Notable Muslims in Glasgow

Posted Thu, 03/12/2009 - 02:35 by zara_2k

I've been asked to give names of some influential Muslims who have a high profile within the community and are able to bring about change. 
The names I have come up with so far are

  1. Sheikh Amer Jamil
  2. Sheikh Rizwan Muhammad
  3. Sheikh Abdul Aziz Ahmed Fredericks
  4. Imam Habib Ur-Rehman
  5. Imam Mustaqeem Shah
  6. Bashir Mann
  7. Habib Malik
  8. Osama Saeed
  9. Farkhanda Choudhry
  10. Fariha Thomas
  11. Mona Siddiqui

Can you help identify others please?
Thank you.

Comments

In no particular

by admin - 3 Dec 2009 - 11:09

In no particular order:

Maulana Aslam Lahori, but all Imams in general
Asgher Mohammed
Asid Khan
Saddaqat Khan
Rizwan (aka Rizi) Mohammed

I haven't heard of them. 

by zara_2k - 3 Dec 2009 - 21:56

I haven't heard of them.  Could you possibly let me know a little about them.  Thank you. 

These people are highly

by Anonymous - 3 Dec 2009 - 23:00

These people are highly respected in the community but in all honesty I don't think there as influential as the list you've already put up and is possibly the reason why you haven't heard of them.

The Imams need no

by admin - 4 Dec 2009 - 01:07

The Imams need no introduction I suppose :-o They have the ear of the people, and are effecting change on a daily/weekly basis. It's no accident that your top 5 are scholars.

Asid and Saddaqat are working for change - they may not have grand titles on fancily named committtees, but they are agents of change. I had to think extra hard about this earlier when I wrote it. An influential person or a person with a grand position may be able to effect change, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily doing it. For a lot of people, their position is about business as usual.. just keeping the doors open, having some money coming in, etc. No analysis of the status quo, no innovation, no action and no strategy.

Right, I'm off to bed! I was only up so I can provide input to the valuable work Asid, Saddaqat and a lot of other unnamed brothers are doing. All of these people are working to improve our institutions and the condition of Muslims locally, and also the condition of people abroad... the list is too long...

our community is in a mess,

by asad2 - 5 Dec 2009 - 15:32

our community is in a mess, are these then the people responsible?

What kind of mess?

by admin - 5 Dec 2009 - 15:37

What kind of mess?

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