Please Click to see a video clip sent by Br. Siraj Hasan, contribution of Aplusphotovideo.

The Muslim Community Fair which was organized by Eid Committee on Sunday June 14 was very successful Alhamdullilah. Darul Islah was in-charge of the sports activities for the Fair. The results for the various events were:

Table Tennis - Men
1st - Ra-id Al’aan
2nd - Ali Salem

Table Tennis - Women
Winner - Manuela Karalinskaya
Runner up - Hiba Shaikh {This sister belongs to Darul Islah}

Soccer
Winner - ICPC Team A
Runner up - ICPC Team B

Volleyball
Winner - ICPC (Team Captain - Rida)
Runner up - Team Ababeel (Team Captain - Umair)

Basketball
Winner - Egyptian team (Hackensack Islamic Center)
Runner up - Browntown Ballers

Cricket
Winner - Darul Islah Team 1 (Team Captain - Ather Usmani)
Runner up - Darul Islah Champs (Team Captain - Salim Shaikh)

Wellesley Senior Mona Minkara Finds No Limits to Her Future. Legally Blind, She Has Been Chosen as the 2009 Student Speaker at Wellesley College’s 2009 Commencement. Please click to learn more about her.
Communcement Speech Part 1.
Communcement Speech Part 2.

Summer School will be in two sessions. The First Session will be from Rajab 13 (July 6) until Shaban 1 (July 23) and the second session will be from Shaban 5 (July 27) until Shaban 22 (August 13). Classes will be held from Monday to Thursday from 8:30AM to 1:30PM. Click for flyer.

Summer School Registration Form .

If anyone has time please volunteer for the summer school. Click for flyer.

Paid Faculty/Volunteer Registration Form .

Assalam Alaikum!
President Barak Obama has made an extraordinary speech today at Cairo discussing issues of great concern to our community worldwide. His strong remarks concerning ending the violence and establishing a Palestinian State next to Israel have been extremely positive and strong. However, there have been widespread criticisms of his remarks by the friends of Israel who do not wish the United States to press Israel to stop its illegal expansion of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
In view of the above, I appeal to all members of our community to call and/or email the White House supporting President Obama’s speech particularly with reference to his remarks about establishing a Palestinian State. I am listing below The White House website, comment line telephone number and the mailing address.
Please do not delay making the phone call, sending the email or both.
www.whitehouse.gov
Comment Line #: 202-456-1111
Mailing Address:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500

To listen to President Obama’s speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009 Click Here.

SENIOR CITIZEN HOUSE has been set up in Karachi, Pakistan. The first ever Karachi Senior Citizen House (KSCH) will provide best possible boarding, lodging, laundry and housekeeping facilities. Every resident will have a well furnished independent room with attached bath. The House, which is located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, is now being renovated specially for this purpose. The House will, Insha Allah, be operative from August this year. The House has been set up specially to cater the needs of those elders whose sons/daughters have gone abroad, particularly USA. The organizers of the KSCH are US citizen and have lived in America for over a decade.
For details
Contact: Qamar Mohsin (Karachi) 0312-2281-982
Misbah-ur-Rahman: (New York) 516-840-0396
E-mail: KSCHno1@gmail.com

Asma Khan daughter of Rizwan Khan 9th grade student at Hackensack High School took the top honor at “New Jersey Brain Bee” held in Kenilworth in January this year.
Please click on these links for Asma’s Brain Bee challenge competition.
NJ Brain Bee
Kevin Keane

Alhamdu Lillah Dar ul Islah raised $7,437 in the fundraiser which was held on Friday April 17, 2009 for Imam Siraj Wahhaj. We thank all the brothers and sisters for their contribution.

On April 5, 2009, the Darul Islah Executive Committee formed a Constitution Review Committee to continue the work of the review the Constitutional. The members of this committee are –
1. Dr. Sultan Ahmed
2. Br. Syed Ather
3. Br. Saadat Ali
4. Jafar Ismail
This committee will provide their recommendations for the amendments, which, after review and approval of the Executive Committee, the Board of Trustees and the Shura, if needed, will be presented to the General Body for ratification, as per Article XI of Darul Islah’s constitution.

We urge all brothers and sisters to send their feedback, comments, and suggestions for consideration to secretary@darulislah.org, by May 1, 2009.

On April 5, 2009, Darul Islah Executive committee formed an Ad Hoc Sister’s Affairs Committee with the following members.
1. Sr. Zehra Naqvi
2. Dr. Shahana Raziuddin
3. Sr. Rabia Zakir
4. Sr. Maheen Artani
The Duties, Goals and Objectives of this committee are –
1. To compile and review the needs of the sisters and bring them to the attention of the EC.
2. To be a point of contact for all issues for sister members.
3. Assist with the arrangements on the sisters side in all Darul Islah’s events
4. Arrange programs for sisters to increase participation from the community
5. Participate in Dawah/outreach effort
6. Provide representation in all committees and assist EC as and when needed
To contact members of this committee for any questions or issues, please email to sisters@darulislah.org

Alhamdu Lillah, Darul Islah has acquired the next-door property at 318 Fabry Terrace for $220,000.