Day 23 – LIVESTREAM – The Resilient Hour – “Farewell Ramadan: Lessons We Can Take” – Shaikh Ahmad Kutty – IIT – Islamic Institute of Toronto

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Day 23 – VIDEO – JUMAH tul WIDAH – Fourth Friday – Jamiat-Ul-Ansar of Brampton – Great Lakes Masjid – 291 Great Lakes Drive at Masjid Drive

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30 MORE | Day 23 – Twitter Thread : “Annual Reminder that Zakat is not “charity” but a Wealth-Tax that must be paid (even by children) Lunar-Annually if a Certain Threshhold is met (Nisab). It is a “Return of Wealth” to the Community.” — By Dr. Ingrid Mattson

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“Annual reminder that Zakat is not “charity” but a Wealth-Tax that must be paid (even by children) Lunar-Annually if a certain threshhold is met (Nisab).

It is a “Return of Wealth” to the Community.

Other conditions apply.

There are many simple online Zakat calculators.

As is the case with any act of worship,

intention in paying Zakat matters,

but that does not mean we can neglect the rules.

Of course,

there are different, valid interpretations of the rules,

so don’t get bogged down in debates,

but commit to continued learning over time.

Remember you can give directly to individual Muslims who don’t have enough for rent or groceries,

or to pay debts,

including tuition payments.

You can make a big impact with a relatively small transfer of wealth to an individual.

Ask a scholar if you are unsure who is eligible 🌙

Zakat does not have to be paid in Ramadan,

but it has become customary for many because it is an easy way to ensure you pay in a timely manner (Lunar Annually) and because Ramadan is a time of added blessings 🌙

While Zakat is obligatory and its collection & distribution is regulated by the Sacred Law,

charity is mostly unrestricted as long as what you are giving is good & for a good reason.

Giving charity is liberating as it loosens the grip of a scarcity-minset on the giver 🌙

Giving charity has many, many unseen blessings.

And in Ramadan even more.

Give generously to one or more of the many wonderful charitable organizations helping to uplift our communities 🌙”

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Night 23 – Laylatul Qadr – 3:30 a.m. – Reflections on Islam Television Program – VisionTV

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30 MORE | NCCM : “We are beyond disturbed by the allegations of two Muslim women being followed home from the mosque and a gun being pointed at them.” — Kitchener, Ontario

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CTV News Kitchener, Wednesday April 12 2023

“We were driving down and then suddenly you hear,

just a honking at us,

and there’s a car speeding right towards us,

“So we stop the car and I’m thinking okay maybe the trunk is open,

or the gas cap is loose,

“We roll down the window,

he rolls down his,

then we just see him pull out his phone and point it at us and we’re like,

okay that’s weird.

“And then suddenly,

in the other hand,

he pulls up a gun and points it at us.

“He had his gun prepared it wasn’t in a glove compartment or anything like that.

“He was videotaping us – so he seemed prepared to be doing something.”

…

“Be wary of everybody and please be careful of people pulling you over or anything like that.”

— Muslim Sister in Kitchener, Ontario

MAC Kitchener Masjid, on Victoria Street North.

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Day 21 – LIVESTREAM – The Resilient Hour – Dr. Ingrid Mattson – IIT – Islamic Institute of Toronto

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Day 21 – Sunrise After Fajr – Searching for Confirmation of Laylatul Qadr – Looking at Sun & Sky

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After Sunrise on the morning of the 21st Day of Ramadan 2023,

I went outside to look at Sun and Sky in search of conditions confirming last night was Laylatul Qadr.

Photograph, video clips, and audio recording of what I found.

Ibn Abbas reported:

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,

said regarding the Night of Decree,

“It is a calm night,

neither hot nor cold,

and the sun rises upon its day red and faint.”

Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Khuzaymah 2192

Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani

عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ لَيْلَةٌ طَلْقَةٌ لا حَارَّةٌ وَلا بَارِدَةٌ تُصْبِحُ الشَّمْسُ يَوْمَهَا حَمْرَاءَ ضَعِيفَةً

2192 صحيح ابن خزيمة كتاب الصيام

5475 المحدث الألباني خلاصة حكم المحدث صحيح في صحيح الجامع





This audio recording began as a Video.

Like the Sky it was recording, file size of the HD Video was big.

Too big to upload properly.

I extracted the audio and that’s what you can listen to above.

Couple of screencaptures to accompany the audio…

I’m an official member of the Worldwide Moonsighting Committee, at Moonsighting.com, representing Canada.

If anyone else, because it’s not going to be me, puts in the effort to create an official “Laylatul Qadr Confirmation” Committee, you now have your first member.

After looking up at Sun and Sky early this 21st Morning of Ramadan 2023,

I still don’t know for sure if last night, the first of the five possibilities for Laylatul Qadr, was Laylatul Qadr.

I feel it was.

Conditions this morning still leave me guessing.

Four more chances to go…

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Day 21 – LIVESTREAMs – IPTV – Fajr in Makkah / Dhuhr in Madinah – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Night 21 of Ramadan 1444/2023 ended with Adhan Al Fajr, The Call to Prayer at Dawn, signalling the start of Day 21.

We usually dial through the local Toronto Area Muslim IPTV Channels during Sahoor/Sehri, the pre-dawn meal time, before the start time of each day’s fast.

This morning Dawn/Fajr in and around the Toronto Metropolitan Area was early as 5:16 a.m. or as late as 5:19 a.m., depending how east or west you were.

Each day’s fast has begun by cycling through those local Muslim IPTV Sahoor shows until settling on a random channel with a pre-recorded Adhan Al Fajr being Broadcast/Livestreamed.

We then pray Fajr at home.

Also randomly, I might still watch IPTV for a little while after Fajr, allowing time for my Sahoor to digest.

Back on Day 12, I was watching CBC Metro Morning.

Like on Day 12, this morning, Day 21, I photographed my Television Screen rather than scramble in a rush to screencapture the Livestreams from Makkah & Madinah on my Raspberry Pi 400.

CanadaONE ReStreams the Fajr Prayer recorded from Makkah at Makkah Local Time, to coincide with Fajr Time according to Toronto Local Time.

In the VHS Days, we’d call this Live Tape Delay.

Akin to U.S. Network TV Late Night variety shows recording their weekday show live in the afternoon/evenings for broadcast after the late local news.

In the bottom right Corner you can see 5:07 [a.m.].

But Fajr in Toronto didn’t begin until after 5:07 a.m. this morning.

What gives!?

Via IslamicFinder.org…

Here in my Daylight Saving Time observant home Province of Ontario, CanadaONE’s Fajr in Makkah Live Tape Delay is not exactly livestreamed 7 hours later, because Dawn/Fajr in Makkah was at 4:46 a.m. earlier this morning, Day 21 of Ramadan 1444/ Wednesday April 12 2023.

Also, the scheduled Congregational Fajr Prayer Time in Makkah isn’t exactly 4:46:01 a.m. to the second, as per common sense.

People in The Sacred Masjid are still eating their final bites of Sahoor at 4:45:59 a.m., you get the idea.

CanadaONE ends their ReStream from Makkah once Fajr is completed, sometimes followed by Toronto area Ethnic/Muslim-ish TV Commercials.

Switching to one of the numerous duplicate IPTV Channels ReStreaming the actual Live Livestream from Makkah, we find Salat Al Dhuhr, the Midday Prayer, has already been performed in The Sacred Masjid.

Sometimes the Official Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Makkah Livestream show scenes from the City of Makkah or the Mountains and Valleys around it.

Dialling up the Official KSA Madinah IPTV Livestreaming channel(s) and found Salat Al Dhuhr was still being prayed…

“Allahu Akbar . . .

. . . Allahu Akbar . . .

. . . Allahu Akbar.”

Menu screen, listing Muslim-ish IPTV Channels in the order they were favo(u)rited.

Earlier,

Having returned home after praying Isha + 8 Rakats of Taraweeh at Noon Academy’s Masjid,

I often dial up eAWAZ IPTV.

To borrow a useful word from legacy Broadcast Television lingo,

eAWAZ, or simply AWAZ, Simulcasts Shaykh Faisal’s nightly reminders being Livestreamed between Rakats 6 and 7 at the Islamic Forum of Canada.

My brother Amir & I heard Shaykh Faisal’s reminder in person last Ramadan 2022 on Night 12.

Tonight, AWAZ has a red bar with text announcing this is the 10th Night of Ramadan…

However, I confirmed what I was watching on TV was indeed Shaykh Faisal speaking live and being Simulcast correctly tonight, Night 21 of Ramadan 2023.

Typo. Not a big deal.

What IS a Big Deal is the technical set up inside Islamic Forum of Canada.

Here’s my photograph from Night 12 last year :

I only caught Shaykh Faisal’s mid-Taraweeh-break speech as he was wrapping it up for tonight.

So I selected MeemTV.

While Shaykh Faisal is set up to supply programming for IPTV Channels,

MeemTV IS an IPTV Channel AND a Masjid in one.

Masjid-E-Aqsa in Brampton broadcasts, sorry, Livestreams original programming for their original IPTV Channel.

They pray 20 Rakats of Taraweeh, and they are still praying as I watch at 10:38 p.m. on Night 21, a possible Laylatul Qadr.

Other than Taraweeh Prayers, what else does MeemTV air?

Lectures.

Adhans being called more or less according to Brampton Local Time, a minute or two later than Toronto.

It’s an example of what Brother Taha Ghayyur described during his talk at the 9th Annual Fiqh Conference on Day 10.

Muslims don’t want a Muslim TV Channel only rerunning Lectures from youtube playlists ( my words and my understanding of the case brother Taha was making ).

They want Halal Entertainment options.

During Sahoor and before Iftar, many IPTV shows have Ramadan related programming, with most importantly a countdown timer of how much time you have left for eating or when you can break fast.

Sometimes you simply want to turn on the TV, without thinking too much about it, because you want to watch something Islamic or Muslim-ish.

Both Islamic Forum of Canada and Masjid-E-Aqsa/MeemTV on this Night 21 were exactly that.

Both Islamic Forum of Canada and MeemTV are based in Brampton, Ontario.

Perhaps the Search for Halal Entertainment Options begins in Brampton?

Umm… until I switched to watching IIT’s Live Taraweeh Livestream and heard Night 21’s reminder from IIT Resident Imam, Shaikh Musleh Khan.

The Islamic Institute of Toronto is in Scarborough.

Perhaps the Search for Halal Television Options begins in Brampton and continues in Scarborough…?

The Islamic Foundation of Toronto is in Scarborough.

IFT is on AWAZ TV everyday between 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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Night 21 – LIVESTREAM – Laylatul Qadr – 2:15 a.m. – Tahajjud at SKC– Night 21 of Ramadan 1444 – Sayeda Khadija Centre – 7150 Edwards Blvd – Mississauga

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Tahajjud at Sayeda Khadija Centre in Mississauga on Night 21 of Ramadan 1444.


A 13 minute reminder was delivered after the first hour, after the first half of this morning’s Tahajjud Prayers on Night 21 of Ramadan 2023.

This morning’s Tahajjud Reminder began with the following being said a few seconds into it,

“…And, as The Race comes to An End…”

For the second time tonight during this Night 21 Laylatul Qadr possibility,

I hear mention of “The Race” and its end being The Last Ten Nights of Ramadan.

First mentioned earlier by Shaykh Waleed Almakee at Noon Academy Masjid after Isha and before my Eight Rakats of Taraweeh,

And now again from home,

while watching Sayeda Khadija Centre’s Livestream of their Tahajjud Prayer.

SubhanAllah.

Ramadan’s Race for 1444/2023 has eight/nine more nights to go,

With four more chances to search for, and to find Laylatul Qadr…

InshAllah,

Ameen.

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Night 21 – LIVESTREAM – Laylatul Qadr – Reflection from the Qur’an (21 Taraweeh) by Imam Omar Subedar – Bramalea Islamic Cultural Centre (BICC) – 25 Kings Cross Road, Brampton

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Reflection from the Qur’an (21 Taraweeh) by Imam Omar Subedar.

Livestream after Taraweeh Prayer on Night 21 of Ramadan 2023,

At Bramalea Islamic Cultural Centre (BICC), 25 Kings Cross Road, Brampton.

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Night 21 – LIVESTREAM – Laylatul Qadr – ‘The Search for Laylatul Qadr begins at Maghrib…’ – Shaikh Musleh Khan – IIT – Islamic Institute of Toronto

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Important reminder by IIT Resident Scholar Shaikh Musleh Khan during Taraweeh Prayers at Islamic Institute of Toronto on Night 21 of Ramadan 2023…


Shaikh Musleh Khan reminds us that searching for Laylatul Qadr, The Night of Destiny, during the Last Ten Nights of Ramadan, begins right away after the time of Maghrib.

Don’t fall into the habit of beginning your search after Iftar or later during Isha or Taraweeh.

Maghrib and Iftar time, it’s not only a time to break fast.

It’s the time to begin your search!

Short Duas are short in words yet Grand in The Scales in The Sight of Allah (SWT).

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Night 21 – Laylatul Qadr – Taraweeh – Noon Academy Masjid – 12 Rutherford Road South – Brampton, Ontario

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Returned home a short while ago after praying Isha plus 8 Rakats of Taraweeh, inside Noon Academy‘s Masjid in Brampton…

Tag-Team-Taraweeh style on this first night of the Last Ten Nights of Ramadan 1444/2023.

I prayed behind the first Qari for a pair of two Rakats, then Shaykh Waleed Almakee lead the next pair of two Rakats, bringing it to eight.

As before, after four Rakats, the Taraweeh worshippers collectively recite Surah Al Ikhlas three times, before begining the next pair of pairs of Rakats.

Before Taraweeh began, and after Isha was prayed, Shaykh AlMakee shared some words of reminding about how to spend the Last Ten Nights of Ramadan.

He began by reminding us of who the “Loser” is, that is the one who witnesses Ramadan but does do anything about it or during it.

The Shaykh used the metaphor of a horserace and what winning horses do as they near the end of the race, approaching the finish line.

The horse may have kept some energy in reserve, but then uses everything, puts it all out there to win the race in the end.

The Last Ten Nights of Ramadan are like the end of the race.

And we should hold nothing back, to win Ramadan.

So what exactly do we do to be of the Winners?

The phrase he used,

“…Do ALL the Ibadahs…”

Resonated with me in its simplicity,

and its completeness, its thoroughness.

Paying Sadaqah every night, during all Last Ten Nights in Ramadan.

Sadaqah here : NoonAcademy.net/donate;

Dhikr, Praying.

We know what to do, and how best to spend our time in worship.

Perhaps we will do something that is Pleasing to Our Lord, and all our sins will be forgiven.

It was getting hot inside the Masjid, though I hadn’t yet felt it.

The door by the brothers’ side was opened to let in some night air.

The night air on Night 21 of Ramadan 2023 is 19 Degrees Celsius.

In Sahih Al-Jami’,

The Prophet ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said:

“ليلةُ القدْرِ ليلةٌ سمِحَةٌ ، طَلِقَةٌ ، لا حارَّةٌ ولا بارِدَةٌ”

“The night of Qadr is a calm, serene and peaceful night.

“It is not hot nor is it cold…”

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30 MORE | Day 20 – Fajr – A deradicalization expert explains the hate ecosystem fueling Islamophobia in the GTA – Amarnath Amarasingam Speaking with David Common on Metro Morning – 99.1 FM – CBC Toronto

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A deradicalization expert explains the hate ecosystem fueling Islamophobia in the GTA

Amarnath Amarasingam is an assistant professor in the school of religion at Queen’s University, and an associate fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation.

Aired: April 11, 2023

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30 MORE | NCCM : Press Conference – Markham Masjid – The Islamic Society of Markham – 2900 Denison Street

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Press Conference at The Islamic Society of Markham, 2900 Denison Street.



York Regional Police provide additional information since Sunday’s Update.

Questions & Answers :


 

You need to increase/decrease/increase Volume to properly hear entire Q&A.

CTV News Toronto Videojournalist Janice Golding interviewed several worshippers who regularly pray at the Islamic Society of Markam.

 
Frank Scarpitti, Mayor of The City of Markham, held a brief news scrum with reporters, followed by a one-on-one interview.

Nadia Hasan, PHD, Chief Operating Officer of National Council of Canadian Muslims, interviewed with OMNI Television.


President of the Islamic Society of Markham Qaisar Nasir Khan says a male suspect brought his car to a mosque around dawn prayer,

Uttered Islamophobic slurs,

Made threats to burn down the worship place,

And tried to run over congregants.

“It was shocking.

“It could have resulted in serious injury, or God forbid, even fatalities,” he said.

— The Canadian Press

Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, held a number of one-on-one interviews with The Canadian Press, The CBC/Radio-Canada, and others.

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30 MORE | The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto Jane’s Walk : Sunday May 7 2023

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Walking Toronto through its Muslim history
A Sunday Jane’s Walk will take participants through the west end, touring the site of city’s first mosque and other Islamic touchstones.

 

I will be leading a Jane’s Walk on Sunday May 7 2023 :

“The History of Canadian Muslims in Toronto Jane’s Walk 2023”

Here’s a link to give you an idea of what to expect.

( Will update this blog post later today, InshAllah, with complete details. )

UPDATED :

TIME: Sunday May 7 2023 – 4:00 p.m.

MEETING POINT: Annette Street at Runnymede Avenue, Sidewalk on South West Corner of intersection.

WALK LEADER: Holding Orange “Walk With Us” Jane’s Walk sign; wearing a Green Square🟩

NEAREST PUBLIC TRANSIT: Runnymede Bus stop at Annette Street

WALK END LOCATION: Jami Mosque, 56 Boustead Avenue

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