Alhumdulillah – Wonderful Success

All praise is for Allah from who’s mercy the Islam Daawah Fest ’09 Brighton event became a wonderful success.

With over 11,000 people attending and this included children of all ages, Islam Daawah Fest ’09 became the most successful event the Muslim community of Brighton and Hove has held supported by the BHMF.

The BHMF owes a BIG thanks to our vice chair, Sabri ben Ameur who worked tireless with Imam Mohammed of Al-Medina mosque on this event. They travelled up and down the south east coast over many weeks, engaging with the local Imams, Mosques and the local people.

The BHMF wishes to thank Eihab Salah, Omar Ali, Brighton and Hove Muslims group and all the volunteers for their dedication and hard work.

The BHMF also wishes to thank Kadeer Arif and Daoud Clarke, our founder members who also worked very hard to make Islam Daawah Fest ’09 will be the event people will talk about for many years.

A BIG thank you to iERA and their volunteers from the Muslim community of Brighton and Hove. iERA worked day and night to make sure the Muslims in the UK saw and heard the wonderful scholars, some of whom were seen for the first time live on UK TV.

One of the highlights of the event was when a gentleman took the Shahada and became a Muslim.

The whole of the Brighton event was broadcast Live on Iqra TV and for the first time Hundreds of thousands of people saw what Brighton is all about.

Support Women in Iraq!

A benefit for Act Together: Iraqi and British Women’s organisation

Featuring Camilla Cancantata
Playing Solo improvisational piano music
CD’S ON SALE!

A representative from Act Together will talk about their
Work supporting women’s rights and initiatives in Iraq,
Including an exciting video project. Plus the latest
Women’s news from Iraq.

SUNDAY 1 AUGUST 2004
5.30 PM
Friends Meeting House,
Ship Street, Brighton

Tickets: £4 in advance/ £6 on the door
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
Details/bookings: Madeline 01273 739239

BHMF Secretary Interviewed in Emel

BHMF’s secretary, Daoud Clarke, has been interviewed in the recent issue of Emel, the Muslim lifestyle magazine, as part of an article about children of converts to Islam. Both his parents converted to Islam in Jerusalem, at the hand of Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal.

He says about the British Muslim identity, “There are many things in British culture, such as politeness, hospitality, and a sense of equality and justice that are engrained, and that are very compatible with Islam. It is these things that we need to bring out and emphasise
in our dealings with non-Muslims, in order to show how ‘British’ Islam can be!

“I don’t think I have a confused identity. I want to be part of forming a British Muslim identity, and I think this is an exciting time for British Muslims.”

A Mecca in Hove

Al Medina Mosque has featured recently in OnRoute magazine. Located in Bedford place, the mosque has a capacity of 1,500. The magazine says, “Inside, the mosque is a serene space with no opulence or intricacy of interior design to distract from prayer. There are simply rows of books
containing the teachings of Islam, bare walls and a carpeted floor on which worshippers sit or kneel in rows pointed towards Mecca.”

The article also mentions the BHMF Boys Youth Club, and its founder, BHMF chair Sabri ben Ameur. “[the youth club] places an emphasis on learning and playing in an Islamic environment. Sabri ben Ameur advocates integrated education but emphasises the importance of the one hour session, learning basic Islamic studies such as the Qur’an and Arabic.”

Children’s Islamic Book Fair

On Saturday 19th June, Islam4children.com will be inshAllah holding a Children’s Islamic Book Fair from 10:30am to 1:30pm, at:

Arabic Language School and Club,
Hangleton Community Centre,
Harmsworth Crescent,
Hove.

On sale will be items from one of the largest collections of children’s Islamic educational material in the UK, including books, posters, Arabic alphabet puzzles, audio and video tapes including nasheeds.

All welcome.

Children of Iraq’s Wars photo exhibition

Children of Iraq Wars

An exhibition of photographs by Tokashi Morizumi, documenting the impact of the current war in Iraq, and the Gulf war previously, focusing especially on the effects of depleted uranium weapons.

InshAllah the exhibition will be at the University of Sussex, Arts D Ground Floor from 7th to 9th June, 12-5pm

From 10th to 29th June, the exhibition will be at the Cowley Club, 12 London Road,  Brighton, open from 12-4pm Tuesdays to Fridays.

Admission free.

More info from the exhibition website.

This exhibition has been organised in association with BHMF.

Women’s group meetings

The women’s group will meet on the following dates:

9th June: Talks
23rd June: Basic Arabic
7th July: Ghusal (washing the body)
15th September: Start up again from summer holidays