November 2003:

Popeye's Iftaars on Campus!
Tuesday, November 18, 2003:

When: Monday, November 17 and Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at 5:10 pm

Where: UTM Students Centre

Please Bring A Canned Food Item or a Toy!

Addendum:  The iftaars were a great success!  Much thanks to all the volunteers who helped out these past two days!  Some pictures that we snapped are available here.

Exploring Islam (Lecture Series): Understanding the Shi'a School of Thought:
Tuesday, November, 18, 2003:

Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Place: Bahen Centre 1190 (BA 1190) UofT St. George Campus (40 St. George Street)

Speakers: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi, Jaffari Islamic Centre and Professor Lawson, University of Toronto

For more information, contact info@stgeorge.thaqalayn.org

Announcements:
Tuesday, November 18, 2003:

1.  Don't forget, the UTM MSA Iftaar tomorrow, Wednesday, November 19, 2003, "South Asian Food Day" at the Students Centre!

2.  MBA Season 2 Registration!  For more information, please visit here...

Holy Month of Ramadhan Begins:
Monday, October 27, 2003:

TMA has put together a Ramadhan Guide to help us all try to make the best out of this blessed month. Copies will be made available at various locations on campus.

Fasting in the month of Ramadan, like prayers is a divine command. Allah says in the Holy Qur'an, "O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may guard (against evil)." (2:183)

The 4th Imam, Zayn al-'Abidin `Ali ibn al-Husayn (as), wrote a wonderful prayer in Sahifae Sajjadiya:

"... O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, inspire us with knowledge of its (the Holy month) excellence, veneration of its inviolability, and caution against what You have forbidden within it, and help us to fast in it by restraining our limbs from acts of disobedience toward You and our employing them in that which pleases You, so that we lend not our ears to idle talk and hurry not our eyes to diversion, we stretch not our hands toward the forbidden and stride not with our feet toward the prohibited, our bellies hold only what You have made lawful and our tongues speak only what You have exemplified, we undertake nothing but what brings close to Your reward and pursue nothing but what protects from Your punishment! Then rid all of that from the false show of the false showers and the fame seeking of the fame seekers, lest we associate therein anything with You or seek therein any object of desire but You!..."  (Listen)

Extract from Du'a 44 - Sahifae Sajjadiya

Words of Wisdom: "Indeed ahead of you is the blessed month of Allah. A month of blessing, mercy and forgiveness. A month which with Allah is the best of months."

"Whosoever recites only one 'Ayat' in Holy Ramadhan, he will be awarded as if he had recited the full Qur'an, in other months."

Holy Prophet Mohammad (saw)

Read the Sermon of the Holy Prophet (saw) welcoming the Holy Month here.