Wednesday 10th June 2020 SABS Director-General Imam Razawi and Chairman Shabir Beg OBE participating in the Interfaith Scotland Religious Leaders and Faith Representatives Conference 2020 today held on Zoom, with Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government.
25th May 2020, With Police Scotland Chaplain the Reverend Neil Galbraith and Sabir Zazai of the Scottish Refugee Council, the Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society worked with the NHS Louisa Jordan’s spiritual care team to help support the critical work the NHS has set up at the time of this pandemic, and to further build on […]
A Scottish Eid Tribute to the NHS and all frontline workers 24th May 2020 The Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society joins with 100 partners and associates across Scotland, on the blessed occasion of Eid Al Fitr, to pay tribute and extend our gratitude to the NHS and all frontline workers. Eid Al Fitr marks the end […]
21st May 2020, Imam Razawi, Rabbi Joseph Dweck, and Harvard student Michel Nehme discuss what coronavirus has meant for religion: from the effects of lockdown on religious assembly, to the role religious leaders have had to play in litigating between tradition and reform as both they and their congregants have been forced to adapt to […]
15th May 2020, Kabul Maternity Ward Attack. Motion in Scottish Parliament by Bill Kidd MSP The Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society thanks Bill Kidd SNP, member of The Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Anniesland, for lodging a motion in Parliament condemning the despicable sectarian Shia killings that took place in the maternity ward in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is crucial that […]
18th May 2020, It was a privilege for SABS Director General Imam Razawi to have co-hosted a Multi Faith Virtual Iftar organised by Faiths United, and supported by Faiths Forum for London and Faith in Leadership. Participating in the Iftar were friends, colleagues, and special guests Mark Drakeford (First Minister of Wales), Arlene Isabel Foster […]
In an annual tradition, with a now virtual spin, members of the Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society and the Shia Community participated in a Zoom Blessing with the Revd Canon Marion Chatterley, Vice Provost St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, and The Rt Rev John Armes, Bishop of Edinburgh. Every year, during the final days of the Month […]
Newham Reflections: Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz talks with Imam Sayed Ali Abass Razawi
13th May 2020, In a Shia district in Afghanistan, a crime against humanity has just taken place so cruel and evil that words cannot describe it. Nurses, mothers and new born babies were killed in a sectarian attack as gunmen storm a hospital in Kabul. Our hearts go out to those affected by this tragedy […]
We are pleased that, before the global COVID-19 pandemic materialised, H.E. Adama Dieng, UN Under Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, managed to visit the Holy Cities in Iraq, particularly the Land of Karbala. Karbala is the location of the largest annual pilgrimage on earth, as millions flock to […]