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SNMC 12th Annual Dinner- Sunday May 6th at 5.30pm

  • SNMC will be holding its 12th Annual Dinner at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday May 6th, 2018.

    • The speaker will be Shaykh Musleh Khan from Toronto.

    • Tickets: $40 adults

    Children (6 years +) / Students: $30

    • Free Daycare for children 2  to 5 years

    • Due to popular demand, SNMC annual dinner tickets will not be sold at the door on May 6th. Please purchase your tickets in advance online at https://www.snmc.ca/event/snmc-12th-annual-dinner/ or from office to avoid disappointment. Tickets are limited.

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Donate for SNMC Parking Lot Extension Project

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Please help SNMC to extend the parking lot with 20 more lots. SNMC collected $35K so far, need another $15K.

Please donate online at www.SNMC.ca by PayPal, MC or visa $1,000, or $500 or $250 or $100. It is our masjid, our legacy. You can pay online, by credit card or by pledge form at www.snmc.ca

Let us remember charity does not decrease wealth. Also, Allah (swt) will return 10 times every dollar we donate in this life and many folds in the life hereafter. May Allah (swt) accept our effort, time, and money. We will be successful if Allah (swt) accepts our efforts.

Let us seek His forgiveness and pray for His acceptance of our efforts.

May Allah swt accept our effort, time, and money.

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Taraweeh Prayers at SNMC-Bring a reusable water bottle

Taraweeh Prayers at SNMC

A group of huffaz will lead the Taraweeh Prayers led by Sk Abul Quds. As usual, SNMC will have 8 Rakah Tarawih.  One chapter of the Quran will be completed until the 20th of Ramadan and, on the 29h of Ramadan, SNMC will have Quran Finishing Night with sweet packages distributed to the community members.

Please note that there will be the opportunity to complete the 20 rakkah Taraweeh for those who’d like to continue after 8 rakkah.

Please don’t forget to bring a reusable water bottle!

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SNMC 22nd Annual Community Pot Luck Iftar on May 26

SNMC 22nd Annual Community Iftar Pot Luck at 7.30pm on Saturday May 26, 2018.

Please join 22nd Annual SNMC multi-ethnic community Iftar Potluck at SNMC Community Hall.

It is an opportunity to socialize and bring our own ethnic dishes in two trays one for brothers and one for sisters.

Please don’t forget to bring a reusable water bottle!

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SNMC 3rd  Peace & Friendship Iftar:June 2nd : 7.30pm

SNMC 3rd  Peace & Friendship Iftar: June 2nd : 7.30pm

SNMC is organizing its 3rd Peace and Friendship Iftar this year at 7.30pm on Saturday June 2nd, 2018. For better arrangement, only invited guests are welcome.

Any one of snmc patron can invite their non-Muslim neighbours and coworkers, tickets only $10 per person. Please email to info@snmc.ca or call the office 613-440-6300.

 

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SNMC JUMA PRAYER May 4th, 2018 (Two Khutbahs): 1:00PM & 2:15PM

SNMC JUMA PRAYER May 4th, 2018 (Two Khutbahs):

1st Khutbah 1:00 pm: Khateeb –  Imam Dr. Zijad Delic

2nd Khutbah at 2:15 pm: Khateeb – Dr. Emdad Khan

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SNMC Friday Night Lecture on May 4th–Zubair Qasim of the National Zakat Foundation

SNMC Friday Night Lecture on May 4th–Zubair Qasim of the National Zakat Foundation

WHO: Zubair Qasim of the National Zakat Foundation.

WHAT: Seminar on Zakat

Zakat is a blessing from Allah that many of us do not fully understand. As Ramadan is a time when many people pay their Zakat. This makes it an ideal time to increase our knowledge and understanding.

Seminar Highlights

·  Importance of Zakat

·  Understand the Conditions of Who Pays Zakat

·  Types of Wealth that are Zakatable

·  Calculating Zakat on Cash, Gold, Silver, Stocks, Assets, RRSP

·   Who are the Eligible Recipients of Zakat

WHEN: Friday night, May 4th (after ‘Magrib prayer SHARP)

WHERE: SNMC Masjid/Mosque

All are welcome to join this seminar and gain knowledge about an Important pillar of Islam and thus gain more chances to benefit from the month of Ramadan!

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Imam Zijad’s Corner: WELCOMING RAMADAN: THE ADVICE OF MUHAMMAD (S) ON RAMADAN

WELCOMING RAMADAN: THE ADVICE OF MUHAMMAD (S) ON RAMADAN

After sunset on the last day of Sha’ban we will hear the good news that the Ramadan moon has been sighted. On hearing this happy news we will gather that night to offer the special prayer of Ramadan called ‘Salat Tarawih’ and then the next day we will start fasting the first day of Ramadan.

Ramadan is the beginning of the call to Islam (conscious submission to God). This is a chance for the believers to remember the mission of the Messenger of God Muhammad (S) which was inaugurated through this great month.

Khutbah of Muhammad (S) on Welcoming Ramadan

In this article I will introduce the Khutbah of the Messenger Muhammad (S), which he delivered on the last day of Sha’ban to the Sahabah (companions). It is a short but concise Khutbah, informative and educational. It provides instructional models to the Muslims to be followed and to be practiced in their daily lives and especially during the month of Ramadan.

Salaman Al Farisi (r.a.) narrated that the Messenger of God, Muhammad (S) delivered a Khutbah on the last day of Sha’ban. In this short Khutbah he (S) said the following:

“A great month, a blessed month, a month containing a night which is better than one thousand months has approached you, o people.

The fasting during this month is an obligatory duty (Faridah), and the extra prayers during its nights are voluntary.

Anyone who comes closer to God through a good deed during this month is as if he performed an obligatory duty (Faridah) during times other that Ramadan, and he who fulfills an obligatory duty in it will be like one who fulfills seventy obligatory duties in another month.

It is the month of Sabr (patience), and the reward of Sabr is Jannah (Paradise).

It is the month of sharing with others (visiting sick, poor and needy ones), and the month in which the believer’s nourishment, his provision are increased.

One who gives a Saim (a fasting person) something to break his fast (Iftar), it will provide forgiveness of his sins and save him from the fire, and will receive reward equal to the fasting person without reducing fasting person’s own reward in any respect.”

Some of the Sahabah remarked: “O the Messenger of God! Not all of us may find food to share with one so that he could break his fast.”

Then the Messenger (S) said: “God will reward you even if you help the fasting Muslim to break his fast with a date, a sip of water, or a drink of milk.

It is the month: its beginning is Mercy (Rahmah), its middle part is Forgiveness (Magfirah), and its last part is freedom from hellfire.

Anyone who helps a slave to be freed, God will forgive him and free him from Hell.

Increase in yourselves four characteristics: two by which you will please your Lord, and two others by which you cannot live without.

The first two qualities to please God are to bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except Him, and to ask forgiveness from Him.

However, the other two things that you cannot live without are: to ask God for Jannah and to ask Him to protect you from Jahannam (fire).

Anyone who gives water to a Muslim at Iftar, God will give him water during the Day of Judgment from fountain of the Rasul Muhammad (S) which will make him not feel thirsty till he enters Jannah.’   { Ibn Khuzaymah)

Messages of the Khutbah

The address of the Messenger of God, Muhammad (S) is sufficient to understand the blessings and greatness of the month of Ramadan. Rasulullah (S) informed us that this great month will bring the shade over those who fast.

This means that Ramadan is just like a tree which gives protection from the summer heat to the Muslims who are tired of the style of life during 11 month and now, in Ramadan, they turn to its shade that provides peace for them. It saves them from the speed of the material world as well as from the Hereafter.

In this Rasul’s address we learn that in the month of Ramadan God showers His blessings on believers and those who do a single virtuous deed in this month, they get the reward of a Fard act and whoever offers a Fard in this month will get the reward of one who fulfills seventy obligatory duties (Faraid) in another month.

According to the Messenger of God (S) this month will give us the energy to restrain ourselves which is the quality of a true Muslim, and will create mutual love and sympathy among us. Through the blessings of this month our provisions will also be increased.

In this address of our Rasul Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we read that the first part of the month of Ramadan is Ar Rahmah – the Mercy which Allah has bestowed on the believers. In the second part Allah sends Al Magfirah – the Forgiveness to the believers. In the last part of Ramadan we are saved from Jahannam.

Our Rasul Muhammad (S) informs us: “When the month of Ramadan starts, the gates of the heavens are opened and the gates of Hell are closed and the Shaytans are chained.”  (Bukhari)

Conclusion

Siyam (Islamic fasting) as explained by the Messenger of God (S) is a means of self-discipline and recognizing the fact that Shaytan is always ready to act. He whispers to us and waits for the chance. But the Siyam is like a lock against Shaytan, closing up his access points to the inside. That is, dear brothers and sisters, when we look into the Muslim community during this month of Ramadan, evil appears to be very much reduced. Muslims work to improve themselves during this month. Their spiritual awareness is so intense that the Shaytan finds it harder to get the better of them.

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God Almighty describes Ramadan as follows:

شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ هُدًى لِّلنَّاسِ وَبَيِّنَاتٍ مِّنَ الْهُدَىٰ وَالْفُرْقَانِ ۚ فَمَن شَهِدَ مِنكُمُ الشَّهْرَ فَلْيَصُمْهُ ۖ وَمَن كَانَ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ ۗ يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ بِكُمُ الْيُسْرَ وَلَا يُرِيدُ بِكُمُ الْعُسْرَ وَلِتُكْمِلُوا الْعِدَّةَ وَلِتُكَبِّرُوا اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ مَا هَدَاكُمْ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
“The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Qur’an, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and the criterion (between right and wrong). So whoever of you sights (the crescent on the first night of) the month (of Ramadan i.e. is present at his home), he must observe Saum (fasts) that month, and whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number [of days which one did not observe Saum (fasts) must be made up] from other days. Allah intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you. (He wants that you) must complete the same number (of days), and that you must magnify Allah [i.e. to say Takbir (Allahu Akbar; Allah is the Most Great] for having guided you so that you may be grateful to Him.” (Al Baqarah 185)
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Quote-If we pardon, overlook and forgive our family members, children, neighbors, and community members, God the Forgiver and Merciful will forgive us!

If we pardon, overlook and forgive our family members, children, neighbors, and community members, God the Forgiver and Merciful will forgive us!