It is with regret that the Board of Directors of the Mosque announces the resignation of Imam, Jamal Taleb effective May 1, 2013. Imam Taleb has served the Mosque since 1998. During that time, he has led us through very challenging times including the unfortunate events of September 11th as well as the more fortunate challenges associated with the growth of the community and the expansion of our Mosque. Imam Taleb has indicated that he will be returning to Lebanon where he will focus his energies on completing his PhD in Islamic Studies. You will have an opportunity to hear Imam Taleb on one final occasion. He will return to the Mosque to deliver a Friday sermon in June as a representative of the Lebanese Dar Al-Ifta.

Please extend your warmest thank you and support to Imam Taleb and his family for the many years of contribution to the London community.

London Muslim Mosque Board of Directors

For Islamic Issues

Dr. Mahmoud Haddara 

• Will be in the Imam’s office on Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays
• Office hours - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

For Marriages

• Dr. Moustafa Fahmy - (519) 204 6214
• Dr. Munir El Kassem - (519) 852 0053

For Funerals

• Br. Hasib Zebian - (519) 633 4794

For Mosque, events, and other issues

• Br. Habib - Office: (519) 439 9451 ext. 3 or Cell: (519) 702 4006

Once Abdullah Bin Jafar (radiAllahu anhu) was passing through a forest when he went by an orchard where an Abyssinian slave was working.

Someone brought him his food and, at the same time, a stray dog came into the garden, and stood by the slave, who threw a loaf of bread to the dog, which ate it but did not go away.

The slave-boy threw it a second loaf and a third one, thus letting it eat the whole of his daily provision of food, keeping nothing back for himself.

Abdullah bin Jafar, who had been watching this, said to the boy, “How much bread do you get as your daily ration of food?”

The boy said, “I get three loaves everyday, as you have just seen.”

Once long ago, a young man named Salman came to perform Hajj. He was poor and had no money for food. So he stayed at Makkah spending much of his time in the Haram. During the day, he worked to earn his bread which he ate with ZamZam water.

One day while in the masjid al-Haram, he saw something glittering under the sun in the distance. “What could that be?,” thought Salman.

As he came closer, he found that someone had dropped their purse. When he opened it, he found an expensive necklace along with plenty of money.

“I could buy a lot of nice things with all this money,” Salman thought. “I could buy a good house and good food with that money”. But his piety spoke to him: “It is haram - it’s not your property”.

Meanwhile, the owner of the purse came searching for it. Salman saw the owner asking people if they had seen their purse. “I’m a thief,” thought Salman, “I have the purse”.

But Shaitan whispered to him, “Don’t be a fool. You need this money badly”. But Salman remembered the du’a to say to make Shaitan go away from him;

I ask Allah to protect me from the rejected Shaitan.