Comments Off on 30 MORE | Between Storytelling and Surveillance: American Muslim Youth Negotiate Culture, Politics, and Participation
This morning, in preparing to possibly begin blogging something in the 30 MORE category leading up to Hajj 2013, a working Research Paper popped up…
Sangita Shresthova, Ph. D.
And, there’s a one line mention of 30Masjids ( WooHoo! ) on page 69:
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Comments Off on Ramadan in Kingston, Ontario – Reflection of The Past | By Mona Rahman
“For me, this Ramadan, was one of reflection of the past”
By Mona Rahman (@naeema_mnr) | Kingston, Ontario
The first night of Taraweeh prayers, I looked around the packed masjid and missed those whom I had spent Ramadan with growing up. We have all scattered around the land, the continent, and even the world.
Being an academic town, housing Queen’s University, RMC and St. Lawrence College, we also had a partially transient community growing up, hosting students from all over the world, many of whom had gone back to their home countries.
This year, we also lost a few of our senior generation i.e. the Uncles and Aunties.
Planning to visit cemetery after Dhuhr. Leaving at 1.45 pm from ICK (inshaAllah). Come along and revive a Prophetic tradition! #FinalAbode
— Sikander Hashmi (@kingstonimam) July 14, 2013
Growing up, we didn’t have a masjid per se; our activities were held at various places in Kingston, mainly at the Queen’s University campus.
We looked forward to potluck iftars on Saturdays on campus at the International Centre, as well as daily Taraweeh prayers, also held on campus.
Alhamdulillah, we always seemed to have been blessed with at least one person who was Hafiz-ul-Qur’an who could lead the prayers.
One year, there were three brothers who rotated through the month.
As the community grew and expanded into the suburbs, a second jama’a was held at someone’s house in addition to the one held on campus. We were a close-knit community of several families, who truly felt like an extended family.
After Ramadan, ‘Eid Salah was held at a bigger room on campus and there was yet another potluck Eid dinner to look forward to or picnic, depending on the season. Picnic season also meant dessert at the farm of one of our community members or dessert at pony rides!
Alhamdulillah.
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Comments Off on 30 MORE | Meet Anwar Sajad – Assaulted Taxi Cab Driver – Hamilton, Ontario
“They’re just nice people,”
“They’ve always got the neighbourhood kids over there. They are the kind of people you want for neighbours.”
— Barb Hughes, she lives two doors down from The Sajad Family
During the First Ten Days of Ramadan, on Tuesday July 16 2013, Hamilton Taxi Driver Anwar Sajad picked up two men and one woman at a grocery store at Upper Paradise and Mohawk Road.
After driving them to an address on Limeridge Road West, Anwar Sajad was savagely beaten.
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Comments Off on GTA Eid al Fitr Prayer and Eid Festival – Muslim Association of Canada | Metro Toronto Convention Centre
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Comments Off on VIDEO – Meet Zaib Shaikh – “Imam Amaar Rashid” on Little Mosque on The Prairie
@Zaib_Shaikh Salam+Ramadan Mubarak. Any possibility of interviewing you for a story for #30Masjids.ca?
— HiMY SYeD (@30masjids) August 4, 2013
@HiMYSYeD @30masjids Nice to meet you & Eid Mubarak.
— Zaib Shaikh (@Zaib_Shaikh) August 9, 2013
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Comments Off on Day 30 – Isha – Ibrahim Jam-E Mosque | 778 King Street East, Hamilton
This Isha prayer was originally intended to be performed in the Downtown Hamilton Mosque, but when I learned during Iftar that another Masjid was only blocks away, I had to take the opportunity to visit.
The first Isha after the end of the month of Ramadan was just such an opportunity.
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Comments Off on Day 30 – The Last Iftar – Hamilton Downtown Mosque | 96 Wilson Street, Hamilton
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Comments Off on Day 30 – Meet Ziyaad Mia – Creator and Project Co-ordinator of Give 30 Campaign
If you don’t try and fail, you won’t really learn anything. And if you don’t even try, you won’t even fail.
Says Ziyaad Mia (@Give_30), Creator and Project Co-ordinator of the Give 30 Campaign.
Today, 30 Masjids met Give 30 on Day 30 of Ramadan 2013…
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To The Brother sitting beside me who asked me to email him a copy of this video as he saw me recording it: I gave you the URL to this website instead and promised I would post the video today. InshAllah, I trust you found this website and this little acknowledgement of your request. Eid Mubarak!
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Comments Off on Day 29 – Meet Aasiya Hussain – Water Warrior | In Canada’s Backyard
The following is a quick rambling mash-up somewhere in-between an interview, my questions, Aasiya’s answers, and our overall conversation. Aasiya and I met for a few minutes during her afternoon break, where she works in Toronto as an Outdoor Professional…
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Comments Off on Day 27 – Imam Ali (AS) Masjid | 1606 Walkley Road, Ottawa
Having prayed Dhuhr in the Ottawa Islamic Centre, I began walking towards the South Keys neighbourhood in Ottawa South towards Assalam Muslim Association.
En route, I spotted the Imam Ali (AS) Masjid.
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Comments Off on Night 27 – Ottawa Islamic Centre – Assalam Mosque | 2335 St Laurent Blvd
One of the casualties of Some Masjids following visual Moonsighting to determine the Ramadan Calendar Month, and others going by astronomical calculations, is that I forgot it was Layla tul Qadr.. for me. While it was still the night of the 26th for everyone else!
Nobody’s perfect, Alhumdulillah…
I got in Isha, Taraweeh minus two rakats of eight, and almost all of Tahajjud. Somewhere in there I went to Timmies, and tweeted some pics of Iftar, which now makes up the previous blog post.
The battery’s almost dead on my netbook as I type this sitting outside a Starbucks in South Keys Shopping Centre in Ottawa South. Rain drops keep spitting on my keyboard.
IF I CAN, InshAllah, I will update this blog post with proper captions and explanations of the images presented. For now, here’s what last night looked like at the Ottawa Islamic Centre also known as Assalam Mosque.
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Comments Off on Day 26 – Iftar – Ottawa Islamic Centre & Assalam Mosque | 2335 St Laurent Blvd., Ottawa
While en route to Ottawa Islamic Centre, passed this intersection: Rue Main St. & rue Toronto St. http://t.co/7FMrEyGHFB
— HiMY SYeD (@30masjids) August 4, 2013
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Comments Off on Day 20 – Northern Muslim Association – Sudbury | By Abubacar
Guest Blog Post by Brother Abubacar | Sudbury, Ontario
Salamu Aleykum Br. Himy,
NMA Inc. is a registered charitable organization founded in 2008 by a few brothers (4 or 5 core).
The goal of NMA is the promotion and teachings of the Values and Principles of Islam according to Qur’an and Sunnah of our beloved ar-Rassul-ul-Allah (pbuh).
It is important that our families, children, develop and maintain a proper Muslim character and identity (which encourages tolerance and mutual respect among different Faiths, cultures).
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