MSAJ Online Lecture
Dear Brothers and Sisters, we are inviting you to the first “MSAJ Online Lecture” that insyaAllah will be held on:
Saturday, 21 January 2012
20:30 – 22:00 JST
Topic: “Being the Ambassadors of Islam in Japan”
- Understanding Japanese Culture
- Japanese view on Foreigners, Religion, Islam, and Muslims
- Do and Don’ts for Muslims in Japan
With Brother Ahmad Maeno.
Just get in to the www.msaj.info and hear to the online radio.
Special for 20 participants to join our conversation online through Skype (can ask questions and give comments).
Only 20 first registrants are registered as the special participants.
If you are willing to join (as passive listener or as special active participants), please fill the form below:
Profile of Brother Ahmad Maeno:
Name: Abu Hakeem Ahmad Naoki Maeno
Birth: 1975 in Aichi Prefecture, JAPAN
Converting to Islam: 1994 January 12 in Aichi, Japan, converting from Buddhism
Ahmad Maeno embraced Islam in January 1994 at the age of 18 after coming back from Melbourne, Australia, having studied over there about a year as an exchange student. After graduating from Osaka University of Foreign Studies majoring Arabic language (1999) and some work experience at a Japanese company in Osaka and Nagoya Mosque, he went to Damascus in 2000 seeking the Sacred Knowledge of Islam.
Since then he has had the honour of studying at AbunNoor Islamic Institute (now Shaykh Ahmad Kuftaro Institute), then Fath Islamic Institute, Sharee’ah Department in “Takhassus (Specialty)” division (graduated in 2009) as well as studying various Islamic Sciences under some of today’s foremost scholars.
After coming back from Damascus at the end of August 2006, he started working at the Japanese Oil company in Tokyo in order to aquire “the understanding of reality (Fiqh Al-Waaqi’)” and serving for the sake of Allah in his private time through delivering lectures on the Sacred Knowledge of Islam and other Da’wah activities. He resides in Gyotoku, Chiba prefecture, near the Hira Masjid with his wife and 4 children. His aim and lifetime motto is simply “Rooting Islam in Japan”.
He will present a very deep and personal insider observation on Japanese and Islam, including a personal reflection on how he came to Islam.
Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad
MSAJ Secretary for Cultural Activities and Public Relations
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