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So persevere in patience. For the promise of Allah is true and whether We show mercy in this life some part of what We promise them or We take thy soul to our mercy before that in any case it is to Us that they shall all return. Issue No. 40 January 2006 Eid Function 2005 ■ Kuresh and Hanif stand up for the females ■ “It was never like this in my day!” ■ Looking good at the fashion show INSIDEINSIDE his year's Eid function was long time to come. The way Leicester has worked THIS ISSUE T organised by Leicester Branch. together could be seen on the day and for me It was a packed event with a variety of this is what really stood out. I could see how activities to entertain all and of course much work had gone into the function and I • Regional Committee a great time to meet up with friends think everyone involved deserves a pat on update and family. The youths did a magnificent the back. job with their fashion show. Little • Latest news from Sweden children were captivated by the clown They put on such a grand performance, the and Norway and of course we had the usual raffle fashion show, the hilarious karaoke, and how can prizes. Read on for Huma' impressions we forget our charitable nature when it came to • Report from Kenya of the function. sponsoring Zahir to shave his hair off to fund raise for the Pakistan Earthquake appeal. He Ramzan is over, Eid is gone, and so has the Eid turned from Vernon Kaye to Robbie Williams. • Latest news from Udaipur function in Leicester. The much-anticipated event this year was well worth the wait. Everyone had To the food…there was Biryani….what more • Friends UK anniversary their glad rags on and looked super, especially could Bohra's ask for? those who were involved in the fashion show, • International badminton although it may have been fun to see a few This function was a long time due and it really umpire ridahs and jhoris! I enjoyed every minute of it. showed how much our community could achieve Could I have heard anymore screams when Amir when people worked together. Well done to all • Majlis etiquette Kapasi and Zainab Vanak came on stage?…. involved. My my my what a gorgeous couple….oops… I meant what gorgeous outfits. Huma Vanat • Embryonic stem cell Birmingham, UK research - Allowed in Islam? There were so many highlights to the day that I don't think anyone will forget this function for a (More pictures on page 6) Regional Committee Update and Announcements ur Regional Comittee members from the O U. S., Canada, the U.K., Kuwait and Kenya Country Year 1 Year 2 Year3-10 Collected met in Birmingham, U.K., in April 05. About a UK £50,523.33 £16,973.33 £28,853.33 £16,950 dozen persons attended at their own expense. USA $14,200.00 $11,700.00 $12,100.00 $14,200 CANADA $5,000.00 $2,000.00 $2,000.00 $2,000 • The R.C. has also had regular teleconferences INDIA 20,000 rupees 0 via the Internet. • We have been working on our short and long term goals. RC Contacts Country Email 1) A reminder to those who made financial Haki Kapasi UK [email protected] commitments at the last U.K. conference. Hatim Rajabali UK [email protected] Please make your donations now so that the Fazleabbas Kinkhabwalla UK [email protected] following conference mandates can be realised: Fazlehussein Kapasi UK [email protected] • Training individuals in religious matters Saifu Rajabali Canada [email protected] (long term goal) Naseem Jivanjee Canada [email protected] • We have identified some people and are Abdulla Zulfikar Canada [email protected] working on the difficult task of achieving Asrar Ahmed USA [email protected] this long-term goal. • A namaaz CD. Mansoor Haidary USA [email protected] • An Islamic / Bohra pocket calendar Aftab Jivanjee Africa [email protected] • Marsiyas and Duas translated into English • A booklet of Lailatul Qadr prayers • Further educational training • A world directory or contact details of Latest from Sweden and Norway reformist Bohras • Preservation of Islamic/Fatimid manuscripts he Bohri Jamaats of Sweden and somehow convinced the Kothar that a full (long term goal) T Norway until now had resident and time Aamil is required in Norway/Sweden - African Bohri patrongae Aamils stationed in although all his own immediate family from So far we have collected a total of £25,900 or Norway and Sweden.They performed all Kenya now reside in the UK - rumours are 23% of the pledges. The total for the conference the rituals, sometimes with the directives that he has a father and over 10 brothers pledges over 1-10 years is £122,000 (approx) from London, England. During Ramadhan and no sisters. and we have so far collected about 21% of the and Moharrum Kothar used to send pledges. somebody "educated" from either London, Sh.Zakir and family after spending a few We have spent $3250.00 Cdn on the Namaaz India or Pakistan. Most of the Bohris are months in Norway and Sweden at the weekend workshop in Canada attended by originally the refugees from Uganda - the mumineen's homes, directed that the 30 people. Swedish Jamaat members, most of them Swedish and Norway Jamaat now pay for being the ex-Ugandan Bohri dissidents who his and his family's full-time upkeep and 2) HAJ and UMRAH 06. The R.C. is going ahead have now crossed the floor, like some of maintenance. He immediately moved to a with plans for Umrah in Easter'06. Please the Udaipuris - but still very much luxurious villa costing over 10,000 Kroners contact us by end of December 2005 if you grudgingly autonomous or independent. a month and expected both the Jamaats to and your family are planning to join us. We There are about 25 Bohris in Norway and share his stipend and stay in Scandinavia. are hoping to reside at the same hotel for Umrah, the Hilton in Mecca and Medina. about 200 in Sweden (guesstimated) All was reasonably well until last month. The Swedish and Norwegian Jamaat Umrah date Inshallah is April 13 to 21st 2006. members are now up in arms and are The African Bohri Aamil (Shk Saifuddinbhai upset that they should maintain unneeded 3) The R.C. is planning a Youth camp in Kenya in Zakir- the Ja'amiya Mulla converted to full time Aamil who does not want to work Summer 07 courtesy of our Reformists in Sheikh)) who was the resident Aamil for outside the mosque but live off the ex- Nairobi and Mombasa. This will be open to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania-Fiji(no Ugandan refugees. youth and their families from other Reformist Bohris in Fiji though, but sounds sexy to the centres. Kotharis)was asked to leave the lucrative They hope that either London or Kothar do 4) OTHER UPCOMING ACTIVITIES of the R.C. in Australian Jammat after seven years or so. something about this appointment on the near future Inshallah are: He had built the mosque there and Aqua which they had no say or control. It was a • A namaaz C.D. Moula had opened it. He was posted to a unilateral Kothar appointment. Failing this, • An Islamic / Bohra pocket calendar little Jamaat near Mumbai . He has a wife they will have no alternative but to ask the • Marsiyas and Duas translated into English and four children. Swedish/Norwegian immigration • A booklet of Lailatul Qadr prayers authorities to send this Aamil and his family • Further educational training Sh.Zakir and his family did not like living in packing back to Mumbai or London. • A world directory or contact details of a Mumbai's village one bed sitter one bit. Perhaps he and the family are also reformist Bohras He had a brainwave. His wife is a Bohri Australian citizens as well. 5) The R.C. meets once a year for communication Swedish and her parents are from Sweden face to face. Inshallah, the next meeting will so he promptly moved to Sweden and Sent to AZAD by Isufali Kundwalla be in April 06 in Kuwait. page 2 paAZAD January 2006 1 Fund Raising Report from Kenya embers of our community have beenM busy fund-raising for natural disasters around the globe, the most he club premises need extensive and distributed prior to the majlis recent being Zahir Kaderbhai generously T repairs and redecoration and so that as many as possible of the offering to shave his head at this year's the committee has sent out appeals attendees can join in the recital. Eid function for the Pakistan Earthquake for funds. For those who do not victims. know, the club, called Sir Yusufali We had a very enjoyable 'Fungo' Thank you for everyone sponsoring me Sports Club is the Centre at which function on 25th September to £1,675.75 for Tsunami appeal. 2.5 days and our Group activities are carried out. welcome Ramadhan. This was very 60 hours - Aqeel Kapasi, Nuneaton, UK Aqeel informs me this was a really difficult well attended. After a sumptuous task for him!! Ed. At our majlis we started reciting 'Dua meal, games were played. Mangtihu'. We also started reading a Peterborough Jumaat members have raised just over £1100 via donations and a charity auction, few pages of Daimul Islam's Gujarati Aftab Jivanjee held on the 21st Ramzaan, for the earthquake version.
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