Mizaan Ecology Projects:

For those of you who don’t know about Mizaan Ecology, it includes environmental- based projects, like its Cooks River regeneration project and awareness workshops and seminars on environmental responsibility and stewardship.

Cooks River regeneration project includes the following specific tasks to improve the Cooks River environ:
- Re-establishment of natural vegetation
- Soil erosion protection
- Regeneration of an environmentally disaster zone

Cooks River Regeneration Project hard work has continued on the banks of the Cook River. Loyally, the Mizaan volunteers have returned month after month to plant trees, weed and restore the natural habitat of a once destroyed riverbank.

So far the volunteers have planted over 4500 plants. These have included Native plants to the Cook’s River Area: Acacia longifolia, Oplismenus, Pandorea pandaorana, Lomandra longifolia, Kinzea ambigua,Hardenbergia violacea .

You can volunteer for Cooks River Regeneration project at http://alghazzali.org/events/cooks_river

SeekersGuidance

Assalaam Alaikum

We are very excited that Imam Afroz Ali will be teaching another course online in collaboration with SeekersGuidance.

Seeking Allah: Imam Muhasibi's Treatise of the Seekers of Guidance Explained

The treatise was masterfully translated by Imam Zaid Shakir, and has been dubbed “a layman’s guide to Islamic spirituality.”

Register now at SeekersGuidance as the course starts next week!

Was salaam,
Erin

Next Friday Class

i missed agc and attending all the classes. can't wait for the next one after ramadan inshAllah

Knowledge Retreat 2011 - Promo!

Assalaam Alaikum All,

Here is the newly released promo for the Knowledge Retreat 2011

Knowledge Retreat 2011 from AGCaustralia on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

Was salaam,
Erin

Registrations being taken!

A Journey with Knowledge and Light - you are Invited!

Be in the company of some esteemed Scholars and very special guests!
•Shaykh Faraz Rabbani (Seekers Guidance - Canada)
•Ustadh Usama Canon (Ta'leef Collective - USA)
•Imam Afroz Ali (Al-Ghazzali Centre - Australia)
•Haji Noor Deen
•Sidi Nader Khan and the Singapore Haqqani Ensemble

You are invited to 5 nights and 4 days of inspiring knowledge, moving spiritual renditions, noble companionship - join in this journey!

http://alghazzali.org/events/retreat2011

For more info, please contact: academydirector@alghazzali.org

Knowledge Retreat 2011

Registrations are opening soon for the next Retreat!

I can feel the excitement building already and its still over 6 months away. Theres a buzz in the air with the line-up of esteemed Scholars and other amazing talents.

Just check out the line up:

Teachers:

- Shaykh Faraz Rabbani (Seekers Guidance)

- Shaykh Usama Canon (Taleef Collective)

- Imam Afroz Ali (Al-Ghazzali Centre)


Including, participating international guests:

- Sidi Nader Khan (Canada)

- Haji Noor Deen (China)

- Nasheed Ensemble (Singapore)

Masha'Allah!

Can't wait for April 2011.... Sabr, Sabr!

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The Retreat

Blessed is the land that yearns for deen
Returning innate disposition unforeseen.

The mountains testify to mask the shaking
Granted are we for it's taking.
Rent asunder had it been by the weight of the Book.
Contemplation necessitates a second look.

Radiating beauty by the flaps of it's wings
The butterfly withdraws from exoteric things.
It is the esoteric by which it completes
The universe in unison at the blessed retreat.

Adhkar and Qasidas resonate the space,
Global Ummah revived in an intricate lace.
Purification, patience, tribulations and pain
Teaches one to be steadfast, to remain from disdain.

Green
The middle path which surrounds
This enlightened valley where once Muslims found
Sakeenah, barakah and rahma too
But All is planned by the One, Allahu.

The place of giants on whose shoulders we stand,
May the Messenger's supplications revive this land.
These gardens where Shaykh ul Akbar's dhikr resided,
Conquered it fell as philosophies collided.

The auliya have once again returned to Spain.
Al Andalus no more we say with hearty pain.
Yet the trees smile and the lands yearn,
The cosmos in our hearts if only people learn.

Prostrations of tears fill the heavy heart
but supplications defragments the courses apart.
For the One is Wisdom and justice too,
May Al-Andalus be in the prayers of me and you.

Tears do not justify this Garden here on this blessed soil,
May God flourish Islam here again, free from all it's toils.

Written on my phone while waiting in between classes at the Rihla, Spain, July 2010.