SICM MUHARRAM 1445

March 29, 2024

18th Ramadan 1445

Fajr*4:12 am
Sunrise5:43 am
Jumuah12:06 pm
Asr3:36 pm
Maghrib**6:40 pm
Isha8:28 pm

*Imsak is calculated as 16 minutes before Fajr and is when fasting should begin. Salaat should be prayed after the beginning of Fajr.

**Maghrib here is defined as 10 minutes after sunset.

Friday 28th July

Ashura 1445

As Ashura day falls on Friday this year, we have arranged the programme to allow attendance to Jum’a prayers nearby.

The programme begins at 9:30am with Ashura A’maal. The maqtal will also be read before Jum’ah prayer time.

Following Jum’ah prayers, you are invited to Woodcock Hill Cemetery for Surah Yaseen. We hope to also have a marshiya and a short talk.

18th July – 28th July

Muharram 1445

Little Learners

Children’s Programme

We will be holding a children’s programme from 19th to 27th August. For the first few days, the programme will be from 5:30p to 7:00pm and from 22nd July, the programme will start from 4pm and end at 5:30pm.

The children’s programme will be in two classes: Aged 4 to 7 years old and 8 to 12 years old. 

 You must register to attend – Registration is now full. 

 

Topics will incude: 

 – Significance of Muharram and importance of commemorating each year

 – Faith and Trees

 – Our Guides

 – I saw nothing but beauty

 – Bowing down to Allah

 – Drinking water 

 – The Qur’an 

 – Remembrance of Allah

 – Lessons of Karbala and Heroes of Karbala

 

Muharram Talks

The Speakers

Shaykh Rida Jichi

18th to 20th July

Rida Jichi is a hawza student at Al-Mahdi Institute (Birmingham). His Islamic education is both academic and self-taught. Rida holds a BE and MSC in computer engineering.

Ashura & Relevance, Glory and Spirituality
Close to 14 centuries have passed since the tragedies on the day of Ashura, which were not the first series of tragedies that humanity witnessed, nor will be the last. Still, millions commemorate these events to this date. The first talk discusses the motivations behind the ongoing commemoration of Ashura. Through emphasising the importance of a holistic reading of the historical events that led to Ashura, the talk also attempts to identify which major type of corruption that the Imam stood against with his movement of reform that led to his death.

The second talk discusses the famous slogan هيهات منا الذلة (“we can never be humiliated”) and links it to the Quranic and hadithi concept of indignity and glory, in an attempt to rectify any misconception that restricts them to the material dimensions of wellbeing.

The third talk sheds light on the fundamental role of spirituality and spiritual education in reform movements, and that social reform is grounded in individual reform which requires spiritual education, steadfastness and preserving uprighteousness in order to achieve the desired fruits in this world and in the next.

Seyed Fatemi
21st to 24th July
Seyed Fatemi spent thirteen years studying to the highest level in the traditional educational seminaries of Qum under the direct instruction of some of the leading scholars of the present day. Alongside his traditional education Seyed Fatemi was also trained in Public Law at Tehran University, receiving the award of both an LLB and an LLM. In 1999 Seyed Fatemi was awarded with a PhD from the Faculty of Law at the University of Manchester for research engaging with Comparative Human Rights.

Seyed Fatemi’s teaching and research interests include; the Philsophical foundations of human rights, International and comparative Human rights, Islam and Human Rights, Usul al-Fiqh and Hermeneutics, the History and Development of Fiqh, and Muslim Theology

The ways of salvation
Al-Ghazali (1058-1111) was one of the most influential scholars in Islamic history. His most famous work (Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, the Revival of the Religious Sciences) is widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality and is perhaps the most read work in the Muslim world, after the Qurʾān.

We will be discussing the fourth part of this seminal work (rub’ al-munjiyat) which is about ways of salvation and includes the virtues that people must strive for. This part includes a series of 10 sub-sections:

1: On Repentance.
2: On Patience and Thankfulness.
3: On Fear and Hope.
4: On Poverty and Abstinence.
5: Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence.
6: On Love, Longing, Intimacy and Contentment.
7: On Intention, Sincerity, and Truth.
8: On Holding Vigil and Self-Examination.
9: On Meditation.
10: On the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife.

Shaykh Zoheir Esmail
25th to 28th July
Dr. Zoheir Esmail studied accounting and finance at the LSE before qualifying as a chartered accountant. Thereafter he began pursuing full time studies in the Islamic Seminaries of Syria and London before moving to Qum where he has spent the last decade studying and teaching. He was awarded a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Exeter with a thesis title of: Between Philosophy and Irfan: Interpreting Mulla Sadra from the Qajars to Post-Revolutionary Iran.

Towards A Sadrian Psychological Framework
Mulla Sadra was a 17th century philosopher, mystic, theologian and scholar and his contribution to the field continues to influence and shape Islamic thought until this present day. My series of 3 talks will be a discussion on his contribution to Islamic Psychology and a reflection on its applications to the events of Ashura.

.Commemorating the death of Imam Husayn

Masaib

As part of the commemoration of Muharram, we recount the events that took place in 60AH. This year, the speakers will be delivering a short Masaib at the end of their talk after the questions and answers session. This will be followed by marshiya and/or matam.

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