1. Fatwa (issuing verdicts) and Judiciary

• To study the juristic cases of the Muslim community, issuing religious legal verdicts (Fatwa) and responding to the inquiries received from members of the community.
• Providing religious legal rulings for community problems, resolving disputes and reconciling between disputing parties.
• Issuing verdicts concerning the beginning of the month of Ramadan and determining the time of Islamic feasts (Eids) and seeking to unite the Muslims of Minnesota in this regard.

2. Propagation, Education, and Guidance

• Working for the unity of Muslims under the umbrella of the correct Islamic belief (faith, creed) and straight Islamic path, without focusing on differences that may jeopardize the Islamic accord.
• Raising the religious awareness of the importance and etiquettes of Islamic propagation (da'wa), stimulating and directing the propagation work in the state of Minnesota, including organizing conferences and seminars which will bring together the members of the community, and establish bridges of communication with other communities. In addition to the benefit of propagation and dissemination of knowledge. The council will try its best to reach to all sectors of the community of various orientations and ages with more emphasis on youth.
• Working to establish an educational establishment specializing in teaching Islamic sciences to members of the community.
• Coordination among the Council member imams with regards to important subjects – that may be addressed in the Friday sermon - in order to decrease the gaps between their approaches and directions. The Council will arrange exchanging visits, speeches, and lectures in their Centers, such that an atmosphere of harmony and compassion will develop and no zeal may be there to other than the book of Allah and the way (Sunnah) of His Honored Messenger (S.A.A.W). The council also will embark on bringing together all Imams in an attempt to improve the mutual communication between all of them, and for the purpose of exchanging expertise and working towards unity.

   

3. Media and Formal Representation of the Community

• The council will work on establishing a broadcasting radio station (local), as well as, a monthly newsletter.
• The council strives to be a representative of the Muslim community of Minnesota with formal authorities and others. This is to convey the Islamic and Muslims’ perspective with full honesty and trustworthiness and in a manner pleasing to Allah, exalted be He, in addition, to attain the benefits of community from such authorities.