In the Footsteps of Mercy: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

Join us in celebrating the blessed birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with an inspiring evening of reflection, unity, and love. Together, we will explore the timeless lessons from his life and how they guide us toward compassion, justice, and peace. This event welcomes everyone—young and old, from all walks of life—to come together and find inspiration in the Prophet’s enduring legacy. Let’s honor his message of mercy and community as we strive to follow in his noble footsteps

The event will feature  speakers from different Muslim traditions - details to follow.

Saturday, September 21st

  6:30 PM - Catered Buffet Dinner

  7:24 PM - Salaat ul Maghrebain

  8:00 PM - Open with Qur'an

  8:10 PM - Poetry, Fun Activity and Presentations 

  9:40 PM - Fellowship

10:00 PM - Conclude

Speakers and Presenters:

In addition to presentation from community members, our program to celebrate the blessed birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) will feature:

Dr. Muzaffar Iqbāl

Dr. Iqbal is the President of Center for Islamic Sciences, Canada. Previously he has worked at University of Multan, Pakistan (1977-1979), University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada (1979-84), where he taught Chemistry, South-East Asian Studies Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984-85), where he taught Urdu language and literature, Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) of McGill University (1986-87), where he worked on development of radio-active tracer drugs for imaging brain cancer, Wood Buffalo National Park, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta (1989), where he worked at the Warden's office. Between 1990-1999, he lived and worked in Islamabad, Pakistan: During 1992-1996, he was Director (Scientific Information) at the Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation), abbreviated as COMSTECH. In 1996, he resigned in protest and in 1998, joined Pakistan Academy of Sciences as Director (International Scientific Cooperation). He moved back to Canada in 1999 and between 1999 and 2002, he was the Director of Science and Religion course program of the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences (CTNS), Berkeley, a research center of the Graduate Theological Union. In 2000, Dr. Iqbal established the Center for Islam and Science, Alberta, Canada, (renamed Center for Islamic Sciences in 2013). As the founding President of CIS, Director Iqbal travelled in Europe, the Muslim World, and some parts of Far East in relation to his research and teaching work in Islam and Science discourse. Since 2008, he has devoted most of his work to Qur'anic studies. In 2009, he initiated a project to produce the first English language encyclopedia of the Qur'an exclusively based on fourteen centuries of Islamic scholarship, The Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an (IEQ). The first volume was published in 2013; the second volume, published in 2024, completes one-third of the Project. In 2020, the IEQ project was expanded to include an e-version of IEQ. Iqbal is also the editor of a bi-annual journal devoted to Islamic perspectives on science and civilization, Islamic sciences (formerly, Islam & Science).

Sheikh Jaffer H Jaffer

Sheikh Jaffer H Jaffer joined ISIJ as the Assistant Resident Alim to Syed Muhammad Rizvi and as the full-time Alim at Masumeen Islamic Center in 2011. He graduated from the Hawza Ilmiya in Syeda Zaynab AS, Damascus in 2011 and has a Masters Degree in Islamic Education from Winchester University.