617-479-8341
Office hours
Saturday and Sunday: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: Between Maghrib and Isha
Friday: After Jumuah prayer for 30 min.
Or by appointment on other days. Contact number
617-479-8341
الساعات المكتبية
للإمام خالد نصر
السبت، الأحد : 12:00 – 1:30 ظهراً
الإثنين، الأربعاء، الخميس : ما بين صلاة المغرب و العشاءً
الجمعة : بعد صلاة الجمعة ولمدة 30 دقيقة
أو بالموعد المسبق في باقي الأيام . الاتصال على رقم
617-479-8341
From: nasr8888@hotmail.com
To: azizjavaid@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Questions from a member of community
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:13:07 -0500Asasalam o alaikum
thank you for sending this email i think you are welcoming me to the community
and i think it is good idea if you come to my office and i will show you whatever you want
my office hours it is after zohr and maghrib and ishaa evrey day
khalid nasr
From: "Javaid Aziz" <azizjavaid@hotmail.com>
To: nasr8888@hotmail.com
Subject: Questions from a member of community
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:11:01 +0000
>Dear Brother Khaled Nasr,
>Asasalam o alaikum
>
>I am writing to welcome you to our community. Allah has given you a
>gift of voice and any muslim would be proud to know you.
>
>I have some questions and I hope you will answer them.
>You have seen a circular sent with my name on it. As a Muslim what
>is your opinion on it?
>
>We are also being asked to vote about you. But we have not been
>given your biography nor have we been told about the terms of your
>contract. As a Muslim do you believe these things should stay hidden
>and we should vote without knowing? Is it possible to share these
>two items with us?
>You know nothing stays hidden. Allah's justice works in mysterious
>ways and hidden facts are unfolded as it happened in the Board
>meeting on Sunday, December 4, 2005. And this sharing of facts will
>also start us on a friendship of trust.
>
>Since you are being paid by ICNE, as a member I would like to know
>the purpose of your visit abroad
>from November 11,2005 to December 5,2005? If it was not official
>ICNE business, did you get paid for these days?
>
>JAK.
>Wasaalam,
>Br. Javaid Aziz
>
>
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Islamic Center of New England: Quran scholar: New imam looks for a ‘fresh start'
The Patriot Ledger QUINCY - For the first time in two decades, worshippers at the Islamic Center of New England are getting acquainted with a new religious leader. Imam Khalid Nasr, a 35-year-old Egypt native, arrived in mid-September from Raleigh, N.C., where he recited and taught the Quran and assisted the imam of the Islamic center there. The Islamic Center board of directors hired him as spiritual leader for the Quincy mosque, after interviewing at least a half dozen candidates this summer. Having conducted three Friday prayer services, he's now preparing to lead the community through the holy month of Ramadan for the first time, starting Tuesday. ‘‘Ramadan is a good start for any imam,'' Imam Nasr said. A graduate of Cairo University and the prestigious Al-Azhar Islamic University there, Imam Nasr is known both in Egypt and Raleigh as a hafiz, a specially-trained Quran scholar who has memorized Islam's holy book and can recite it in precise, fluent Arabic. After five years in North Carolina, Imam Nasr has come to New England's oldest mosque in the wake of the worst crisis in the community's 40-year history - a bitter, six-month dispute between the board and Imam Talal Eid, the longtime former imam in Quincy and the overall religious director for the Islamic Center's Quincy and Sharon mosques. A nationally-known Muslim leader, Imam Eid resigned in January after leading the community for almost 23 years. As divisions within the community deepened, he tried to withdraw the resignation. He claimed he was pressured into it, and that he was still religious director. The board's seven-man majority kept Imam Eid from leading services in Quincy starting in July. He filed a civil lawsuit to regain his positions, but a Norfolk Superior Court judge dismissed that case on technical grounds in late August. In his first local interview, Imam Nasr said he's generally aware of the controversy, and hopes that he can help the community move beyond it. ‘‘What happened here, I don't want to know (any more) about it,'' he said. ‘‘We can all make a fresh start now. All of us need each other.'' He has met Imam Eid, who continues to attend prayers in Quincy, though he says they haven't talked at length. ‘‘I have full respect for him,'' Imam Nasr said. Imam Nasr will be in charge of worship and other activities at the Quincy mosque, while Imam Hafiz Masood will continue to be the religious leader of the Sharon mosque. Islamic Center board secretary and spokesman Ghazwan Ghazi of Canton said they sought Imam Nasr for his expertise with the Quran, as well as his extensive work with Muslim youth in the Raleigh area, which has an Islamic community that's as diverse as the South Shore's and considerably larger. The Islamic Center of New England has 1,800 members, most from India, Pakistan and the Middle East. In Raleigh, Islamic Center spokesman Hani Chohan said Imam Nasr is ‘‘a very direct person ... and very thoughtful. He understands where the youth are coming from.'' ‘‘We're sad to see him go,'' Chohan said. Imam Nasr initially went to Raleigh for the 2000 Ramadan season, as part of an overseas program in which he would recite the entire Quran during that month. By the time he was done, ‘‘everyone liked him so much that they asked him to stay,'' said Ihsan Bagby, an Islamic studies professor who was at Shaw University in Raleigh then and now teaches at the University of Kentucky. Imam Nasr began memorizing the Quran as a teenager. The middle of nine children, he grew up in a farming family in Egypt's Asyut province, a poor, Upper Nile River region that's home to a sizeable Coptic Christian population. ‘‘Some of them worked for my father,'' Imam Nasr said. He got a bachelor's degree in Quran studies from Al-Azhar in 1994, and a bachelor's in Arabic and Islamic science at Cairo University the next year. From 1995 to 2000 he led prayers at a Cairo mosque, taught the Quran and read scripture on an Islamic radio station. He has energetic plans for the Quincy mosque - more Islamic studies, a revived women's group, closer contact with Muslim college students and health fairs with Muslim doctors. For now, though, he's easing into his duties, and trying to get acquainted with everyone. Like Imam Eid, he says it's crucial for him and others to help non-Muslims understand Islam as a religion of peace, not extremism - while at the same time helping Muslims to be good citizens as well as devout believers. ‘‘Imams are a bridge between the (American and Islamic) cultures,'' Imam Nasr said. ‘‘The imam is the only one who can do this. He's better than a satellite (TV) channel.'' Lane Lambert may be reached at llambert@ledger.com. Copyright 2005 The Patriot Ledger Transmitted Saturday, September 01, 2005 |
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