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Monthly Magazine September 2013 www.majlis.org.uk

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Al-Majlis Dhu’al-Qada 1434

Congratulations To All The Lovers

Of The Ahlulbayt On

11 Dhu’al-Qada For

The Birthday Of Imam Ali Raza (A.S)

Interview With M.U.S President HIWM Syed Ali Raza Rizvi

Chief editor of Al-Majlis magazine, Syed Fida Hussain Bukhari has taken an interview with the President of M.U.S. There were 14 Questions asked to the President regarding the progress made by M.U.S and the current political situations of Syria.

Chief Editor: Assalamoaleykum President : WaaleykuMusalaam CE: 1)Where did you study your Islamic Education from? PR: Ans: I started my Islamic Education in Birmingham privately and then later moved to Qum for further and higher education. CE: 2)How many years have you been a member of M.U.S? PR: Ans: I became a member of Majlise Ulama Shia Europe in 1999. CE: 3) Since being elected as the president of M.U.S what changes have you brought in M.U.S? PR: Ans: I have tried to formalise things in M.U.S and have more involvement from the general Shia public. For that we visited all Shia Centres in UK….. Continues

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Abuzar Ghaffari – Organisational Convention

Majlis-e-Ulama Shia (Europe) Abuzar zone is organising a Organisational

Convention which Is to be held on the Saturday 28th September 2013 at Jamia-

Tul-Muntazir 102 Sherborne Street Cheetham Hill Manchester M8 8ND UK.

The Convention will focus on uniting and organising Shia Islamic Centres and

our community. In total there will be 20 Islamic centres participating from

Manchester, Blackburn, Bolton, Burnley, Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle,

Middlesbrough and Leeds. Members of the General Council of M.U.S, the

representatives of Imamiya Council, Imamiya Youth and Imamiya Women will

also attend this convention.

Central Organising Committee Telephone:

Moulana Syed Fida Hussain Bukhari (In charge North Office) 07 456 527 527

Moulana Najmul Hassan Naqvi (In charge coordinator for I.W) 07 882 915 339

Moulana Arshad Turabi (Coordinator for Abuzar Ghafari Zone) 07 970 261 648

Dr Aftab Ahmad (Coordinator Imamiya Council Abuzar Zone) 07 867 686 059

Dr Kazim Ali Shan (Imamiya Youth Coordinator Abuzar Zone) 07 817 384 557

Syed Kalb-e-Shah (In charge Azadari Cell Abuzar Zone) 07 968 010 408

Qaiser Abbas Bukhari (In charge Media Cell Abuzar Zone) 07 552 328 150

Sheikh Muhammad Raza and Trustees Jamia Tul Muntazir 07 973 111 913

Syed Saqab Hussain Bukhari 07 949 452 373

Alimah Syeda Touqeer Fatima (Coodinator of I.W)

Programme schedule

1. Registration 12.30

2. Namaz-e-Zuhrain 1:00

3. Tea Break 1:30

4. Tilawat e Quran 2:00

5. Welcome Speech

6. Naat or Qaseeda

7. Legal & Social Issue

8. M.U Aims & Objectives

9. Political Shia role in the UK

10. Manqabat by Shahi’re-

Ahlebait Syed Ali Shan

11. I. Youth & I. Women

12. Life of Abuzar Gaffari

13. Speech by Representatives of

Islamic Centres

14. Speech by M.U.S President

Moulana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi

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Continued Interview of M.U.S President ....

CE: 3) Since being elected as the president of M.U.S what changes have you brought in M.U.S?

PR: Ans: I have tried to formalise things in M.U.S and have more involvement from the general Shia public. For that we visited all Shia Centres in UK …… And had official meetings with the people responsible in running our centres. My cabinet and I published children syllabus, which is now well established amongst our centres. We started teacher training for religious Madrasas. We have a number of Ulama, who were not members before but are members now. We registered M.U.S and launched a website. We started leisure Camps for Ulama, which did not happen in Europe before. There used to be camps for children but these were held in Imambargahs, we took these camps to a next stage and hired camp sites to organise youth camps. Our first Shia Youth Camp went for Ziyarat to Iran this year. We took lead in the political arena and went to EuropAean Parliament and House of Lords. Our office is fully active. We made Imamiyyah Women and Imamiyyah Youth.

CE: 4) Why is it that the women wing of M.U.S is still not fully active in serving the Shia community in UK?

PR: Ans: There was no formal activity for Women in M.U.S. I divided my first two years of presidency into four phases and set targets for myself and my cabinet for each phase. Alhamdulillah, we achieved those targets in each of those phases. However, I had wished to formalise an infrastructure for each one of the departments, like Imamiyyah Women, in the final phase of my first tenure. For various reasons that did not happen. For my second tenure, I have again set some targets for us; 2013 is the year of formalising Infrastructure and we are in the pro-cess of formalising the zonal structure. I have started visiting different zones and am keeping in touch with zonal coordinators. Imamiyyah Women will have a better function once we have a strong structure in place.

CE: 5) Can we anticipate that M.U.S will be working in the near future to create a Sunni and Shia Moon sighting committee?

PR: Ans: At the moment we are trying to bring a consensus in the Shia Community on Moon Sighting and to some extent we have some unity now in the Pakistani Shia Community. Our aim is to bring both Shia and Sunni Commu-nities on a united platform in the future.

CE: 6) What do you think should be the political role of the Shia Community in the UK?

PR: Ans: The Shias have to play a united and much stronger role than present. We need to start making our own decisions rather than having others make our decisions for us. We need to be more politically involved and pay serious attention to our children's education for that matter. I have started giving a road map to our zonal coordi-nators for our role in present and near future.

CE:7) What kind of guidance and support can M.U.S provide to Shia Islamic Centres?

PR: Ans: We guide them in their legal matters, Madrasas and Resident Aalim issues. We do not get involved in day to day running of our Centres. We provide teacher training for there Madrasa Teachers. If they are in process of expanding then we guide them in ways to fund raise.

CE: 8) What aims and objectives do you want to achieve by doing conventions in different cities in the UK?

PR: Ans: We want to upgrade the people running the Imambargahs and bring more awareness to our community at large. Have better form of unity and provide networking opportunities for community members and leaders.

CE: 9) As you know Ulama preaching in different Islamic Centres have a low income do you have any plans to improve the life standards of Ulama in the UK?

PR: Ans: This month, we are launching a programme for Ulama that are struggling financially. It would require them to fill out a form for us to assess their eligibility. From next month onwards we will be providing some sup-port to those Ulama.

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Continued Interview of M.U.S President …

CE:10) There are lots of Islamic Centres that are in search of a Resident Aalim; what steps are you taking in-regards to providing a Resident Aalim to those Is-lamic Centres?

PR: Ans: We have many Centres without a Resident Aalim and we do have many Ulama who are not Resident Aalims anymore. Now our Centres need to under-stand that they should contribute better for Ulama to consider them and we need our Ulama to understand the needs of our Centres like being able to com-municate in English and giving time to the Centres. We also need at least five new Aalims every year from British Shia M.U.Slims that can speak English very well.

CE: 11) What practical steps have you taken to improve the relationships between interfaith and intrafaith reli-gions in the UK?

PR: Ans: I have asked all Our members of Imamiyyah Council to join their local Interfaith Forums. We are in contact with Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) and British Muslim Forum (BMF). We have a good relationship with them.

CE: 12) The UK parliament voted against the principle of taking military action against Syria; what is your opinion on this matter?

PR: Ans: I am very pleased at this decision and hope to see them not take part in any military action against Syria as I do believe that the military action will turn into a war and this war will turn very messy.

CE: 13) If the US does decide to take military action against Syria, what would be the effect of this strike on the M.U.Slim World especially in the UK?

PR: Ans: I think US and her allies have no option but to strike Syria due to Syria being a close Ally with Iran. US wants to teach a lesson to all its opposition, peaceful or not, that you cannot oppose US in this world. That is why both China and Russia are opposing US's decision. They both believe that they have a major role to play in the new world order. US and her allies have not played in role in Bahrain or Yemen due to Saudi Arabia as their Ally. Howev-er, Syria is a serious threat to them due to her alliance with Iran. Iran and her allies seem the biggest threat to Isra-el and her well wishers. The Zionist lobby is extremely strong in the West and hence it wishes to have all its opposi-tion destroyed in the Middle East including Syria. Western Powers are being very short-sighted in going to Syria for a regime change as they fully understand that the Rebels who will replace the regime is far worse than the present regime, but the present regime is not their Ally.

CE: 14) How do you see the future of M.U.S in the next 5 years? PR: Ans: Insha Allah, if things go to plan then M.U.S will be the leading organisation of Europe in five years.

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Fund raising

Majlis e Ulama e Shia (Europe) is collecting for Shuada families and poor people

Bank : Barclays A/c Name : Majlis e Ulama Shia

Sort Code : 20-29-37 , Account No.: 50617091

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Cabinet and Executive

members

President: Ghulam Shabibr

Arshad Ali

Iqbal Arshad

Muktar Ali

Maeer Ali

Muhammad Ali

Shia M.U.Slim Community In city:

+1400

2 Shia Islamic Centre within the

City and a total of 90 Regular

Members in this Centre.

Address: 5 George Street Newport

NP20 IEN

01633 252511

Introduction of Hussaini Mission Newport

Name of Centre Hussaini Mission Newport

Organised By Imamia M.U.Slim Society

Established in 1985

Trustees M.U.Shtaq Ali

Arshad Ali

Muhammad Sharif

Muhammad Rfiq

Resident Alim Syed Niaz Hussain Naqvi

Programmes & Activities

Daily Prayer

Amaal Shabe-Jumah and Dua Kumail & Hadith

Kisa

Darse Ahkaam

Wiladat & Shahadat e Masoomieen majalis

Ashhra Muharam-ul-Haram

In month of Ramadan daily Aftar and Dares

Quran

In the Madrassa there are 150 Students boys &

girls attending class of Quran and Religious

Studies.

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Malik-e-Ashtar Zonal convention will be organised by the Luton community on

26 Oct 2013 in Luton at 12pm to 6pm.

Malik-e-Ashtar Zonal Meeting Report

Dated: 2 Sep 2013

Headed By: H.I Molana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi (President M.U.SE) & H.I Molana Dr.Abbas Naqvi

Meeting Venue: Masjid-e-Ali Luton

Name of Participants Minutes of the Meeting: 1-Tilawat: Muhammad M.U.Stahsan Raza 2-Introduction & objective of M.U.S & Imamia Council by H.I Molana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi 3-Zonal meeting should organize twice in a month. 4-For the safety of the people every centre should have his own Se-curity & First Aid Trained volunteers. 5-Every centre should make sure a meeting in a week & build com-munication network among the community. 6-Zonal convention will be organised by the Luton community on 26 Oct 2013 in Luton at 1200 to 1800. 7-The Zonal Head & his team have to make sure to invite every Zon-al center for the Malik-e-Ashtar Zonal convention 2013. 8-Convention plan: A-Speakers & Topic selection for convention B-Discussion Topics C: Convention Action Plan

Jabar Ali Mir

Bilal Rizvi

Ahsan Haider

Azhar Hassan Raza

Dr Syed Abbas Naqvi

Dr.Syed Hussain Raza

Syed Qaiser Abbas

M.U.Shabar Kazmi

Jawad Naqvi

Zamin Abbas

M.U.Shtaq Shah

Ali Hamza Shah

Syed Jawad Haider

Mohsin Kazmi

Raja Ahmad Abbas

Masoom Raza Naqvi

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In-charge of North office Moulana Syed Fida Hussain Bukhari and secretary Tabligat Moulana Najmul

Hassan Naqvi, Imammiya Council coordinator Dr Aftab Ahmad and youth coordinator Dr Syed Kazim Ali

Shan with Media coordinator Qaisar Bukhari visited different Islamic Centres in Abuzar Gaffari Zone. In

the visit the Abuzar Gaffari Zonal Council invited every Islamic centre to attend the Abuzar Gaffarai

Convention on 28th of September 2013 at Jamiah-tul-Muntazar Cheetham Hill Manchester. The rep-

resentatives of Islamic centres welcomed the zonal council and assured their participation in the

Abuzar Gaffari convention.

Zonal Council revisits Islamic Centres in Abuzar Gaffari Zone

Hussainiya

Islamic Mission

Oldham

Al Hussain

Masjid

Cheetham Hill

Manchester

Mustafa Islamic

Centre

Rochdale

Al Murtaza

Trust

Manchester

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Zone Council

M.U.S have distributed the UK into five zones. Every zone

contains one Maulana and his 13 coordinators

M.U.S

Zonal

Office

In-charge

Zonal

Imamiyah

Council

Coordinator

Zonal

Imamiyah

Youth

Coordinator

Zonal

Imamiyah

Women

Coordinator

M.U.S

Zonal

Coordinator

Zonal

Maddrissa

Coordinator

Zonal

Education

Coordinator

Zonal

Islamic

Sharia

Board

Zonal

Azadari

Coordinator

Zonal

Media

Coordinator

Zonal

Office

Secretary

Zonal

Finance

Coordinator

Zonal

Professional

Relation

coordinator

Zonal

Political

Coordinator

Zone Wales

Ammar e Yasir

Zone Midlands

Malik e Ashtar

Zone Coordinator

M. Niyaz Naqvi

Zone Coordinator

M. Mouzzam Ali

Aun

Zone Coordinator

M. Ali Abbas

Zone Coordinator

M, Arshad Turabi

Zone Coordinator

M. Raja Sarfaraz

Zone London

Jafar Tiyar

Zone Manchester

Abuzar e Ghaffari

Zone Scotland

Salman e Farsi

Every Zone has the following coordinators and department

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Eid Prayer at Abuzar Zone Manchester The President of M.U.S H.I.W.M Moulana Ali

raza Rizvi led the Eid prayer at Manchester. The

program was organised by I.U.S. After the pray-

er everyone sat down to eat the prepaid Eid

meal. Then the President and the Youth repre-

sentative gave their speech. After that Moulana

Syed Fida Hussain Bukhari led the Zohraian pray-

er. At the end presents were given to the win-

ners. In the gathering approximately 200 Youth

attended the programme.

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Imam Ali Raza (A.S)

Short Biography

Name : Imam Ali ar-Riza(a.s.) - the 8th Holy Imam

Title : Gharib al-Ghuraba, Moeen-uz-Zoafa-e-wal-Fuqara,

Shah-e-Khurasaan

Agnomen : Abul-Hassan

Father : Imam Moosa-e-Kazim(a.s.) - the 7th Holy Imam

Mother : Ummul-Baneen Bibi Najma

Wiladat : At Madina on 11th of Zi-Qadah 148 AH (765 AD)

Martyred : In Mashhad at age 55, on 23rd Zi-Qadah 203 AH (817 AD)

Imam Ali ar-Riza(a.s.) inherited the knowledge of his grandfather the Messenger of Allah( pbuh), thus becoming its pioneering fountain head that quenched the thirst of those who were thirsty for knowledge. History narrates a great deal of his scholarly stances and intellectual discourses in which he achieved victory over those who opposed the Divine Message, excelling in various branches of scholarship with which he provided the seekers of knowledge and the thinkers of the time. Ibrahim ibn al-Abbas al-Suli is reported to have said: "I never saw al-Riza(a.s.) unable to provide the answer to any question he received, nor have I ever seen any contemporary of his more learned than he was. Al-Mamoon used to put him to test by asking him about almost everything, and he always provided him with the answer, and his answer and example was always derived from the Holy Qur'an."

Jaffar-e-Tayyar Convention

Date 6/10/2013

Location: Idara Jaffria

Address: 18 Church Lane, Tooting,

London, Greater London , SW17 9PP

Time: After Namaz-e-Zohrain to

Magrabain

SPECIAL SPEECH BY M.U.S PRESIDENT

Organising Committee

M. Moazzam Ali Qummie

Tel: 0789 036 496 9

M. Syed Hassan Abbas Rizvi

Tel: 0779 676 363 8

Imamiya Council zone coordinator

Jaffar Shah

Tel: 0782 462 888 3

Imamiya Youth zone coordinator

Najaf Shah

Imamiya Women Zone Coordinator

Sister Mehar Zaidi

President Idara Jaffria M.Raza

Published By Information Department of Majlis E Ulama Shia Europe. Composed & Edited By Syed Muhammad Naqvi

Issued from Markaz e Ahlulbayt 11-13 Edgeley Road, Chapham London SW4 6EH

Ammar -e-Yasir Convention

Date 22/09/2013

Location: AlQuaim Islamic Mission

39 Montrose Avenue Slough

Berkshire SL1 4TN

Time: After Namaz-e-Zohrain to

Magrabain

SPEECHES BY DIFFERENT

DEPARTMENTS IN CHARGE OF M.U.S

AND SPECIAL SPEECH BY M.U.S

PRESIDENT

Organising Committee

M. Niaz Hussain Naqvi

Zone Coordinator Imamiyya Council

Mr Ghulam Shabbir

Imamiyya Women

Mrs Taslim Hussain

Imamiyya Youth

Br Ameer

Malik-e-Ashtar Convention

Date 26/10/2013

Location: Luton School

Time: After Namaz-e-Zohrain to

Magrabain

SPEECHES BY DIFFERENT

DEPARTMENTS IN CHARGE OF M.U.S

AND SPECIAL SPEECH BY M.U.S

PRESIDENT

Organising Committee

M.Syed Ali Abbas Rizvi

Tel:

Imamiya Council zone coordinator

Raja Ahmad Abbas

Tel:075 779 826 78

Imamiya Women Zone Coordinator

Sister Nabila Ali

Tel: 0777 620 170 8