Aberdeen students participate in Scottish Health & Social Care Team Challenge (Robert Gordon University)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016
(Source. Robert Gordon University) Tuesday, 19 April, 2016 ... The challenge is an innovative way to teach interprofessional skills to health and social care students ... The Aberdeen students included. Eilean Todd (Diagnostic Radiography RGU), Onyii Udo (Medicine UoA), Selina Chan (Nutrition & Dietetics RGU), Ihram Iqbal (Pharmacy RGU), Meadhbh Dunne (Occupational Therapy RGU) and Blessing Essang (Medicine UoA). Blessing said ... Meadhbh added....

They Came To Serve Humanity,They Can Never Be Cause of ItsMisery

Edit Kashmir Observer 07 Apr 2016
My son looked cute in his ihram (the two-piece unstitched cloth that pilgrims wear during Haj and Umrah rites). It’s a shame I couldn’t capture those memories of a lifetime on camera ... The next batch of officials soon took over and elaborately went through the whole process of photographing and fingerprinting the new arrivals.One saw throngs of pilgrims everywhere, men in stunning white ihram and women in traditional attire ... ....

Islamic council praises Malcolm Turnbull after first prime ministerial visit in decades

Edit The Guardian 07 Mar 2016
Turnbull says Muslims are a respected and valued part of the ‘Australian family’ in visit to Islamic Council of Victoria ... “I want to emphasise to each and every one of you that the Australian Muslim community is respected and valued,” he said in a speech to the Islamic Council of Victoria on Monday ... Related ... “It’s too early to come to a conclusion,” said Silma Ihram, the head of the Australian Muslim Women’s Association ... Related ... ....

Muntari Performs Sacred Islamic Rite Of Umrah

Edit Peace FM Online 01 Jan 2016
Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari performed the sacred Islamic rite of Umrah over the weekend. The rites which is popularly known as the ‘minor pilgrimage’ is a non-compulsory ritual undertaken by Muslims at any time of the year in Mecca ... This source of water is today called the Well of Zamzam ... These rituals complete the Umrah, and the pilgrim can choose to go out of ihram ...  .  .  . ....

The controversies raging inside our Islamic schools

Edit Canberra Times 12 Oct 2015
 . The grounds of the Islamic College of Brisbane are quiet save the hum of cicada song on a late summer morning. With classes in session, the long-serving principal, Dr Mubarak Noor, is summoned to a conference room ... One of the visitors, AFIC president Hafez Kassem, gets straight to the point ... Education consultant Silma Ihram, who in the 1980s founded one of Australia's first Muslim schools, Al Noori in Sydney, says ...  . ....

Most radicalised Australian teenagers attended public schools

Edit Canberra Times 10 Oct 2015
He has also previously urged public school principals to call a dedicated hotline if they suspect extremist behaviour ... Silma Ihram, a pioneer of Muslim education in the West, and the founder and former school principal of the Noor Al Houda Islamic College in Sydney said she has always been an advocate of effective Islamic schools and instruction ... Ms Ihram has called for an increased number of chaplains and more training and mentoring ... ....

Muslim community divided in response to violence committed in name of Islam

Edit The Guardian 09 Oct 2015
Deep disagreement, usually private, has spilled out into what some say are ‘personal attacks and character assassination’. @safimichael ... Veteran Muslim educator Silma Ihram is another familiar face on television after counter-terrorism raids, or after a young Australian slips into Iraq or Syria ... Ihram acknowledges “the bigger picture” behind radical Islam-inspired violence, including debates over Australian foreign policy, but says ... ....

Muslim Pilgrim Commits Suicide In “Hope Of Entering Paradise”

Edit Peace FM Online 02 Oct 2015
According to witnesses, the man had earlier said that “death while dressed as a pilgrim [ihram clothing] in such a sacred site guarantees ......

Death toll of Indonesians in recent stampede rises by 11

Edit Antara News 26 Sep 2015
Mecca (ANTARA News) - The number of Indonesian Hajj pilgrims confirmed dead after the recent stampede in Mina, Saudi Arabia, increased by 11 to 14 on Saturday ... The dead pilgrims have been identified as.. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... 11 ... "We had to examine each one to determine if it was an Indonesian, for which purpose we checked their ihrams (Hajj costume) to see if they had Indonesian text written on them ... Reporting by Risbiani Fardaniah....

Stoning the devil and other highlights of a Fullerton pilgrim's hajj, the journey of a lifetime

Edit The Los Angeles Times 25 Sep 2015
The plane was filled with the chants of the faithful. Labayk Allahuma labayk. Over and over for the entire short flight from Medina to Mecca, the chants rang out. Labayk Allahuma labayk. I am here for you, Allah, I am here for you. We were headed to Mecca, to the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site ... You have to enter ihram, a pure state of mind and dress ... See more videos ... Because you're in this state of ihram, some people don't use deodorant ... ....

The Haj pilgrimage in Saudi and what it means in Islam

Edit Deccan Chronicle 24 Sep 2015
Pilgrims enter into a state of physical and spiritual purity known as “ihram.” ... On the eighth day of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijja, Muslims in ihram traditionally head five kilometers (three miles) from the city of Mecca to Mina, a massive valley that houses more than 160,000 tents where pilgrims spend the night ... a final circling of the Kaaba, casting stones in Mina and removing the ihram....

Q&A;: The hajj pilgrimage in Saudi and what it means in Islam

Edit Business Insider 24 Sep 2015
Pilgrims enter into a state of physical and spiritual purity known as "ihram." ... On the eighth day of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijja, Muslims in ihram traditionally head five kilometers (three miles) from the city of Mecca to Mina, a massive valley that houses more than 160,000 tents where pilgrims spend the night ... a final circling of the Kaaba, casting stones in Mina and removing the ihram....
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