The Hubb in partnership with MK Islamic Arts Heritage & Culture, introduces Haji Noor Deen - master calligrapher who combines Chinese and Arabic calligraphy.
He will be delivering a demonstration and workshop and speak about his work to an audience at the Hubb.

SPECIAL NOTICE: He will also be exclusively collaborating with Mohammed Ali *Aerosol Arabic, with a street mural on the walls of The Hubb gallery. An exciting combination of the calligraphers pen and the aerosol can!

Wednesday 28th July. Mural begins at 4pm, followed by a demonstration by the master calligrapher at 6pm.

The Hubb, Stratford Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, B11 1QS

http://www.thehubb.org/

Call 0121 766 8771 /  07886 105 996

Free admission, no registration required, just turn up!

Event sponsored by Alfaisals Restaurant Birmingham, ISRA-Feed The Poor and Soul City Arts.

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The Guardian recently exposed the extremely provocative actions by the West Midlands Police, Birmingham City Council and the Safer Birmingham Partnership (SBP) in their deployment of a network of spy cameras in the Muslim areas of Birmingham.  Under the pretext of “preventing terrorism”surveillance cameras catch every vehicle and person passing through these “zones” placing Muslims under a level of surveillance that is incomparable anywhere in the world.

Obviously, the Muslim population of Birmingham have reacted with anger and they have been joined in their fight by many freedom campaigners across the country including Shami Chakrabati, the director of Liberty.

A meeting has been called on Sunday 4th July at 4.30 at The Bordesley Centre, Stratford Road, Camphill to discuss this unacceptable move by the authorities to place further burdens on the Muslim community.

Please, attend this meeting if you can and offer your support and make your views heard!

Speakers include:

Shami Chakrabarti – Director of Liberty

Gareth Pierce – Human Rights Lawyer

Lord Nazir Ahmed (TBC)

John Hemming MP

Local Councillors from all parties including Salma Yaqoob

Representatives from West Midlands Police and many more…

Join the Facebook Page: Birmingham Spy Cameras – NO THANKS!

Al Jazeera journalist Jamal Elshayyal was on board the MV Marmara on the Gaza Flotilla which was stormed by Israeli soldiers on 31 May. As with others on board, Jamal’s possessions were all confiscated by the soldiers, and not returned to him. As a journalist, his rights were not respected. As a citizen of Britain, worse still, his passport was not returned to him, and 23 days later, is still missing.

Just a few months ago Israeli secret services used stolen British passports to carry out an assassination in the sovereign country of the UAE. At the time, William Hague announced in parliament that he would never allow such a thing to happen if he was foreign secretary. Today, he holds that very position, yet has refused to publicly demand for the return of Jamal Elshayyal’s passports.

It is up to you to hold our Foreign Secretary to account. Email, call and write to him today, and ensure that he publicly pressures Israel for the return of the passport.

Contact

1. Rt. Hon. William Hague MP

Foreign Secretary

King Charles Street

London

SW1A 2AH

Telephone 020 7008 1500, Option 2 and then ask for William Hague’s Office

Email the following addresses individually : private.office@fco.gsi.gov.uk , MSU.PublicIn@fco.gov.uk , msu.correspondence@fco.gov.uk

Read what Jamal wrote on the Al Jazeera website about his experience when the Flotilla was attacked by Israel:  Click here

from more info go to the Friends of Al Aqsa website

Livelihoods and lives of people living in the Gaza Strip have been devastated by over 1000 days of near complete blockade. A fact sheet has been compiled with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  The report shows that despite having the potential to provide substantial improvements to the quality of life, food security and nutrition to an estimated 1.5 million Palestinian people, Israel has actively prevented large areas of land to be cultivated by restricting the Palestinians from the area and blocking vital imports

The area inside the “Buffer Zone” along the northern and eastern borders with Israel contains nearly a third (29%) of the Gaza Strip’s arable land, and is inaccessible to farmers and herders. The width of the Buffer Zone is 0.5?1km along the eastern border and 1.8?2km along the northern border.

The Buffer Zone contains rain?fed crops including wheat, barley, beans and various vegetables, as well as olives, almonds and citrus trees. Most of the Gaza Strip’s animal production is concentrated in the zone

Please download and read the report:

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam) said, “Allah said: ‘Verily, from amongst My slaves is he whose faith cannot be rectified except by being inflicted with poverty, and were I to enrich him, it would surely corrupt him. Verily, from amongst My slaves is he whose faith cannot be rectified except by wealth and affluence, and were I to deprive him, it would surely corrupt him. Verily, from amongst My slaves is he whose faith cannot be rectified except by good health, and were I to make him sick, it would surely corrupt him. Verily, from amongst My slaves is he whose faith cannot be rectified except by disease and illness, and were I to make him healthy, it would surely corrupt him. Verily, from amongst My slaves is he who seeks worship by a certain act but I prevent that from him so that self-amazement does not enter his heart. Certainly, I run the affairs of My slaves by My Knowledge of what is in their hearts. Certainly, I am the All-Knower, All-Aware.‘” [Reported by al-Tabarani.]

Allahu Akbar

Every time I look at Tony Blair my blood boils, he is a proven liar, a deceiver, and a murderer! He has such a slippery or should I say, slimy persona which has allowed him to walk away with the blood of millions of innocents on his hands.

The man brought carnage to the Middle East, he sent bombs to reign down on our mothers and children and set up dungeons where our sisters and mothers were constantly rapped and tortured and was responsible for the deaths of so many people…

What better man could there be for the role of Middle Eastern Peace envoy?

It is a sick joke.

Is it me or are we just walking on earth with eyes and ears but neither see nor hear?

Yesterday, Tony Blair appeared on the BBC as the Middle Eastern Peace envoy, you can see EVIL dripping from his face. Subhanallah, after 2 YEARS, he is proud that he has finally made the Zionists “realise” that a distinction has to be made between keeping Israel safe and allowing the Palestinian populate access to basic necessities. TWO BLOODY YEARS. And he expects a Nobel peace prize for his efforts?

Wallahi, hum kullu Munafiqun. La’natallahu alaihum.

He is plainly not interested in the Palestinians; his puppet masters are the Zionist thugs who dominate this strange modern world with so much oppression and deception.  He implied that Hamas are the obstacles of peace, he quotes them as saying  “we don’t give up the use of violence and we reserve that right.”  What is the bloody differenced between that quote and the Israeli mantra: “Israel has the right to defend itself?”  NONE!

The truth is every nation has the right to defend itself – even Israel, but Israel attacks during peace time, sparking off the home made rockets from Hamas which are nothing more than fireworks.

The world knows who the real obstacles to this process are, and it is NOT Hamas – and Blair knows it.

The whole world gathers to vote on the solution to the Israeli oppression in Palestine every year and as Norman Finkelstein points out, it is very clear who are the obstacles:

Every year, the United Nations General Assembly votes on a resolution entitled “Peaceful Settlement of the Palestine Question.” And every year the vote is the same: it’s the whole world on one side; Israel, the United States and some South Sea atolls and Australia on the other side. The vote this past year was 164-to-7. Every year since 1989-in 1989, the vote was 151-to-3, the whole world on one side, the United States, Israel and the island state of Dominica on the other side.

Blair is a liar and a deceiver – we know Israel is the problem and will never allow Gaza to develop – he is incapable of any resemblance of morality and this is why he rolls over to the godless Zionists and snarls at the Palestinians.

Subhanallah, it seems that our Muslim lands have been blessed with many natural resources that could potentially provide the population with decent living standards, medicine and a thriving economy.  Unfortunately, over the years, one by one, colonial parasites have spread across our lands and raped us of any real chance of tapping into this blessing.

We all know about the oil and the wars but now it has transpired that Afghanistan is sitting on over 1 trillion dollars worth of minerals, enough to make Afghanistan extremely important and one of main players in the production of lithium and a significant producer of gold, iron and copper.  This could potentially transform Afghanistan into a thriving economy, but – and there is a big BUT – with the Americans and British controlling everything and knowing what we do about their history of rape – the only people likely to benefit will be them.

It seems the Americans have known for ages, and as one commentator said

Just as India was once Britain’s jewel in the crown, Afghanistan is now America’s jewel in the crown. As least we can now justify a nine year old war. And anyone, in either the Pentagon, the GOP, or the Obama administration, who dares to warble the usual neocon rhetoric about “routing out the Taliban,” we have license to laugh in their face

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May Allah protect the Muslims from the hungry vultures at the White House

Brother Ismail Patel, the chairman of Friends of Al Aqsa delivers a verey emotional account of the ordeal everyone experienced during the Israeli attack on the freedom flotilla.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Peace activists from the UK who survived the Israeli attack on their ships arrive back with a message

At the Question and Answer session of Red Sulfur tazkiya lesson 7 (May 9), a couple of beneficial questions were raised regarding trials and tribulations to which Sayyidi Habib Umar (may Allah preserve him and spread his benefit among us) responded with the following Prophetic prescriptions:

1.       One should read:

“Ya Latif”  129 times in the morning and evening. Increase the number to 133 in times of difficulty.

(Al-Latif is one of Allah ’s names and is sometimes translated as “gentle” or “subtle.” Habib Kadhim as-Saqqaf (may Allah preserve him) said it encompasses all the names of Allah which express His beauty. By reading this name morning and evening one will be constantly in the realm of Allah ’s care and gentleness. The meaning of “lutf” is Allah bringing benefit and deflecting harm from an individual in a manner that that individual is unaware of).

2.       In times of great distress, Ibn `Abbas narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) used to say:

La ilaha ill-Allah ul-`Azimul-Halim, la ilaha ill-Allahu rabbu’l`arshi-l’`azim, la ilaha ill-Allahu rabbu`ssamawati wa rabbu’l-ardi wa rabbu’l`arshi-l-karim

“There is no god but Allah , the Awesome, the Forbearing, there is no god but Allah , the Lord of the mighty throne, there is no god but Allah the Lord of the heavens and the earth and the noble throne.”

Repeat this until the distress is removed.

topi tip to Akbar Ahmed