Amar Razali

As Salaamu'alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuh,

From the deep, wild rain forest of Mount Nuang in Pahang, Malaysia, Shaykh Riad Ouarzazi has an important message to all AlMaghrib Institute instructors & students.

For more info, visit www.almaghrib.org

Was Salaamu'alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuh.

Teaser of A Heart Serene #1: The venue - Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology. Good facility, support & staff. University of Malaya | April 1-3 & 9-10, 2011 | Instructor: Shaykh Riad Ouarzazi | www.almaghrib.org

Teaser of A Heart Serene #2: History has been made. 230 in attendance for the first AlMaghrib seminar in Kuala Lumpur. Allahumma lakal hamd. University of Malaya | April 1-3 & 9-10, 2011 | Instructor: Shaykh Riad Ouarzazi | www.almaghrib.org

 Teaser of A Heart Serene #3: Ready for another hug? University of Malaya | April 1-3 & 9-10, 2011 | Instructor: Shaykh Riad Ouarzazi | www.almaghrib.org

Teaser of A Heart Serene #4: Siraj - you rock! University of Malaya | April 1-3 & 9-10, 2011 | Instructor: Shaykh Riad Ouarzazi | www.almaghrib.org

Teaser of A Heart Serene #5: Brothers & Sisters Entrance. Latecomers, beware! University of Malaya | April 1-3 & 9-10, 2011 | Instructor: Shaykh Riad Ouarzazi | www.almaghrib.org

Teaser of A Heart Serene #6: Ahlan wa Sahlan Sh. Riad. You ROCK! (Awak Hebat!) University of Malaya | April 1-3 & 9-10, 2011 | Instructor: Shaykh Riad Ouarzazi | www.almaghrib.org

Bismillah.
AlMaghrib. MALAYSIA! It's official! AlMaghrib in MALAYSIA has begun!

AlMaghrib has a vast international student audience, and it brings me great honor to unite my brothers and sisters in the West, with my brothers and sisters in the Far East. Qabeelat Ihsaan is the student tribe name they selected.

Here's a little bit about the AlMaghrib team in Malaysia:

• When I was first starting AlMaghrib, a group of 8-12 Malaysian sisters would always support AlMaghrib USA by driving 2-3 hours to attend from the universities they were studying at. That was back in 2002, and now many years later, they have moved back to Malaysia and have always kept in their heart that they wanted to bring AlMaghrib to Malaysia. And alhamdulillah, their dream and ours has come true!
  
  
• Malaysia is the first Muslim majority country that AlMaghrib will be teaching! And the first in Asia! It's a different frontier than what we are used to in the West, but in sha Allah, the lessons learned from Malaysia may be later passed on to AlMaghrib in other Muslim countries. Again, ma sha Allah, Malaysia is a pioneer in this regard.
  
  
• AlMaghrib Malaysia is officially registered with the Company Commission of Malaysia.
  
  
• Interestingly, when a new city opens, they might have one or two on the team who have been to an AlMaghrib seminar. Yet, on our Malaysian team, we have TWELVE brothers and sisters who have attended AlMaghrib, both in the USA and the UK. (But none from Canada, yet :) Soon in sha Allah.)
  
  
• AlMaghrib instructor, Sh.Waleed Abdulhakeem, traveled to Malaysia in August 2010 and spent considerable time with the AlMaghrib team advising them.
  
  
• The first seminar in Asia, in Malaysia, is going to be Sh.Riad's "A Heart Serene" *ahem, my recommendation*.

Allah joined our hearts with this great Deen of Islam. And it is so Muslims between West and Far East! So far we've joined North America with the UK, and now alhamdulillah here we go joining Malaysia to
North America/UK.

Hey, for everyone in the West thinking of a vacation: why not go and vacation in Malaysia while taking an AlMaghrib seminar!

Best of success to Malaysia, and in sha Allah all the instructors and I are looking forward to meeting you.

- Muhammad Alshareef
President, AlMaghrib Institute

In the comment section here, type your words of support for our brothers and sisters AlMaghrib initiative in Malaysia.

As-salaamu'alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakaatuh,

My dear brothers and sisters in Islam,

The Post-Ramadhan Season has begun!

Ramadhan is over, almost everyone will ‘shortly’ go back to their previous time and health habits. We say ‘shortly’ because actually the ruuh of Ramadhan is still in our veins and we can make it last longer, inshaAllah.  Just look back & think of all the wonderful feelings of tranquility & joy we feel as a result from of our ibadah during Ramadan and how we maximized our time with worshipping Allah. Don’t we want to retain that feeling and do all the ibadah after Ramadan ends?

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Relive those moments once again! Know the secrets of making the whole year as sweet as Ramadhan. Maximize the reward by sharing this with your friends!

We recited the Qur'an day and night THEN, how many pages of Qur'an do we read NOW?

Jazaakum Allahu Khayran,

AlMaghrib Malaysia Team

The trademark banner of alMaghrib Institute. Now available in Malaysia =)

As-salaamu'alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh -

Alhamdulillah - the introduction of alMaghrib Institute to Malaysia; "Rise of the East" was a success. It was held at Masjid al Hasanah, Bandar Baru Bangi on Saturday, May 22 2010. That morning, I picked up Brother As'ad Lath at KLIA to the masjid. MashaAllah, what a coincidence, Br. As'ad is the Operations Manager of alMaghrib UK and he was in Kuala Lumpur for a week to attend a business conference. He was invited (quite a last minute memo, sorry ya akh) to give presentation about the institute.

The event started at 10:15am, and alhamdulillah I was given the chance to welcome everyone & briefly introduce about the event to our audience. There were 60+ people attended the event, mashaAllah. Our beloved 'uncle' Ustadh Riaz Ansary gave a 40-minutes lecture on the importance of gaining the Islamic knowledge according to the Qur'an & the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him).

Among important points from his lecture:
1. Start the early education of your kids with the memorization of the Qur'an, then it will be easy to learn Arabic language.
2. Learn the Arabic language (educate your kids!) so that we can understand the meaning of sentences in the Qur'an, the hadeeth and du'a that we make everyday.

Then we had a 15-minutes of a glimpse of alMaghrib, where we showed some promos & trailers of alMaghrib & its courses. We then played six part video lecture series entitled "Desert Rose" covering glimpses of the life of Prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him) by Shaykh Muhammad AlShareef. After that, Br. As'ad gave a presentation about alMaghrib Institute. He shared with the audience the alMaghrib's background, mission & vision, style, curriculum, Qabeelah system, instructors, the milestones, and others.

The session ended around 1:30pm - alhamdulillah.

The Banu Malizi team had a meeting with Br. As'ad Lath after the event. We discussed about the post-mortem of ROTE, what are the way forward and other issues & potential obstacles of bringing alMaghrib to Malaysia.

InshaAllah we are going to have our second team meeting on Sunday, June 6 2010 at alKhadeem, Kayu Ara Damansara. Please let us know If you are interested to help and we are indeed in need for more volunteers, bi idhnillah.

Interested to help?
Email me (amar.razali@gmail.com) or to almaghribmys@gmail.com

For your reference:
1. alMaghrib Institute - www.almaghrib.org
2. Banu Malizi Team - www.banumalizi.com
3. Find us on Facebook - Let's Bring alMaghrib Institute to Malaysia by 2011