Ashra Zainabiyya programme will start from Tuesday 8 October 2019 being the 30th after Ashura and Shahadat eve of Bibi Sakina (A)
Ladies morning majlis will start from Wednesday 9 October to Sunday 13 October 2019 majalis will be recited by Zakira Masuma Hassan, from Monday 14 October to Saturday 19 October by Zakira Ummulbanin Merali.
Tuesday 8 October 2019 to Wednesday 9 October Urdu majalis for Ladies and Gents in the evening will be recited by Maulana Syed Safi Haider, Thursday 10 October to 19 October Urdu majalis for Ladies and Gents in the evening will be recited by Maulana Syed Zaki Baqri
Tuesday 8 October to Saturday 19 October English by Muallim Gulamabbas Lakha (ELC)
Al Haadi Youth present a Mindful Muharram
Brothers are welcome take part in noting down their relfections after all of Shaykh Shabbar Mahdi’s lectures. Post-it notes will be available in the gents marquee.
‘One who supplicates for believers Allah appoints an angel for each believer’ – Imam Kadhim
Sisters are invited to ‘Pray it forward’ – At mosque, we walk past and interact with so many fellow sisters whilst being oblivious to their struggles and pain the same way they are oblivious to ours. This muharram, Al Haadi Youth encourage you to look after a sister by taking some of her burden and making a specific dua for her. All it takes are 3 easy steps
Step 1 – anonymously write your dua on to a card available on the board outside the ELC.
Step 2 – On Ashura night, choose any card form the display board
Step 3 – On Ashura day, take time out from your amaals to make this dua for a sister, as if it were your own.
IA through our love, the mercy of our Lord and the intercession of the martyrs of Karbala, all our duas will be accepted.
Al Haadi Youth present Spiritual Sessions on Saturday 7th September after the main program at 10.30pm. Gents session will take place in Main Hall with Shaykh Shabbar Mahdi. Ladies Session will take place in ELC with Zakira Mahjabeen Dhala. All are invited to attend.
Ashra-e-Muharram programme will start from Saturday 31 August 2019.
We will Inshallah commemorate Ashura on Tuesday 10 September 2019.
The KSIMC of London welcomes the following Zakireen of Ahlul Bayt this Muharram 1441AH to deliver Lectures in Urdu and English.
Gents: Syed Akber Ali Abedi to deliver Majaalis in Urdu in the Main hall.
ELC: Sheikh Shabbar Mehdi to deliver Lectures in English in the Main Marquee.
The Ladies majalis in the morning will be recited by Zakira Mahjabeen Dhala in Urdu and English.
There will be a separate Majlis for Ladies in the ELC on the first floor, recited by Zakira Mahjabeen Dhala in English. A separate audio relay will also be available for the ladies who wants to listen to Sheikh Shabbar Mehdi. This will be in the special needs rooms on the first floor next to the ELC- please use the Hawza entrance to go upstairs to the first floor.
All Parents are requested and required to ensure their children are INSIDE the halls during the programme.
❖ Please cooperate & comply with the requests of the coordinators, serving volunteers & especially parking volunteers
❖ Please maintain the restrooms & all public areas to the highest tah’arah possible.
❖ POLITE REMINDERS
Please PARK RESPONSIBLY so that maximum parking space is utilised without causing any inconvenience to our neighbours.
As we approach the days of Muharram, we would like to appeal to the Azadars to bear with us and help us with the flow of traffic and parking. It will be of great help if you can car share within the household.
Please let the volunteers guide you to the best place that you can park. InshaAllah we will have a shuttle service from the overflow areas and from Stanmore tube station
Unfortunately, we have been very inconsiderate in parking around the neighbours and are inconveniencing them. The month of Muharram is a month of Sacrifice and we request Azadars to give a little sacrifice and park in designated areas rather than around the neighbours’ houses and blocking their driveways.
When leaving, please ensure you remain as quiet as possible as to minimise any disruptions to our neighbours
Let us prove to our neighbours we are true ‘HUSSAINI’
Please bring your own cups for tea to help with the environment
❖ TREASURY UPDATE:
As we commemorate the month of Muharram I would like to firstly convey my condolences to you all. The Muharram Azadari fund is now open and it costs £950 to sponsor a Majlis or you can part sponsor a Majlis. Tabarruk and Nyaz fund is also open please donate generously. Please email admin@hujjat.org or contact Riyaz Merali, Sajjad Tejani, Shams Kermalli and Chairlady if you would like to donate to this noble cause or at the Treasury Desks. Alternatively you can also donate on line at www.hujjat.org. Please don’t forget to sign the gift aid form
Please remember to pay your membership subscription due from Jan 2019, which would have been suspended as per the constitution. You will be required to complete a re-application form and handover at the desks both in the Main Halls and the Marquee, with your appropriate payment. Family £120, Single £72, Senior Family £12 and Student/Senior Single £6 per annum.
Date & Day
Programme Details
Saturday, 31 August 2019
1st Night of Muharram 1441
oShaykh Jaffer Ladak is available as a point of contact for anyone who has any issues they would like to discuss or questions that they would like answered. All communication is strictly confidential. There are different ways you can get in touch with Shaykh:
Meet in person:
Shaykh’s office hours at the centre are the following:
Daytime: Monday 12pm – 2pm & Wednesday 2pm – 4pm
Evenings: Tuesday and Thursday 6-8pm.
These appointments are open to all, but you must book in advance – email aalim@hujjat.org
By phone:
Shaykh’s official Jamaat number is: 07717 136061.
He can be reached by WhatsApp on this number.
You can also call, and Shaykh will attempt to answer or return any voicemails within a reasonable time frame.
In response to the fast changing world we live in and concerns about our chidrens’ spiritual and emotional development, we have organised a series of seminars and talks on ‘Resilience in children in challenging times’.
The first in this series is a talk on the new RSE (relationships and sex education) curriculum being introduced into schools.
All adults are welcome to attend, but this talk will be specifically relevant for parents of younger children. It will be led by Dr. Kate Godfrey-Fausett, Shaykh Jaffer Ladak and Dr. Masuma Jaffer.
Please see the attached poster for more information.
“Generosity has a limit, which when crossed becomes extravagance; caution has a limit which when crossed becomes cowardice; thriftiness has a limit, which when crossed becomes miserliness; courage has a limit, which when crossed becomes fool-hardiness. Let this moral lesson suffice: refrain from doing anything which you would disapprove of if done by someone else.” (as quoted in A Brief History of The Fourteen Infallibles p. 155-157)
Samarra is a garrison town about 60 miles north of Baghdad. River Euphrates flows in the middle of the town, and because of the surrounding hills a cool breeze keeps the area cooler in comparison to Baghdad. The word ‘Asker’ in arabic is used for army. Our 11th Imam’s title became known as Askari, the one who lived all his life in a garrison town
There is another story related with this name by many historians. Once the Caliph called him in his palace and ordered his army to march past before him. The Caliph wanted to boast or to impress the Imam of his power or to dissuade the Imam from any thoughts of revolution against the Abbasid Caliphate. When the march past was over, Imam asked the Caliph to gaze between two of his fingers. What the Caliph saw was a huge army of lancers and swords men marching past, a much bigger crowd than the Caliphs army. He was astonished at this miracle and named him Askari, i.e. the man with a big army.
Imam Hasan al-Askari’s (AS) life from childhood to adulthood was spent in this house where his father Imam Ali an-Naqi (AS) was to remain under house arrest. But despite this close guard on the Imam, he conducted his duties as Imam from inside the house. He taught people Qur’an and instructed his followers the true teachings of Islam as taught by the Prophet of Islam and his Ahlulbayt. In fact Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) wrote a complete Tafseer of the Qur’an which was mentioned by many scholars, historians and exegetes, including Kulaini and Saduq.
Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) lived a short life, only 28 years and in this short life he had to endure great sufferings by the hands of the Abbasid caliphs. But in spite of all that suffering and confinement under house arrest in Samarrah, many students of Islam benefited from his God-gifted knowledge and later became scholars in their fields. He discussed with agnostics of that age many times about the existence of God and the reasons for the necessity of the Prophets and Imams and many atheists changed their minds and converted to Islam. One of those was Ishaq al-kindi who was writing a book about contradictions in Qur’an. Imam invited some of his students and taught them lessons from the Qur’an.
These students of Al-kindi confronted their teacher and rejected his arguments about the contradictions in the Holy Book. Al-Kindi realised that these arguments could not have come from the brains of these young students. He asked them about the secret of their extensive knowledge of the Qur’an. In the end they confessed that Imam Hasan al-Askari taught them. Kindi himself became the disciple of our Imam, burnt his own writings on atheism and later wrote many treatises on Islam.
In spite of the fact that the Imam had never given any cause for concern to the Caliphs of his time, their guilt in this matter was so great that they did not leave these pious personalities in peace. If they had no fear of their throne they were afraid of the excellence and knowledge of the Imams. In the case of Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS), the same type of jealousy led to the poisoning of the Imam to end this life of a saint whose only activity was to teach Qur’an as the Prophet and his Ahlulbayt taught before him. During the rule of Al-Mu’tamid poison was given to the Imam mixed in some fruit and he died on 8th Rabi-al-Awwal 260AH. He left only one son, whose name was Muhammad who was only five years old when his father died.
References: Story of the Holy Ka’aba And its People; By S.M.R. Shabbar; published by Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain
Last Friday, we introduced our methodology of discussion and looked at verses on how the Prophet (s) reacted to being rejected, and felt when great trials befell his community. Today’s discussion on the Prophetic personality and mission will be to reflect on how the Prophet (s) treated his own community and expected his followers to treat each other. This is because one of the greatest challlenges of community unity and direction is our attitudes towards each other and the way in which we respond when difficulties arrive; how we see and treat fellow Muslims has a particular place in the Qur’an, as seen in the verses above. To read the full sermon, click here, and to watch it on Youtube, click here [pending]. For last week’s Friday reflections, click here.
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