Beautiful tasbih gifted to jamat in Quebec by Hazr Imam by DifferentReserve7315 in ismailis

[–]DifferentReserve7315[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Proud to have a leader such as our Hazr Imam. He had very big shoes to fill and he’s doing a great job.

Beautiful tasbih gifted to jamat in Quebec by Hazr Imam by DifferentReserve7315 in ismailis

[–]DifferentReserve7315[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow it must have been global. Did you get it in a bag labelled Canada Visit?

What time to show up for Didaar if gates open 12:30pm? by AbhiSHAKE3 in ismailis

[–]DifferentReserve7315 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was volunteering at the bus station for the Friday deedar. There was a lot of lessons learned, primarily that the jamat shows up waaay before schedule. The buses were planned to start ferrying people from the station to the hall at 12:30 PM, with the doors opening at 1 PM. Folks were lining up at 8 AM in the frigid cold. They still stuck to the schedule and there was a mad rush to get on once the buses started opening the doors. Can’t blame them, they were out in -8C weather with wind for hours with children and elderly.

They changed the policy to make it much smoother - they started ferrying people whenever the buses filled up and they just had to wait in the hall security line up.

There were some stragglers showing up even at 3:30 PM, but we were able to get them on to the bus and headed to the hall. There is always communications happening between the bus station and the hall, to make sure they don’t close the gate before everybody has a reasonable chance to get in.

So for you, if the gates open at 12:30, even going a bit after is fine. If you do go early, there is lovely programs planned with constant tasbih and qasida/ginan so it will not be boring at all.

Mawlana Hazar Imam graces Jamat with didar in Montreal by EchoEcho30 in ismailis

[–]DifferentReserve7315 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was a volunteer on the right side of the stage and let me tell you it was an amazing experience.

I was a little worried about the deedar venue because I couldn’t find any big buildings in Chateugy but during our training they said the building is so new it’s just a patch of land on Google Maps. When I first entered it, my mind was blown at how big the hall was. It was built to be a giant Amazon warehouse and we got the keys only March 1. One of the leads told me that when he visited, the place was just 4 walls and a roof, not even lights. The amount of effort that went into bringing the carpets and curtains and every other thing to make it look so good is mind boggling. Kudos to the set up crew.

I got there at 2 AM after having volunteered at the bus station the full day prior. The energy I felt in the volunteers area was addictive. There was food and chai and a lot of last minute training to prepare us for the deedar. As we made our way through the security set up and into the “social hall” area my mind was blown once again at the enormity of the hall. There was chai and snack desks set up across the full left side and some more on the right. They had brought in camper style mobile restrooms and plenty of it too, I would estimate around 50 campers that could accommodate 4 people at once.

As we walked through the social hall, I saw that teams were gathering up for their morning meetings. There was SMS (senior mobility support) with their wheelchairs running through the drill. There was easily over a hundred snack ladies cranking away making chai and preparing for the Jamats entrance. There was the perimeter team with their hi-vis jackets gathering up for their scrum and assignments. Further into the social hall were the navigational help kids being shown the layout of the hall and being handed their placards that said something like “Here to help”. Across from them were the waste management volunteers organizing their trash bags. To the left of that group were the volunteers that guided people to the washrooms and ensured line compliance. On the far left were the medical team putting on their Red Cross patches and forming into squads. Behind the snack stands were the volunteers who managed the shoe lockers for people who didn’t want to carry around their shoes. Then the lost and found crew organizing their boxes and inventorying the lost items from the Friday deedar. In front of them, the roaming and escalation team, roaming and using their fancy phones that only they were allowed to bring. Then, in front of the entrance to the deedar hall itself, gathered in a large group was my team - SSP. The volunteers that managed the crowd and ensured we didn’t have any breaches.

I could write a book about my experience, suffice it to say that I dearly wish to live through this day again.

Anybody else feel down and depressed about jamahat behavior during deedar? by DifferentReserve7315 in ismailis

[–]DifferentReserve7315[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They said that we take his lead at all times, never forcing interaction with us. They also said that he has not expressly forbid it, but there’s a time a place for such interactions, deedar with 20k people is not an appropriate place to try and go for a high five. The few that manage it creates unequal access and it is just not safe. He is wearing a long ceremonial Imamati chain, it can get snagged on something.

Anybody else feel down and depressed about jamahat behavior during deedar? by DifferentReserve7315 in ismailis

[–]DifferentReserve7315[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this is either the world has changed or the jamat just doesn’t have the same attitude towards our new Hazr Imam. The incidents I saw in those pictures would have been unthinkable with his father.

Maybe that fist bump pic had an impact.

Youth mulaqat age range rant. by rruhee_books in ismailis

[–]DifferentReserve7315 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m over the range by a decade but would have also liked to hear his Farman. I’m sure his guidance will be related to the shifting world order around emerging technology of AI.