All set for Ramadan congregation in Kerala ( gulftoday news for Swalath Nagar )

MALAPPURAM: Tens of thousands of people have started pouring in at the Swalath Nagar where the annual prayer meeting will be held on Wednesday.

Organisers say more than half a million believers are expected to take part in the meet, as in the past, and they will take pledge a pledge against terrorism and pray for peace and harmony on the holy night.

“This is the largest prayer congregation in India in the holy month of Ramadan and it is considered as the third largest spiritual meet after Makkah and Madina during Ramadan,” said Sayyid Ibrahimul Khaleelul Bukhari, chairman of Madin Academy who will lead the prayers.

Madin Academy organises the prayer congregation every year on the 27th night of the holy month, taking pledge against terrorism.

This year, the spiritual meet coincides with the celebrations of India’s 65th independence day.

“Here, people congregate in search of the blessing of the greatest night, called Lailathul Qadr, the Night of Power, which is compatible to thousand months,” said Bukhari.

The programme will be telecast and webcast for the benefit of those who could not make it to the venue.

Live streams from different venues will be available at the official website www.mahdinonline.com.

Elaborate arrangements have been made to accommodate thousands of people at Swalat Nagar comprising 14 grounds.

More than a dozen programmes were arranged on the Madin campus as part of the prayer meeting.
The prayers will begin at 4.30pm and continue till to 2.30am on Thursday, extensively engaged by various kinds of activities such as spiritual supplication, invocations, voluntary prayers and repentance (thoubah).

Thousands of women have attended an exclusive session titled “Better Family for Better Nation” on Monday on the campus, which has been witnessing mass Iftars everyday attended by people from all walks of life.

A Ziyarat programme was conducted on Sunday with the intention of finding traditions of “Mahals.” Vision 2012, a special orientation camp for the blind, and Reason for Mercy, a relief campaign, were also conducted as part of the programme.

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Ma’din Academy to Establish Technorium

Malappuram: The ground breaking ceremony for the unique campus for the technical education will be held in Ma’din Edu Park, Malappuram on Saturday 5th May 2012. It is the new hub for higher learning under Ma’din Academy and is the moment of paradigm shift in the domain of novel generation technologies.
Ma'din Academy chases the pace of time tested technologies and provides ample scope for students to achieve the technical wisdom. Technorium is the hub, where the sophisticated technology merges with moral values and humane nature. It is the great moment that cherishes the technical spot in Madin Academy.
Mr. M.A. Yusuff Ali, Managing Director of EMKE group will lay the foundation stone of the Technorium. Ministers, technocrats, foreign delegates and scholars will be present in the grand event.

Ma'din has already planned wide range of technical courses in this vast campus. Engineering colleges, twining courses of international universities and research centre for supervising joint research programmes with foreign universities will be part of Technorium campus.

In the era of postmodern technologies, Technorium meets the prerequisite of the predominant age band. The campus, in all means. is an international technical hub for learning and research.

Ma'din Islamic Academy aims the apex at the forefront of learning, teaching and research. Ma’din, established in 1997, has now grown into a mass movement of smart learning with more than 25 educational and various other institutions under its crown.

To prepare students to compete with international standards, Ma’din also started special centers to teach Spanish and English in Edu Park. It is the first of this kind from Kerala. Ma’din Spanish Academy offers an unparalleled opportunity for foreign language enthusiasts to learn the third most spoken language in the world.

Jesús Clavero Rodríguez , cultural Manager of Spain based Insitituto Cervantes will inaugurate the Ma'din Spanish Academy in the special session on Saturday.

The goal of the program is to upgrade the five basic skills of language, (speaking, listening, reading, writing, translation and interpretation), thus enabling students to acquire a functional command of the most powerful languages.
Madin is at the vanguard of international research collaborations, and attracts outstanding universities, research staff and students from across the globe to join hands in combined research supervision and publication.

Technorium aims to maximize the benefits of research by advancing fundamental knowledge and contributing to better public policy, improved outcomes, economic prosperity, social consistency, international advancement, community identity, the talents, ethnicity and the excellence of life.

Extracts From the Media meet by Sayyid Ibrahimul Khaleelul Bukhari, Madin Chairman on Wednesday 2nd may in Malappuram.

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