(l to r)Dr Nora Amath, Ms Sultana
Deen, Mr Kevin Cocks and Haji
Sultan Deen
At a farewell function for
Kevin Cocks AM, retiring
Commissioner of
Anti-Discrimination
Commissioner for Queensland,
Ms Sultana Deen made a
presentation to him on
behalf of Mr Ismail Cajee,
president of the Islamic
Council of Queensland (ICQ).
FFA Cup
action as Logan Roos
Football Club is welcomed into the Brisbane
Zone with their first ever FFA
Cup game against Ridge Hills
United Football Club
Australian boxer Billel Dib
has been denied a visa to the US
where he was due to fight in New
York later this month.
Professional Australian
boxer Billel Dib’s return to
the ring in New York after a
year away injured has been
put on hold, since his visa
to the US was cancelled in a
move he blames on his
Palestinian and Syrian
refugee charity work.
The Gold Coast based Dib,
28, was due to fight Matt
Remillard in New York on
February 24 in his first
fight since early last year
when he boxed with bone
chips and tore a shoulder
muscle.
Dib was hoping to use the
bout to boost his rankings
in his super featherweight
category with the aim of
putting himself in
contention for a world title
However, after his visa to
the US was cancelled and a
meeting with consulate
officials in Sydney proved
fruitless, his return to the
ring is in jeopardy.
He had an existing visa
valid until 2018 from his
fight last year but now he
cannot travel to the US.
“For some reason, I thought
to myself I should go online
and check and it said I
wasn’t authorised to enter,”
Dib said.
“I thought this has got to
be a glitch. I turned the
computer on and off to reset
it three times and kept
getting same message.”
Dib, a Muslim, believes the
visa drama is the result of
his trip to Lebanon in late
2016 when he volunteered at
the Ain al-Hilweh refugee
camp in the nation’s west
with Islamic Relief, a
charity that is a registered
member of the Australian
Council for International
Development.
“I hate playing the race
card or the religion card. I
hate it,” he said.
“But I cannot see any other
reason for the visa
(cancellation) besides that
I have been to Lebanon.
“I was there for three weeks
working in a camp for
Palestinian and Syrian
refugees.”
Dib helped raise $300,000 as
part of his trip and the
money has been spent to help
the building of
rehabilitation facilities
for children devastated by
the ongoing conflict in the
region.
He chose to make the trip
after seeing online footage
of the consequences of war.
“My family was saying at the
time ‘are you sure you want
to go?’ and my partner said
‘do you think this could
hurt you going to the US in
the future?’ but I said no,
I wanted to go, I wanted to
help.
“If I got the opportunity to
go, I would go again.”
This month’s planned New
York fight was the first
step back on the world
circuit for Dib, who has won
21 of his 23 professional
fights since 2011.
It is expected Dib will now
fight next month in
Australia and he has
conceded the cancelled US
trip is a major setback.
“It’s the goal of any
athlete to go to the States
and compete. He (Remillard)
has been on the comeback
trail and it would have been
a great fight.
“This is a huge setback.
I’ve been working pretty
much all of my life to go to
the US and fight.
“People have said to me ‘why
don’t you go to Europe and
fight’, but it isn’t that
easy.”
The bout would have been a
fourth professional fight in
the US for Dib, who recently
finished his accounting
degree and is studying law
on the Gold Coast.
A spokeswoman for the
Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade said
Australia did not intervene
in the visa decisions made
by other administrations.
“Like Australia, the United
States administers a strict
entry regime, and the
decision on who can enter
the country is a matter
solely for the US
government,” the spokeswoman
said.
The US embassy did not
respond to written questions
put to it by The Weekend
Australian last night.
When Fatoum Souki was
preparing for her admission
back in 2009 she wondered
where on earth she would
find a gown for the
ceremony. “I was the only
person I knew in my
immediate community who had
studied law.” At the last
minute, Ms Souki remembered
the only other lawyer she
knew of – Urfa Masood, then
a barrister. “I called her,
she said yes and I drove
over the night before to
pick up the gown. It was
such a relief.”
Knowing next to no one who
worked in the legal
profession was just one of
many barriers Ms Souki says
she faced becoming a lawyer.
“I used to think: how am I
ever going to make it? On
top of being from the
Western suburbs, I’m a
female from a migrant
community, Muslim and
visibly so.”
But eight years down the
track, Ms Souki has managed
to push past those obstacles
to build a highly successful
legal career, first with the
Financial Ombudsman and now
with her own all-women law
firm in the suburb of
Newport.
Her firm Souki Lawyers has
grown from herself as a sole
practitioner three years ago
to a busy suburban practice
with two lawyers, two
conveyancers, a migration
agent and two full-time
administrative staff.
There’s a constant stream of
clients from both the local
Muslim and non-Muslim
community, men as well as
women, looking for help with
commercial and business
transactions as well as
family law matters, wills
and estates and property
law. “It’s all built up
through word of mouth and
hard work and good outcomes.
My work speaks for itself.”
For women in the community,
her firm has been a
lifeline. “A lot of women
who come to me say if you
weren’t here we wouldn’t
have gone to a lawyer,
because the legal world is
such a scary place for those
women. I understand the
cultural and linguistic
difficulties they’re faced
with – and I back it up with
good legal knowledge and
capabilities.”
Having forged that success,
she is happy to have become
a role model for an
increasing number of young
women in her community who
are studying the law – and
to allay the fears of their
parents who are convinced
that their daughters will
never get a job as a lawyer.
“I tell them that in the
law, you are dealing with
intelligent people who are
able to see past the
mainstream media view of
Muslims and look past the
veil to the person. I tell
them that if their daughters
are committed enough and
work hard enough, they will
be able to get past those
obstacles.”
Following
Cassie Cohen and Jackson
Bursill on their marathon a
day (see
CCN), here is another
migrant/refugee personal
story:
Story 80: Mahmoud
Mahmoud arrived in Australia
from Iran in 2013 and spent
time in several detention
centres in Australia.
Without the means to work or
study, Mahmoud taught
himself English through
Youtube tutorials. With the
help of CareerSeekers New
Australian Internship
Program, Mahmoud was placed
in a 3 month paid internship
with GHD, an engineering
firm in Traralgon, Victoria.
He was soon offered a role
in Cooma working on stage
one of Snowy Hydro 2.0.
Mahmoud has a degree in
Chemical Engineering and, in
his current role, works in a
lab testing core samples to
determine whether the rock
is suitable for digging the
tunnels for the hydro
project.
Chinese Muslim
children banned from
attending religious
gatherings
Amid increasing
crackdowns on the
Uyghur Muslims in
Xinjiang, Western
China, the
authorities have
turned their
attention to another
of the Muslim ethnic
minorities, the Hui.
Children belonging
to the Hui ethnic
Muslim community
have been banned
from attending any
religious events
over the winter
break in China. The
announcement was
made by a district
educational bureau
in Gansu province,
and school students
were notified that
they should not
enter religious
buildings, nor read
scriptures in class.
Although
restrictions of this
nature are already
in place in Xinjiang,
Muslims in other
parts of China have
thus far remained
largely free. These
new restrictions are
a result of the
increased fear of
the Muslim influence
in China,
potentially due to
violent uprisings by
the Uyghurs in
Western China.
Xinjiang has seen an
increase in violence
in recent years due
to tensions between
the majority Muslim
Uyghurs, native to
the region, and the
Han Chinese, who the
Government has been
increasingly
resettling in the
region. Xinjiang, a
large region in
Western China, is
home to abundant
natural resources,
including oil and
gas, making it a
region of particular
interest to Beijing.
Government policies
have been seeing an
increasing erosion
of both religious
and cultural
freedoms for the
Uyghur population in
Xinjiang, and the
official line claims
that such policies
are necessary to
tackle the
‘terrorism’ in the
region. Experts
recognise that the
resentment among the
locals and the
resulting violence
is an obvious result
of the Government’s
hard-line policies
that are seeing the
lives of Uyghurs
suppressed.
The Hui and Uyghur
minorities are among
the ten ethnic
Muslim minority
groups in China,
which recognises a
total of 55 ethnic
groups after the
majority Han
Chinese.
While the Uyghurs
are similar in
appearance, culture
and language to
their Turkic
neighbours, the Hui
community more
closely resembles
the Han majority.
Their physical,
cultural and
linguistic
assimilation makes
them difficult to
distinguish from a
Han Chinese and has
left them largely
free to practice
Islam. Gansu, a
province
neighbouring
Xinjiang, is home to
approximately
1.6million Hui
Muslims but has now
come under scrutiny
as the authorities
fear the rising
influence of Islam
in China.
The notification was
posted online by the
education bureau of
Linxia, a district
within Gansu, and
authorities added
that teachers and
pupils should work
to strengthen
political ideology
and propaganda.
Despite China’s
official stance
claiming religious
freedom for all, the
law also states that
religious education
should not interfere
with state
education, allowing
authorities to use
this as a
justification for
their policies.
There are approximately 1.84
billion Muslims in the world
today, making up 24.38% of
the world’s population, or
just under one-quarter of
mankind. As well as being
citizens of their respective
countries, they also have a
sense of belonging to the ‘ummah’,
the worldwide Muslim
community.
The Muslim500 publication
sets out to ascertain the
influence some Muslims have
on this community, or on
behalf of the community.
Influence is: any person who
has the power (be it
cultural, ideological,
financial, political or
otherwise) to make a change
that will have a significant
impact on the Muslim world.
Note that the impact can be
either positive or negative,
depending on one’s point of
view of course.
"The
sons of the Iraqi people
demand a political system
based on direct elections
and a constitution that
realizes justice and
equality for everyone"
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali
Hussein Sistani is the prime
marja, or spiritual
reference for Ithna’Ashari‘a
(Twelver) Shia Muslims. He
is the leading sheikh of the
Hawza Seminary in Najaf,
Iraq and the preeminent Shia
cleric globally. Sistani is
one of the most respected of
the marjaiyya—the highest
position of authority in the
Usuli school of Twelver Shia
fiqh.
Preeminent Shia Cleric
and Marja Taqlid:
Sistani’s influence in the
Twelver Shia sect stems from
his scholarly lineage and
education, which have
enabled him to reach the
status of marja taqlid—the
highest status in the Usuli
branch of Twelver Shia
Islam. Marja taqlid means
literally one who is worthy
of being imitated— placing
Sistani in a position of
great authority over Twelver
Shia Muslims. There are
currently only 29 marjas
worldwide. Sistani is
descended from a family of
religious scholars, and was
educated in the leading
institutions in Iran. He
later went to Najaf, Iraq to
study under the Grand
Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei.
On Khoei’s death in 1992,
Sistani took over as grand
ayatollah, inheriting
Khoei’s following. He soon
rose to become the leading
cleric in Iraq. With the
recent opening of Iraqi
shrines to Iranian tourists,
Sistani is gaining a
following outside of Iraq.
Financial Influence:
Sistani also has very
significant financial clout
due to his position as marja.
As a marja his followers
give him a religious tax (khums,
Arabic for one fifth). The
redistribution of this tax
for the common good is one
of the key roles of a marja.
Much of this remittance is
redistributed through the
Al-Khoei Foundation—the
largest Twelver Shia
development organization in
the world that maintains a
network of educational and
humanitarian establishments
for both Shia and non-Shia
Muslims.
Quietist Influence:
Significantly, Sistani is
against the idea of Velayat-e
Faqih, suggesting Shia
clerics should not get
involved in politics.
Paradoxically this approach
has afforded him very strong
influence as a religious
leader unsullied by
politics. Ali Sistani has
used his position of
quietist authority to wield
influence also as a
peacemaker in the turbulent
post-invasion Iraq. At a
time when Sistani was losing
support to Sheikh Muqtada
al-Sadr, he showed his sway
by arranging a lasting deal
between Sadr and US forces
at the Imam Ali Shrine in
Najaf in 2005—a deal that
secured the Shrine and
pushed for an American
retreat. Sistani was vocal
about encouraging Iraqis to
participate in the 2010
parliamentary elections. He
strongly condemned the
Baghdad church attack in
October 2010 and also
advised Iraqi security
forces to take more
responsibility for the
protection of Iraqi
citizens. He has strongly
supported the new prime
minister of Iraq, Haydar al-Abadi,
asking him to form an
inclusive, strong and
efficient government. He has
also issued strong
statements against DA’ISH,
calling on Iraqis to unite
against the militants.
ANOTHER FROM THE TOP 50
INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS IN NEXT
WEEK'S CCN
'My America, too.'
An Iowa TV reporter is making history as the
first to wear a hijab on air in the U.S. —
haters or no haters
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. USA: —
Tahera Rahman whispers the
lines of her script as the
Local 4 newsroom bustles
around her.
With a few minutes until the
6 p.m. newscast, Rahman may
as well be in a bell jar:
just her, the crisply folded
paper in her hands and her
unwavering mission to
deliver that night’s top
story.
A similar scene was no doubt
playing out in local
newsrooms across the
country. But at the Quad
Cities' WHBF-TV, the ripples
of a history-making event
were still being felt.
With a few seconds to air,
Rahman blots her lipstick
and secures a runaway piece
of hair under her bright
white hijab. She straightens
the decorative lace
cascading down from the
headscarf and gently nestles
her microphone into its
crochet work.
The newsroom quiets. The
camera’s light flashes.
Rahman is live.
After two years producing
the station’s evening news,
Rahman recently moved into
an on-air role. She's
"living her dream" and, in
the process, she has become
the first woman to wear a
hijab while reporting
full-time for a mainstream
American TV station,
according to the Muslim
American Women in Media
group.
Growing up in the post-9/11
era, Rahman didn’t see
people who looked like her
on TV. And for years, Rahman
was told in both coded and
overt language that her
hijab was holding her back,
that viewers didn’t want to
see a Muslim reporter
wearing a headscarf on the
evening news.
“When people said it was
going to be tough, I was
just like, I know, but life
is tough,” Rahman said.
“People live in places where
it is hard to even practice
journalism in general. I
live in America, and I was
born and raised with the
values of equality and
democracy and hard work
getting you to your dream,
to the American dream.”
Tahera Rahman, 27, folds her
tripod after finishing an
interview at the Davenport
Civil Rights Commission on
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in
Davenport. (Photo: Brian
Powers/The Register)
Even as Rahman built herself
up, a small voice echoed in
the back of her mind, Could
they be right? But she never
lost hope completely that
someone would take a chance
on her, and spent weekends
shadowing reporters and
methodically cutting and
re-cutting new audition
reels.
For Rahman, 27, her new
title marks the end of that
long period of rejection
and, hopefully, the
beginning of a new era for
hijabis on television. (A
hijabi is a woman who wears
a hijab, a headscarf often
worn by Muslim women to
cover their hair.)
“What I prayed for every
night for years is to be
able to soften people’s
hearts and basically be a
light for people in a scary
world with a lot of
misconceptions,” Rahman
said.
While her barrier-breaking
moment was met with
overwhelming support —
including encouraging notes
from places as far away as
Sweden and Eastern Europe —
the station has received a
handful of hateful messages.
Within days of her debut, a
white supremacist blog
posted Rahman’s photo and
personal phone number and
asked people to call and
write Channel 4 until she
was taken off the air.
The newsroom is taking
precautions to keep Rahman
safe, declining to give
details, citing security
concerns.
But seven hours before the 6
p.m. broadcast, how “haters”
are responding to Rahman’s
on-air presence is nowhere
near the top of her mind.
She’s just beginning her
journey to become a
celebrated newscaster, and
the path to that goal is
long and somewhat opaque.
But what she does know is
every great journalist
starts with a great story.
14 stages of
love according
to the Arabic
language
By Rayana Khalaf
Arabs are in a
league of our
own when it
comes to
romance. I mean,
just look at the
ways we express
love, we're
always ready to
sacrifice our
skin and bones
for the people
we love.
Over-the-top
demonstration of
love goes beyond
our everyday
conversation, as
it is rooted
deep within our
literature.
There is no
shortage of epic
and fiery poems
in Arab
literature,
brought to us by
the likes of Abu
Nawas and Nizar
Qabbani.
In these poems,
we see
variations of
words referring
to love, like "'oshk"
and "gharam"...
but contrary to
popular belief,
these words are
not synonymous.
They each refer
to a unique
degree of love.
Actually, there
are 14 degrees
of love in
Arabic language.
Here they are in
increasing order
of intensity:
"Al-sabwa"
is
derived
from the
Arabic
word
الصبا
(al-siba),
which
means
boyhood.
This
phase
depicts
the
sweet
spot
before
things
get
real,
when two
people
are
enjoying
each
other's
company
without
putting
a label
on the
relationship.
The "flirtationship"
hasn't
evolved
into a
legit
relationship
yet, but
it
might.
What No One
Told You about
Spiritual Abuse
in Islam
By Janet Kozak
Abuse in
relationships is
not only black
eyes, bruises,
and broken
bones. With the
exception of
traumatic brain
injury in Muslim
victims, it’s
often the abuse
hidden from
plain view –
like financial,
verbal, and
spiritual abuse
– that does the
most damage to
victims
long-term.
However, it’s
the spiritual
abuse we
experience in a
relationship
that can leave
us doubting
ourselves, our
goals, and even
our belief
systems –
changing us for
the worse and
leaving
lingering
invisible scars
over time.
Using children
Sometimes
abusers will use
threats and
intimidation
surrounding any
children in the
relationship to
further their
abuse. They may
threaten to
kidnap the
children or send
the children
overseas to an
Islamic country.
Abusers may
threaten to
marry the child
off young or
against their
will. They may
even threaten to
use the Islamic
legal system to
gain custody of
the children.
Using the
children as a
pawn in abusive
mind games is a
powerful tactic
that keeps many
victims in
abusive
relationships
much longer than
they would
like.''
Religious
authority
figures as part
of threats and
intimidation
In some cases,
abusers will use
local imams and
other religious
figures to
further the
abuse. “Experts”
may be brought
in to intimidate
the victim into
submission and
encourage her to
stay in the
relationship.
There are dozens
of other ways
that spiritual
abuse occurs in
relationships.
If you want to
learn more, I
encourage you to
read the Muslim
Wheel of
Domestic
Violence by Dr.
Sharifa
Alkhateeb for
more examples.
These are the
results of a
year-long
investigation
into Australia’s
media coverage
of Islam and
Muslims.
For the entire
year of 2017,
OnePath Network
tracked how 5 of
Australia’s
biggest
newspapers
reported on
Islam. We wanted
to see exactly
how the media
portrayed the
2.6% of the
Australian
population that
identify as
Muslim, and
whether or not
journalists and
columnists were
fair in their
coverage. This
is what we
found.
THE MURDOCH
PRESS REALLY
DOES HAVE A
THING AGAINST
MUSLIMS
Whilst it isn’t
exactly news
that newspapers
like the Daily
Telegraph and
The Australian
talk about Islam
a lot, what is
really shocking
is just how much
they do it. We
focused on 5
newspapers owned
by Rupert
Murdoch’s
company News
Ltd., namely the
Australian, the
Daily Telegraph,
the Herald Sun,
the Courier Mail
and the
Advertiser. In
these 5
newspapers
alone, we found
almost 3000
articles that
referred to
Islam or Muslims
alongside words
like violence,
extremism,
terrorism or
radical.
That’s over 8
articles a day
in the Murdoch
press slamming
Muslims. If all
of those were
put together,
that would be a
full double-page
spread. Every
single day.
We also found
152 front pages
over the year
that featured
Islam in some
negative
capacity. A lot
of the time,
these articles
and exclusives
were the
featured item,
the most
important story
for selling the
newspaper..
TO BE CONTINUED
IN NEXT WEEK'S
CCN
OnePath Network
Tony
Abbott's stance
on Muslim
fashion exposes
personal
hypocrisy
By Roqayah
Chamseddine
The morality
policing of
women's attire
is a tiring and
endless
confrontation
that has
infested every
medium where
women are
visible; from
dress codes to
television
programming, and
even product
advertisements.
These
prescriptions,
both religious
and otherwise,
exist as a way
for admonishers
to exert control
and reinforce
discriminatory
power dynamics.
Still, what we
wear has the
ability to
reveal not just
class markers,
and scriptural
fellowship, but
often allows us
the opportunity
to divulge
snippets of our
personality
without the
burden of words.
It's no wonder
then that the
existence of
"Muslim
fashion"—a
burgeoning
subculture in
the clothing
industry—has
sent heads
spinning.
Muslim women,
whose autonomy
is too often
ignored for the
sake of
perpetuating
orientalist
stereotypes that
feature a demure
and faceless
entity, are
further
ridiculed for
using lifestyle
mediums much
like other
women: in order
to produce a
contemporary
style that suits
their tastes and
their personal
convictions.
In 2016,
photographs
showing French
police officers
towering over a
Muslim beachgoer
created a media
firestorm. The
woman in
question, a
34-year-old
mother of two,
had been laying
in the sand
wearing a
headscarf, a
long-sleeved
tunic, and long
pants. She was
made to remove
her tunic in
public, and
given a fine
which accused
her of not
wearing "an
outfit
respecting good
morals and
secularism".
The SMH
Hana Assafiri
speaks out about
her violent past
as Muslim child
bride
"I didn't want
those events to
define me, and
they don't,"
Hana Assafiri
says.
Hana Assafiri
opened
Melbourne's
Moroccan Soup
Bar 20 years ago
this June.
Now the owner of
two restaurants,
she is also the
founder of Speed
Date a Muslim, a
community event
to combat
Islamophobia.
Since
revelations of
sexual abuse and
harassment have
gone viral with
the #MeToo
movement, Hana
Assafiri
believes it's
her turn to end
the silence. For
the first time,
she shares her
personal story
of abuse.
Tell me about
your childhood.
I was born in
Melbourne in
1964. I am the
middle of five
children, plus I
have another
sister 17 years
older than me.
My Dad's
Moroccan, my Mum
grew up in
Lebanon. We
spoke Arabic at
home because Mum
didn't speak
English. She
felt a sense of
isolation and
her entire
existence was
around the
family and the
home. When I was
five or six, we
moved to
Lebanon. My
father travelled
to find work and
he left us in
Lebanon for many
years.
Hana (far
left) with her
siblings and
father.
When did the
abuse start?
This man was on
the scene before
I was born. He
was married to
my older sister
so he was always
part of the
extended family.
I was four when
he began to help
himself to my
body. He had me
believe this was
a normal part of
growing up.
Nobody knew
about it. He
maintained the
secrecy by
saying "In our
culture, if
anyone found
out, I would
have to marry
you". I didn't
want to be
married to him,
so it forced me
stay silent.
[Note: The
Assafiri family
came back to
Australia in
1976 when Hana
was 12. By then,
Hana couldn't
speak a word of
English, and for
a year refused
to speak at all
at high school.
She felt like an
outsider, even
in her own home.
All this time,
the sexual abuse
continued.]
Tania Maria Sakkal - Ahed,
you are the promise and the
glory
Pakistani human rights
campaigner
BBC Asian Network
'Women I think can only go
forward in the world... you can
be the most bigoted mullah in
the world, you are not going to
stop them' - Pakistani human
rights campaigner Asma Jahangir
spoke to BBC Asian Network just
before she passed away
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Hadji Mohammad Dollie –
The Man Who Founded London’s
First ‘Mosque’
By AbdulMaalik Tailor
Reading
through the biography of
Abdullah Quilliam I was
surprised to see the mention
of a mosque known as
Regent’s Park Mosque that
opened in 1895. Where could
this have been? Who opened
it and what happened to the
founder? What were the
activities of the Mosque?
These questions intrigued me
to unearth a Victorian
mosque in London and the
life of its founder Hadji
Mohammad Dollie who passed
away in 1906 and who’s death
date happens to coincide
with UK’s national Visit My
Mosque day on 18th February.
Hadji Mohammad Dollie
was a son of Scottish
father and a Malay
mother born in Cape
Town, South Africa in
1846. He opened the
first “Hanafi” Mosque in
Cape Town along with a
Dutch convert to Islam
in the 1880’s.
He arrived in
London around 1895 and took
up residency in Albert
Street, along with his two
sons as it was difficult for
them to study in South
Africa at the time.
Dollie had been asked by the
Muslim community of London
who perhaps numbered
200-300, to teach their
children Qur’an since he was
a hafiz (someone who had
memorised the whole Qur’an).
He agreed, and from then
onwards, he decided to turn
his drawing room into a
mosque.
From the house-mosque, he
would venture to different
localities to perform
funeral prayers. Within the
house-mosque, regular
prayers were taking place,
including Eid prayers where
worshippers would come
dressed in their national
garb, catching the eyes of
the neighbours!
He also offered religious
guidance, supporting white
English converts to the
faith. Inter-racial
marriages took place there
too. This was a hub for
members of the Victorian
Muslim community who would
hold meetings about concerns
that they believed were of
importance such as the
affairs within the Muslim
countries including the
Ottoman Empire, often
offering supplications for
the head of the Islamic
State, AbdulHamid the
second. This was a place
where they spoke with a
united voice!
At around 1899 Dollie and
his family relocated to 189
Euston Road (the present
location of Wellcome
Collection) along with the
house-mosque. He may have
made this move in order to
be close to Euston station
which would have allowed for
an easy commute for other
Victorian Muslims in
Liverpool including his son
Omar.
A reporter at the time who
desired to locate the mosque
searched intensively for it
by asking policemen,
postmen, the Ottoman Embassy
and Holborn Restaurant. To
his surprise, when he
eventually was given the
address he found an ordinary
house with no sign of
“Eastern Decorations”.
Fortunately for the
reporter, Dollie was in and
the pair had a conversation
about his life and future
plans.
The reporter
noted how Dollie was
concerned about younger
Muslims who were arriving to
the UK and were being
tempted by the vices of
society. For Dollie, having
a purpose built mosque would
provide a solution for the
young Muslims to receive
guidance from the elders.
Dollie cited the example;
“If a boy of seven has
little knowledge of his
faith, it is sad. But when a
man of forty has forgotten
how to say his prayers —
Ah!” and he raised his hand
expressively.”
The location of his 50 metre
purpose built mosque appears
to have been in Russell
Square. However, for
whatever reason it appears
he was struck off from the
Merchant’s Association and
was unable to work. He sent
a three-page letter to The
Ottoman Sultan requesting
funds to build the mosque.
What happened thereafter in
his life is patchy. We know
that he worked as a coach
builder in 1902 in
Shepherd’s Bush Arches and
passed away on 18th Feb 1906
at his last house in West
Ealing aged 60. He was
buried at New Willesden
Cemetery, Brent, London.
In his will he recognised
once again the importance of
knowledge and left his
inheritance money
specifically for both of his
sons’ education. It’s
obvious that Hadji Mohammad
Dollie not only valued the
importance of secular
education but also Islamic
education, by sending his
son Omar to learn under
Sheikh Abdullah Quilliam in
Liverpool. His son qualified
as a doctor from UCL in 1906
and let’s not forget Dollie
himself was a Hafiz who
opened 2 mosques on 2
separate continents.
May Allah grant our elder
Hadji Mohammad Dollie Jannah
and our youth the best of
Islamic and secular
knowledge – Ameen.
ILM Feed
About the
author: AbdulMaalik
Tailor is a convert to Islam
who founded
muslimhistorytours.com
which features Halal travel
and Muslim heritage tours &
cruises in Britain. He is
also Britain’s first
professionally Qualified
Muslim tour guide.
TOPIC:
"The
Characteristics
of a
Believer &
Self
Purification"
IMAM:
Maulana
Hakim
LOGAN
MOSQUE
Friday
khutbah
(sermon)
DATE:
23 February
2018
TOPIC:
"Competition
in Doing
Righteousness"
IMAM:
Mossad Issa
MASJID TAQWA/BALD
HILLS MOSQUE
Friday
khutbah
(sermon)
DATE:
23 February
2018
TOPIC:
"The
Prophet’s
sacrifice
for us"
IMAM:
Mufti Junaid
Akbar
Summary
by Mohideen:
Mufti Junaid
started off
talking
about a TV
broadcast by
SBS about
Muslims and
advised
everyone to
watch this
program so
that you are
aware of the
status of
many Muslims
today. He
was not
happy and
was very sad
about the
current
conditions
of Muslims.
He advised
to read the
life of our
Prophet (pbuh)
and practice
his sunnah
and spoke
about
sacrificing
three
things. He
was clearly
disturbed
about how
today, the
Muslims
treat the
tablighi
jamaat, he
said they
are our
guests but
treated as
enemies. He
also
reminded how
our Prophet
(pbuh) went
to Taif to
preach and
the
treatment he
got in Taif.
He said how
Muslims
today do not
give salaam
and are
embarrassed
to claim as
a Muslim. He
complained
how people
do not
contribute
to the
Masjid,
people do
not have the
time to sit
for 15
minutes to
listen to
the daily
program
after Esha
salah, nor
do they have
time to make
Dua. Mufti
concluded by
advising to
practice the
sunnah of
our Prophet
(pbuh) which
will benefit
in the
hereafter.
Summary
by Mohideen:
Mufti Naeem
started with
what Allah
says about
Amana
(trust) he
went on to
say how the
sky, the
Earth and
the
Mountains
refused to
accept this
Amana. Then
he explained
what is
Amana. He
also slipped
in a joke of
a thief
going to
salah. Mufti
recited the
story of
Moosa (AS)
and his
stick and
linked this
to Amana and
how Allah
shows the
Amana in
different
proportions.
He spoke
about how
humans have
a taste of
Jannah in
dunya.
Touched on
the renewal
of our emaan
and
explained
how our
emaan
increase and
decrease and
advised how
to keep
increasing
our emaan.
He spoke
about
Prophet’s (pbuh)
advice
regarding
praying in
the first
row. Mufti
concluded by
advising how
important
salah is and
to make sure
salah is
never
missed.
107,000
Saudi women apply for 140 passport control
jobs
Women gather outside an
immigration office in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia.
SAUDI ARABIA: The Saudi
General Directorate of Passports said
Thursday that it has received 107,000
applications after advertising 140 jobs
for women at airports and border
crossings.
It's the first time the agency has set
out to recruit women.
Hiring women is a key part of Saudi
Arabia's plan to overhaul its economy,
known as Vision 2030.
The huge number of applications, which
came in over just one week, suggest
women are hungry for jobs in a country
where many find it difficult to work or
start a business.
The passport agency said the job
postings had been viewed more than
600,000 times.
Saudi Arabia is one of the worst
countries in the world for gender
inequality, including in income,
according to a report by the World
Economic Forum.
A women wanting to start her own
business often has to ask two men to
testify to her character before she can
be granted a loan or a license.
CNN
Saudi women
to start own
businesses
without male
permission
RIYADH (AFP) -
Women in Saudi
Arabia can now
open their own
businesses
without the
consent of a
husband or male
relative, as the
kingdom pushes
to expand a
fast-growing
private sector.
The policy
change,
announced by the
Saudi government
on Thursday (Feb
15), also marks
a major step
away from the
strict
guardianship
system that has
ruled the
country for
decades.
"Women can now
launch their own
businesses and
benefit from
(governmental)
e-services
without having
to prove consent
from a
guardian," the
ministry of
commerce and
investment said
on its website.
Under Saudi
Arabia's
guardianship
system, women
are required to
present proof of
permission from
a male
"guardian" -
normally the
husband, father
or brother - to
do any
government
paperwork,
travel or enrol
in classes.
Long dependent
on crude
production for
economic
revenue, Saudi
Arabia is
pushing to
expand the
country's
private sector,
including an
expansion of
female
employment under
a reform plan
for a post-oil
era.
A
Man Was Expecting a Delivery During Friday
Prayers So He Came Up With a Brilliant Plan
To Make Sure He Didn’t Miss It
UK: Foysol Uddin from
Burnley was expecting a delivery on
Friday but it was scheduled to be
delivered at 1pm. However, that
coincided with the Friday prayers which
he had to attend at a Mosque just
minutes away.
So he came up with a brilliant idea.
He put up a note on his door with the
message above.
When he returned from the Friday prayers
he found the UPS delivery man waiting
whilst eating the chocolate bar!
The plan worked and the
delivery man thanked him for the
chocolate saying it was the first time
he saw anything like it.
KB says:
Sharing Raeesa Khatree's recipe from her
The Great Australian Bake Off appearance. Get
the best of both worlds with this focaccia/dip
combo.
Eggplant and Caramelised Onion
Focaccia
Recipe by Raeesa Khatree
from The Great Australian
Bake Off
Ingredients
Dough
400g strong baker's
flour
100g semolina flour
1 tsp bread improver
½ tbsp sea salt
2 tbsp olive oil
300ml warm water
10g dried yeast
½ tbsp caster sugar
Topping
½ cup olive oil
1 small red onion
Eggplant- small baby
variety
Cherry tomatoes
Herbs: oregano,
lemon thyme,
rosemary
Balsamic vinegar
Salt & pepper to
season
Dukkahsprinkle
¼ cup sesame seeds
¼ cup crushed
almonds or almond
powder
½ tsp cumin powder
½ tsp coriander
powder
½ tsp fennel powder
½ tsp salt
Hummus &
sun-dried tomato dip
400g can chickpeas
100ml olive oil
150g sundried tomato
strips
½ tsp paprika
2 tbsp water
1 lemon, juiced
Small handful
oregano leaves
Salt, to taste
Ground black pepper,
to taste
Lemon pepper
Method
For the dough,
mix yeast and
caster sugar
into warm water
slowly and keep
aside.Whisk
flours and salt
and make a well
in the centre.
Once the yeast
foams up, pour
into flour
mixture.
Add olive oil
and mix with a
large fork. Once
all ingredients
are well
incorporated,
turn out onto
floured surface
and knead well
until a soft
dough is formed.
The dough should
be springy when
pulled. Lightly
oil a large bowl
with olive oil
and place dough
in it. Cover
with cling wrap
and let it prove
in warm place
till double in
size,
approximately,
60 minutes.
For the topping,
place washed
cherry tomatoes
in a lined pan,
drizzle with
olive oil, salt,
pepper, ½
handful of
oregano,
rosemary and
some lemon
thyme. Place pan
in oven on 180°C
to roast for 20
minutes. Leave
to cool.
For the eggplant
and onion, slice
red onion into
thin pieces.
Pour 4 tbsp of
olive oil in a
pan and drop in
onion and some
lemon thyme.
Simmer on medium
heat for onions
to soften. While
onions are
simmering, slice
eggplant thinly
preferably with
a mandolin
slicer and
lather with salt
for 10 minutes.
Stir onions and
make sure it is
not burning.
Once onions are
soft, add 2 tbsp
of balsamic
vinegar and
toss. Rinse
eggplant and pat
dry. Add to pan
with onion and
season with salt
and pepper. Toss
eggplant to coat
with olive oil
and cook for 10
minutes. Add
chopped fresh
herbs to pan.
Leave to cool.
For the hummus
dip, place all
ingredients into
a food processor
and pulse until
all ingredients
are smooth.
Season well.
For the dukkah,
combine all
ingredients
except sesame
seeds and toast
in the oven for
10 minutes on
160°C. Remove
from oven and
crush with a
pestle and
mortar. Combine
with sesame
seeds and keep
aside to
sprinkle over
focaccia.
To assemble the
dough, once
dough has risen
to double its
size, gently
remove from bowl
and press down
onto lined and
olive oil
greased pan.
Make dimples
with fingers by
pressing into
dough lightly.
Top the dough
with the roasted
tomatoes,
eggplant and
onion mixture by
spreading gently
and making sure
olive oil from
the mixture
seeps into the
dimple holes.
Sprinkle dukkah
liberally over
and leave to
rise for as long
as possible,
making sure
there is at
least 22 minutes
for baking time.
Once dough has
risen for the
second time,
place into oven
on 220°C and
bake for 20
minutes. Remove
from oven once
golden on the
edges and
sprinkle lightly
with olive oil.
Serve with
hummus dip.
Here's the fact put simply: dieting does not
work.
Every 'health' or 'fitness' article in the media
appear to glorify weight loss. It is always
portrayed that thin is healthy, and larger
bodies are unhealthy. This has been the black &
white fact plastered in our diet cultured
society.
But, did you know that dieting to lose weight
will do you more harm than good? When I refer to
dieting, I am meaning any time that one
restricts themselves to small amounts or special
kinds of foods/drinks in order to lose weight,
or anyone who is attempting to lose weight.
Dieting may induce short-term weight loss, but
will cause most people to gain that weight back
plus more, over time. In a 2012 long term weight
loss study*, it was found that participants
placed on a calorie restriction diet lost weight
at first. But, in follow up, in the long term
there was more weight re-gained. Our body is an
amazing creation that has physiological
mechanisms to help us fight starvation (Darwin's
theory - survival of the fittest right?).
When we focus on weight loss as the solution to
achieving good health, we are ignoring every
other factor that play a role in our health.
So what should we do instead? Have you heard of
the Health At Every Size (HAES) paradigm?
It supports a non-diet approach to achieve
health. It is a weight neutral approach which
means weight loss isn't considered good or bad,
but may be just a side effect.
Fitria
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Welcome to my weekly
column on
Self-Care and
Clarity of Mind.
If you’re taking
time out to read
this, pat yourself
on the back because
you have shown
commitment to taking
care of your mind
and body.
Today, In Shaa
ALLAH, we will
explore the topic:
Control Versus
Care
A common dialogue
that happens during
my couple/ family
counselling sessions
is as follows:
Family Member 1:
You’re always trying
to control me. I
can’t stand it
anymore.
Family Member 2:
But, it’s only
because I care about
you, about our
relationship, about
our family. Why
can’t you see that I
care?
It’s easy for people
to yearn for certain
outcomes in life,
whether in a
relationship or in
life’s other
matters. The
yearning for these
outcomes leads them
to display
behaviours that make
them come across as
a ‘control freak’.
Any person who
demonstrates the
behaviours of a
‘control freak’
narrows the lens
through which she/he
perceives the world,
which then
constricts her/his
mind to only see a
single point of
view: ‘my way or the
highway’. She/he
begins to dictate to
other people that
things should and
must and only be
her/his way. The
intention behind the
yearning for the
desired outcomes may
be kind and caring,
however, the
execution of actions
to achieve those
outcomes are often
far from kindness
and care.
To care for
someone is to have
regard or liking for
the person and to
treat them with
respect and
understanding.
To control someone
is to command or
dominate them
emotionally,
physically and
intellectually.
Reflect on your own
life. Have a heart
to heart
conversation with
your spouse or other
family members. Find
out if your actions
towards them and
their actions
towards you come
from a space of care
or control. It is
vital that you are
able to identify the
difference between
care and control.
Trying to control
people or situations
leads us away from
completely
submitting to
ALMIGHTY ALLAH. It
also causes anxiety
and desperation.
This in turn
manifests as
aggression,
frustration and
self-sabotaging
decisions. No doubt,
you will have
challenges with
people and
situations daily in
your life. Instead
of trying to control
them, remind
yourself that it is
best to control your
own response to
them. Control your
thoughts, your
words, your actions.
The moment you
change the way you
look at things, the
things you look at
change.
Cultivate Care,
Banish Control
The following
strategies may help
you cultivate a
caring practice
rather than a
yearning to control
outcomes.
Test
Care
Strategy
Spouse -
when you
feel your
spouse is
not in
alignment
with your
own
thinking/
goals/
desires.
Child - when
you feel
your child
is
rebelling.
1. Chat with
your spouse/
child to
find out
what exactly
are his/her
concerns. Do
not be
tempted to
reply to
those
concerns.
Simply
listen and
jot them
down.
2. Give
him/her a
hug and tell
them you
will now
think about
all these
concerns and
pray about
them.
3. Ask ALLAH
to guide you
through each
of those
concerns and
help you
both find
the right
way to
address
them.
4.
Demonstrate
to your
spouse/
child that
ALLAH is
there to fix
these
concerns and
that you
care about
maintaining
peace in the
home while
ALLAH guides
you both to
find ways to
deal with
these
concerns.
5. Find
moments
together
everyday
where you
both can
express
gratitude to
ALLAH for
the peace in
your home
and the
strength,
wisdom,
patience and
guidance
that ALLAH
gives you
daily.
Expressing
gratitude
will
increase
your peace,
wisdom,
patience and
strength.
In Shaa ALLAH, next
week we will explore
the topic:
Pulling Out The
Culture Card On Your
Teenage Child?
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This International Women's
Day, Muslim Aid Australia
and Muslim Charitable
Foundation are launching a
truly ground-breaking
project called '1000 Women,
1000 Futures' (TWTF).
What's it all about?
MAA and MCF will empower
1000 women in Australia and
developing countries around
the world by providing them
an impactful and sustainable
method to overcome poverty.
Once each case has been
carefully assessed, we will
provide the chosen
beneficiaries sustainable
livelihood opportunities,
worth an average of $1000
each, to help them towards
starting a small business.
We will also equip each
beneficiary with the skills
required for running their
business so that we ensure
long term success for them
and their families.
Help empower women by
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the world for
the first time.
Ex Economic Hit
Man, John
Perkins
(USA) who has
spoken at
international
economic summits
will present
hard evidence on
the role of
Economic Hit Men
in the
destruction of
entire countries
and how the
current Death
Economic system
can be
transformed into
a Life Economy!
Conchita
Sarnoff,
Investigative
Journalist and
research
professor at
American
University, will
address the
global epidemic
of human
trafficking and
child abuse that
haunts the
corridors of
power from
Harvard to the
White House.
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winning
Hollywood
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Sean has
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At National
Zakat Foundation (NZF) we
aim to utilise Zakat funds
collected in Australia to
provide a lifeline for
local, deserving recipients.
This group consists of some
of the most vulnerable
members of our community,
including widows, orphans,
refugees, the elderly and
the homeless.
National Zakat Foundation
has had the opportunity to
assist our local sisters &
brothers right here in QLD.
Sara, a mum with 5 children
had been in a violent and
abusive relationship for
many years. Fearful for her
children's well being and
hers, she needed to move to
a new and safer place away
from her husband. NZF helped
her relocate by paying for
upfront costs. Sara moved to
new premises immediately.
She and her children are no
longer living in constant
fear and have started a new
and happier life.
David had just lost his
business where he had
invested a lot of money and
with mounting debts and a
young family to take care
of, he needed help urgently.
NZF came to his assistance
immediately.
Sadia a single mother and a
refugee came to Brisbane few
years ago with a young
child. She had been
hospitalised with serious
medical conditions. NZF has
assisted her with ongoing
financial support and
provided her with equipment
to start a small home
business, empowering Sadia
to do something she is
passionate about.
(ALL names have been changed
to protect identity of
clients)
Assalamu
alaikum warahmatullah.
I am sure you are aware
of the hell that Syrians
are going in the face of
non-stop bombing of USA,
Russia, Israel, ISIS,
and you name it.
The ultimate goal is to
kill as many Muslims as
possible. It is a race
that no global leaders
want to stop.
Please raise your hands
to Allah for the
Mustadafeen, helpless
sufferers of modern
killing machines.
Islamic Society of
Toowoomba has decided to
collect donations for
the recent victims of
Syrian war.
Donations should be
directed to the Imam
Abdul Kader of Garden
City Masjid, Toowoomba.
Alternatively, please
deposit/transfer your
charity to the Comm Bank
of Australia:
BSB 06 4459 A/c 1000
3579 (Reference Syria).
May Allah accept your
charity for the best of
His creation, and
protect our helpless
children, sisters and
brothers in Syria.
Jazak Allah Khair.
Fi amanillah,
Shahjahan
GOLD COAST ISLAMIC CULTURAL
CENTRE
Update as at
February 2018
The external
structure has been completed and
the scaffoldings were removed
this week. Now, the work will
commence inside the complex.
We still need donations to fund
this construction.
Muslim/Ipswich Police community reference
group meeting
QPS
Ipswich District
Police Complex, 300 Warwick Road, Yamato
0438 114 619
5PM
15 April 2018
(tentative)
Sunday
LAILATU MI'RAAJ
(Ascension night)
27th Rajab 1439
1 May 2018
(tentative)
Tuesday
NISF SHA'BAAN
(Lailatul Bahrat)
15th Sha'baan 1439
17 May 2018
(tentative)
Thursday
RAMADAAN
(start of the month of fasting)
1st Ramadaan 1439
11 June 2018
(tentative)
Monday
LAILATUL-QADR
(Night of Power)
27th Ramadaan 1439
15 June 2018
(tentative)
Friday
EID-UL-FITR
(end of the month of fasting)
1st
Shawal 1439
21 August 2018
(tentative)
Tuesday
YAWMUL ARAFAH
(Night of Power)
9th Zil-Hijjah 1439
22 August 2018
(tentative)
Wednesday
EID-UL-ADHA
10th Zil-Hijjah 1439
17 November 2018
Saturday
Annual Milad-un-Nabi
Al-Mustapha Institute of Brisbane
TBA
3PM to Maghrib
PLEASE NOTE
1. All Islamic Event dates given above are supplied by
the Council of Imams QLD (CIQ) and are provided as a guide and are
tentative and subject to the sighting of the moon.
2. The Islamic date changes to the next day starting in
the evenings after maghrib. Therefore, exceptfor Lailatul
Mehraj,
Lailatul Bhahraat
and
Lailatul Qadr – these dates refer to the commencement of the event
starting in the evening of the corresponding day.
Nuria Khataam
Date: Every last Wednesday of the month
Time: After Esha Salaat
Venue: Algester Mosque
Contact: Yahya
Ph: 0403338040
MASJID TAQWAH
Bald Hills, Brisbane
Daily program
(after Esha salah by Mufti Junaid)
Monday to Thursday = Quran Tafseer
Friday = Prophet’s (pbuh) Seerah
(All programs run for approximately 15 minutes)
Weekly Madrasa
Monday to Wednesday
3:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Conducted by our Imam Mufti Junaid
Every Sunday
Jaula & remembrance of Allah
between Maghrib and Isha.
HikmahWay offers online and
in-person Islamic courses to
equip Muslims of today with
the knowledge, understanding
and wisdom to lead balanced,
wholesome and beneficial
lives.
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