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MQI Dallas holds reception for Shaykh-ul-Islam
Minhaj-ul-Quran International North America – Dallas Chapter had organized a dinner reception in the honor of Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri upon his recent visit to Dallas, Texas on the eve of new year 2012. The spiritual event was attended by about 250 participants mainly from Dallas and Houston. Event took place in the beautiful hall of Charles W. Eisemann Center located in Richardson, TX. Due to the limited capacity of the venue, attendance was allowed by invitation only. Dr. Mansoor Mian, Sami Qureshi, Qazi Mujeeb, and other members from the Dallas Chapter welcomed Shaykh-ul-Islam and his family and all other invited guests.
Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri speaks at an international conference on ‘Peaceful Future in Afghanistan’
The Centre for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at George Mason University, Washington D.C. along with Institute for Middle East Studies at the Marmara University, Istanbul organized and hosted the international 3-day conference in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference started on 30th November 2011 and concluded on 2nd December 2011.
The conference aimed at creating a space for dialogue for a peaceful future in Afghanistan. There are many Afghan scholars, Imams who are trying to build peace and justice based on their own religious foundations, but they are currently unsupported and feel religious confusion about jihad, terrorism and suicide bombings due to the conflicts and wars spread over a decade.
Shaykh-ul-Islam’s Houston Visit
Reported by: Fatima Qazi, MYL (Dallas Chapter) & Nasir Khan, MYL (Houston Chapter)
With the goal of educating the Muslim Ummah about the highly esteemed status of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in an era of confusion, the Houston Chapter of Minhaj-ul-Quran International North America (MQI) was honored to invite Shaykh Sayyedi Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri to illuminate the glorious status of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) through verses of the Holy Quran, which explain the highest honor, reverence, greatest esteem and respect conferred to the Holy Prophet (PBUH) by Allah Almighty. In order for us to come closer to the Holy Prophet (PBUH), we need to have the cognizance about how Allah Almighty loves His prophet (PBUH) and places him on the highest esteem and how He wants us to love him, respect him, and pay honors and blessings.
Calm voice in sea of extremism
by David Costello From: The Courier-Mail
IT takes a supremely brave individual to look into the eyes of Muslim extremists and tell them they are un-Islamic and unbelievers.
That is exactly what Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri has done and that is why he acclaimed across the world as an enlightened, moderate voice within Islam.
Dr Qadri was born in Pakistan and became a distinguished scholar, lawyer and politician in his home country.
These days he is based in Canada and he travels the world to speak and touch base with members of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, the organisation he founded.
It is described as a worldwide, broad-based moderate Islamic welfare, human rights and education organisation.
A Charismatic Leader Transcending Borders of Nations and Religions – Aritcle in SouthAsian Chronicle
SouthAsian Chronicle, a popular US based tabloid targeting South Asian community, has published following interesting front page article in its current edition on the occassion of 10th anniversay of 9/11:
By Mr. M. R. Malik and Mr. Raj Srinivasan, Los Angeles, CA.
In the course of human history, someone is born every hundred years or so, whose intuition on God, religion, and faith transcends the religion he or she is born into, and attracts people of many faith based groups, or people belonging to other religions. Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who lives in Canada and travels around the world to spread his message of peace and freedom for all humanity, is one of the revivalists of the present century. Most of his speech is directed towards the extremist elements in the Muslim world, though many of his admirers who attend the meetings are leaders in other religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism. He acknowledges that the Western countries provide more freedom to Muslims than the many avowed Muslim nations and the Arab nations. It is not enough to read an article on him and try to understand his mission, his message for humanity, and where he is heading. There are too many news on both the print media and the websites to list.
UN grants ‘Special Consultative Status’ to Minhaj-ul-Quran International
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has formally recognised and granted a ‘Special Consultative Status’ to Minhaj-ul-Quran International.
Minhaj-ul-Quran International founded by the prominent authority on Islam, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, is an international organization working to promote peace, tolerance, interfaith harmony and education, tackle extremism and terrorism, engage with young Muslims for religious moderation, promote women’s rights, development and empowerment, and provide social welfare and promotion of human rights.
UN ECOSOC consultative status allows NGOs to attend UN conferences and meetings, submit written statements and reports, make oral interventions, and host panels in UN buildings.
Minhaj-ul-Quran International was recommended by the Committee on NGOs at its 2011 regular session and formally recognized during the UN Annual session.
Pope Benedict XVI presented with Fatwa
Sohail Ahmad Raza, Director of Interfaith Relations of Minhaj-ul-Quran International, met Pope Benedict XVI in Vatican City and presented him the Fatwa on Terrorism and Suicide Bombings issued by Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri. Pope Benedict appreciated the services of Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri for the promotion of peace, harmony and interfaith dialogue.
Sohail Ahmad Raza apprised the Pope about contributions of MQI and Shaykh-ul-Islam in multiple fields such as peace, human welfare, education and interfaith dialogue at global level. He said that there was a need to emphasise commonalities and shared values espoused by both Islam and Christianity. He further stated that it was incumbent upon followers of both religions to build bridges and eliminate hatred and suspicion. He said that MQI would continue to work for interfaith dialogue and peace in the world.
Lecture on “Ilm-e-Nafeh”
On June 18 Shaykh Allama Nisar Ahmad Sulaimani addressed a gathering in Dallas, while being in Houston, through online video conference under Minhaj-ul-Quran USA’s Scholar Online Programme. The topic of his speech was “Ilm-e-Nafeh and its Importance”. He has made few good points on the topic and most of the attendants, who were young students, listened to the speech with full attention and asked many questions in the end. He answered the questions very beautifully in the light of Quran and Sunnah and all the attendants were satisified with his answers. The recorded video of the speech could be watched online at this link: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15474062
Shaykh Sulaimani is currently serving as Imam and a teacher in UAE. He is also serving as an advisor of Minhaj Ulema Council UK, as he frequently visits UK. He has lived in UK for several years and also served as a Director of Minhaj-ul-Quran UK. He is currently on a Dawah tour of US State of Texas. He has been addressing various programmes and delivering speeches on many important topics. Being a fluent English, Urdu and Arabic speaker, his speeches are being admired by all the attendants.
