Project Ibadur Rahman:
The uncomfortable truth: For nearly a decade, Dayr Jamal wasn't a town; it was a militarised graveyard. Today, the residents are finally coming home—trading nine years of freezing refugee tents for concrete homes riddled with bullet holes.
They are doing the heavy lifting of surviving. We need your help to give them back their place to pray.
We are raising $124,000 USD to rebuild the destroyed Ibadul Rahman Masjid before Ramadan.
This isn't just a construction project. This is about restoring 33% of the town's spiritual infrastructure and proving that the Adhan is louder than the bombs that tried to silence it.
Let’s look at the numbers. Dayr Jamal is a compact 1.5 km² town sitting strategically on the international highway, 32 km (20 miles) north of Aleppo and 26 km south of the Turkish border.
Before the war, it was a thriving agricultural hub of 21,547 people (pre 2016 census), famous for its olive groves, grain harvests, and 'Pylon' (a natural clay used in traditional soap and shampoo). It was a quiet, productive, conservative community.
Then the math turned brutal:
Heavy regime airstrikes crippled the civilian infrastructure.
A relentless barrel bomb campaign caused documented massacres, forcing the population into a mass exodus.
The town was occupied by SDF/YPG militias. The residents were pushed into displacement camps, and Dayr Jamal was hollowed out.
And we mean literally hollowed out. Occupying forces spent eight years digging vast networks of subterranean tunnels beneath the civilian streets, transforming a farming village into a fortified military depot. Homes were seized, vineyards were stripped to their iron frames, and the town was suffocated.
Fast forward to today. The occupation has ended, and the original residents are flooding back. But they are returning to a devastated grid.
To understand why rebuilding this mosque is so critical, you have to understand what these people are enduring right now:
There is no state electricity. The local council tried to run massive diesel generators left behind by the militias, but pumping water for just 12 hours requires over 200 litres of diesel daily. At a cost of hundreds of dollars a day, the fuel ran out fast.
The town’s only health centre is destroyed. Recently, a 9-year-old boy suffered a severe midnight asthma attack. His parents tried to run his medical nebuliser on a weak solar battery, but it died. With no local doctors, they had to make a desperate, terrifying 20 km night drive to Azaz just so their son could breathe.
Ask any returning mother why she is choosing a house with a collapsed roof and no doors over a refugee camp. The answer is blunt. For nine years in places like the Shamarekh camp, families froze in the winter and suffocated on the toxic fumes of burning nylon bags used for cheap heating. To them, a shattered, freezing concrete wall in their hometown is a luxury compared to the indignity of the canvas tent.
A town without an Adhan is not a town; it is just a collection of ruins.
Pre-2016, Deir Jamal’s 21,547 residents were served by exactly three mosques. Today, the Ibadur Rahman Masjid lies in ruin. That is a 33% deficit in congregational space, leaving the entire southern sector of the town with no masjid within a 20-minute radius.
But Ibadul Rahman has a massive geographic advantage. It sits directly on the major international highway connecting Aleppo to Turkiye, Azaz, and Northern Syria.
Because it is highly visible from the main road, this mosque does not just serve the locals. It acts as the primary spiritual rest stop for thousands of daily travellers, truck drivers, and displaced families moving along this critical artery. Every single wayfarer (Ibn Al-Sabil) who stops to pray, rest, or make Wudu multiplies your reward. You are securing Hasanat from both a recovering local population and a massive transit demographic.
The name itself is profoundly symbolic. As Allah ﷻ says:
{وَعِبَادُ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ ٱلْجَـٰهِلُونَ قَالُوا۟ سَلَـٰمًا}
"And the servants of the Most Merciful (Ibadul Rahman) are those who walk upon the earth easily, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace."
(Surah Al-Furqan, 25:63)
Rebuilding a mosque named after the "Servants of the Most Merciful" is the ultimate act of defiance against a decade of merciless destruction.
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We do not take risks with your Akhirah.
This $124,000 project is executed by Iqraa Charity, a highly established NGO with a registered administrative office in Istanbul and deep logistical infrastructure across Northern Syria.
Furthermore, the entire rebuild is operating under the direct, official supervision of the Ministry of Awqaf (Religious Affairs) in Syria. This guarantees:
The land is officially certified as communal Waqf property (no legal disputes).
The site is fully de-mined and structurally cleared for contractors.
The mosque will be permanently staffed with an official Imam and Muezzin the second the doors open insha’Allah.
Site clearance, UXO/tunnel checks validation, and structural scaffolding.
Wall erection, roofing repair, and minaret rebuilding.
Electrical routing, plumbing, and wudu facilities.
Plastering, carpet laying, audio commissioning, and inaugural Jummah prayer.
We operate on facts, and the fact is this: $124,000 USD is a rounding error for major corporations, but for Dayr Jamal, it is the exact cost of resurrecting the heart of their community.
We are working against a hard deadline. We want the dust cleared, the walls raised, and the carpets rolled out before the first night of Ramadan insha’Allah. We want the returning families to pray Taraweeh in their own town for the first time in nearly 10 years, insha'Allah.
{إِنَّمَا يَعْمُرُ مَسَاجِدَ ٱللَّهِ مَنْ ءَامَنَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْءَاخِرِ}
"The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day."
(Surah At-Tawbah, 9:18)
Be the reason the Adhan echoes across the Aleppo-Azaz highway once again. Be the reason a father can walk his son to Fajr in their own village.
Donate & RebuildSecure your bricks. Secure your Akhirah. Let’s rebuild Dayr Jamal.
Reward: Your name, or the name of a family member you choose, will be engraved on the walls of the Masjid.
Geography and immediate need. This masjid serves the entire southern sector of Deir Jamal, along with a major travel highway. With it destroyed, returning residents in this area are left completely cut off, with absolutely no other mosque within a 20-minute radius. Rebuilding it anchors the southern grid and brings the Adhan back to a massive portion of the population.
It is strategically located 32 km north of Aleppo and 26 km south of the Turkish border, directly on the international highway. The mosque’s location is 36°26'25.3"N 37°01'43.4"E
Yes. The eight-year occupation by militia forces has ended. The underground military tunnels have been cleared by local forces, and the original residents are actively leaving displacement camps to return to their homes. The rebuilding phase has already begun.
Physical, ground-up reconstruction. This includes rubble removal, structural masonry, repairing the collapsed minaret, installing the electrical grid, setting up the sound system for the Adhan, and laying down the interior prayer carpets.
These families spent the last nine Ramadans freezing in canvas tents. The goal is brute-force acceleration to get the walls up and the carpets down so the residents can pray Taraweeh in their own town this year for the first time in a decade. Urgency drives results.
Building a mosque falls under Sadaqah Jariyah (continuous charity). Zakat has strict categories of recipients. This campaign is an investment for your Akhirah that will continue generating reward for you long after you are gone.
Any surplus funds will be routed directly into sustaining the mosque's operational costs—such as fuelling generators for electricity and water pumps—or distributed to the returning families struggling to repair their shattered homes.
