Published on Jan 31 2009 

The Ijtema was held at the Nasir Mosque Hartlepool on 25^th December 2009. The preparation of the Ijtema started in November 2008 when the local Taleem and Tarbiyyat secretary started preparing Khuddam and Atfal for the Local Ijtema so Khuddam can improve and participate and compete at Regional and National level.

Local Qaid, Wadood Ahmad Daud Sahib allocated different Khuddam in different teams, Ziafat, Waqare Amal and Academic and Sports competitions team so Ijtema can run effectively and smoothly and Alhumdulillah all teams worked well and Ijtema went smoothly without any problems.

The Ijtema was planned to start at 11am but it was slightly delayed because we had to wait for the people from Newcastle as they had a long journey to travel to get to the Mosque so they got a little late.

At the start of the Ijtema we had attendance of 25 Khuddam and Atfal, Regional Amir Bilal Atkinson Sahib, Local Sadr Hartlepool Syed Hashim Ahmad Sahib, Local Talim and Tarbiyyat secretary and academic competition’s Judge Dr Fazl Omer Sahib, Deputy Regional Qaid Mohammad Zafarullah Sahib and 2 guests from London representing Sadr Sahib Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya as he couldn’t make it because he had a lot of other Local Ijtemas to attend.

Opening Session

• Tilawat
• Hadith
• Pledge
• Nazm
• Sayings of the Promised Messiah (as)
• Opening address by local Qaid Hartlepool
• Short speech and Sadr Sahib’s message by Nasir Khawaja Sahib, National secretary Khidmat-e-Khlak and Okasha Sami sb

Straight after the opening ceremony, the Atfal were separated from Khuddam and the academic competitions began. The Atfal were divided in 2 groups over 10 and under 10.

Academic and Sports Competitions

• Tilawat
• Hifze Quraan (memorization of first 17 verses of the Holy Quran and last 10 surah of the Holy Quran)
• Nazm
• Adhan
• Prepared speech

After Adhan competition the academic competitions were put on hold so the Zuhr and Asr Prayers can be offered and after the prayers the meal was served to all Khuddam and Atfal.

Khuddam speech competition started straight after the lunch and because Atfal has already completed their academic competitions, their sports competitions began.

The sports started later than expected on the afternoon. It started with the Arm wrestling competition for Khuddam. There were 10 people who took part in this. This ran for 35 minutes and then the table tennis tournament begun. The tournament was played for around 15 minutes but had to be finished early due to lack of time. 12 Khuddam took part in this. There was a Basketball shootout planned, but was cancelled because we didn’t have enough time.

As for the Atfal, they began with 100m race which took place in the front garden of the mosque and 12 Atfal took part in the race. The Atfal then had an Arm wrestling competition. There were 3 categories including, under 11’s, over 11’s, and under 7’s and 12 Atfal participated. As for lack of time, Atfal didn’t have a chance to take part in table tennis, although some of them played some table tennis while Khuddam were holding their arm wrestling competitions.

Atfal academic and sports results are as follows:

Competition	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Participants
Tilawat Under 10	Parvaiz Ahmad	Basil Ahmad		2
Tilawat Over 10	Jalees Ahmad	Asad Nadeem	Abdullah Ihsan Zafarullah	6
Hifze Quran Under 10	Parvaiz Ahmad			1
Hifze Quran Over 10	Asad Nadeem	Jalees Ahmad	Abdullah Ihsan Zafarullah	5
Nazm Under 10	Parvaiz Ahmad			1
Nazm Over 10	Jalees Ahmad	Asad Nadeem	Numaan Ahmad	3
Adhan Over 10	Harris Mansoor Ahmad	Asad Nadeem	Abdullah Ihsan Zafarullah	6
Speech Over 10	Harris Mansoor Ahmad	Asad Nadeem	Addullah Ihsan Zafarullah	3
Arm wrestling Over 12	Asad Nadeem	Adeel Ahmad		2
Arm wrestling 11 year olds	Jalees Ahmad	Haris Ahmad + Nomaan Ahmad	Abdullah Ihsan Zafarullah	7
Arm wrestling Under 7	Faizan Ahmad	Pervaiz Ahmad + Daud Mohd		3
100m Race	Asad Nadeem	Jalees Ahmad	Harris Ahmad	12

Khuddam academic and sports results are as follows:

Competition	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Participants
Tilawat	Munawar Ahmad	Faheem Ahmad	Anas Ahmad	14
Hifze Quran	Nadeem Ahmad	Awais Ahmad	Munawar Ahmad	10
Nazm	Usmaan Omer	Faheem Ahmad	Awais Ahmad	6
Adhan	Faheem Ahmad	Khalil Ahmad	Adil Ahmad	12
Speech	Adil Ahmad	Mahmood Ahmad + Qasim Ahmad + Usmaan Omer	Ali Ahmad
Arm wrestling	Sheraz Kasi	Imran Khalid	Shahab Ahmad	10
Table Tennis	Usmaan Omer + Sheraz Kasi + Ali Ahmad + Qasim Niazi + Sheroz Ahmad + Shahab Ahmad			12

Final session

 

• Tilawat
• Nazm
• Qaid Sahib’s report on Ijtema
• Prize distribution
• Deputy regional Qaid Mohammad Zafarullah Sahib’s address
• Regional Amir Sahib’s address
• Silent Prayer
• Photo session

Qaid Sahib presented the Ijtema report to all Khuddam and Atfal. By the end of the Ijtema we had the total attendance of 23 Khuddam out of 26 and 12 Atfal out of 13 and Qaid Sahib was pleased that the attendance has improved during the Ijtema.

After the Qaid Sahib’s report, there was prize distribution in which everyone even Khuddam and Atfal who didn’t win anything got a book and chocolates.

Then Deputy Regional Qaid Sahib addressed the Khuddam and Atfal on behalf of Regional Qaid Sahib North East and he put emphasis on Khuddam and Atfal offering their Salaats at the mosque or their local Salaat centres.

Then finally Regional Amir Sahib North East gave a quick speech (as we were running out of time) on happiness and that what makes him happy and that was, that majority of Khuddam and Atfal attended the Ijtema and majority of them participated in one or more competitions.

In the end Amir Sahib led us to silent prayer to conclude the annual Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya Hartlepool Local Ijtema and then all Khuddam had a group photo with Amir Sahib.