On the 10th of April 2008, Allama Muhammad Idrees Sahib visited the Minhaj-ul-Quran Home Educational Project Halifax at Muhammad Javid Akhtar's residence. This was to perform the opening ceremony of Monthly Halkha-e-Darood Shareef sessions for both brothers and sisters. 

Durind the event, Muhammad Javid Akhtar, In-charge of the Minhaj-ul-Quran Educational Project, presented an update on the progress made on behalf of Minhaj-ul-Quran Halifax to Allama Idrees Sahib, and mentioned that we are very lucky to have had a visit from Shaykh-ul-Islam in 1990 which was the starting point of Shaykh-ul-Islam's tour of the UK, during this tour Shaykh-ul-Islam also opened the very first Minhaj-ul-Quran Library in Halifax at this residence. Adding that, Shaykh-ul-Islam has blessed us by staying at this same residence for a week, during having organised lectures, taking part in the Yorkshire and Lancashire regions. Muhammad Javid also added that, we also organised an event in Halifax for Shaykh-ul-Islam and after the lecture the first official meeting for all the UK members was held in Halifax, after this Shaykh-ul-Islam ordered everyone that they should all go to eat at Javid Akhtar's residence. After this announcement many people become worried as there had only been a certain amount of food prepared at the house by my family, people came back to the house and informed my aunty and my wife of this announcement, they responded in saying 'who made this announcement?' and they said 'Shaykh-ul-Islam', after this they replied 'then we don't need to worry, we will read Bismillah and carry on, there will be enough for everyone Inshallah'. When the meeting had concluded, all the members from the UK made their way back to my residence with Shaykh-ul-Islam. Some of the people had to be seated in the neighbours house due to the large number of people. We began to give out the food to everyone starting with Shaykh-ul-Islam, we began to see a miracle of Shaykh-ul-Islam as everybody had eaten. We also had some food left over that was given to the birds the next day. 

On this event Muhammad Javid Akhtar also added to Allama Idrees Sahib that, Shaykh-ul-Islam had also visited my residence in 1991. On this tour we also organised Shaykh-ul-Islam's Programmes throughout various towns of the Yorkshire and Lancashire regions, these include Halifax, Bradford, Huddersfield, Oldham, Nelson, Bolton and Manchester. On this occasion, Shaykh-ul-Islam also resided at my residence for one week and made it the centeral point for the Yorkshire and Lancashire region activities. Allama Idrees Sahib was also shown the table that was used by Shaykh-ul-Islam for his lecture in 1990 at the Halifax Minhaj-ul-Quran Conference. Muhammad Javid also informed Allama Idrees Sahib that the prayer mat,towel,water jug and flowers used by Shaykh-ul-Islam during his stay at my residence are still present in my home, Shaykh-ul-Islam had given us blessings in the 1990s in which we are not worthy of, these are all the favours of Shaykh-ul-Islam. What we have established in Halifax for Minhaj-ul-Quran or any other fields, this is all the blessings of Shayk-ul-Islam. We pray that Allah will make us sincere to Shaykh-ul-Islam and work with honesty, bravery and wisdom for the mission according to the instructions of Shaykh-ul-Islam, just for the mission and not for our own interests. Ameen.

On hearing this, Allama Idrees Sahib was very pleased and then after lunch Allama Sahib was invited to listen to the naats and recitation of Dua 'Lab pe atee hai Dua ban kay tamana mayree, zindagi shamah kee surat ho hudaya mayree...' by the two Girls classes of Minhaj-ul-Quran Home Educational project, after this Allama Idrees Sahib delivered a lecture to them explaining how important it is to have islamic knowledge and told them about Minhaj-ul-Quran and Shaykh-ul-Islam. Allama Sahib became very impressed on how the girls had been trained in reciting naats,dua and the Discipline shown by the students.

Report Prepared by Safyah Akhtar (MYL Halifax).