The Malcolm X Islamic Center (MXIC) of Rockford, IL proudly presents the 2nd Annual "Community, Unity and Family" Fair. This fair will be held on Saturday, June 14th, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Keye-Mallquist Park. The Park is located on 11th St. between 16th Ave. and 17th Ave (see map below). The entire event will be FREE, and will have food, musical entertainment, spoken word, open mic, basketball tournaments, jumping gyms, activities for children and families, etc. The event will also provide the opportunity to hear and meet leaders from local government and civic/faith-based organizations discussing matters of importance to local families.

Islam, like other religions, puts a special God-human relationship at its very heart.  In its vertical dimension, this unique relationship entails that humans revere God; in its horizontal dimension it entails that humans treat one another with equality, compassion and justice.  Muslims insist that only in the proper dispensing of these complementary obligations, toward God, toward oneself and toward other humans, can we realize our full potential, both as individuals and as communities.  These obligations, then, naturally, lead to the fundamental concept of individual moral responsibility and accountability before God.

It is also in the context of these complementary obligations that the institution of marriage finds its full significance in Islam.  In the coming together of the “pair”[1] and in the potential “propagation from the two,”[2] marriage seems to straddle both the deeply personal and visibly social aspects of human life, at one and the same time.