Alim Ali
Blogs by this Author
Moon Sighting Reports for Monday 29th August, 2011
- By Alim Ali
- Published 08/31/2011
Monday, 29 August 2011: from www.moonsighting.comAustralia: Not Seen: Engr Manzoor A Mian (MCW member) from Melbourne, VIC reported:
Shawal Crescent is not sighted in Australia today Monday 29/8/11....
Explaining Americans' attitude to Muslims today
- By Alim Ali
- Published 11/1/2010
Blogging in the Huffington Post, James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute, Author of "Arab Voices", attempts to explain the mixed feelings towards Muslims in America today. He found that...
Caribbean Muslims of Indian ancestry must embrace and celebrate their heritage.
- By Alim Ali
- Published 05/31/2010
“O people! Beware of your Lord who created you from a single soul and created from it its mate and spread from those two many men and women and beware of Allah in whose name you ask one another ...
Haiti earthquake, Monsterrat volcano, what lessons are to be learnt?
- By Alim Ali
- Published 02/12/2010
Canadian survivors of the Haitian earthquake have described to the Toronto Star their experience in chilling detail. At the moment the earthquake struck simple everyday choices separated those who sur...
Reviving the Islamic Spirits Conference raised the bar to new heights
- By Alim Ali
- Published 12/30/2009
It was 12:05 a.m. on Monday December
28th 2009 when the curtain was finally dropped on the 8th edition of
the RIS. Between it’s beginning on Friday December 25th at 12:30 p.m.
its early morn...
Hassan Mohammed: A tribute to a guiding light
- By Alim Ali
- Published 12/2/2009
Today Hassan Mohammed, Director of S.M. Jaleel will be buried after his janazah (funeral service) at the San Fernando ASJA Masjid at 3:00 p.m. I knew Hassan as a teacher in the early seventies at ASJ...
MURDER IS NOT A TENET OF MY FAITH
- By Alim Ali
- Published 11/20/2009
Events like Fort Hood or the suicide bombings in UK, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and wherever else it is done, IS NOT a tenet of my faith. Engaging in vigilante violence is not an act of worship. Whe...
Imam tells faithful: Do not mix
- By Alim Ali
- Published 09/22/2009
The Trinidad Guardian reported that during his Eid khutbah (sermon) the Imam of La Romain Masjid, Yaseen Fernandez advised Muslims "to refrain from mixing and associating with non-Muslims, who do not ...
Ramadan a sacred month determined by a secular calendar? Beware!
- By Alim Ali
- Published 08/20/2009
Despite the usual reticence towards time in the Caribbean, we need to at a minimum acknowledge that it is critical that the sacred days be properly determined. Is the searching for the "Night of Powe...

This film tells the story of the meeting between the Prophet Muhammad
(Peace and Blessings be upon Him) and a Christian monk named Bahira.
The meeting happened in the shade of a tree.
