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Dilemma Of The Muslim Immigrants

I am an immigrant to USA who has settled here for the last thirty years. I have raised my family here. We were not the very strict family, but followed Islam in every way and raised our children, who were also good in understanding and following the religion. Since we were in a small town, the exposure to other good Muslim families was limited. Now that we have a larger Muslim group and have an Islamic Center, things are different. They have studied Islam and the Qur'an and completely understood that this is the right way.

But during this time the children have grown up and have left for colleges, out of town. It is there that we saw problems, and now it seems that the children have abandoned the religion and become openly agnostics. We are very much devastated by it and after trying hard through family, through talks, meetings with the imam, and with Islamic scholars, all attempts have failed. Right now all we have is prayers and hope for the mercy of Allah, that He shall guide these kids back. We have also informed them that the non-Muslim children are not part of the family and will be out of touch and on their own, in addition to disinherit them as well.

Now, we are looking for any help that will provide some guidance for us to redirect these unfortunate kids back to the religion and save them from the fire of Hell.

I am not sure, if this is what is written in the fate, or the effect of this society, pressures from the peers, or what, it may be that we kept them in strict control, and when they got out of the house, it happened. But whatever may be the reason, now we are faced with this situation, and seek help from your esteem resources.

Sat, September 22, 2018 - 2:03:13 By

Illegal Immigrant Workers

I came abroad on work permit for five years. After five years (on expiration of work permit), I did not go back to my country. And now my stay in this country is illegal and I am still earning money. Is this money (earned during illegal stay) is haram or halal? What is the status of my illegal stay with respect to teaching of Islam? What is the status of paper marriage with respect to teaching of Islam?

Muhammad Amir Gazdar

Mr Muhammad Amir Gazdar was born on 26th May 1974 in Karachi, Pakistan. Besides his studies at school, he learned the science of Tajweed Al-Qur’an from a renowned Qu’anic reciter, Qari Khalil Ahmad Bandhani and completed the memorization of the Qur’an in 1987 at Madrasah Tajweed al-Qur’an, Karachi.
He obtained his elementary religious education from Jami’ah Dar al-Hanafiyyah, Karachi. He graduated from Jami’ah al-Uloom al-Islamiyyah, Binnori Town, Karachi and obtained Shahadah Aalamiyyah in 1996 and received an equivalent certificate of Masters in Islamic Studies from the Karachi University.
During the year 1997 and 1998, he served in Jami’ah Binnori Town as a Tafseer and Tajweed teacher and also taught at Danish Sara Karachi (A Former Islamic Centre of Al-Mawrid).
In 1992, Mr Gazdar was introduced to Farahi school of thought his first meeting with Ustaz Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and had the chance to learn Islam from him and tried to solve many controversial issues of Hadith, Fiqh and Usool under his supervision.
In January 1999, he started another Masters programme in Islamic Sciences offered by Al-Mawrid in Lahore, Pakistan and completed it with top position in August 2001.
Mr Gazdar officially joined Al-Mawrid as an associate fellow in research and education in 2002 and is working in this capacity ever since. He worked for the Karachi center of Al-Mawrid for about 10 years as a teacher, lecturer and researcher. He taught various courses, delivered weekly lectures, conducted workshops on different topics, taught in online classes, answered questions of the participants orally and gave answers for Al-Mawrid’s official website too.
In September 2012, he moved to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia to participate in another Masters programme in Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage at International Islamic University Malaysia. In January 2015, he completed his 3rd Masters in Qur’an and Sunnah department of the university with a CGPA: 3.92.
Mr Gazdar has many academic works to his credit. He has written a few booklets published in Urdu language and has authored some articles which have been published in various research journals in Malaysia, India and Pakistan (Arabic language). An online book is going to be published at the official website of International Islamic University Malaysia in 2018 (Arabic language) and his Masters dissertation is also going to be published in the form of a book in 2018 (Arabic language) from Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah, Beirut Lebanon.
Nowadays, Mr Gazdar is a PhD candidate in the Qur’an and Sunnah department of International Islamic University Malaysia. His ongoing PhD research is a comparative study of contemporary scholars’ view on the issue of “Hijab and Gender Interaction in the light of the Quran and Hadith.”
Furthermore, he is actively working in the Hadith project of Ustaz Javed Ahmad Ghamidi and playing a significant role in it as a researcher and writer since January 2016.
Moreover, Mr Gazdar has been leading in Qiyam-e-Ramadhan and Tarawih prayer since 1989 in various mosques and at Sada Bahar Lawn (2002-2011) in Karachi, Pakistan. He worked as a part time Imam at the King Haji Ahamd Shah mosque of International Islamic University Malaysia from 2013 to 2015 where he lead in Tarawih and Qiyam-e-Ramadhan for four years (2013-2016). Other than this, he has served for several mosques in Kuala Lumpur as an Imam for Tarawih and Qiyam-e-Ramadhan.

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