Australian National Imams Council

Their website is now up.  There isn’t a great deal of information there yet but it does list the members of the various state councils and describes some of their activities to date.

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#1 Abdullah on 10.04.07 at 12:28 am

Why isn’t Sheikh Omran on that site? Isn’t he one of the Australian imams? Or is he is too “controversial”?

#2 UmMaryam on 10.04.07 at 4:04 pm

There is a Mahmoud Omran if you click on WA, maybe that’s supposed to be Mohamed Omran as he did reside in Perth for some time

#3 brother on 10.05.07 at 9:02 am

as far as i am aware, every Sheikh was invited to be part of ANIC and are all still able to be part of the council. If there is a Sheikh that is not on the council, than it is their choice.

#4 Shadower on 10.05.07 at 1:38 pm

That is great news, hopefully they can move forward and grow, and truly represent Australian Muslims. Not disappear into the shadows.

#5 Firas on 10.05.07 at 4:37 pm

Does anyone know if Imam Afroz Ali is a member? What are the criteria for membership, anyway?

#6 Shadower on 10.06.07 at 1:19 am

His name does not seem to be up there in NSW.

MEMBERSHIP

Membership is open to all qualified Imams who are active in the affairs of the Muslim community.

#7 muslim_perth on 10.09.07 at 12:14 pm

does this now mean that we will all have eid on the same day this year???? what??? no?? i thought so.. :(

#8 brother on 10.09.07 at 2:21 pm

After speaking to some of the council members of ANIC, they advised me that insha’Allah next year they will do their best to unite the Muslims on the issue of Ramadan and Eid.

The positive thing is, on that board you have those who only follow the moon sighting and others you use calculations. Now if a decision is made on that board it will then be up to all of us to either accept it and somewhat have a unified effort starting Ramadan and celebrating Eid on the same days, or reject it and keep doing things the way they are.

I ask Allah to bring goodness from this!

#9 Thumper on 10.09.07 at 9:31 pm

There are several valid opinions re determining the start and end of Islamic months. Why force conformity on people when we don’t want it?

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