[ebonytipchik]

just a brief reply beacuse otherwise our conversation will go on for ever:

you wrote "most people dont go to the masjid anymore", so does that mean we start collecting at other venues? no! our effort should be to connect Muslims to the masjid. If they aren't coming , we should go call them , going door to door and encouraging them like the Prophets did. Muhammed (s.a.w) joined and collected the ummat in the masjid - his masjid was the khanqaa, the community centre, the madrassa, etc. In following his blessed sunnah we should also endevour to do the same. Once Muslims join with the masjid their imaan will increase and they will give generously, etc.

Secondly the salvation of this ummat can only be in follwoing the ways of Prophet Muhammed (s.a.w). If we adopt other means to propogate and support Islam and Muslims there can be no ultimate success.