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on Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Thank You and Sorry :)

Assalamualaikum w.b.t,

WiSR sudah berakhir,
Semoga bermanfaat dan mengukir memori,
Terima kasih kepada yang hadir.
Semoga kita bersua lagi.

Pihak AJK amat terkilan,
Atas segala masalah dan kekurangan,
Mohon dan maaf kami tujukan,
Kepada rakan seperjuangan sekalian.

Alhamdulillah the event has ended and would like to give huge thanks
to all of you who give full effort to attend our event and also we
sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that occurred during this
event.

In order to improve our activities, we need any kind of feedback from
you. Please fill in the form below and tell us how we are doing. We
welcome any complaints or suggestions about things that you think
could be improved or changed.

Here's the link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHJOUmNjRzFGOXlZVlVyd3hsTFdhV3c6MQ

Thank you so much! :)

Wassalam

WiSR Committee

Important Changes

on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Assalamualaikum,

We have made some changes to our original tentative. We sincerely apologize as we realize that these changes may cause problems on such short notice.

The speaker we had first contacted, Sa'ad Quadri will not able to make it for this event. So, he would be replaced by with Mustafa Mustafa and Abdoullah Yunous.

Also, note that some of the topic of the session had been changed based on the speaker's specialty. For more details, click on the tentative tab.

InsyaAllah, for those who haven't have accommodation, we will accommodate you soon and more update on this event will be posted soon.

Jazakallah khayran katheera.

Details on the event !

on Friday, February 25, 2011
Beloved brothers and sisters,

Alhamdulillah ! We are so happy to announce. The spring break is coming and we have a fantastic event for you (around wisconsin region) !

"Future of Islam: Are we the actors or the audience?"

Wisconsin Islamic Spring Retreat 2011
University of Wisconsin-Madison
12 & 13 March 2011

With only 6 Dollar fee ! :D

Wait no more ! Do fill the registration form ! :DDD

Any question? We are more than happy to answer, InsyaAllah :)

Participants

on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Will be updated from time to time ! :D

1. Shakira Sulaiman
2. Fatin Inani Norridzwan
3. Raja Alauddin Raja Abdullah
4. Nor Asilah Amran
5. Siti Khadijah Mohd
6. Norbari'ah Mohd Hanafiah
7. Ungku Fazri Ungku Farid
8. Nurdalila Akmal Ahmad Ridzwan
9. Mas Nida Md. Khambari
10. Raja Farhana Raja Mohd Anuar
11. Nurul Ain Rosle
12. Naimah Jailani
13. Wan Mohammad Faris Wan Nazoha
14. Hana Farina Binti Awaluddin
15. Mamat Hamidi Kamalludin
16. Muhammad Noor Irshaad Ahmad Fuad
17. Farah Wahida Mat Abu
18. Nur Ainina Rosman
19. Nur Amnani Nasirudin
20. Noor Hanisah Abdul Razak
21. Fawwaz Hazmi
22. Muhammad Shafiq Kadir
23. Sarah Ezanee
24. Norihan Omar
25. Syarifah Aisyah
26. Aiman
27. Farah Liyana Yusman
28. Nur Hafizah Mohamed Shafie
29. Abdul Wafi Zulkipli
30. Hezri Noor Abdul Karim
31. Muhammad Junaidi
32. Mubasyir Mohd Sabri
33. Ahmad Shamel
34. Atika Norull Ahmad
35. Mohammad Ajwad Abdul Razak
36. Afiq Hodori
37. Azhar Bujal
38. Hazwan Kamel
39. Siti Hajar Ariffin
40. Nur Farahizzati Subeli
41. Halimatun Sakdiah Zainuddin
42. Zikri Kamardin
43. Adam Nazri
44. Nursyawalini Mat Shaari
45. Siti Rohani Mohd Nor
46. Muhammad Zharfan Dzulfida
47. Aslam Ab Fatah
48. Mohammad Amirul
49. Muhammad Firdaus Jaafar
50. Noor Liyana Zakaria
51. Auni Fatin Abdul Hamid
52. Zayd Umair Zakaria
53. Siti Sarah Othman
54. Izuan Sani
55. Nur Athirah Zainazlan
56. Farah Nabila
57. Sari Syakira
58. Nadiah Zabri
59. Azali bin Azlan
60. Sharifah Natasha Aqilah Syed Mohd Nasir
61. Shahrizim Reese
62. Halimatun Saadiah Ahmad
63. Nazwan Nazrun
64. Mohamed Faris Mokhzari
65. Nurul Aqilah Mohtar
66. Muhammad Sharifuddin Mohamed Shukri
67. Khairi Ezhan Mohd Nordin
68. Abdul Muhaimin Abdul Razak
69. Ahmad Faiz
70. Muhammad Zafree Zaharidan
71. Munzir Alias
72. Ahmad Mukhlis Mohd Ghazi

Registration

ISR Committee

PENASIHAT: Ungku Fazri Farid

AMIR PROJEK: Muhammad Shafiq Abdul Kadir
AMIRAH PROJEK: Nor Asilah Amran
SETIAUSAHA: Nurdalila Akmal Ahmad Ridzwan
BENDAHARI: Shakira Sulaiman

AJK INVITATION: Muhammad Noor Irshaad Ahmad Fuad
AJK RESERVATION: Nur Ainina Rosman
AJK PENGINAPAN: Muhammad Shafiq Abdul Kadir (L) & Norbariah Mohd Hanafiah (P)
AJK MAKANAN: Naimah Jailani & Fatin Inani Norridzwan
AJK TECHNICAL: Raja Alauddin Raja Abdullah
AJK WEBSITE: Fatin Inani Norridzwan
PHOTOGRAPHER: Adam Nazri (L) & Norbariah Mohd Hanafiah (P)

Location




University of Wisconsin-Madison

Session 1-4
Tripp Commons, Second Floor, Memorial Union

Speaker

1. Mustafa A Mustafa
From Sudan
Studied at the University of Khartoum
Studied Anthropology at Th University of Wisconsin Madison
Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization< Kula Lumpur 1996-2004
Lecturer International Islamic University Malaysia 2004-2005
Associate Faculty Associate - Arabic- University of Wisconsin - Madison 2007-now

2. Abdullah Younes
Abdoullah Yunous is from Palestine. He has lived in Madison since 1981 and works as a civil engineer.

3.Muhammad Asyraf Sadasivan bin Abdullah
Born on April 23,1965 in a Hindu family and given the name Aishwarya Kumar
His father, Sadasivan was a pioneer in the textile industry in Kerala, India, and was involved in the family business before he decided to travel to Malaysia.He became a contractor with the Jabatan Kerjaraya (JKR) and was instrumental on constructing the Parliament Road in preparation for Malaysia's Independence Day, 1957. His father passed away on May 2, 1990.
His mother,Saraswathy was born in KL and at present lives with his brother in Singapore.
His elder brother, Gopinathan graduated from the National University of Singapore and resides in Singapore.
He has two younger sisters, Saroginy and Sujatha who lives in Johor and KL respectively
He is married to Noryani Md Yusof who is pursuing her PhD in Comparative Education and is blessed with two daughters, Natasya and Misya Deanna.

His journey to seek God began when he was a teenager. His first experience with Hindus who were expressing their gratitude to God by carrying the "kavadi" and piercing themselves was intriguing and he felt he needed to experience it himself. For three years he followed in their rituals of fasting, piercing his cheeks and body, fire-walking and meditation in the hope that he could feel the presence of God. He was disappointed for he still felt the emptiness in him.

Feeling disillussioned, he left Hinduism and became an Atheist. A few years later, he met some Christian missionaries in Stamford College who preached the Bible to him. He became one of the strongest advocate of Christianity and believed in Jesus as God and Saviour. He became a staunch Christian and was ready to debate anyone on the divinity of Jesus Christ and the teaching of the church.

During one of his visit to the bookshop along Jalan Masjid India, he came acoss a book titled, "The Quran or the Bible: Which is God's Word" by the late Ahmad Deedat, a South African muslim. He was angry at the contents and wanted to prove Deedat wrong. He studied and researched every point that was brought up and and was surprised that everything was true. He rushed to get a copy of the Holy Quran (Yusof Ali English Translation) to verify his findings. When he read the opening chapter, Al-Fatihah and the chapter, Al-Ikhlas, he felt his journey to seek God was finally over..he felt peace and love filling his heart. He has found ALLAH and a wonderful mentor and friend in Muhammad(pbuh).After years of groping in the dark, finally there is light at the end of the tunnel. On November 22, 1991, he embraced Islam.

At present, his self-taught knowledge in the Christian and Jewish scriptures has put him on a mission to silence the criticism and misinterpretation of Islam by non-muslims, especially the Christians and Jews through a thorough and sincere understanding of the Bible without fear or favor.

He is also strongly against muslims who do not adhere to the teaching of the Quran and misrepresent Islam to non-muslims and muslims through their actions and deeds.He believes Muslims around the world need to wake up and face the reality that we are not united although we boast to have ALLAH, The One True God; Islam, the OneTrue Religion; Quran,The Final True Revelation and Muhammad(pbuh) the Seal of the Prophet and and the best of example to mankind.He is saddened that muslims are so engrossed in their in-fighting and internal discords that they have lost the ability to reason through patience and perseverence which is the teaching of the Holy Quran.

He believes strongly that the only way to eradicate the misconceptions,misrepresentation and misinterpretation of Islam is to sincerely seek within ourselves our true calling and our desire to change for the sake of ALLAH and only Him.

One of his favorite quote is from Mahatma Gandhi, " Be the change you want to see in the world."

4. Rohany Nayan
Rohany Nayan is a doctoral candidate in the Literacy Studies program in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests focus on immigrant families especially on Muslim families, literacy practices and identity development of Muslim children the United States. For four years, she worked as a principal at the local Islamic school - Madinah Academy of Madison. Currently she works at the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions as their Graduate Fellow. She is actively involved in organizing activities in local Muslim communities in the U.S. and encouraging dialogue among the various communities of faith.

Tentative

TARIKH/MASA AKTIVITILOKASI
12 Mac 2011 (Sabtu)
9.30 pagiPendaftaranTripp Common, Memorial Union
10.00 pagiOpening speech dari Pengarah projekTripp Common
10.15 - 11.45 pagiSession 1 ("The Importance of Becoming Good Muslim Youth" by Mustafa Mustafa)Tripp Common
12.00 – 1.30 petangMakan tengahari dan solat ZohorVilas Communication Hall
1.45 – 2.45 petangLDKVilas Communication Hall
3.00 – 4.30 petangSession 2 ("Ways to Contribute to the Future of Islam" by Abdoullah Yunous)Tripp Common
4.45 – 6.00 petangSolat Asar dan aktiviti riadahTripp Common dan Lake Mendota
6.15 – 7.45 malamMakan malam dan solat Maghrib/IsyakVilas Communication Hall dan Tripp Common
8.00 – 9.30 malamSession 3 ("Abrahamic Faith: The Hidden Truth" by
Asyraf Sadasivan)
Tripp Common
13 Mac 2011 (Ahad)
10.00 – 11.30 pagiSession 4 ("Reviving the Spirit of Islam" by Asyraf Sadasivan)Tripp Common
11.45 – 1.15 petangMakan tengahari dan solat ZohorHumanities
1.30 – 2.30 petangDiscussion (Topic: Motivation for the Last Ummah)Tripp Common
2.30 – 3.00 petangClosing speechTripp Common
3.00 – 3.15 petangPhotography sessionLake Mendota

Welcome to Our Official Website/Blog

on Saturday, February 12, 2011
Salam everyone,

This blog will be updated with the latest news on
Wisconsin Islamic Spring Retreat 2011 !

InsyaAllah, more posts with more interesting information will be available very soon !
Stay tuned !

Jazakallahu khairan