Every Sunday (1:30 PM), more than 25 seniors gather weekly to connect, learn, and stay active in a warm community setting. The program offers a variety of activities designed to enrich the lives of our seniors while fostering meaningful engagement with each other and the wider community.

Weekly Activities

• Social Gatherings: Friendly conversations, relaxation, and community bonding.
• Recreational Outings: Walks, tours around Montreal, and even cruises.
• Wellness & Sports: Light physical activities that encourage healthy aging.
• Lifelong Learning: Practical workshops on financial literacy, safe online purchasing, and digital protection.
• Intergenerational Exchange: Opportunities for seniors to share wisdom and skills with younger community members.

Monthly Workshops

Once a month, seniors themselves take the lead in organizing workshops and inviting guest speakers to present on topics of interest. This ensures the program is truly by seniors, for seniors.

Why Join?

Our program creates a space where seniors can:

• Stay engaged and socially connected.
• Learn new skills that support independent living.
• Share their valuable knowledge and experiences with others.
• Enjoy active, meaningful, and joyful Sundays.

We believe that seniors bring a wealth of experience and strength to our community. Through this program, we aim to honour their role, support their needs, and celebrate their contributions.

Join us every Sunday at 1:30 PM after Duhr at Al-Madinah Center and be part of this growing community.

Registration requirements and Rules:
– Registration Fee : 10 dollars*
– Age : 15 and above (male).
– The registration deadline is Friday, March 24.

– All games will be played on the weekend.
– On Sunday, March 26 a general meeting for participants will be held at Al-Madinah Center between 5:30 – 6:30 pm to draw players into groups.
– All games will be played at Al-Madinah Center (1260 Rue Mackay, downtown Montreal).

Games Layout:
– Brothers in each group play a first round robin (each one plays all opponents in the group)
– A point is awarded for winning, nothing for losing. (there are no draws in ping pong)
– The players with the highest points will advance to the play-off round.
– Matches will be 21 points.
– The serve is switched every 5 points.

* The registration fees will cover the costs of ping pong table and the related equipment for the tournament, which will later be used as an endowment for Al-Madinah Islamic Center.
Registration link:
http://bit.ly/pingpong-madina

With the help of Allah, we would love to help the little loved ones to learn an important life skill i.e. CODING. We believe that learning how to code early on will give them a new perspective and teach them to discipline themselves and focus on goals. In addition, programming does not only help them advance their careers, but it will also help our cubs embark interesting careers, and contribute to the success of our local communities and Muslim society. Hence, they will help advance the message of Islam: the religion of success.

Programming helps our little ones acquire problem solving skills, critical thinking and efficient habits in school in Sha2 Allah.

Why should your kid learn Coding?

• Coding is a technology to help us solve real world problems.
• Coding is not the goal, it is an enabler – it prepares us to become entrepreneurs and innovators who connect people in new ways using new platforms.
• Coding allows us to build games, develop websites and phone applications, control our home appliances, interac with robots, and get highly paid jobs in the future.

Course content is based on Creative Computing Curriculum

DETAILS:

1. Workshop will contain 6-9  sessions of 1 hour each.
2. For all workshops, 2 devices will be required – 2 phones / 1 iPad & 1 phone / 1 PC &1 phone
3. Class timings – Wednesday 7: 00 P.M to 8:30 P.M & Fridays 4:00 – 5:30PM
4. Kindly share the email address with which you are signed in zoom.

Fee: It’s absolutely 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘! (limited seats. First come first served)

𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘

According to the Quran’s, there are eight categories of people (asnaf) who qualify to benefit from zakat distribution. “Alms are for the poor and the needy, and those employed to administer the (funds); for those whose hearts have been (recently) reconciled (to Truth); for those in bondage and in debt; in the cause of Allah; and for the wayfarer: (thus is it) ordained by Allah, and Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom.” — Qur’an, Sura 9 (Al-Tawba), ayat 60[50]

Scholars have interpreted this verse as identifying the following eight proper categories of recipients of zakat:

1. The poor: Those living without means of livelihood (Al-Fuqarā’), the poor
2. The needy: Those who cannot meet their basic needs (Al-Masākīn), the needy
3. Zakat collectors (Al-Āmilīyn ‘Alihā)
4. To persuade those sympathetic to or expected to convert to Islam (Al-Mu’allafatu Qulūbuhum) and recent converts to Islam
5. To free from slavery or servitude (Fir-Riqāb)
6. Those who have incurred overwhelming debts while attempting to satisfy their basic needs (Al-Ghārimīn), debtors who in pursuit of a worthy goal incurred a debt
7. Those struggling in the way of Allah
8. Wayfarers, stranded travelers (Ibnu Al-Sabīl): travellers who are traveling with a worthy goal but cannot reach their destination without financial assistance

Zakat cannot be given to one’s own parents, grandparents, children, or grandchildren.

Hence, one must learn how to calculate correctly because this is an obligation and we can not perform it without exact calculation. One can offer extra but the zakat is fulfilled if the amount paid is less than the due amount.

For any asset / money to be zakatable, it must meet the following conditions:

1. Zakat is an obligation on the accessible and develop-able wealth of the free Muslim
2. Total Zakatable must be equal or higher than the Nissab, after deducing the basic needs of the zakat payer and his immediate family and after deducting payments for current debt, during the zakat-year.
3. Zakatable money has dated for a lunar year

For the majority of Islamic schools of fiqh, if any of these three conditions are not met. Zakat will not be due. The hanafi school has their own conditions that are not congruent with the rest of scholars. This article presents the non hanafi version followed by the majority of schools of fiqh.

May Allah reward all donors and volunteers for their priceless contribution.

Iftars in #Montreal are not only for the needy ones. More important is to gather brothers and sisters in a community hub so they get some company when they break their fast.

This legacy has been going on for years and may Allah help us sustain it.

We can not Express the happiness of the majority of brothers and sisters who break their fast in a family like environment.

Simply, Jazakouk Allah khairan all.

A rich collection of Daawa books that you can request from Al-Madinah Center (Montreal, Québec)

C’est quoi l’Islam?
What is Islam?

Email us at info@almadinah-center.org to get your questions answered or to get a free book to explain more.

Veuillez nous contacter par courriel info@almadinah-center.org pour recevoir un livre gratuit.

C’est quoi Islam

What is Islam

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Motivating people to partake in good deeds will yield you same rewards as doing the deeds without decreasing the rewards of the doers.

Al-Madinah Center is pleased to invite your children to participate in the Quran memorization contest, during the holy month of Ramadan. Prizes will be awarded on the 28th of Ramadan after Duhr prayer. For more information or to register, please contact : sisters@almadinah-center.org
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Le centre Al-Madinah a le plaisir d’inviter vos enfants à participer dans la compétition de mémorisation du Coran durant le mois béni de Ramadan. Les prix seront distribués en date du 28 ramadan, après la prière du duhr. Pour plus d’informations ou pour vous inscrire, veuillez contacter : sisters@almadinah-center.org

Quran Competition 2015