Home

BMCC

The Bobbersmill Community Centre (BMCC) is a thriving centre which serves the local and national communities. The centre hosts a plethora of activities for children, youth and adults. If we started to write down the number of activities performed here, we would run out of hosting space on our ISP (yes, we do have a sense of humour!). On a more serious note the centre is a unique blueprint for Islamic community organisations up and down the country. We say this because, we host services for Men and Women, boys and girls, eg an Ofsted Registered Nursery, Sports Centre, Ash-Shifa Mosque, Quranic School & Memorisation Class, Arabic Classes, regular Study Circles and Firdaus Burial Soceity. The Karimia Institutes flagship projects of Radio Dawn and the MYDP is also hosted at the BMCC.(I think we forgot to mention the original Karimia Masjid is still in Hyson Green and is also active in Deen and Dawah activities)

Dawah

Our mission statement is simple, Insha-Allah: "Promoting moral, Social and Spiritual development through worship, Education and recreation for today's Society"

The Karimia Institute is a centre for worship, education, training and self-development and the scope and variety of its activities are focussed on bringing about spiritual reawakening of the individual.

Spirituality is the sense of closeness to the creator of the universe, the wish to please him and the quest to recognise him. Our aim is to help people re-discover this great potential through learning, serving and caring.

Radio Dawn

Tune into the only full time Islamic radio station in Nottingham and listen to live interviews, lectures by renowned scholars, public service announcements, a calendar of events, call-ins, Quran recitation, events, current affairs, live adhan, nasheeds and much, much more. Radio Dawn presents shows in English, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, Somalian and Pushtu.

To call into the studio, dial +44 (0)115 8411 800 or +44 (0)115 8411 900
Tune in to us now, on 107.6fm, or click here to listen online

Youth Work

Muslim Youth Development Project (MYDP)

A new exciting project that works with Muslims aged 16-25, developing leadership skills and encouraging community volunteering. The mission statement of the MYDP is "To empower and educate Muslim Young people between 16-25, through their leisure-time activities, to develop their hysical, moral and spiritual capacities so that they may become active members of British society." - www.mydpyouth.com

Invitation Magzine

“Invite to the path of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching. Reason with them in the most courteous manner.
For your Lord knows best those who go stray from His path and those who are rightly guided” (Nahl:125)

Visit the new look Invitation Magazine website here .

Please send your correspondence or subscription requests to: FREEPOST RLZY - SHYT - HXSS Nottingham NG3 7AR

Dr Musharraf Hussain

Dr Musharraf Hussain is the director of the Karimia Institute in Nottingham, UK. Dr Musharraf grew up in Halifax, where he memorised the Quran. As a scientist for many years, he left the laboratory to dedicate his life to the deen. Initially he studied under the guidance of Justice Pir Muhammad Karam Shah, and later at al-Azhar University in Cairo. His commitment to reviving the message of Islam in today’s society is multi-dimensional, and he is engaged many activities at a local, national and international level. Click here to see Dr Musharraf's personal website.

Faith leaders join forces to launch new book on forgiveness,

A rabbi, an imam and the director of the Christian Muslim Forum of Britain spoke at the launch of a new book about forgiveness, held at the St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in the City of London, on 13 May.

'No Enemy to Conquer', subtitled 'Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World', by author and journalist Michael Henderson, was commissioned by an American university press, following his earlier books on the theme of forgiveness.

In his welcoming remarks, Simon Keyes, Director of the St Ethelburga's Centre, said that Henderson had had 'a huge influence on the development of our work' at the centre and that his earlier book 'Forgiveness - breaking the chain of hate 'was one of the foundation texts of our work here'. He regarded Henderson as 'one of our founding fathers'.

The centre, a former church that had been bombed by the IRA, aimed to 'build bridges in divisions caused by conflict where people can meet as equals,' Keyes said. 'Reconciliation is the space where mercy meets conflict and leads to peace.' And forgiveness was 'a key element in the exercise of mercy'.
Henderson, who has been long associated with Initiatives of Change, said that one of his aims in writing the new book was 'to further an appreciation of our brothers and sisters of the Muslim faith'.

Hosting the launch event, Dr Musharraf Hussain al-Azhari, Co-Chair of the Christian Muslim Forum and Director of the Karimia Institute in Nottingham, declared that he had found the book 'a great inspiration'. It represented 'a tour de force of extraordinary stories, remarkable encounters between victims and offenders and soul-stirring tales of human goodness.' The book's title suggested 'a true feeling of freedom from fear - a precursor of peace - that is the consequence of forgiveness'.
Dr Hussain emphasized that in the Quran 'one of the most common names of God is as the forgiver'. The strength of Henderson's book, he said, lay in its '25 moving and heart-rending stories' as well as the contributions in it from academics and personalities such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Britain's Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks.