Jamatkhana and Institutional Updates

Let me emphasize a point about the concept of pluralism that is sometimes misunderstood. Connection does not necessarily mean agreement. It does not mean that we want to eliminate our differences or erase our distinctions. Far from it. What it does mean is that we connect with one another in order to learn from one another, and to build our future together.

Mawlana Hazar Imam, Opening ceremony of the new headquarters of the
Global Centre for Pluralism

Business Restructuring Webinar: Watch Part 1 Now
Join us for a 2-part webinar on business restructuring and the protection of assets by AKEPB. Covid-19 may force business owners to explore restructuring options. Learn from a panel of experts about the various business restructuring options available to you and understand the advantages and disadvantages of each. Watch Part 1 here.

AKEPB Educates: 5-Part Course
AKEPB Educates is a 5-part course on Managing your Money. Learn how to budget and take charge of your personal finances with the following episodes led by a distinguished financial educator. Click on the links below, or visit the AKEPB Educates Page.
#1. Introduction to managing your money
#2. Getting organised
#3. Setting financial goals
#4. How to slice the pie
#5. Leaky pockets

WAP Sisterhood Session. Exploring Our Anxieties
The Sisterhood brings you a new Sisterhood Session designed to help us better understand the everyday anxieties that we may face as women. Join us for an informal and interactive evening with Farah Gulamhusein in a space free from judgment where we explore questions such as: Are my feelings of anxiety normal? What can I do to help myself with feelings of anxiety? What causes anxiety? Do I need to take medication? How can those around me support me with my anxiety? This Sisterhood Session will take place on Sunday 26th July at 8:00pm BST and you can save your spot here.

Zumba on Thursday with Raz Velji
Zumba combines rhythm, energy, fitness, latino vibes...and much more! We promise you will burn not only calories, but have a blast dancing away with new professional instructor Raz Velji from Uganda! Join us Thursday 23 July at 6:15pm BST / 7:15pm CEST via this Zoom link.

Cookies and Conversations
Please join us for another interactive session by STEP Teacher Adil Mamodaly. We will go on a journey of spiritual search across religious traditions inviting us to turn inward to explore the soul. Drawing on different traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism, as well as Sufism from within the Islamic tradition, will help us to engage meaningfully with this topic. We will explore Ismaili and Sufi literature related to the concept of the batin to deepen our understanding of the practice of spiritual search. To join the session please go to this Zoom link.

Diabetes Virtual Support Group
Join this first virtual support group for individuals with diabetes. This group will be led by healthcare professionals and will be a platform for the Jamat with diabetes to support each other through shared experiences. Listen to this podcast and/or join this session to see how you can improve your health and wellbeing as well as receive support. The first diabetes support group virtual session will be on Sunday 26 July at 11:00am BST. Click here to join.

BollyBeats on Thursdays @ 8pm BST
What better way to exercise and have some fun than learning to dance to your favourite Bollywood beats! Join us every Thursday at 8pm (BST) for some bolly-popping fun! Everyone is welcome and no prior experience is required to join via Zoom.
Zoom Meeting ID: 996-3611-5685, Password: dance.

As the lockdown eases, how do we plan for a ‘new normal?’ How do we negotiate and adjust to the fundamental changes in our experience of life? This situation can give rise to lots of different, and often difficult, emotions. In this podcast, Shaheena Ormerod-Sachedina from the ITREB UK Waezeen Team, and AKHB member Nurbanu Somani, explore the ways in which our faith can help us accept and work with the different things we may be feeling. The podcast includes inspirational stories and poems from our tradition, and practical tips to help keep faith alive every day. Access this latest episode by clicking here.

ITREB Thought of the Day
Al-Alim is the All-Knowing: Allah has knowledge of all things and knows absolutely everything. We humans are the clearest sign of the All-Knowing. Allah has made a wonderful world and we have been created so that we can seek knowledge to understand the world, and appreciate Allah's Creation. Therefore, by knowing ourselves and our world, we can come to know God. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, “Seek knowledge even as far as China.” This means acquiring knowledge through reading and observing, but it also means turning inwards to seek out truths. Thinking and studying generates one type of knowledge, but there is also a deeper, intuitive knowing that comes from within. The spirit that lives deep inside each of us reflects like a mirror the amazing qualities of Allah described by the 99 beautiful names.

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