Find your thaghr
Find where you can serve.
A thaghr (ثغر) is a frontier post: a gap that someone has to stand in so the whole line holds. Answer four short questions and see where your skills, your passion and your community's needs meet.
The idea behind it.
A community is held together by people who each take one post and stay at it. Congregate gives those posts names, so nobody has to guess where they are needed.
Begin with intention.
Why you serve matters before what you do. It is what carries you through the days when the work is slow and nobody sees it.
“Actions are only by intentions.” Sahih al-Bukhari 1
Stay small and steady.
One post, held for years, does more than five posts started and dropped. That is why we suggest an amount of time you can keep up.
“The most beloved of deeds to Allah are those that are most consistent, even if small.” Sahih al-Bukhari 6464
Do the deed.
Knowing where you fit is only the start. The worksheet at the end asks you to write down the what, the why and the how, and then to begin.
“And say, ‘Do deeds, for Allah will see your deeds.’” Surah at-Tawbah, 9:105
Four preparations.
Be ready to learn and grow.
Stay open to expanding your knowledge and skills.
Be ready to sacrifice and commit.
Give time, wealth and self, and carry on when the work is slow, unseen and unpaid.
Know your abilities and your fire.
You do more in a field where your skills and your passion meet.
Find where the need is.
Pick a frontier where you can stand, serve and prepare.
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The thaghr idea, the four preparations and the what, why and how commitment are adapted from Finding Your Thaghr (The Thughr Series, part 1) by Al-Harakah. The matching of skills to pillars and the starting roles are Congregate's own. See the credits.