Allah Almighty has provided the perfect code of life through the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in the form of Islam. There is not a single aspect of humanity which has been left unguided by it. Through the Qur’an and its practical manifestation in the form of the life of our Holy Prophet (PBUH), Islam has provided a perfect way to conduct ourselves in this world and to be successful in the world hereafter.
Islam has given a privileged position to women and favored her with the sublime position in accordance to her physical and spiritual structure. Yet today she is unfamiliar with the most basic concepts of life, or and is quite simply not aware of her purpose of life. In this dark age of humanity, the founder of Minhaj ul Qur’an International, Dr. Mohammad Tahir ul Qadri had done a mountain of work for the revival of Islam, in particular empowering women with knowledge about their true status within society.
The Islamic Learning Course is one of the links in a chain designed by Minhaj ul Qur’an Women League to impart valuable knowledge to women. In this training course, students come from all over Pakistan to attend this beautiful training session for fifteen days. The main purpose of this course is to guide the young generation of sisters about Islam and to give them training about the basic features of life and Insh’Allah make them become aware that they are the most important part of society. Special preparations have been made for this course. Highly qualified teachers from the platform of Minhaj ul Qur’an International are engaged, who deliver lectures on their pre-decided topics. The course is arranged in the building of Minhaj College for Women. All team members of Women league Pakistan offer their services for the whole fifteen days. Senior sisters of the Women league are also present here during the camps to make it successful in the light of their past excellent experience.
This is the 13th year that the Islamic learning course has been running and Alhamdullilah we had a great turn out. This year the course ran from 1st of July to the 15th July 2007. Students from all over Pakistan arrived on 30th June at 3:00p.m for their interview session.
Schedule
The schedule for this course was as follows;
Waking and Wuzu …………………………………………… 3:00a.m to 3:30a.m
Halaqa e Durood/ Mehfil/ Fajar prayer ……………………… 3:30a.m to 4:30a.m
Ishraq prayer and rest ……………………………………… 4:30a.m to 7:00a.m
Waking and Breakfast………………………………………… 7:00a.m to 8:00a.m
Classes……………………………………………………… 8:00a.m to 10:30a.m
Break………………………………………………………… 10:30a.m to 11:00a.m
Classes…………………………………………………… 11:00a.m to 2.30a.m
Zohar prayer/ Lunch/Rest…………………………………… 2:30a.m to 5:30p.m
Waking/Asar prayer………………………………………… 5:30p.m to 6:00p.m
Health & Physical fitness classes/ Individual meeting…………... 6:00p.m to 6:50p.m
Maghrib prayer……………………………………………… 6:50p.m to 7:15p.m
Group discussions/ Video programme………………………… 7:15p.m to 8:30p.m
Dinner/ Ishaa prayer………………………………………… 8:30p.m to 9:30p.m
Rest………………………………………………………… 9:30p.m to 3:00a.m
Administrative Committees:
Head of camp…………… Fozia Shaukat (Central director training)
Secretary ………………… Rabia Urooj Malik. (Students convinier)
Academic matters:
Incharge……………………… Mrs. Shamim Khan (Member Co-Ordination council)
Secretary…………………… Mrs. Farida Sajjad. (Member Co-Ordination council)
Boarding Matters:
Incharge………………… Mrs. Asifa Safdar
Secretary…………………… Miss Asma Manzoor
Mess Incharge:
Incharge…………………… Mrs. Asifa Safdar (Teacher Minhaj Girls Model School Lahore)
Secretary………………… Miss Rakhshanda Jabin (Teacher Minhaj Girls Model school Lahore)
Training Matters:
Incharge…………………… Miss Shazia Shaheen (Co-Director training)
Registration Matters:
Incharge…………………… Miss Khadijah Fatima (Director Lahore City)
Finance Matters:
Incharge…………………… Miss Rabia Urooj Malik.
Lectures
In this Islamic Learning Course, many more topics were been discussed to cover all the basic principles of Islam. Among all these topics, Qur’an, Hadith, Fiqah, Tajveed (art to read Qur’an), Naat and basic skills of speech were the regular topics during fifteen days. Teachers were reserved to continue all these topics regularly. Other than regular topics, many more miscellaneous topics were discussed.
Lecturers
Alhamdullilah, an excellent faculty was engaged to give lectures and conduct discussions for this course. All these lecturers were highly qualified and the majority of them are the senior leaders of the Center of Minhaj ul Qur’an International such as Nazim e A’ala, Naib Nazim e A’ala, the various heads and co-heads of different Minhaj-ul-Qur’an directorates and teachers of Minhaj Universities. Moreover different teachers of Colleges, Advocates of a High Courts, and other highly qualified and professional personalities of many international universities graces the camp with their charming personalities and of course skills. They all delivered authentic lectures which had a great effect on students and all person were amazed to hear such an impressive lectures. Some of the teachers included;
Dr. Rahiq Ahmad Abbassi, Dr. Tahir Hameed Tanoli Mr. Sheikh Zahid Fayaz, Mr. Miskeen faiz ur Rehman Durrani, Mr. Ahmad Nawaz Anjum, Mrs. Farah Naz, Mrs. Musarat Bashir, Mrs. Ayesha Shabir, Mr. Saeed Raza Baghdadi, Mr Zahir Bilali, Mr. Ali Akbar Qadri, Mr. Ghulam Ahmad, Mr. Mohammad Afzal Qadri, , Miss Bushra Riaz, Miss, Fozia Shauokat, Miss Razia Shaheen, Mrs. Fareeda Sajjad, Mrs. Tayyaba Tahira, Mr. Abdul Aziz, Mr. Bashir Khan Lodhi, Mr. Mohammad Hussain Azad, Mr. Farhat Hussain Shah, Mr. Ghulam Murtaza Alwi, Mrs. Sadia Danish, Mrs. Rafia Ali, Miss Rabia Urooj Malik, Mr. Anwaar Akhtar Advocate, Miss Alia Sadeed etc.
Mehfil e Naat
On 12th of July in evening, a very beautiful Mehfil Naat was specially arranged for the students of Islamic learning course. In this Mehfil, Razia Shaheen (Director Dawah) offered a special duty of stage secretary. Many of popular Naat Khawaan sisters were invited there. Shabina Majida, a famous Naat Khawaan was also there to pay Darood and Salaam on Holy Prophet (pbuh) in her melodious voice. Students of Minhaj Girls College also sung very beautiful Nasheeds showing their love for Holy Prophet (pbuh). All the female teachers of Islamic Learning course and senior members of Minhaj ul Qur’an Women League Pakistan were specially invited there. The Mehfil ended by paying Heartiest Salutations dipped in tears on Holy Prophet (pbuh).
Visits
Students also visited to the Tomb of Huzoor Sayyadana Tahir Ala ud Din Gillani (may God bless him) and the Central Secretariat of Minhaj ul Qur’an International. Here the students were really amazed to visit the secretariat and to get a briefing about all International Setup.
Final Ceremony
On 15th of July at 7.00 P.M, the final Ceremony of the Islamic learning Course was held in one of the campus buildings. The ceremony was presided by Ameer e Tehreek Miskeen Faiz ur Rehman Durrani and respected Nazim e A’ala, Dr. Raheeq Ahmad Abassi was the chief guest. Miss Aliya Sadeer (advocate High Court) and Mrs. Maryam Faiz was the guest of honor. All the teachers of the course, wives of all senior leaders of Minhaj ul Qur’an International were also present there in the beautiful ceremony. The ceremony was initiated by recitation of verses from the Holy Qur’an and salutations on Beloved Prophet (pbuh). Then six students of course came turn by turn on stage to participate in the speech competition. They all performed very well and three of them received copies of Irfan-ul-Qur’an (a marvelous and unique translation of the Holy Qur’an by Shaykh-ul-Islam) on winning.
Then five students received Al Minhaj-us-Sawwi (a book containing 1100 Hadith collected by Shaykh-ul-Islam) for the nasheed competition. Then Miss Razia Shaheen, the stage secretary offered the students to come and express their views about this course, which gave a thrilling touch to this occasion. Students were extremely motivated and vibrant. They mainly said that this course has totally changed their lives, priorities, tastes and objectives. Then gifts were distributed to the winning students, administration staff and guests. This was followed by the views of the guests who were also very happy in this ceremony. Then Huzoor Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr. Mohammad Tahir ul Qadri talked with students telephonically from Canada. All present there in ceremony felt a great happiness to hear his direct lecture. After that Ameer e Tehrik made a Du’a and the ceremony ended. After all this there was a great dinner for all guests and certificates were given to the students.
As Minhaj ul Qur’an Women League is struggling for awareness of women all over world, this course is a shining effort of women league to perform their active role for Islam. May God Almighty give us more energy, power, enthusiasm and confidence to fulfill our duties. Ameen Bajah e Sayyad il Mursaleen. (Sallala ho Alaihi Wasslam)
Reported by: Rabia Urooj.
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