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Hadith-e-Kisa Blanket Drive 2009 |
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 THE NEED FOR BLANKETS
Help and comfort can be given in so many forms. Today thousands of Muslims living in Northern Pakistan continue to put up with the extreme winters of the region, where snow and cold winds blanket the mountainous terrain all season long. Although warm blankets are an essential commodity in this part of the world, it is often difficult for Momineen to afford good quality blankets, let alone electricity and wood for heat.
WARMTH OF THE AHUL BAYT (AS)
This winter marks the sixth year of The World Federation’s Hadith-e-Kisa Blanket Drive. This drive is launched in the name of the Ahlul Bayt (AS), who are the source of guidance, warmth and comfort to Muslims around the world. By providing Momineen with warm blankets for the winter, the programme also aims to revive the remembrance and love of the Ahlul Bayt (AS) in a region where poverty is rampant and isolation is often unbearable.
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Triennial Conference 2009
Clearing the uncertainty over the Triennial Conference 2009
WF website
The World Federation 2009 Triennial Conference took place at the Jaffery Community Center at Bathurst, Toronto, on 23 -25 October 2009.
Venue
The venue was the Jaffery Community Center in Bathurst, Toronto. At the Eighth Executive Council meeting held in Paris on 3 May 2009, Dr Hassam was given the flexibility by the Executive Council to select the venue.
The Secretariat has typed the verbatim transcript taken from the video of the Executive Council meeting held in Paris on 3 May 2009 and the following is the exact set of words stated by the previous President, Dr Ahmed Hassam. All additions and clarifications are clearly put into brackets ():
Brothers, InshaAllah arrangements for the conference are under way. Conference to be held in Dubai but maybe (repeat) maybe we may not be able to hold the conference in Dubai. Till today we have not had the green light from Dubai. Brothers, times have changed. People can’t go in and out of Dubai as easily as before. A lot of our scholars have been turned back at the airport. The airport authorities now have a list, who to allow through and who to refuse entry; what do you do?; what have you come for?; we have submitted to them a full report about our last conference of three years ago; what was discussed at the conference; we were told that permission to hold conference in Dubai would be confirmed by May 1; but till today (May 3) we have heard nothing; I called Dubai this morning and I was told everything should be OK InshaAllah within a week; Masum Somji is aware of the problems these days; for any business with Dubai your passport copy first goes to the CID office; my own passport is stuck with the authorities; this is the state of affairs; so it is possible that we have to consider planning for an alternate venue; so this is why I want your permission, because I cannot call another meeting just for changing the venue, so I am requesting that you all give the Secretariat the flexibility, if after all the efforts Dubai does not materialise, then InshaAllah hold the meeting in London, it will be the second easy point for everyone to get to, InshaAllah efforts for Dubai are still ongoing. So give the Secretariat this flexibility that if we need to change the venue then you are giving us the authority to change the venue.
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NASIMCO Proposes Amendments for World Federation |
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The recent elections for the President of The World Federation (WF) has revealed certain flaws of process and of form. NASIMCO, therefore, has proposed and submitted to the Secretariat of WF, a resolution to amend The World Federation's constitution at a future date, with a proposed method outlined within the resolution. Click here to read the resolution as tabled.
NASIMCO has also proposed an amendment to be tabled at the Eleventh Ordinary Conference of The World Federation. The amendment is to allow certain non-federated members an extra time of one year to become a federation and continue to enjoy full membership privileges. Click here to read the proposed amendment as tabled. |
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World Federation President’s meeting with Ayatullah al-Uzma Syed Sistani and other Maraje |
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On 29 Sha’ban 1430 AH (21 August 2009), the President of The World Federation was granted a personal audience by his Eminence Ayatullah al-Uzma Syed Sistani. The President was accompanied by Shaykh Safder Jaffer.
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Graduate Degree in Islamic Education |
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The University of Winchester has announced the start of a new Masters degree, an MA in Islamic Education. The degree aims to improve community leadership and cohesion by training Muslim religious leaders in ways of communicating effectively within western societies in an effort to help our communities retain a Muslim identity whilst taking on a national identity within our host community.
The program is the result of a partnership between the World Federation of Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim Communities, the Hampshire Local Authority and the University. The program is validated by the University in the Faculty of Education and is taught in Damascus, Syria via distance learning and intensive face-to-face interaction.
For more information on this program, please email islamiceducation@world-federation.org |
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