Thursday, May 24, 2012

Majlis Atfaal Ul Ahmadiyya DC New Years Sleepover 2010

Majlis Atfaal Ul Ahmadiya Washington DC New Year sleepover 2010

The 2009 2^nd annual atfaal sleepover took place on Dec. 31^st 2009 at Fazal mosque located in the diplomatic community of Washington DC NW. A wet soggy night started with arrival of atfaal and their parents. The local sadar sahib respected Mian Ismaeel Waseem, general secretary Khalid Mahmood (mohtamim atfall in his khudam days) nazim atfaal Zahid Yousaf greeted all and welcomed them. Namaz Isha was offered at 8:20pm led by sadar sahib, Azan by Faizan Tariq. After salat, program started with tilawat by Farzan Ahmad. After the atfaal pledge sadar sahib gave the opening remarks and thanked all the members for coming. We all had pizza for dinner, brownies and halwa for desert.

The young atfaal enjoyed sadar sahib’s company while he played games with him. He showed the kids some tricks and played games from his childhood. I must say the children were amused and got well involved. We all thanked sadar sahib for all he did as he departed for the night. Nazim sahib gave a little dars before the fun part began for them. The dars was on surah Fateah.

Nazim atfaal sahib showed the MKA/Atfaal website in as many details as possible. All the parents and atfaal were very excited about all the things the website had to offer. All the parents loved the tools available to them for them to use. All the children stayed up way beyond their bedtime. They all engaged themselves in various different games and story telling. It was very hard to get them to get them to bed. They all finally went to sleep around 1:30 AM.

The next morning they all woke up around 5:15 am. Imam Zaki sahib led us all in tahajud. Usama Ahmad announced azan followed by salat. Imam sahib delivered dars. His address was New Year’s resolution. He broke down surah Fateah in two parts. He suggested first half is for thanking Allah for all the things he did for us and second half for helping us do all things we were unable to do. All the atfaal received certificates and chocolate bars for participating in the event. That concluded the sleepover.

Atfaal who participated

Usama Gill Ahmad

Farzan Gill Ahmad

Moiz Gill Ahmad (age 6)

Mamoon Husain

Faizan Tariq

Rehman Tariq (AGE 6)

Mubashir Sohail Yousaf

Rashid Yousaf (age 6)

Zahid Yousaf

Nazim atfaal Washington DC