halal restaurant  
example: resto abcde send to 8786 

type def <any islamic terms> and send to 
def  Definition  Definition on some common islamic terms like Islam, Prophet, Ghusl, Wudhu, etc  8786 
example: def islam send to 8786 

Type Ques followed by your  questions 
If  you  have  any  doubts  or  questions  on  any  matters,  the  Jummah  Masjid  together 
Ques  Question   example: ques what is Islam and send to 
with Ulemas and Mufti are available to respond to your queries.  
8786 

Know  meaning  of  muslim  names.  This  will  definitely  help  you  also  when  choosing 
name  Name  Type name <any name> example; name irfaan 
name for newborn baby  

type mbr and send to 8786 for next moon 
It  is  the  responsibility  of  every  muslim  to  search  for  the  visibility  of  new  moon.  As  birth 
mbr  Moon birth  such, with the Jummah Masjid moon birth sms service, you will be able to know the  type mbr <islamic month year> to know the 
exact time of moon birth  birth of the defined month 
example; mbr moharram 1431 

This  service  will  help  you  in  converting  gregorian  date  to  Islamic/hijri.  Know  your  Converting gregorian to Islamic/hijri  
convh  Convertor  Islamic  birth  date  and  also  you  can  forecast  wedding  date  accordance  with  Islamic  calendar Example: convh 14.12.1979 and 
calendar or any events with this service.  send to 8786 

Converting Islamic/Hijri  to Gregorian  
This  service  will  help  you  in  converting  Islamic/Hijri  date  to  gregorian.  You  can  plan  calendar Example: convg 24.1.1371 and  
any  events  in  accordance  with  this  service.For  example,  you  would  like  to  know  on  send to 8786 
convg  Convertor  which  gregorian  date  will  be  Eid  Ul  Adha  next  year.  You  just  have  to  type  convg   
10.12.1431, the reply will be 10.12.1431 ==> 16 / 11 / 2010  . This is accurate to +/‐ 1  Note that the format of the date should be 
day due to the visibility of the moon.   DD.MM.YYYY 
Example 14.12.1979 
In case you have forgotten the keywords or 
help  help  You can get help on any code above by simply type help and send to 8786  getting any difficulty you just type help and 
send to 8786 

It is important to leave one space after the keywords and then input your required query as depicted in the picture below.
   
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