Marhaba dinner minus the visuals
October 7, 2006by Asmaa Hussein
After the smoke cleared, the rubble was settled, and the MSA president was finally back in his seat following his painful speech*, we realized that the event was going quite well!
Although it started late, which is inexcusable, the MSA made up for it by inviting Dr. Yahya Fadlalla to give a wonderful and motivational speech on the love of Jannah. The speaker was the highlight of the evening with his warm stories of the Sahaba (companions of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him) and his passionate message to the attendees.
Despite the fact that students were slowly filing in throughout the evening, we eventually had a full house of about 210 people and had to turn people away at the door! Just a note to those who would like to attend future events, show up on time or there may not be enough seats left!
After dinner, the recepients of the MSA’s ICNA-Relief scholarships were announced and given their cheques for $1500 each, which undoubtably made them quite happy.
The evening ended with a live nasheed performance and MSA jeopardy, brothers vs. sisters. In an unforseen turn of events, the brothers actually won. So kudos to them for not getting whipped by the sisters.
When it comes down to it, Alhamdulillah and thank you to everyone who made this evening memorable! And the food was good, too! (Although this writer would have been more satisfied if there was some chocolate cake after dinner, but baqlava will do.)
* Please note that Shuaib Ally’s speech was not painful. It was tolerable, I suppose.
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was Dr. Fadlalla’s speech really the highlight? i found it dragged on and was a bit, uhh….awkward at times, to put it nicely.
if you ask me, the highlight was the jeopardy game, which was exciting in its own cheesy brotherhood-building way.
overall, the event was pretty good. but it could have used some better entertainment. not that the nasheed performance wasn’t good. it just wasn’t sufficient. next year, can you guys make a video with reasonable audio levels? it should preferably be funny.
Don’t know if we were listening to the same guy, but Dr. Fadlallah’s speech was actually the low point of the evening, unfortunately. And MSA must do something about it’s entertainment. It was sadly lacking.
Thank you for your feedback boo radley and lifelong msaer. We will definitely take your comments into consideration for future events.
unforseen turn of events??? the bros won last year, and the year before as well . . . which just about happens to be every year we had msa jeopardy
p.s. shuaib absolutely loved swades.
I thought his speech was great…it really struck a nerve, for anyone who paid attention. I thought the nasheed part was okay, I don’t know what people were expecting, backstreet boys or tupac? Ya’ni, this is a Muslim event in the month of Ramadan.
The Jeopardy game was also good…the brothers kicked **s again…it shows which gender takes more interest in learning their deen.
I enjoyed the speech. I really didn’t think it was “the low-point of the evening.” Maybe some of you who didn’t like it could provide specifics as to why you didn’t enjoy it so that we can accommodate your needs and opinions for future events.
HNIC member, I found your comment to be very offensive: “it shows which gender takes more interest in learning their deen.” Please refrain from making extremely generalized and sexist comments like that on the MSA blog, or anywhere else for that matter.
and to add on to Asmaa’s comment, maybe you noticed that not all questions were pertaining to deen specifically.
No one liked the video ? at all ? Was it that bad?