Name: | Dr Q Ashfaq Ahmad |
Date of Birth: | 12 December, 1930 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Occupation: | Engineering Consultant (Rtd) |
Community Service of Qazi Ashfaq Ahmad
- Convenor of the Living Islam in the Contemporary Global Society seminar 2009
- Founder of the ACSOMOR
- Founder of the Interfaith Youth Friendship Centre 2004
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Chief Organiser of the Multicultural Eid Festival and Fair (MEFF) and Patron of the MEFF Consortium, 1987 to date.
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Organiser of ‘Train the Trainers Course on Da’wah and Dialogue’ conducted at the University of Sydney, Australia from 9-19 July, 1997.
- Organiser of Da’wah Bil Hal International Conference under RISEAP at the University of Sydney, Australia on 29, 30 March, 1997.
- Organiser of international organisations and seminars.
- Islamic writings contributed to international journals, magazines and newspapers.
- Speaker at various international conferences in US, UK, Middle East, South and South East Asia and the Pacific on community issues.
- Chapter on ‘Islam and Muslims in Australia’ of the book ‘Islam, Muslims and the Modern State’ published by the Macmillan Press Ltd. UK and St. Martin Press, USA, June, 1994.
- Assembly member, Council of Parliament of world’s Religions (CPWR), USA, 1993 to date.
- Member, Board of Trustees, International Council of Islamic Information (ICII), UK, 1993 to date
- Member of the Association for Indian Muslims (USA), 1992 to date.
- Member Executive committee, Regional Islamic Daawah Council of Southeast Asia and the Pacific (RISEAP) 1982-1990.
- Founder member and Secretary, Islamic Society of Papua New Guinea, 1980-1983
- Founder member, MSA (USA & Canada) 1959-1983
- Ameer (President) Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Aligarh, 1957-1959
- Research work in Quran at Madrasatul Islah, Saraimir, India, 1955.
- Completed 4 years special course in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Sanwi Darsgah, Jamaat-e-Islami in first division and first position, 1950-1954
- Active worker of Jamaat-e-Islami, Hind (India), 1950-1969
- Active worker for the liberation of India from British Raj under Indian National Congress (1942-1944) and All India Muslim League (1944-1947)
- Contributions to radio, TV, newspapers and magazines regarding issues facing the community.
- Talks, lectures and seminars at various schools, community centres, churches and mosques.
- Organiser of other inter-faith and inter-ethnic meetings and programs.
- Member of various committees for the establishment and construction of mosques, school and community centres.
- Award for Services to Islam by Forum for Australian Muslim Professionals (FAMP), 1994
- Founder and Patron of the Islamic Forum for Australian Muslims (IFAM), 1993 to date.
- Founder Member of the Forum for Australian Muslim Professionals (FAMP), 1993 to date.
- Multicultural Marketing Award for Australasian Muslim Times by the Government of New South Wales, 1992
- Founder Member and the Patron of the Aligarh Muslim University Alumni (Australia), 1992 to date.
- Editor-in-Chief, Mulitlingual Australasian Muslim Times, the only Muslim paper published by AMUST Publications Pty Ltd, January 1991 – June 1994.
- Community Service Award in recognition of a valuable contribution to the Bicentenary in 1988.
- Formative member of the ‘Staff & Students Committee for Peace Studies’ at the Unviersity of Sydney delivering lecture on ‘Concept of Peace in Islam’, 1987.
- Chief Editor of ‘Insight’, the Quarterly Journal of Concepts and Ideas, published by the Islamic Foundation for Education & Welfare (IFEW), 1986 to date.
- Founder Member, Patron and Director, Daawah and Education of the Islamic Foundatiion for Education and Welfare (IFEW), 1986 to date
- Founder and Patron of the ‘Australian Integrated Family’ (AIF) organised to strengthen family ties and bondage within the community, 1986 to date.
- Secretary of the Australian Federation of lslamic Councils (AFIC), 1986-1987
- Founder President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC), Australia wide national organisation of the Muslim Community, 1976-1978
- Founder Member and Chairman of the Islamic Education Service, 1975-1978
- Founder and Executive Committee Member of the Council of Islamic Affairs of NSW (ICNSW), 1974-1976.
- Editor of the journal Ad-Daawah published by the Australian Islamic Mission, 1973-1974.
- Editor of the journal Iman, published by the Islamic Society of NSW, 1973-1974
- Founder Member and Secretary of the Australian Islamic Mission (Jamaat Daawah Islamia), 1972-1976
- Founder Member and the President of the Sydney University Muslim Students Association (SUMSA), 1972-1974
Insight Articles:
- Book Review: Life, Death and the Life After
- Quranic Insight: Aakhira – The Life Hereafter
- Quranic Insight: The Hypocrites and the Believers
- Islamic Education in Australia
- Quranic Insight: The Insanity of Riba-involvement
- Book Review: A Financial Overview of Islam (A Point-form Summary)
- Quranic Insight: The Paradigm Shift
- Quranic Insight: To Deserve Leadership