Vacancy – Volunteer Director At The Muslim Mediation Service

Vacancy – Volunteer Director At The Muslim Mediation Service



Do you have the expertise to lead and wish to give back to the community? Or do you want to develop your management skills and build upon your CV? Becoming the first Director of the Muslim Mediation Service may be the opportunity you were looking for! For our East London office, we are looking to recruit a Director in a voluntary capacity who can give a minimum of four hours a week during the day to oversee the general management of our staff and service.



The Board of Trustees are offering you an exciting and unique opportunity to take command of this national charity at a pivotal moment in its growth. Muslim Mediation Service is embarking upon a period of rapid development in which it will considerably broaden in the direct support services it offers to Muslims across the UK.



For a full job description and service information, or further information please contact Sana Saleem:



E-mail: sana@muslimmediation.org.uk

Telephone: 020 8432 2805

Post: Muslim Mediaton Service, 2a Streatfield Avenue, East Ham, London E6 2LA



To apply, please submit a CV, and supporting statement/cover letter stating why you are applying and why you are the most suitable person for the post, addressed to Sana Saleem at the above postal or email address.



Closing Date: Monday 21st July 2008

Some words on Reflection

Assalamu alaykum ya ummati

Yay my post grad in counselling psychology is over, but still got coursework to do…. For one of these works in question, we had to keep a diary.

I must admit, the basis for keeping a diary was not completely clear to me at first. I have kept a blog for about two years and I can see how it helps, but to write an essay based on it did seem daunting. Well that’s what I have just done, handed my “Personal and Professional Development” coursework in about 5 hours ago.

It does help, reflecting on what you have learnt, how you have grown, what skills that you have developed, and where you would like to develop more. But its not just what has changed professionally, but how as a person, have you changed. We have to discuss how we see ourselves changed during the last year.

But should we not be used to reflecting? At least spiritually? We have been reminded time and time again, to reflect, to ponder over our existence, to contemplate our final abode….

3:191 [and] who remember God when they stand, and when they sit, and when they lie down to sleep, and [thus] reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth: "O our Sustainer! Thou hast not created [aught of] this without meaning and purpose. Limitless art Thou in Thy glory! Keep us safe, then, from suffering through fire!

الَّذِينَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَىَ جُنُوبِهِمْ
وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَذا
بَاطِلاً سُبْحَانَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ
(3:191)

I put it to you, reflect over at least the last month or year, what have you achieve; in your profession, in your life and in the preparation of the inevitable death?

How are we to progress in our journeys if we do not know how we have traveled the road so far?

Caution!

Assalamu alaykum

Dear all... I have been surfing the net, all in aid of research for uni work (I assure you) and I have come across some very, how do I put it, some wierd views and people propogating a narrow, and in some ways an inaccurate view on Islamic Psychology.

So I would just like to caution you all who read THIS blog be weary of the net, not just in this matter but in all mattres concerning the deen. We do not want to make a mocery of our Islam, it is not something we can be too wearing about!