A great initiative.. but can the amount that has been received be updated regularly so that we know where we are. It stands at £700+ at the moment. I personally think it will encourage more donations. Just my take on this.
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This is great stuff. It's a modern form of crowd funded patronage essentially which is one of the traditional ways of funding scholarship throughout classical history. Other groups have funding that results in publishing high quality books, translations, research etc so it's good that we have something too. I'd also suggest that some funds could be used to provide free copies of published works to non desi scholars/schools to promote Imam Ahmed Rida and his students. The profileration of his work in those lands would help counter the kind of slander promoted by the deos.
Great initiative. MaSha Allah Better late than never. In modern times, companies provide their employees high value items (laptops, ipads), access to higher education learning platforms, financial support to further their studies (masters, PHD, MBA) just to ensure that the employee remains competent to provide the best service to the organization. However this is never seen in sunni circles (apart from DI who gives their muballighs ipads to deliver bayaans from). If only we could adopt these good work cultures from the west and fund our Ulama with latest technologies and courses related to upskilling themselves on using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint ..... kids are using laptops in schools, college and university therefor we should try to ensure we can also provide courses and duroos using the same mediums which make it compatible with the mode of learning in modern times. Every madressa and musjid should have funds to give teachers and imams such devices to ensure they continuously learn about modern technologies, teach kids using these modern tools, and warn youth about the dangers of technology. Deobandi masajid in my area are already giving bayaan about artificial intelligence and the ways to use it spread Deen. Furthermore they also discussed disadvantages of such technology (such as use of AI techniques to generate deep fakes). Their imams told the mussalees to continue learning Deen from local imams and Ulama rather than resorting to AI chatbots for answers. Whereas our Ulama (who don't even know what AI) are still giving talks from waqiyas. I don't know if I make sense. (Typed this out really quick) But overall great initiative. Allah bless the brothers behind it.
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