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Georgeown Universiy, Washingon DC - March 2010

Poliical & Religious Radicalism, Universiy o C0penhagen, Denmark

Launch o he hisoric FAWA, London - 2010

Jamia al-Azhar, Cairo Egyp - 2012

World Economic Forum wih he Indonesian Presiden

US Insiue o Peace - March 2010

15,000 people atended Peace or Humaniy Con erence in he Wembley Arena in 24 Sepember 2011

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by Samra Mursaleen(London)

Dr Muhammad ahir-ul-Qadri hasspen his lie in he service oneedy people or he pas hreedecades, during which he hasworked irelessly worldwide offer-ing educaional seminars, lobbyingor social and economic welarerighs and iniiaing insiuionsand organisaions o carry ouprojecs or he social, religiousand economic developmen ocommuniies.

From he very beginning o his

lie he has consisenly presen-ed a model o Islam espousinghe universal values o he uniyo mankind, inclusion, oleranceand he love o humaniy. He hasconsisenly condemned all ormso exremism, radicalism anderrorism. He recenly auhoredhe hisorical 600 page religiousedic; Fawa on errorism andsuicide bombings which eliciedan exraordi0nary response romhe world media, academics andpoliicians. Subsequenly he was

invied o speak on Islamic concepo Jihad a Georgeown Universiy,US and he US Insiue o Peace.In 2011 he was noably he onlyIslamic scholar who was asked ospeak on he realiy o errorisma he presigious World EconomicForum in Davos and in 2012 washe keynoe speaker a he Peaceor Humaniy Conerence held aWembley Arena, London.

His resoluion o elevae com-muniies and socieies over he

pas hree decades has involved acomprehensive and muli-layeredapproach. Tis includes promoingPeace and Ineraih Harmony,Womens Righs and Developmen,Social Welare, Human Righs andDevelopmen o Educaion or all.Tis has been achieved hrough hisacademic lecures, books and nu-merous projecs hrough his organ-isaions. He has ounded numerousinsiuions and iniiaed majorand ar-reaching programmesin order o realise his objecivescovering all aspecs o human lie.Trough his works as a religiousscholar o he highes eminenceand credibiliy, he is well knownhroughou he Muslim world assomeone who has ouched andinspired millions hrough his mes-sage o peace, uncondiional loveand olerance or mankind.

An imporan endeavour has beenhis concern wih empoweringwomen. Trough his acions andprojecs he has called or grea-er educaional and employmen

liberies or women, encouragedacive paricipaion o women in allaspecs o sociey and has a-

emped o address he significanculural barriers undermining hesaus and role o women wihinradiional amily and social sruc-ures o he Asian Subconinen.

Wih gender inequaliy being amajor barrier o ending povery,Minhaj Welare Foundaion hasunceasingly campaigned againsgender violence and canvassed orhe promoion o womens rolesby changing atiudes hrougheducaion and providing rainingand opporuniies or women oacively parake in sociey. Accord-ingly Minhaj Welare Foundaionse up Bai-ul-Zahra - an all-e-male hosel ha offers an environ-

men conducive or young womeno pursue heir higher educaionwihou he ear socio-culuralissues. Te majoriy o hese youngsudens who arrive rom rural

areas and povery sricken com-muniies leave he scheme moreempowered and equipped wih hequalificaions and skills o findwork and o suppor heir amiliesand ulimaely heir communiies.Te oundaion has also beenunding wedding ceremonies andproviding dowries or hundreds opoor young women who cannoafford o do so hereore enablinghem o begin a new lie.

In a counry wih a lieracy rae ounder 50%, Dr Qadri considerededucaion o be a prioriy and in1984 he esablished a universiyo provide higher educaion hawould be accessible o he poor.A remarkable large-scale educa-ion projec hen ollowed in heearly 1990s, which esablishedhundreds o educaional cenreshroughou Pakisan, accessibleo boh low income amilies andemales. In he field o social wel-are, disaser and povery relie, DrQadri ormed a new siser organi-saion in 1989, laer o be knownas he Minhaj Welare Foundaion,which has benefied vicims o

naural disasers such as he su-nami affecing Indonesia; he Bamearhquake, Iran; he Souh Asianearhquake in Pakisan, along wihvarious developmenal and edu-caional projecs in Pakisan andoher underprivileged counries.

Te promoion o peace andineraih harmony, religiousmoderaion and inegraion arekey aspecs o he mission o Drahir-ul-Qadri and indeed havebeen he saed aims o his world-

wide organisaion o Minhaj-ul-Quran rom is very incepion.His effors have also born rui in

Humaniarian Effors ofDr Muhammad ahir-ul-Qadri


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World Economic Forum, Davos - January 2011

Peace or Humaniy Conerence, Wembley London - 2011

Peaceul Fuure in Aghanisan, urkey - November 2011

ehran, Iran - March 2014

Peace Conerence a he Nassau Coliseum in New Jersey

NSW Parliamen Legislaive Council, Ausralia - 2011Hisorical visi o India - Dr Muhammad ahir-ul-Qadri speaking o he pac crowd in Banglore - March 2012

he various oher counries o heworld hrough he disseminaiono his lecures and publishedworks mos noably his Fawa onerrorism and Suicide Bombingsand hrough he esablishmen ocenres where religious modera-ion is acively augh and pro-moed, alongside he promoion oineraih dialogue and inegraion.

In 2002, Dr ahir-ul-Qadri ook heunprecedened sep o allowingChrisians o worship inside heMinhaj-ul-Quran Mosque, a boldand symbolic gesure in recog-niion o he righ o reedom oworship o Chrisians and heir

riendship wih members o he

Islamic aih. oday, in he hisoryo Pakisan and he Subconinen,is he firs ime ha a Muslimscholar has welcomed members ohe Chrisian communiy, o whichi is no possible o find a similarexample. Dr ahir-ul-Qadri hasopened he doors o Minhaj-ul-Quran Mosque or us in which opray. Dr Qadri has begun a newchaper in iner-religious rela-ions. (Bishop Andrew Francis,Chairman o Chrisian Coordina-ion Council, 15 March 2002).

Mos recenly in 2013 Dr Qadriled he hisorical Long Marchin Islamabad or he alleviaion

o povery and he resoraion

o social and economic righs ohe povery sricken people oPakisan. In which he demandedha comprehensive poliical andelecoral reorms were me oensure ha he poor and workingclass ciizens o Pakisan can haveproecion and equal paricipaionwihin Pakisani sociey. I was hefirs ime ha Pakisan had seensuch a mammoh ani-corrupionand pro-democracy proes Marchon his scale which remained ullypeaceul. I was a demand or heend o a corrupion ridden poli-ical srucure and or elecionso be conesed beween peoplewho were declared eligible byhe Consiuion, in Dr Qadriswords I wan o ell he naionalinsiuions o Pakisan and he

180 million people: we do nodeny poliics. Tis address is orhe sake o resoraion o cleanpoliics.

Dr ahir-ul-Qadri draws his sup-por rom millions o Pakisaniswho have been rusraed wih hedominaion o poliics by a handulo ained leaders rom elie ami-lies; embitered by a poliical sys-em riddled wih corrupion whichenables is poliicians o embezzlemillions o rupees, and an elec-

oral sysem ha allows millionso voes o be alsely regisered.In such condiions where reeand air elecions is an unrealisichope, Dr Qadri insiss ha onlyafer an overhaul o he poliicalsysem can real democracy prevail.Addressing a rally o hundredso housands o people in Lahoreon 23 December 2012, he saedhrough change and reorms weneed o resrucure our poliicaland elecoral sysem or he sakeo rue democracy. In order o save

our sae, in order o save democ-racy, in order o save our poliicalprocess, rom collapse, we need

world-class srucural renewal, andwe need change, so ha he poorand needy in our counry can live alie o digniy ree rom povery.

Te increasing and widespreadlawlessness, povery and he lacko economic opporuniies in Pa-kisan has mean ha is becomehe 34h mos corrup counry inhe world according o ranspar-ency Inernaional. Te increasinginernal errorism has rendered ihe second mos dangerous coun-ry according o he laes error-ism Risk Index (RI), wih 35,000people killed since 2010. Despiehis he governmen has ailed oormulae any laws on errorism.In an inerview wih he Financialimes, Dr Qadri warned o Paki-

sans break up unless ruling poli-icians were orced o abide by lawsha hey have openly disregardedor years. Te whole process is aoal negaion o he principles odemocracy, he said. I only wanhe consiuion o be enorced.Law breakers are he lawmakers inPakisan, he said, adding sev-eny per cen o parliamenariansare ax evaders, so how could weexpec hem o hink abou hepovery sricken people. Deliveringhis speech in Islamabad Dr Qadri

demanded reorms o end dynasicpoliics, widespread errorism andmismanagemen. Te March endedwih he Islamabad Long MarchDeclaraion which was signed byhe hen Prime Miniser. Wih isnaural resources and alen Paki-san has he poenial o become ahriving counry and i seems hawih he pro-Democracy March Drahir-ul-Qadri has brough a newhope or is people.

For more inormaion abou he

ounder Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Mu-hammad ahir-ul-Qadri please visiwww.minhaj.org

Te ounder o MWF sharing a meal wih he Orphan children a AGHOSH (an Orphan Care Home in Lahore)

Picure: Dr Muhammad ahir-ul-Qadri leading A Million ManMarch in he capial ciy o Pakisan. Women, he elderlyand young children campaiging or heir basic human righs

phoo credi: samirashackle.com



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Conribuors

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EDIORAdnan Sohail

CONRIBUORSSamra Mursaleen, Mariam Khalid,Rafiq Ahmad, Habeeba Asghar,Ahsan Hussain, Humaira Ali, IqbalKhan, Dr Raheeq Abbasi, MusarraHussain, Ali Akbar, Hizul Chow-dry, Sai ul Azam, Zahid Rahman,Shams ur Rahman Aasi, GhulamSamdani, Naveed Undalasi

DESIGN AND MARKEINGShivang Chopra,Muhammad Ajmal Khan

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London, E7 9HD, UK

ISSN Number: 2055-706X


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by Mariam Khalid (London)

he sance o Minhaj Welare Foundaion(MWF) on educaion is very clear cu andunambiguous; as he ounding leader oMWF, Dr Muhammad ahir-ul-Qadrisaesha he only way in which povery can be

eradicaed is hrough Educaion. MinhajWelare Foundaion wans o provide herigh o educaion and qualiy o educaiono all he poor and needy. We wan o seea school in every communiy so ha ourchildren have a much brigher uure.

MWF believes ha educaion is hemos imporan acor or ensuring longerm povery reducion. here are morehan over 637 schools and educaionalinsiues providing educaion o more han145,000 children.MWF suppors hreeypes o schools; rural schools (providingbasic educaion o he mos isolaed andscaered communiies), model schools(providing more ormalised educaion inurban areas), and grammar schools (largerschools or more gied and alenedsudens).

he cash ranser program or orphansand needy children is acive in Asia, Aricaand he Middle Eas serving childrenand sudens (boh male and emale).

6Educaion for All

Bai-u-Zahra - EmpoweringWomen (35 per monh Living/

Educaion sponsorship)Women conribue in many ways o heir com-muniies and naions, bu oo ofen hey arelimied by lack o opporuniy and educaionresrics heir abiliy o achieve heir ull poen-ial and o paricipae in decision-making andresource allocaion in heir amilies and commu-niies.

In 2012, (MWF) iniiaed Bai-ul-Zahra (heHouse o Zahra) a emale accommodaioncomplex dedicaed o proecing and improvinghe lives o emale sudens wishing o aspireurher educaion. Te projec was compleedin early March 2014 and will provide a saeenvironmen or more han 450 poor and needyand orphan emale sudens.

he program provides a monhly sipendo children and sudens o help covereducaion maerial or heir academic classesand oher schooling coss, and o assis wihaccommodaion, ood and medical care:

School Sponsorship(15 per monh)

College & UniversiySponsorship (25 per monh)

Tousands o children have compleed heirmemorisaion o he Holy Quran hroughhe Hiz Sponsorship Program. I akesalmos hree years minimum - or a child

o complee he enire Quran; and by doingso preserving he words o Allah Almighy.

Orphan & NeedySponsorship (35 per monhLiving/Educaion Sponsorship)

MWF provides specific sponsorship ororphan and needy children, i deems he

proecion o orphans o be o he umosimporance and hereore he access oeducaion can change heir lives and givehem a real fighing chance a having agood sandard o lie and be able o buildheir uure.

One such projec is Aghosh an orphancare home, which provides he bes qualiy

educaion o orphans and needy children,alongside modern and spacious accommo-daion and ood. MWF hopes o replicaehis model across Souh Asia.

Minhaj Public School Africa

Hifz Sponsorship(25 per monh)

MWF currenly sponsors children andyoung people o go o primary and second-ary school. Te sponsorship scheme en-sures ha children are able o access goodqualiy educaion a school. All MinhajSchools are independenly assessed by heMinhaj Educaion Sociey, eacher rainingand evaluaions are carried ou on a yearlybasis. MWFs School Sponsorship programor needy and vulnerable children (bohmale and emale) is also acive in India,Bangladesh and Arica.

Since 2006, Minhaj Universiy Lahore hasbeen accredied ino a recognized andcharered Universiy and hrough MWFscholarship scheme housands o maleand emale sudens are provided oppor-uniies o gain a beter qualificaion andjob opporuniy or he uure. ConsiuenFaculies o Minhaj Universiy are:

1. Faculy o Economics and Managemen

Sciences2. Faculy o Basic Sciences and Mahema-ics3. Faculy o Compuer and Inormaionechnology

Par o is vision or building a beter uureor educaion in Arica, MWF has iniiaeda new program ocusing on Secondary ed-ucaion in rural and marginalised commu-niies. Te firs o which will be opened inJune 2014 is locaed in he Norh Easernregion o Kenya in a village called Kiere.

Te Minhaj Public School would serve hecommuniys children by providing hem anopporuniy or a beter uure.

Te school includes hree classrooms, saffroom, office, sore room, an assembly area,clean waer and saniaion aciliies.

Minhaj Welare Foundaion wans o buildsecondary schools across Arica; he aver-age cos o build a basic school is approxi-maely 40,000.

aheez-ul-Quran girls secion in Lahore, Pakisan

Primary school children in Paika, Azad Kashmir

Minhaj Universiy Lahore Campus

Minhaj College or women, Lahore Pakisan

Orphan children rom Aghosh a a assembly

Orphan children playing during he res ime

Voluneers building he new Minhaj Public School Kiere, Arica

Children rom he Norh Easern region o Kenya

Bai-ul-Zahra - he ron enrance o he compleed building


4. Faculy o Social Sciences and Humaniy5. Faculy o Languages and6. Faculy o Islamic SudiesFor urher inormaion please visi heollowing websie a www.mul.edu.pk


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HelpFeed 7

Share he Blessings of QurbaniIn Eid-ul-Adha 2013, Minhaj Welare Foundaion(MWF) highlighed he imporance o endinghunger and exreme povery in he world hroughShare he Blessings o Qurbani 2013.

Wih he suppor o is donors and supporers,MWF provided Qurbani mea o he poor andneedy in he mos impoverished regions o he

hird world. Tousands o MWF voluneers andworkers ensured Qurbani/Adahi was perormedin accordance o correc Islamic eachings. MWFreached ou o poor amilies, including orphanedchildren and women and he elderly were prior-iized ensuring he mea reached hose who needi mos.

MWF reached ou o hundreds and housands oamilies, ocusing in paricular on hose peopleaffeced by recen disasers.

Qurbani mea was disribued in he earhquakeaffeced areas o Baluchisan in Pakisan andsome o he flood affeced areas. In Eas Arica ouream disribued ood bags o inernally displacedpeople in Somalia, Kenya and Ehiopia who sillremains homeless or almos wo years since hedrough las affeced more han 13 million peoplein he region. In addiion o Eas Arica regionsand Pakisan, he MWF eam disribued Qurbanimea in India and Bangladesh. In 2014, MWF hrough is HelpFeed iniiaive hopes o reach ou o he deprived people in he hird world. Our MWF eam ravelso he mos impoverished regions o ensure ha he poor, needy and vulnerable receive Qurbani mea on he day o Eid-ul-Adha.

Suppor Minhaj Welare Foundaion in Share he Blessings o Qurbani 2014 and share he joy o hundreds o housands o peo-ple in Asia and Arica. See how your Qurbani reached hose in he hird world in 2013:1. India wo young children rom he Norh o India, Bihar wih Qurban (sacrificial) mea on he day o Eid2. Bangladesh: Voluneers disribuing Qurbani mea o women and he elderly in Sylhe3. Kenya: Communiies rom across he Norh Easern region o he ana River dela enjoying Qurbani mea

4. Ehiopia: Sacrificial animal in he Qurbani camps a day beore Sacrifice.5. Pakisan: Iqbal Azam (MWF Europe) Sharing he blessings o Qurbani wih young children.6. Somalia: Ghulam Samdani (MWF Egyp) wih young children in relie camp in Mogadishu.

A Global sruggle o end Hunger & Poveryby Rafiq Pael (London)

MWF iniiaed he HelpFeed projec in 2012 wih he prime aim oending hunger and malnuriion - by prevening shor erm difficul-ies and ensuring long erm means o susainabiliy. Did you know?

-Over 1 BILLION PEOPLE affeced by exreme povery!-780 million lack access o clean drinking waer!-820 million people sleep hungry a nigh!-One person will die o sarvaion beore you finish reading his sen-ence (every 3.6 seconds)!

Clean and Safer waer

Waer Pump in Asia

Hundreds o waer Pumps have been insalledbenefiting 22,500 people in 2013 - 2014 wihhe aim o raising his o 20,000 by nex year in

regions such as:

Larkana SindhRahim Yaar Khan, Souh PunjabShadadKo, SindhShikarpur, SindhAnd many more regions in souhWaer Well in Africa

Eas Arica was severely affeced by he droughin 2011, leaving more han 13 million people dis-placed wih many lives los.

HelpFeed has consruced a number o waerwells in he Norh Easern region o Kenya andsurrounding areas providing long erm access oclean waer o 20,000 people.

In 2014 2015, hrough HelpFeed hopes o reach150, 000 wih clean drinking waer in Asia andArica

End he Cycle of Povery: Susainable Living

HelpFeed has iniiaed susainable arming in poor regionso Arica by raining armers in land and arming pracic-es. Tis way, arming amilies increased producion andwere able o sell more crops Ending he Cycle o Povery.

HelpFeed believes ha when armers grow more ood andearn more income, hey are able o eed heir amiliesmore effecively, send heir children o school, provide or

heir amilys healh, and inves in heir arms. Tis makesheir communiies economically sronger and sable.

Donae

3 per monh(10p a day)

or a Susainable living

owards HelpFeed

Book your Qurbaniwih

Minhaj Welfare Foundaion

for 2014

Hand Pump locaed in Rajan Pur, Souh Punjab Hand Pump locaed in Larkana, Sindh

Women eching waer in Norh Eas Kenya Children drinking waer in Sub-Baomo, Kenya

Bihar, India Rural village in Chitagong, Bangladesh Marembo, Norh Easern region o Kenya

Relie camp in Mogadishu, SomaliaLahore, PakisanEhiopia

How your donaion works?1- You donae2- MWF chooses he area3- Work ge sared on he waer projec

4- Work is compleed5- MWF provides eedback o he donor


(2800)

(150)

Voluneers highlighing he HelpFeed campaign


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8Emergency Relief

Gaza Emergency Relief

he srie ha coninues o worsen he disaser in Gaza ha has been iscondiion or decades requires your ongoing eor and suppor. Minhaj WelareFoundaion is primarily ocussed wih he revialisaion and rescue o educaionand suden sponsorship. he pas and recen conlics have led o generaions

upon generaions being raised void o commendable qualiicaions, which hindershe developmen o he masses. We need you o ighen his gap, allowing hePalesinians o remain inormed and schooled, and ulimaely brighening heir

chances o an accomplished uure. MWF recognise wherehere is a crucial need o assisance. In 2013, i provided

medical aid as well as waer o 2000 amilies aeced,and coninues o do so.

Syria (Relief o refugees in Egyp, andDamascus)I has now marked a number o hree years in Syria, since he oubreako civil war. Much o he worlds conusion and dismay, we havewached our people being massacred, orured and sarved o deah all o say he leas. ime has passed us by and we ind ha over 9

million have been displaced 2 million o which are reugees. MinhajWelare Foundaion (MWF) ideniied he dires o places during he

Gujara, IndiaIn Sepember 2013, subsanial rain le housands opeople rom he Indian sae o Gujra homeless. he waerlevels rose rapidly resuling in immediae evacuaion romhomes. he surrounding areas and he mos impoverished

villages in Gujra were he wors aeced, such as Vadodarawho needed 15,000 o is people rescued rom he ominous

harpaakar

Since he beginning o March2014, severe shorages o oodand waer have been repored inharparkar disric in PakisansSouh Eas - Sindh province.

A number o children havereporedly died o malnuriion.he area has no received anysigniican rainall since he endo 2013.

MWF and regional oices in Sindhhave been provided emergencyrelie o hose aeced howevermore needs o be done

he relie aciviies were carriedou in Mihi, Mirpur Khas,Digree, Islam Ko, Nanger Parke,

and Checchro disrics are also inull swing.

ill-o-dae, more han 1000amilies have been provided wihemergency aid.

MWF has provided emergencyrelie packs including clean waerconainers, ood and esablishedmedical camps in surroundingregions

MWF provided humaniarian

assisance in a Chrisiancommuniy in Badamai Bagh,Pakisan in 2013. Hundreds ohomes were burned in a horriicaack leaving housands oamilies homeless.

Wih your donaions; MWF helpedhundreds o amilies wih dailyood raions, medical check-upsand warm blankes.

Direcor o MWF Pakisan, AmjadShah said ha Minhaj Welare

Foundaion had se up a medicaland ood disribuion camp oprovide humaniarian assisancewih he help o is voluneers.

by Habeeba Asghar (Glasgow)

Minhaj Welare Foundaion works o promoe an effecive humaniar-ian approach o ackling he escalaion o disasers ocusing on bohhe shor and long erm needs o hose affeced in disasers.

Our disaser work includes:

Responding when emergencies occur by meeing immediae survivalneeds, including waer, ood, sheler and healh-care, wih a ocus onhe paricular needs o children and amilies.Provision o Educaion in emergencies; in make-shif camps.Supporing he long-erm recovery o communiies, addressing heroo causes o vulnerabiliy and making sure ha local communiiesare ully involved in he process.

Minhaj Welare Foundaion has responded o he worlds mos devas-aing disasers since 1989. Te MWF Emergency eam has providedassisance in disaser occurring siuaions in Pakisan (Earhquake in2005 and floods 2010), Kashmir, Aghanisan, Palesine (Gaza), Bosnia,Bangladesh, India, Iran, Indonesia, Japan, Somalia, Kenya, Iraq, Haii,

and Libya. Tis repor shows he emergency relie effors o MinhajWelare Foundaion over he pas year.

MWF supporingMinoriiesBadami Bagh crisis

MWF voluneers assising he affecees o he Pakisan Floods.

MWFs voluneer disribuing ood packs o amilies in Damascus, Syria

MWFs voluneer in he flood affeced areas in Gujra, India

MWF execued an emergency operaion in which heyrescued 350 amilies in a small village near Baroda, Manpur.he MWF eam in India helped he vicims ge o saey asswily as possible, as well as aciliae relie and uiliy wihood packs and clean waer.

Children recieving emergency pack duringhe civil unres in Gaza, 2012


monh o Ramadan by disribuing emergency aid o reugees displacedin Egyp. he ood packs disribued are pracical and eicien,providing long-erm suppor and aciliaion wih he very basics oneeds rice, waer, whea, medicine and oher imporan iems.

In December 2013, an MWF delegaion visied Damascus, Syria oassess he siuaion on he ground. Winer warmers, and ood iemswere disribued in relie camps o hose less aeced. he mainenanceo his projec is vial in ha i remains coninuous wih your suppor.he key disincion o our projec is ha i provides aid promply,despie he srenuous eors aid workers have o go hrough o geo he vicims. I is wholesome and eicien, reaching vas amouns opeople all wih your help


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9Les ReviveSeekers - A DawahIniiaive

byAhsan Hussain (Walsall)

Minhaj Welare Foundaion has

launched a projec wih a uniquewis. We will make a dierence inomorrows world no by paringrom our cash bu by educaingodays sociey. Seekers has beenlaunched wih his sole aim inmind: Reurn he Muslim youhback o he original peaceul

message o Islam so ha heycan beer hemselves, beer herepuaion o Islam and beer heworld. Islam was brough o heProphe Mohammed Peace BeUpon Him wih he insrucion oRead and his is exacly how we

aim o revive he rue Islam in hehears o odays Muslims, hroughreconnecing wih he originalscripures.Unorunaely hrough a lack oundersanding o he principles oIslam no jus by non-Muslims bualso by Muslims hemselves, Islam

has become wrongly labelled as areligion o exremism, radicalismand secularisaion. Even Muslimshemselves eel a need o isolaehemselves rom sociey andbecome imprisoned wihin hisbubble o rules and regulaionsand dos and dons which heybelieve o be Islam.

Bu surely his can be? How wasour beloved Messenger able ochange he lives o so many wihinhe los Arabian peninsula wihsuch a diicul religion? Simple.he message ha was broughby he Prophe MohammedPBUH was a message o love andeasiness. I was a message o uniy,no a message o secularisaion.I was a message o liberaionand no a message o resricion.

I was a message o beauy andno a message o harshness. Iwas a message or all o mankindand no jus a message or hebelievers. Unorunaely we havesrayed rom his message andconsequenly weakened our linkwih Allah SW and our belovedMessenger. I is no oo lae.We sill have ime. We sill havesrengh wihin our Ummah. Wih

his passion in mind hundreds oindividuals aended universiyseminars across he counryocussing on ho opics oconroversy: Bidah, awhid andShirk. hrough ineracive coursesand in deph lieraure sourcedrom he Quran and Hadih, he

aendees were able o gainbeneicial knowledge ha heycould hen incorporae wihin heirliesyles and propagae o ohers.

.Visi www.seekersacademy.com orurher inormaion.

MWF Challengesby Humaira Ali (London)Minhaj Welare Foundaion hashad many Challenges or Chariyover he las couple o years; allin order o suppor he poor andneedy in marginalised communiiesacross he world. he basic ideais ha paricipan ake par in adiicul challenge and in reurnheir riends, amily and colleaguessponsor hem o raise money or agood cause.

Over he las couple o years,MWF Challenges has successullyorganised some really exciingand somewha daring challenges.Challengers have aken par inSkydiving; jumping ou o a plane

a around 13,000 ee (approx. 2

miles high!), alling a 120 mphsaely back o earh. A ew yearsago, 7 daring jumpers, aged 21 14ook he plunge, in a bungee jumpchallenge, rom a 160 ee crane. InSepember 2010 we ook 15 daringrekker o rek he Grea Wall o

China. Our rekkers walked alongvarious aspecs o he wall over7 days and raised a subsanialamoun. In Sepember 12 ,2011courageous paricipans ravelledo anzania o climb he summi ohe highes peak in Arica, MounKilimanjaro. Sanding a 5,895

meres or 19,341 ee above sea

level i is wihou a doub one ohe mos specacular ascens inhe world.

Are you ready o be par o MWFchallenges 2014?

Briish Muslims atending a Seekers course in Ason Universiy, Birmingham

A group phoo o voluneers who ook par in heBunjee Jump

MWF Challenges eamwould likeo hank all he paricipans whoook par in Challenges over heyears and heir respecive donorsor supporing hem.

For 2014, we have launched someexciing new Challenges:

- Te rek o Grea Wall o Chinarom 8h Ocober ill 16 Ocober2014.- Climb Moun Snowden on 24hAugus 2014

- andem SkydiveWe hope ha you have beeninspired o ake par in his chal-lenging, bu rewarding, experienceo help hose who are less or-unae hen you. For more inor-maion or o regiser please visiwww.minhajwelare.org/challenge.

Te money raised rom hesechallenges was pu o good usewih housands o pounds goingo projecs like he Orphan Projec(Agosh) and our Waer and Sani-aion projec in Arica..

Seekers course in a Universiy o Eas London.

ahir Muhammad skydiving in 2011

A group o voluneers climbing in Moun Snowdon

A group o voluneers reaching he peak o MounKilmanjaro, Arica

A view o he reks o he Grea Wall o China

Seekers is an Educaional forum commited o educaing and informingMuslims abou he correc eachings of Islam. Seekers aims o addresshe laes issues facing Muslim sudens and general sociey oday wihhe help of Briish Islamic qualified eachers.

Seekers is suppored hrough Les Revive (a projec of Minhaj WelfareFoundaion).

I you are ineresed in aking parin hese challenges, please conacus a [email protected] or call us on 03003030777 andone o he MWF challenges eammember will provide you all henecessary deails.



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10Empowering Communiies in he UKMuslim NGOs have a key role o play in foreign aid

Secreary o Sae or Inernaional Developmen and MP Jusine Greening me Direcorso Minhaj Welare Foundaion in Nelson, Pendle o discuss he subsanial Briish aideffor and wha more could be done inernaionally o help hose suffering in he region.Jusine Greening me wih he MWF eam a he local regional office in Nelson; she

alked abou he impac o oreign aid inernaionally.Te Secreary o Sae said: I wan DFID o have a clear sense o Briains naional in-eres. Te developmen budge mus be an invesmen in he uure - or he developingworld o course, bu also or people in Briain.

On he role o he UKs unding procedures or humaniarian developmen projecs inPakisan.

Discussions were also held on he accounabiliy mehods o he UK Governmen oensure ha unds are correcly uilised by Pakisani insiuions and ha corrupion iskep o a minimal. Issues o ax evasion in Pakisan were also discussed. Jusine assuredMWF ha he Briish Governmen is aware o he corrupion issues and ha hey areaking horough acion o ensure ha Briish ax payers unds are proeced and well

uilised.Dawood Hussain, Managing Direcor o Minhaj Welare Foundaion, said:I is imporan he UK governmen ocuses improving governance, srenghen accoun-abiliy and ensures he Pakisani governmen pushes hose ha have no paid heir

by Mariam Khalid (London)

A undraising even Raising Smiles 2013an evening o enerainmen and comedywas organised by Minhaj Welare Foun-

daion in June 2013. Tis was a 3 ciy UK(in Glasgow, Birmingham and London)our wih Muslim Comedian Azhar Usman(USA) and Nasheed Aris Milad RazaQadri (UK). Te evens were organisedo raise money in aid o poor and needychildren. All he unds raised hrough heour are being uilised o build he MinhajSecondary School in Kiere and will hope-ully become a source o benefi or many

HelpFeed Chariy Walk

by Rafiq Pael (London)

Sudens, saff and parens a MinhajSchool o Islamic Sciences (MSIS) eamedup wih Minhaj Welare o conduc asponsored chariy walk or he HelpFeedprojec.

Paricipans covered 2.8 miles, he aver-age disance ha mus be walked o findclean waer in Arica, o raise awareness oglobal hunger and povery.Te walk sareda he Eas Ham Saion, pass ing hroughBarking Rd, Green S and ending a he

Minhaj-ul-Quran Mosque on Romord Rd.Children as young as 5 paricipaed, hold-ing placards reading End Povery Nowand Join Us. Te even was broadcasby Islam Channel and published in localnewspapers.

Te unds colleced resuled in he insal-laion o hand pumps in Sindh, Pakisan,benefiing some 800 people.

byIqbal Khan (Derby)

Derby Khidmah Group (DKG) organised a Car Wash in Derby wih proceeds going o Min-haj Welare Foundaion (MWF) or he ongoing emergency relie or hose affeced by hedrough in Tarpaakar, Pakisan.

Te Chariy Car Wash kicked off earlySunday 6h April a 10 am a he RosehillRd o help raise unds or MWFs ongoingEmergency Appeal in Tar, Pakisan.

Abid rom Derby Khidmah Group said; Isimporan he local communiy here inDerby ge involved in raising donaions orhose affeced rom he Tar communiy.We have a large Pakisani Diaspora wholive in Derby and i is an excellen way orus o show our suppor.

MWF hopes o reach more and more am-ilies and has held undraising campaignsacross he UK.

We appreciae he effors o Derby Khidmah Group and Radio Ikhlas our local supporers,voluneers and he suppor o he local communiy o Derby who have always been verygiving and chariable in such circumsances. A subsanial amoun was raised, we wouldlike o hank everyone who donaed.

axes o pay axes. Te Pakisani Diaspora has srong presence here in he UK and hasbeen very generous over he years sending hundreds o millions o pounds in he orm oremitance and oreign aid.Minhaj Welare has been working on various relie and developmen programs in Paki-

san since 1989 ocusing on educaion, medical care and humaniarian effors.In addiion o he meeing he Secreary o Sae also me wih voluneers, local commu-niy members and held ineracive discussion on a local communiy Radio o express herviews and houghs on oreign aid and is impac i is having locally and Inernaionally.

Jusin Greening, Secreary o Sae or Inernaional Developm en discussing he impac o oreign aid wih senior represenaives o MWF

Raising Smiles: Fundraising for Africa

Chariy Car Wash In aid of he people of Tar (Sindh),Pakisan

Voluneers washing cars in order o raise donaions or he Sindhdrough 2014

Young children campaigning agains global hunger and povery

Azhar Usman (US), Muslim comedian perorming a undraising even


Te Eas Lancashire Communiy Acion Projec (ELCAP)Te Eas Lancashire Communiy AcionProjec (ELCAP) is a local projec iniiaedby Minhaj Welare Foundaion in 2006and is commited o providing a variey oservices o he local communiy in he EasLancashire area.

Is mission is o enrich he lives o helocal communiy hrough he provisiono educaion, inormaion and raininghrough local modern ar, media and digi-al echnologies.

One o he key projecs is he PendleCommuniy Radio saion round he clock ,which provides an invaluable service o hepeople o Eas Lancashire communiy. Te

Pendle Communiy Radio is broadcased inhe Eas Lancashire on 103.1FM; you canalso lisen online onwww.pendleradio.

Commissioning or he Fuure o he Tird Secor-

School children presening in he Pendle Commnuniy Radio sudio.

Children rom MSIS London aking par in HelpFeed walk


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by Adnan Sohail, (London)

Educaion provides hehighes reurn o any social

invesmen. Trough heEducaion or All iniiaive,Minhaj Welare Founda-ion builds schools, schoolrooms and libraries, andprovides communiies wihschool urniure and basicschool supplies.

Bu our educaion pillarexends beyond buildingand urnishing schools. Wework wih Minhaj Educa-ion Sociey o ensure our

projecs are mainainedover he long-erm, ocreae programming andiniiaives o comple-men deerminedcurriculum, ando commi oproviding allsudensboys andgirlswih aqual-iy

OUCOMES

1 Improve AccessAll children (boys and girls)have access o a qualiyand primary Educaion

2 Change BehaviousAll children should atendqualiy school

3 Change Saus

Increase primary schoolcompleion and

academic perormance

Personal Sory

Mee Abd-Allah

Abd-Allah is very graeul or he work Minhaj WelareFoundaion has done in his communiy. Wihou i, his liemigh be oally differen. Te 11-year-old, who lives wih

his amily in Souhern Punjab region o Pakisan, saredgoing o school when he was seven. When he was 10,hough, he had o leave school o help his parens. Teydid no have any sor o income and, or a whole year,Abd-Allah worked many jobs o help his amily ou.

Ten Minhaj Welare Foundaion buil a new school inhe souhern Punjab region, wih a much larger su-den capaciy, and Abd-Allah go a second chance a aneducaion. Te leader o our communiy persuaded myparens o send me back o school and o le me finish myprimary school educaion, he says.

Now Abd-Allah is back in school and learning mah, phys-ical educaion, Urdu and ars. He likes learning and un-dersands how imporan i is ha he ges an educaion.Educaion can help me and my amily o live a beter liein he uure, he says.

Abd-Allah hopes o complee his educaion and becomea eacher. As he explains, I wan o give knowledge

o oher people. He is hankul or all ha MinhajWelare Foundaion has done o help him achieve hadream. [Minhaj Welare Foundaion] buil a goodnew school or us and gave us he chance o go o

school, he says, adding, Wihou MinhajWelare Foundaion, I migh no be backa school.

11Curren Projecs

educaion. ogeher, ourprojecs and programscreae a holisic educaionmodel ha empowers

children o lead producive,successul and happy lives.When children are edu-caed, enire communiiesatain he knowledge andools o break he cycle opovery, or hemselvesand or uuregeneraions.Why? Im-agineyou

couldn read or wrie.Imagine you knew nohingo he world ha exissbeyond your own and ciy.Imagine you had no ideahow o preven commonillnesses ha were dev-asaing your communiy.Or worse ye, imagine youdidn even know your ba-sic human righs, le alonehow o figh or hem. Forhe 61 million primaryschool-aged children who

aren inschool,

heresno

needo im-

aginehis is

heir realiy. Tesechildren are ou oschool or a number

o reasons: some o hem,girls especially, are need-ed a home o help akecare o siblings and collecwaer or heir amilys use,ohers are engaged in childlabour; some live oo arrom he neares school,while ohers can affordo pay or a uniorm orhe necessary school ees.Whaever he reason, wih-ou access o an educaion,

hese children remainvoiceless and he cycle o

povery coninues.Educaion is he besway o empower children,especially girls, wih heools, knowledge, srenghand confidence hey needo promoe and proecheir own righs, growhand sel-sufficiency. Wiheducaion, children, ami-lies, communiies and evennaions can break he cycleo povery.

Le us Educae a Child his year

An estimated 215 million childrenare engaged in child labour.

Sraegy?

Trough implemenaion oEducaion or All over hepas hree years, MinhajWelare Foundaion aims oimprove access and changeno only circumsanceand opporuniy, bu alsobehaviour. Ulimaely hiswill lead o a change incommuniy saus, resulingin long-erm, effecive andmeaningul developmen.

By improving access o educaion and providing addiionalresources, over a period o ime, Minhaj Welare Founda-ion hopes ha i will begin seeing change in communi-ies: more sudens atending school, improved academicperormance and resuls and an increase in primaryschool graduaion raes.

Only 1 in 5 work-ing children isin paid employ-ment. Most are

unpaid familyworkers.

Abd-Allah



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Our Educaion Projecs o include:

New schools and school rooms Rebuilding or reurbishing exising schools and school rooms Libraries, adminisraion offices and eacher space. Leadership programming and raining or eachers Educaional resources like books and in some cases, compuer and

science labs Provision o school urniure and basic school supplies

Schools:

Minhaj Welare Foundaion plans oexpand and he qualiy o is exising

schools and making i accessible omore children coming rom lower and

middle class amilies.

Minhaj Model HighSchool - Saeela, Jhelum

Tere is an exising 13 classrooms provid-ing space or 140 sudens (67 girls and 73boys) in a 3506 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 12,000in he ollow-ing area space o 3506 Sq f:

- Reurbishmen and providing classroom urniure in 13 classrooms

- 1 saff room- 1 compuer lab- 1 conerence/examinaion hall- 6 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

12Curren Projecs

Minhaj Middle SchoolHaveli Lakha, Okara

Tere is an exising 27 classrooms providingspace or 440 sudens (183 girls and 257boys) in an 9520 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 11,000in he ollow-ing area space o 1360 Sq f:

- Building 4 more classrooms- 1 saff room

- 1 compuer lab- 1 conerence/examinaion hall- 3 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)- 6 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Minhaj Model High SchoolManawala, Sheikhupura

Tere is an exising 13 classrooms providingspace or 303 sudens (195 girls and 108boys) in an 8106 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 15,000in he ol-lowing area space o 1632 Sq f:


- 1 saff room- 1 compuer lab- 1 conerence/examinaion hall- 5 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Minhaj Model School

Arifwala, PakpaanTere is an exising 11 classrooms providingspace or 190 sudens (80 girls and 110boys) in a 2720 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 11,000in he ollow-ing area space o 2720 Sq f:


- 1 saff room- 1 compuer lab

- 1 conerence/examinaion hall- 5 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Minhaj Laurel HomeSchool - Sialko

Tere is an exising 10 classrooms providingspace or 260 sudens (150 girls and 110boys) in a 10880 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 11,000in he ollow-ing area space o 1360 Sq f:

- Building 3 more classrooms aheez-ul-Quran

- Building 2 classrooms or School- 1 Science lab- 4 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Minhaj Laurel School

Gujranwala

Tere is an exising 8 classrooms providingspace sudens in a 2170 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 9,000in he ollow-ing area space o 750 Sq f:

- Building 4 more classrooms- 1 compuer lab- 4 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Minhaj Model SchoolNisha Colony, Lahore

Tere is an exising 14 classrooms providingspace or 265 sudens (107 girls and 158boys) in a 2720 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 12,500in he ollow-ing area space o 750 Sq f:


- 1 saff room- 1 compuer lab- 3 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Minhaj Model School

Safdarbad, Sheikhpura

Tere is an exising 5 classrooms providingspace or 220 sudens (120 girls adn 110boys) in a 2176 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 12,500in he ollow-ing area space o 3264 Sq f:

- Building 6 more classrooms- 1 saff room- Wall consrucions- 3 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Minhaj Model GirlsHigh School, Lahore

Tere is an exising 16 classrooms providingspace or 313 sudens (girls) in a 10880 Sqf area.Required projec cos: 10,000in he ol-lowing area space o 5440 Sq f:

- Building 4 more classrooms- 1 conerence/examinaion hall- 1 saff room- 1 Science Lab- 3 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

61million primary school-aged children are not inschool, and 31 million ofthem are girls.

Minhaj Model HighSchool - MamukanjanFaisalabad

Tere is an exising 10 classrooms providingspace or 250 sudens in a 3808 Sq f area.Required projec cos: 12,000 in he ollow-ing area space o 2720 Sq f:

- Building 5 more classrooms- 1 saff room- 1 compuer lab- 1 conerence/examinaion hall- 5 washrooms (saniaion aciliies)

Projeccos:15,000

Projeccos:11,000

Projeccos:12,000

Projeccos:

12,000

Projeccos:

10,000

Projeccos:

12,500

Projeccos:

11,000

Projec

cos:11,000

Projec

cos:9,000

Projec

cos:12,500



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Z k & Ch i


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14Zaka & ChariyAn Islamic guidline oGiving Chariy

Te Islamic sysem o zakah is uniquein hisory. No one else has ever houghabou such conceps nor did any oherreligion implemen such a deailed sys-em. Zakah ulfils he economic needso he poor and needy and i akes e-ecive acion agains he cenralisaiono wealh. Tis is a collecive sysembecause i reduces he gap beween herich and he poor, and exploiaion andoppression is pu o an end. Is poli-ical aspec is ha a he sae level iis colleced and disribued hrough aproper sysem. Is moral aspec is hai purifies he wealh and hear o hedonor and i is a means o creaing love

and broherhood among individuals insociey.

Tis is a brie aricle aken rom henewly published Zakah & Chariybook;a compilaion o lecures and workso Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad

ahir-ul-Qadri based upon he Islamicaspecs o Zakah and Sadaqah. o ordera copy please email us a [email protected] wih your posal addressand we will pos you he book

Wha is zakah?

Zakah is one o he undamenal pillarso Islam which is also known as al-Sadaqa al-wajiba (obligaory almsgiv-ing). According o he Shariah, some-one who qualifies or he nisab musspend a specific amoun o his or herwealh upon hose who are eligible oreceive Zakah so ha heir povery isalleviaed.

Wha are he condiions for he obliga-ion of zakah?Te ollowing condiions mus be ul-

filled in order or zakah o be obligaoryupon an individual:1.Being a Muslim: zakah is no obligao-ry on non-Muslims.2.Mauriy: zakah is no obligaory uponchildren.3.Saniy: zakah is no obligaory onhose who are menally handicapped.4.Being ree: zakah is no obligaoryon prisoners. o be in complee own-ership o wealh: he wealh can onlybe subjec o zakah i i is in compleeownership o he individual. For exam-ple, i someone buried his possessions

somewhere and orgo where he buriedi, bu years laer he regained his lospossession, hen he will no have o payzakah during he inerim period whenhe possession was missing.5.Te wealh should be surplus o onesbasic necessiies.6.o be ree o deb: i someone has1000 in saving, bu also has a deb opay o 1000, ha person is no reerom deb hus he is no required o payhe zakah.7.Zakah is payable on ha wealh andpropery which grows, eiher angiblysuch as rade socks or grazing an-imals, or in value such as gold andsilver.

8.Te oal value o he wealh andpropery mus be above he payablehreshold (nisab) as deermined by heShariah.9.Te person mus be in possession oha wealh, which is above he nisabvalue, or a complee lunar year. Ta

is, zakah does no become obligaorysimply by possessing wealh in excesso he nisab, one mus also be abovehe nisab value afer a whole lunar yearhas passed.

Which classes of people are eligible oreceive zakah?According o he Quran, here are eighcaegories ha are eligible o receivezakah (Quran 9:60)

1.Te poor (uqar)2.Te desiue (masakin)

3.Te collecors o zakah (Amilin)4.o sofen he hears o people (mual-laa al-qulub)5.Te slaves (riqab)6.Te debors (gharimn)7.Tose in he pah o Allah( sabl Allah)8.Te ravellers (ibn sabl)

Wha is he nisab?For hose resources, asses, wealh,money and propery upon which zakahis obligaory, here is a specific amounwhich his personal wealh mus exceedor zakah o become obligaed. Tisspecific amoun is known as nisab.

Which is used for nisab: gold or silver?According o Imam Abu Hania he onewhich is more beneficial or he poorshould be used. In oher words, i onehas wealh which reaches he nisab oeiher o gold or silver, one should usehe one which brings greaer benefio he poor. So i he nisab o silverhas been reached, bu no o gold, hezakah will be obligaed as i bringsgreaer benefi.

Wha is he nisab of gold?Zakah is obligaory (ard) on goldaccording o he modern measuremeno 87.48 gramsno on an amoun lesshan his.

Wha is he nisab of silver?Zakah is obligaory (ard) on silverwhich amouns o 612.36 grams andno on amoun less han i. I is obliga-ory o pay one-orieh o he zakaableamoun.

Is he zakah due on houses, flas orland which are used as accommoda-

ion?Zakah is no due upon a house, fla orland which is being used as personalaccommodaion. However, i a house,fla or shop is being rened ou, he an-nual profi gained rom hem afer heexpenses are deduced will be addedo he owners annual profi; and i heannual profis rom all means o incomereach he nisab, hen he zakah will bepaid on hem.

Zakah mus be paid upon he value oall houses, flas and land ha are used

or business or rade purposes. Againhe purchase price is no aken ino ac-coun bu he marke value o he day.Tis poin is one o be pondered overby hose who inves in land, and buyand sell propery.

Zakah upon he deposi ha is paid asa guaranee in rening a propery musbe paid by he enan. In he same wayhe zakah or securiy deposi ha arepaid by raders or agencies o firms ororganisaions ha are reurnable, musbe paid by he deposior.

Wha is he mehod of calculaing hezakah in he business of buying andselling cars?In order o pay he zakah, he oalvalue o all he cars mus be calculaed.Ten any loan which has been given ou

and is expeced o be reurned shouldalso be added o he amoun. I anyloan is o be paid hen he amoun oha loan should be separaed rom heoal amoun. Ten he zakah should bepaid a he rae o 2.5% on he remain-ing sum. I he value o he cars is lesshan he nisab or some par o heyear or during he same year more carsare purchased aking heir value o orabove he nisab hen he year is o beconsidered o begin a he poin whenhe nisab was reached, and he previ-ous period will no be included

Can he zakah be paid before i is due?Te zakah can be paid beore is dueand his is one o he accepablemehods o paying i. Al b. Ab alibnarraes ha Abbas asked he HolyProphe s wheher i was permissible opay he zakah beore i is due, and heHoly Prophe s permited him o do i.

Wha kind of wealh, asse, properymus zakah be paid on?I is obligaory o pay zakah upon our

ypes o asses:1.Gold, silver and money.2.Animals such as camels, cows andgoas, ec.3.All kinds o rade goods.4.Tose producs ha are producedrom he land such as ruis, vegeablesand minerals, ec.

Who is no eligible o receive zakah?

Te ollowing people canno receivezakah:

1.A wealhy person, i.e., someone uponwhom i is obligaory o pay zakah orhas some asses ha are he value onisab and in surplus o he basic ne-cessiies. For example, i someone hascopper culery which is surplus o heirneed and heir value is ha o nisab,hen i is no permited or ha persono receive zakah, alhough i is no wa-jib or ha person o pay zakah on haexcess culery.2.Relaions such as parens, grandpar-ens, ec.

3.Children, nephew, nieces, and grand-children.4.Spouse

5.Te children o a wealhy personwho are below he age o pubery, aschildren under he age o pubery areo be caered or by heir guardian.


R d & F i


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15Ramadan & FasingFasing and Ramadan

Tis is a short extract of questions andanswers related to Fasting and Rama-dan taken from the works of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad ahir-ul-Qadri.In this article we have provided a wide

range of issues relating to the impor-tance of Ramadan, the spiritual signifi-cance of fasting and how it relates to aMuslim in his/her daily life. For a com-plete version, please refer to the bookFasting and Spiritual Retreat part ofthe Islamic Series of books.

Wha is he imporance of Ramadan inhe ligh of Quran and hadih?A. Ramadan is he blessed monh ohe Islamic calendar which is honouredby he descen o he Quran. I was onone o he blessed nighs o Ramadanwhen he Quran was revealed o helowes heaven. I is or his very reasonha Allah u blessed ha nigh aboveall oher nighs and declared i o behe Nigh o Desiny (layla al-qadr). TeQuran says:

Te Nigh o Desiny is beter han ahousand monhs (in meri o excel-lence, blessings, reward and recom-pense) (Al-Quran 97:3)Here we menion some o he Propheicradiions regarding he meris o excel-

lence, reward and blessings graned inhis monh.

When Ramadan sars he doors oparadise are opened, hose o Hell areclosed and devils are chained (Narraedby al-Bukhar, 3:1194 - 3103)We can deduce he disincive honourgraned o Ramadan rom he ollowinghadih which has been repored on heauhoriy o Abu HurayahWhoever ass he monh o Ramadanin he sae o aih and or he sakeo is reward, all his previous sins are

orgiven (Narraed by al-Bukhar in,2:709 - 1910)

Wha was he rouine pracice of heProphe a during Ramadan?During he blessed monh o Rama-dan, he acs o worship and spiriualsriving would increase a grea deal ascompared o oher days. Awe o heDivine Presence and aspiraion o heDivine Cour, would rise o a climax andhe hours o worship a nigh wouldincrease. Below menioned are some

examples o he Propheic radiionha we can deduce ha He (Peace andBlessings be Upon Him) did duringRamadan:1.Te generosiy o he Prophe2.Te desirabiliy o grea acs o chariyduring Ramadan3.Increasing he acs o chariy a arigheous persons visi.4.Permissibiliy o esablishing schoolsor eaching he Quran5.Te Prophe a would always perormspiriual rerea during he las en dayso Ramadan.

Wha are he meris of nigh vigil ofRamadan?Nigh vigil here means o worship,paricularly in he orm o offeringprayer (i.e., qiyam al-layl). Is impor-ance in Ramadan is vial. Te HolyProphe (Peace and Blessings be Upon

Him) had a rouine o busying him-sel wih prayer, gloriying Allah (Sub-hana-wa-aala), invoking His uniyand reciing he Quran a lengh. AbuHurayra (May Allah be please wih Him)repors:

Allahs Messenger a used o encouragehis Companions l o sand in Ramadanwihou obligaing i upon hem. Hewould say: Whoever sands a nighin Ramadan wih aih and hope orreward, all his previous sins will beorgiven

Wha is he significance of reciing heQuran during Ramadan?Te Qurann is a unique book, in hesense ha reciing a single leter romi would earn you en righeous deeds.Abd Allah b. Masud (May Allah beplease wih Him) narraes a Propheicradiion as ollows:Whoever recies a leter rom he booko Allah will earn one righeous deedand one righeous deed comes wih enlike i. I do no say ha ali, lam, mmis one leter bu ali is a leter, lam isanoher leter and mm is anoher one(Narraed by al-irmidh in al-Sunan,5:33 - 2910)

Wha is he imporance of eaing pre-dawn meal for fasing?A: Hadihs menion he imporance andblessings o eaing he sahoor a greadeal. Our holy Prophe a would regularlysar his as wih somehing o ea, asa pre-dawn meal or asing and wouldalso ell ohers o do so. Anas (MayAllah be Please wih Him) narraes ha

he (Prophe) says:Ea pre-dawn meal or asing, or iconains blessings. (Narraed by Mus-lim in, 2:770 - 1095)

Wha is he imporance of fas break-ing in Ramadan?During Ramadan, i is also imporan omark he end o he as wih al-ifaarSahl b. Saad (May Allah be pleasedwih Him) narraes ha he Prophe(Peace and Blessings be Upon Him)said:Te people (o my Umma) will remainin good sae as long as hey hasenas breaking (Narraed by Muslim,2:771 1098)

Who is fasing obligaed upon?Islam has obligaed he asing oRamadan upon every maure Muslim osound mind, man and woman acrosshe world. Allah (Subhana-wa-aala)saes:Te monh o Ramadan (is ha) inwhich he Quran has been sen down asguidance or mankind, conaining clear

Signs which lead (o he sraigh road)and disinguish (he ruh rom alse-hood). Tereore, he who winesses his

monh mus as in i (Al-Quran 2:185)

Wha supplicaions are we supposed oread a he ime of pre-dawn meal andfas breaking? Have hey been rans-mited o us in hadih?A: We should read he ollowing words

when we keep as.I have inended o keep he as oRamadan omorrow.Wha we need o keep in mind here isha no such wording has been men-ioned in any hadih. Basically, heinenion o he hear is he impor-an hing here. Inenion sands orhe solemn resoluion o he hear, operorm some ac o worship. As a ermo Shariah, i means o inend o gainAllahs proximiy hrough any paricularacion.

For as breaking, on he oher hand,differen words have appeared in di-eren narraions. Muadh b. Zuhra, orexample, narraes ha he Prophe awould read he ollowing words a heime o as breaking:

O Allah! I kep as or your sake and Ibreak as wih your provision.

How can we proec our fas?Te cessaion o eaing, drinking orsexual relaions does no perec heas. Te sae o asing raher includesceasing o commi indecency (o wordand acion), reprehensible and objec-ionable deeds and oher kinds o sins.

Proec his ongue rom lying, back-bi-ing, slandering, calumny and indecenalk.Proec his eyes orm seeing everyhingwhose seeing is condemnable and dis-approved o or whose sigh makes himunmindul o Allahs remembrance.Proec his ears rom lisening o any-

hing ha is a sin o lisen o. I a gah-ering is involved wih back-biing oroher sinul alk, advise hem o desis.I hey do no sop, leave he gaheringas he Prophe has old us ha bohhe back-bier and he one who lisensare parners in sin.No ea a as breaking ime morehan enough o ighen he belly andjus keep i relaxed.Keep he hear beween hope andear abou wheher he as has beenacceped or no afer being compleed,bu no be disappoined in he mercy oAllah.Proec he limbs rom relaive sins issaeguarding he as.

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by DrRaheeq Ahmed Abbasi(Souhampon)

Minhaj-ul-Quran was ound-ed by Shaykh ul Islam DrMuhammad ahir ul Qadriin 1981 o promoe religiousmoderaion, and o revive herue ideals and pracice o heDeen ocussed on he loveand reverence o he BelovedProphe (saw) and spiriual

endeavour. Alongside his MQIvision was o deliver he besqualiy educaion, wihoudiffereniaing beween hesecular and religious, acces-sible o all - regardless omaerial means, social saus,background or gender. Sinceis incepion, Minhaj-ul-Quranhas grown and evolved inoan inernaional organisaionrepresened in mos counrieso he world. I has producedhe larges non-governmenal

educaion projec in he world,wih a worldwide nework oschools, colleges, and educa-ion cenres and a charereduniversiy. Te exendingrequiremens or religious, ed-ucaional and welare projecso MQI need much more areaor expansion and develop-men. Tereore i has beendecided o acquire a 200-acrepiece o land in he peripher-ies o Lahore o caer coming

needs o coming decades,which will hos a grea seao learning called he Min-

haj Educaion Ciy. I will be,insha Allah, he larges andmos comprehensive educa-ion complex in he Indiansubconinen, no only or hepeople o ha region, bu orhe world over. I will providemodern aciliies in beauiuland inspiring surroundings,evoking he classical Islamicradiion and archiecuralheriage, o inspire and con-

inue he propagaion o ourmessage o peace and love, oulfil he complee educaionalneeds o is sudens, alongwih nururing heir spiriualand social developmen orhe betermen o humaniy.

Masjid al-SakhraI has been planned o allo-cae an area o 100,000 m2o he mosque and is cour-

yard, which will make i helarges mosque in he IndianSubconinen, in sha Allah.I will have he capaciy oaccommodae hundreds ohousands worshippers. Tecenral hall o mosque will bereplica o Dom o he Roc.

Al-Zawiya al-Ghauhi-yya

Al-Zawiya al-Ghauhiyya willbe a radiional khanqah

possessing he ancien spirio asawwu o address he

maerialis and exremischallenges o he modern age.Te sudens o al-Azamiyawill no only be impared wihclassical and modern edu-caion bu will also gain heligh o he hear and soulby receiving spiriual rain-ing arranged by he zawiya.Te zawiya will also conducspecial shor courses or hewider communiy. Te archi-

ecure o his building willbe similar o he Darbar-e-Ghawh al-A`zam.

Te Minhaj UniversiyNew Campus

Te Minhaj Universiy Lahoreis running six aculies spreadino more han hiry depar-mens. I has more han 3000ullime sudens a Bache-lor, Masers, MPhil and PhD

level. Due o is affordable eepackages and high qualiy oeducaion, grea numbers osudens rom all over Paki-san apply or admission ohe Minhaj Universiy, bu dueo he limied space currenlyavailable no all o hem canbe admited. Te Universiyalso has plans o inroducenew disciplines and aculies.Tereore, a new campus ohe Minhaj Universiy will bebuil a he Minhaj Educaion

Ciy o enhance suden enrol-men. Furhermore, he ollow-

ing consiuen colleges, eachspecialised in is specific areao learning, have also beenplanned o develop soon suchas Umar b. al-Khatab Col-lege o Managemen Sciences(UCMS), Ibn Sina Medicaland Denal College (IMDC),Ibn al-Hayham College oEngineering and echnology(ACE), Al-Farabri College oLaw (FCL), Qabus College o

Commerce (QCC), SaghaniCollege o Media Sudies(SCM), Al-Ghazali College oEducaion (GCE), Al-Zahrawieaching Hospial (ZH) andAl-Kindi College echnical andVocaional Educaion (KCVE).Te deparmens and collegeso Minhaj Universiy will beimparing educaion o morehan 25,000 sudens a oneime.

Residenial Halls forBoys and Girls

In order o aciliae sudenscoming rom remoe areaso he counry, he MinhajEducaion Ciy will haveseparae hosels or boys andgirls ogeher wih separaeplaygrounds and recreaionalareas. Residenial halls orboys will be named afer greascholars o Islamic hisory opay ribue o heir services

in he field o educaion andsciences. Similarly, he halls

o residence or girls will benamed afer grea women oIslam.

Bay al-Hikma

Tere is an urgen need oranslae he works auhoredby he celebraed scholars andimams ino Urdu and Englishso ha new generaions canhave access o his reasure

rove o wisdom in heir moh-er ongue. Muslims around heworld are acing hundereds oissues and challenges whichneed heir soluion as per herequiremens o modern age.A Bay al-Hikma hese re-quiremens will be addressed,where he scholars will haveaccess o one o he largescollecions o books on variousislamic disciplines and will beprovided wih sae o he arreaearch aciliies.

Ibn al-Khaldun CenralLibrary and AudioriumTis building will be namedafer he grea Islamic phi-losopher, Ibn Khaldun. Terewill be a modern audioriumspacious enough or a leas3000 people. A compuerisedcenral library o Minhaj Uni-versiy will also be esablishedin his building. I will beesablished iniially o conain500,000 books.

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Jamia al-Imam Abu Hanifa (al-Azmia)I is an alarming prospec ha he narrow mindedseminaries inclined o exremism produce an excess o200,000 graduaes each year, whils he ones rom main-sream and Sufi heriage amoun o only a ew housands.Acceping his challenge, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammadahir-ul-Qadri has decided o esablish Jamia al-ImamAbu Hanifawhich will house 25,000 sudens. Te su-dens will be given ree educaion and accommodaionand all o heir basic needs will be caered by MQI. Tis

will make al-Azmia a one o he bigges welfare edu-caional projec of he subconinen. Te purpose builcampus o al-Azamiya will be a unique and disinguishingeaure o Minhaj Educaion Ciy. Is academic blocks andresidenial uni will be buil around he Masjid al-Sakhra.

Te edifice consising o he mosque and he Jamiacomplex will be a sae-o-he-ar residenial aciliydeveloped in coninuance wih he radiional legacy ospiriual and jurisprudenial lines o Islamic hough andpracices. Differen srees, parks, buildings and hallswill be named afer grea personaliies o Islam includingAhl e Bai, Four righeous Caliphs, Famous Companionsand amous Imams and Scholars. Various buildings willbe buil o house he differen aculies (Kulliyya) o heJamia such as

Imam al-Bukhari Kulliyya al-Hadith,Imam al-abari Kulliyya al-afsir,Imam al-ahawi Kulliyya al-Aqida,Imam Abu Yusuf Kulliyya al-Fiqh wa al-Usul,Imam Sibawayh Kulliyya al-Lugha wa al-Adab ,Imam Ibn Ishaq Kulliyya Sira wa al-arikh,

Dar al Arqam Kulliyya al-Da`wa wa Usul al-Din,Bayt al-Hikma (Library, Research, and ranslation Centre)and Aisha al-Siddiqa Kulliyya li al-Banat (Girls College).

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by Ali Akbar (Walsall)

Minhaj-ul-Quran UK is par o he Minhaj-ul-Quran Inernaional organisaion oundedby Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad ahir-ul-Qadri. Te organisaion has been working inhe UK since 1988 and is a leading voice or Briish Muslims. Te MQI UK is made up o anumber orums which include he Muslim Youh League (boys and girls), Minhaj Women

League and general MQI members and cenres. Tere is also a Naional Execuive Council(NEC) which is he main regulaor o MQI UK and ses ou policies and sraegies or heorganisaion in he UK. locaions.

Minhaj-ul-Quran Inernaional UK [www.minhajuk.org] Halaqa-e-Darood (spiriualgaherings)

Weekly darood circles are iniiaed ahomes, local MQI cenres and communiyhalls or all. Te circles las or an hour and

consiss o he ollowing orma;

- Reciaion o he Quran- Reciaion o Darood- Ode (naa)- Speech o Shaykh-ulIslam

(20 mins)- A shor reminder- Dhikr and dua (prayer)

Billions o darood reciaion has beencolleced since is iniiaion almos 10 yearsago in Pakisan, making i he larges com-munal reciaion o saluaions upon heBlessed Prophe (peace and blessings beupon him) in he world.

Minhaj Schools of IslamicSciences (Educaing youngBriish Muslims)

A weekly evening school acively runs in 8local MQI cenres under he Minhaj Schoolo Islamic Sciences (MSIS). I is seen as heiniial grounding or he religious, spiriualand educaional developmen o young

Briish Muslims.

Te schools are mainly run in he eveningrom 5pm ill 7pm (Monday o Friday), wiha range o subjecs augh such as aih &creed, lie o he Holy Prophe, Holy Quran,Propheic radiions, spiriualiy, morals andmanners, hisory and many more. MSISis ideal or children as young as 5 years oage ill 14 years (beginning rom level one).Te sudens have wo exams in he yearmoniored by an inernal educaion boardwhich ensures he overall progress o hechild.

Minhaj Dawah Projec

Over recen years here has been widemisconcepion o Islam mosly relaedo he ill-perceived undersanding o hebasic eachings o he Holy Quran andPropheic radiion. Many Muslims and evenNon-Muslims have been lef alienaed romhe rue eachings o Islam. Te MinhajDawah Projec iniiaive o Minhaj-ul-Quran

provides ree lieraure, DVDs on a widerange o opics, hese are mainly disrib-ued by voluneers in shops, communiycenres and prisoners across he UK.

In 2013/14, hrough he MDP more han1000 ree Qurans, 2000 books and 6000CDs and DVDs have been disribued inprisons. Te prison services and Midlandspeople applauded he effors o he Min-haj Dawah Projec and in is recogniionawarded a cerificae or he remarkablework in communiy cohesion and in paricu-lar helping prisoners.

Social and poliicalaciviies

Te Pakisan Awami ehreek (PA) is a po-liical pary commited o raising he voiceo Pakisani dual naional holders. I workso promoe he good image o he coun-ry by holding culural evens, discussionsand meeing wih local groups. Te recenpoliical ensions in Pakisan have seen a

sronger social movemen wihin he UK.PA held a number o naionwide proessafer commens were made agains heloyaly o dual naionals. PA condemnedhese words and said ha a very largecommuniy lives in he UK; hey have beenhur rom commens made in Pakisan.

ITe ounder o PA, Dr Muhammad a-hir-ul-Qadri addressed housands o Paki-san coningens in Birmingham. He spokeo he poliical issues which have arisen inPakisan and he ailure o he sae o ulfilhe basic human needs o over 180 mil-

lion people. Scholars, communiy leaders,leading poliical figures and celebriies alsoaddressed heir views o he audience.

Minhaj Peace & InegraionCouncil UK

Living in a muliculural sociey comes wihmany challenges one o hem is religiousolerance beween aihs and secs. Overhe years here has been grea debae onhe role o religion in he UK, mos impor-anly respecing each ohers religiouspracices. Te Minhaj Peace and Inegraion

Council (MPIC) works on boh inra-aihand iner-aih relaionship.

Te Peace and Uniy Conerence in Wem-bley 2011 is a grea example. gaheredreligious and aih leaders rom across heUK including digniaries rom all over heworld in a pac Wembley arena which wasparicipaed by more han 15,000 people.Te ounder o Minhaj-ul-Quran Inerna-ional, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammadahir-ul-Qadri presided over his hisoriceven. I was he firs even o is kind as

he collecive Muli-aih prayer was heldalong wih a documen read ou laer calledTe London declaraion which called ouor Global peace.

Briish Council of IslamicGuidance

Te Briish Council o Islamic Guidance(BCIG) is an Imam orum o MQI UK. Iprovides chaplaincy services work wihinhe NHS and local hospials in supporing

Muslim paiens. Te Imams also work wihprison services providing spiriual and reli-gious suppor, in addiion he Imams lead

Minhaj Peace & Inegraion Council wih he or merArchbishop o Canerbury

Women paricipaion in a conerence abou Women Empowermen

MSIS children in a classroom assembley

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Minhaj Women League (MWL) isone o he mos imporan orumso MQI UK. I works closely wihwomen; housewives and workingladies wihin he local communiy.Te work o MWL is organised

hrough is local bodies who areresponsible or he planning andexecuion o projecs and provid-ing suppor a grassroos level or

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he wider work o Minhaj-ul-Quranand Minhaj Welare Foundaion.Te MWL acively ocuses onengaging women in heir person-al and spiriual developmen. Iorganises religious, educaional

and recreaional aciviies acrosshe UK. Women Empowermenworkshops are organised in local

communiies working in paricularwih housewives who play a vialrole in he upbringing o heirchildren. MWL holds communiy

iniiaives such as Mina Bazaars,chariy undraisers, book & CDssalls and ood banks in mosques,communiy cenres and oudoorswhich sees a srong paricipaionrom amily members and in par-icular young children.MWL provides a comprehensive

educaional programs or women;

working ladies, housewives andhe youh. Tese programs are car-ried ou local homes in which helocal neighbourhood and commu-niy are ully engaged. MWL playsan imporan role in he success oall MQI projecs in he UK, wheh-er ha is Halqa-e-Darood, Weekly

sudy and Zikr circles a he cen-res o MQI, spiriual camps, localradio saions or even campaignso Minhaj Welare Foundaion.I you would like o be par o Min-haj Women League UK or wouldlike urher inormaion pleaseconac Mrs Musara Hussain a

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