User:Sadaqat 875

Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has authored one thousand books in Urdu, English and Arabic languages. About 425 of these books have been printed and published while 575 books are in the pipeline, undergoing various processes of publication. Some of these books have also been translated in many other languages of the world. His revivalist, reformative and reconstructive efforts and peace dynamics bear historic significance and hold an unparalleled position in promoting the cause of world peace and human rights, propagating the true Islamic faith, producing prodigious research work and preaching the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah.

Minhaj-ul-Quran Last updated 3 months ago From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Minhaj-ul-Quran's Logo Minhaj-ul-Quran International Founder(s) 	Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri Type 	NGO Founded 	1981 Location 	Lahore, Pakistan Key people 	Hassan Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri, Raheeq Abbasi, Nizam ud din, Zahid Fayyaz Focus 	Sufism and spiritual development, human rights, women's rights, tackling extremism, promoting peace, interfaith dialogue and religious moderation Method 	Education, Training Website 	Minhaj.org

Minhaj-ul-Quran International (منہاج القرآن انٹرنیشنل) (or MQI) is an international Sufi-based non-governmental organization (NGO) founded by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri in 1981 in Lahore, Pakistan.[1] It has a long-term strategic vision to promote religious moderation, effective and sound education, inter-faith dialogue and harmony, and a moderate interpretation of Islam employing methods of Sufism.[2] It has expanded to 90 countries around the globe.[3] Its emphasis is improving the social, cultural and religious condition of all people, enlightening the masses with the knowledge of their rights and duties and presenting a realistic, rational and scientific picture of Islam's gentle, tolerant and just nature. It explicitly rejects terrorism and all other unlawful violence as being entirely un-Islamic (see Qadri's 600-page Fatwa on Terrorism issued on 2 March 2010).

The headquarters of Minhaj-ul-Quran International was inaugurated in 1987 by Tahir Allauddin Al-Qadri Al-Gillani who is regarded as the organization's spiritual founder.[4] The objective of Minhaj-ul-Quran in Europe and the West in general is to create harmony in societies between different cultural, ethnic and religious communities through social interaction, interfaith dialogue and spreading the messages of toleration, respect for others and the benefits of integration. It also actively promotes human rights and women's rights around the globe.[5]

Minhaj-ul-Quran works closely with the Christian community along with other ethnic and cultural minority communities in Pakistan, for the purpose of highlighting and promoting their citizen rights. It is the first organisation of its kind that has initiated interfaith dialogues with religious minorities.[6] Qadri is the Chairman of the Muslim Christian Dialogue Forum, where Christian bishops and Muslim clerics and scholars work side by side.[7] Contents [hide]

* 1 International network o 1.1 Minhaj-ul-Quran UK         o 1.2 Minhaj-ul-Quran Norway o 1.3 Minhaj-ul-Quran Denmark * 2 Ideology * 3 Achievements * 4 Forums and sub-organisations * 5 References * 6 Minhaj-ul-Quran in the international media * 7 External links o 7.1 International Links

[edit] International network Minhaj-ul-Quran International Headquarters, Pakistan

Minhaj-ul-Quran International has expanded to over 80 countries. It has educational and community centres in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North America, Australia and Africa. Its main offices are in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Barcelona, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dublin, New York, Toronto, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo. It established the Directorate of Foreign Affairs at its HQ to co-ordinate and to expand its network abroad.[8] [edit] Minhaj-ul-Quran UK Main article: Minhaj-ul-Quran UK

Minhaj-ul-Quran UK is the UK branch of the Minhaj-ul-Quran International organisation based in London. MQI started its education, welfare and human rights work in the United Kingdom in 1986 and held its first international conference at Wembley Arena, London. Since then, Minhaj-ul-Quran UK has opened ten community centres serving all parts of the country. It claims to have tens of thousands of affiliates more than 5000 regular members.[9] Its emphases on welfare, education, inter-faith dialogue, moderate Islam, integration-focused policies, and anti-extremism match those of its parent organisation.

The UK organisation launched Tahir-ul-Qadri's Fatwa on Terrorism in a March 2010 event in London in which various government officials participated.[10] The Times Online claims that Minhaj-ul-Quran UK advises the British government on how to combat radicalism.[11] [edit] Minhaj-ul-Quran Norway

Minhaj-ul-Quran Norway is the Norwegian branch of the Minhaj-ul-Quran International organisation based in Oslo. MQI established its centre in Norway and Denmark early in 1984. MQI has various community related projects which are supported by the Norwegian Government.[12]

One of the main projects is the Minhaj conflict resolution or Minhaj Konfliktråd (MKR).[13] [edit] Minhaj-ul-Quran Denmark

Minhaj-ul-Quran Denmark is the Danish branch of the Minhaj-ul-Quran International organisation based in Copenhagen. The first centre in Europe was established in Copenhagen. It has various forums including Youth League, Women League and an educational Farghana institute.

Minhaj-ul-Quran Denmark held an international conference on Religion and Radicalism in which among others Mr Jakob Ilum (Director of The Danish Security and Intelligence Service, Prevention Center) was a guest speaker[14] [edit] Ideology

The ideology of Minahj-ul-Quran International is multidimensional and relates to the spiritual, moral, educational and social progress of human beings in the light of a modern and moderate interpretation of the Quran and the sunnah of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It promotes religious moderation, peace and interfaith harmony. In the west it has specialised in tackling extremism and radicalism amongst young Muslims in the hope of reducing the evil of terrorism.[15]

Qadri says he felt the need to establish Minhaj-ul-Quran because, after analysing the work and efforts of contemporary Muslim organisations, he concluded that they all were working on very limited level, none of them had a comprehensive global vision and programme and they lacked co-ordination and co-operation. However, the message of the Prophet Muhammad was comprehensive and global and therefore the various outstanding characteristics of Minhaj-ul-Quran International are believed to lead to a revival of the Prophet Muhammad's message.[16] These characteristics include:

* Comprehensiveness of the message; * Purity of the message; * Chain of transmission of the message from Prophet Muhammad to its founder; * Modern and scientific interpretation of message; * Emphasis on the revival of spiritual, moral, educational and social values; * Emphasis on revival of the message.

[edit] Achievements

The educational network of Minhaj-ul-Quran is well known in Pakistan. It runs around one thousand educational institutes, including libraries in Pakistan and a university based in Lahore which was chartered in 2005.[17]

It also runs a successful charity, the Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF), that has a global network and aims to provide emergency aid, health care, welfare support and education to the poor and those affected by natural disasters.[18] It is a UK registered charity under the Charity Commission.

Minhaj-ul-Quran has continuously aimed to promote the tolerant, inclusive, peaceful and balanced message of Sufism through the modern and scientific interpretation of Islam, and has distributed over 300,000 books of Tahir-ul-Qadri in the last 25 years. CNN has stated that Minhaj-ul-Quran "aims to promote religious moderation and a modern interpretation of the Quran.".[19] It has produced and distributed millions of video cassettes, CDs and DVDs with lectures of its founder on almost every concept of Islam worldwide.[20]

Minhaj-ul-Quran holds one of the largest annual Itikaf gatherings during the month of Ramadan, after the Holy cities Makkah and Medina, with a record of 37,000 people sitting congregational Itikaf in 2007. It holds the largest Laylat ul Qadr night event on the 27th Ramadan with millions of attendees.[21][22]

Minhaj-ul-Quran also has revived the concept of celebrating the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad in the Ummah. The largest annual International Mawlid an-Nabi (Milad un Nabi) event takes place in the grounds of Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore, on the 12th of Rabi' al-awwal and attracts millions of people from all over Pakistan and aboard. The highlight of the event is the speech by Tahir-ul-Qadri followed by recitation of salutations upon the Prophet Muhammad.[23] In 2008, due to the limitation of the space at Minar-e-Pakistan, it plans to decentralise the event and will hold events in 5 different cities and broadcast the speech live to all the cities. It also holds the largest Mawlid-un-Nabi celebration feast (Ziafat-e-Milad), which hundreds of thousands people attend throughout the month of Rabi-ul-Awal, in which Tahir-ul-Qadri himself serves the dinner.[24]

On 3 December 2005 Minhaj-ul-Quran established a full-time institution called Gosha-e-Durood where any individual can apply to sit for reciting salutations on the Prophet Muhammad. In the last two years trillions of salutations have been recited. A building dedicated to this purpose with Mawlana Rumi style minarets is under construction.[25]

It also airs the main lectures of its founder live on the private international TV channel QTV (ARY), which enables millions of people abroad to listen.[26]

In the past decade Minhaj-ul-Quran International has successfully established various Sufi-based resources to promote the peaceful and balanced message of Islam using the internet. It also successfully runs three Sufism magazines which are distributed to its members.[citation needed]

Minhaj-ul-Quran International is the first organisation of its kind that has initiated interfaith dialogues with religious minorities in Pakistan. Its founder is the Chairman of the 'Muslim Christian Dialogue Forum' to highlight and promote their citizen rights.[27][28][29]

The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has formally recognised and granted a 'Special Consultative Status' to Minhaj-ul-Quran International due to its services in promoting peace, tolerance, interfaith harmony and education, tackling extremism and terrorism, engaging with young Muslims for religious moderation, promoting women’s rights, and providing social welfare and promotion of human rights.[30]

In September 2011, Minhaj-ul-Quran organised a major "Peace for Humanity Conference" conference at Wembley Arena in London at which, under the auspices of Tahir-ul-Qadri, its 12,000 attendees announced a global declaration denouncing racism, interfaith intolerance, extremism and terrorism.[31] Minhaj-ul-Quran strategist Joel Hayward[32] wrote the declaration text for Qadri[33] and was its second formal signatory after Qadri himself. Notably, senior Al-Azhar University leaders and dignitaries then signed it before Minhaj-ul-Quran opened it up via the internet for public signing.[34] They aim to get one million signatures within a year.[31] The London Declaration for Global Peace and Resistance against Extremism is intended as an interfaith document which unequivocally condemns all extremism and terrorism, ”because at the heart of all religions is a belief in the sanctity of the lives of the innocent.”[35] The Declaration adds: “The indiscriminate nature of terrorism, which has in recent years killed far more civilians and other non-combatants than it has combatants, is un-Islamic, un-Judaic, un-Christian and it is indeed incompatible with the true teachings of all faiths.”[35] The London Declaration also “unequivocally condemn[s] anti-Semitism (including when sometimes it is disingenuously clothed as anti-Zionism), Islamophobia (including when it is sometimes disingenuously dressed up as patriotism) and all other forms of racism and xenophobia.”[35] Some extremists have already tried to prevent the success of the Declaration via cyber-attacks on the website hosting it.[36] [edit] Forums and sub-organisations

* The Minhaj University * Minhaj Welfare Foundation (MWF) * Muslim Youth League (MYL) * Mustafavi students Movement * Minhaj-ul-Quran Women's League (Official Website) * Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) * Pakistan Awami Lawyers Movement (PALM) * Al Hidayah * Al Farghana Institute * Muslim Christian Dialogue Forum * Gosha-e-Durood (Official Website) * Farid-e-Millat Research Institute (FMRi)

[edit] References

1. ^ Minhaj-ul-Quran - a Sufi-based organisation founded in 1981 2. ^ Minhaj-ul-Quran - a sufism based organisation 3. ^ Minhaj-ul-Quran International 4. ^ Tahir Allauddin - Patron Sufi Saint of Minhaj-ul-Quran 5. ^ Aims of Minhaj-ul-Quran per CNN 6. ^ Canadian daily says Minhaj-ul-Quran promoting interfaith 7. ^ Muslim Christian Dialogue Forum 8. ^ Directorate of Foreign Affairs Website 9. ^ Minhaj-ul-Quran UK 10. ^ Fatwa on Terrorism organised by Minhaj-ul-Quran UK 11. ^ Muslim group Minhaj-ul-Quran issues fatwa against terrorists 12. ^ Minhaj-ul-Quran Norway 13. ^ Minhaj Konfliktråd (MKR).< 14. ^ Konference Religion and Radicalism 15. ^ Advises the Government on how to combat radicalisation of Muslim youth 16. ^ About Minhaj-ul-Quran International 17. ^ Education Projects of Minhaj-ul-Quran 18. ^ Website of Minhaj Welfare Foundation 19. ^ UK to ban controversial Islamic group 20. ^ Website of Minhaj Books 21. ^ Itikaf Introduction 22. ^ Around 50,000 to take part in Aitkaf at Minhajul Quran 23. ^ International Mawlid-un-Nabi Conference 2010 24. ^ Ziafat-e-Milad Celebration feast for Mawlid-un-Nabi 25. ^ About Gosha-e-Darood 26. ^ Mawlid shown live on QTV[dead link] 27. ^ Minhaj-ul-Quran International holds demonstration to protest the killing of Shahbaz Bhatti 28. ^ Minhaj-ul-Quran International wishes Christian community a Happy Christmas 29. ^ MQI celebrates Minorities Day at Sikh Gurdwara Dera Sahib Lahore 30. ^ United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 31. ^ a b “Thousands of Muslims Rally against Extremism in London”, The Times of India, 24 September 2011 32. ^ Urdu statement 33. ^ Joel Hayward’s Books and Articles: London Declaration 34. ^ Sign The Declaration 35. ^ a b c "London Declaration for Global Peace and Resistance against Extremism". http://www.londondeclaration.com/shtml. Retrieved 2011-10-05. 36. ^ Extremists block Muslim website just hours after it appears online, Metro, 26 September 2011

[edit] Minhaj-ul-Quran in the international media

* MQI on CNN * MQI on Reuters * MQI on Canadian daily The Star * MQI on the Washington Post * MQI on BBC Urdu * MQI on Daily Telegraph, UK   * MQI on BBC News * MQI on BBC News * MQI on The Times, UK   * MQI on Guardian, UK    * MQI on Guardian, UK    * MQI founder gives Fatwa on GEO * MQI founder gives Fatwa on the Dawn

[edit] External links

* Fatwa on Terrorism by Tahir-ul-Qadri * Official Website of Tahir-ul-Qadri * Minhaj-ul-Quran Research Institute * Translation of the Quran in Urdu * Books by Tahir-ul-Qadri available to read online * Website of Tahir Allauddin Al Qadri Al Jillani

[edit] International Links

* Minhaj-ul-Quran International * United Kingdom * North America * Norway * Spain * Denmark * France

Coordinates: 31°29′00.11″N 74°18′32.77″E﻿ / ﻿31.4833639°N 74.3091028°E﻿ / 31.4833639; 74.3091028 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minhaj-ul-Quran&oldid=479677257" View page ratings Rate this page Rate this page Page ratings What's this? Current average ratings. Trustworthy Objective Complete Well-written I am highly knowledgeable about this topic (optional) I have a relevant college/university degree It is part of my profession It is a deep personal passion The source of my knowledge is not listed here I would like to help improve Wikipedia, send me an e-mail (optional) We will send you a confirmation e-mail. We will not share your e-mail address with outside parties as per our feedback privacy statement. Submit ratings Saved successfully Your ratings have not been submitted yet Your ratings have expired Please reevaluate this page and submit new ratings. An error has occurred. Please try again later. Thanks! Your ratings have been saved. Please take a moment to complete a short survey. Start survey Maybe later Thanks! Your ratings have been saved. Do you want to create an account? An account will help you track your edits, get involved in discussions, and be a part of the community. Create an accountorLog in Maybe later Thanks! Your ratings have been saved. Did you know that you can edit this page? Edit this page Maybe later Categories:

* Minhaj-ul-Quran * Interfaith * Muslim education * Non-profit organisations based in Pakistan * Sharia * Sufi organizations * Sunni organizations * Islamic organizations

Hidden categories:

* All articles with dead external links * Articles with dead external links from June 2010 * All articles with unsourced statements * Articles with unsourced statements from March 2011 * Use dmy dates from January 2012

Personal tools

* Sadaqat 875 * My talk * My sandbox * My preferences * My watchlist * My contributions * Log out

Namespaces

* Article * Talk

Variants

Views

* Read * Edit * View history * Watch

Actions

Search Search Navigation

* Main page * Contents * Featured content * Current events * Random article * Donate to Wikipedia

Interaction

* Help * About Wikipedia * Community portal * Recent changes * Contact Wikipedia

Toolbox

* What links here * Related changes * Upload file * Special pages * Permanent link * Cite this page * Rate this page

Print/export

* Create a book * Download as PDF * Printable version

Languages

* Català * Deutsch * Español * ‪Norsk (bokmål)‬ * پنجابی * اردو

* This page was last modified on 1 March 2012 at 16:59. * Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of use for details. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. * Contact us

* Privacy policy * About Wikipedia * Disclaimers * Mobile view

* Wikimedia Foundation * Powered by MediaWiki