Hyatt Magazine Issue 3

Issue 3, 2012

“Your FREE Monthly Social Magazine”

SWIFTPicnicPicnic

GRANDOpening

Eid Al-Fitr

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Pg. 12

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Contents

Pg.6, Swift Picnic

Pg.9, Look Who’s here, Specials & More...

Pg.12, Grand opening- Brooklyn Halal Pizza & Griled Chicken

Pg.14, Eid Al-Fitr

Pg. 16, Community Info

Pg.16, Social update

Pg. 18, Ramadan Prayer Calendar

Swift Picnic

By Khalid Mozaffar

The annual SWIFT Inter-faith Picnic was held on June 24th at member organization St Stephens Catholic Church. It was well attend-ed with over 140 people, includ-ing the young and the old! SWIFT (South West Interfaith Team) has several churches (both Catholic and Protestant), two mosques and two synagogues as members. Its annual picnic is one of its popular events since it allows kids and adults alike to have fun together in a relaxed en-vironment. The idea of having an "interfaith" picnic is for Muslims to interact with non-Muslims. It always seems easier to settle down with friends and spend the whole afternoon with them... but the whole purpose is to have people of different faiths to get to know each other and hear about their faiths first-hand. This Insha-Allah will break down barriers and remove prejudices. People started gathering at 1pm. At 1:30pm, the Muslims prayed

their Dhuhr prayer on the picnic grounds. Halal grilled items were served throughout the afternoon, including hamburgers and hotdogs. Guests also brought side-dishes with them, pasta, salad, or fruit dish. They also brought desserts. Kids kept themselves busy in the bounce-house and playing the bean-toss games. They also enjoyed playing the Parachute Game which brought many together for the ac-tivity. The older boys enjoyed their game of baseball. The highlight as every year for the kids is when ev-ery child is given a balloon on which they attach a note with their name. All 50 balloons were simultane-ously released and everyone enjoyed watching them lift up high into the skies and travel into the distance. Adults also played a quick 15 min-ute game where everyone moved around talking to people they did not know before and exchanged in-formation about their family and their favorite things. All-in-all, it was one of the best picnics ever. A large tent was pro-

vided this time so that everyone was sitting together instead of spread all out. This accomplished the task get-ting people to talk to each other and to get to know each other and about their beliefs. The mission of SWIFT is to pro-mote dialogue among the Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious com-munities and to work together on common community projects. The hope is that the efforts of SWIFT will promote mutual respect and will build understanding among these religious communities. Membership of SWIFT is made up of Christian churches, Jewish synagogues and Muslim mosques. SWIFT is made up of groups cen-tered around but not restricted to the South and South-West suburbs of Chicago, IL. It is not the goal of SWIFT to convert any group to the beliefs of another. Also, SWIFT does not take stands on political issues. SWIFT provides a forum for the Christian, Muslim and Jewish people in the area to educate, interacts with and learns from each other. May God bless this endeavor and give it much success

Ladies from the Orland Mosque.

Ladies from the AIA Mosque.

(Left to Right) Mohammad Nofal, Khalid Mozaffar, and Jan Shaulis

Outside St Stephens Catholic Church.


The Annual

SWIFT Interfaith Picnic

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Look Who’s here, Specials & More...

With great welcoming to a new business into our community, Brooklyn Halal Pizza and Grilled Chicken had its grand opening and opened up their doors to the neigh-borhood serving free pizza on July 10th. Over 2000 slice of pizza were served that day. Friends, family, and people from different cultures stopped by to find out what Brook-lyn Halal Pizza and Chicken had to offer and to taste the food. While community members enjoyed a free slice of halal pizza, mostly they en-joy the soothing taste of the pizza’s bread.

Grand Opening The middle-eastern family owned business has been making pizza since 1978 in Brooklyn, NY and now they are bringing their homemade halal pizza to the middle-eastern and surrounding community. Not only being halal pizza, but they had something special, it’s middle-eastern traditon bread added to the pizza recipe, they used Taboon bread instead of pizza bread. What is Taboon bread? Taboon bread is a crisp, soft inside and not easy to tear bread. Long ago it was cooked on stones making the texture and taste of the bread comes out just right. This bread considered as main food in the middle-eastern country. Taboon bread can be use on many tradition middle-eastern cuisine that can have many filling; cheese, meat, or pizza. Not just being the first Halal Pizza business open in Chicago, but they brought out the traditional middle-eastern taste to it as well. Taking a first bit bring the middle-eastern fla-vor into your mouth. As all day the people were rushing to the doors to have a slice of Brooklyn Halal Pizza and Chicken. Hyatt magazine and its team welcome a new business in town and hope with great luck.


Brooklyn Halal

Pizza

& Grilled Chicken

(Left to Right) Dean, Ayden, Lujain, Leen & Adam.

Worth Police Officers enjoying Brooklyn Halal Pizza.

(Left to Right) Abdullah & Majhed

(Left to Right) Saleh, Mustafa, Mohammed A. & Mohammad I.

(Left to Right) Asma M., Sumaya M.,Deanna O. &Yousuf M.

(Left to Right) Hadeel H., Samar T. & Hadeel T.

Qais & Shaikah Family

(Left to Right) Nada K., Rana K. & Daoud K.

(Left to Right) Ahmed & Nehid

Mahmoud making pizza with taboon bread.

By: H.M.

Ramadan is the ninth month of Islamic lunar calendar and a blessed month for Muslims, where they fulfill their obligation of fasting and other good deeds. During Ra-madan, Muslims observe a strict fast and participate in religious activities. It is a time of intense spiritual renew-al for those who observe it. On the day after Ramadan, the first day of Shawwal (the tenth Islamic lunar month), the first major Islamic holiday takes place where Muslims throughout the world observe a joy-ous three day celebration. The end of the fasting period celebration called Eid al-Fitr. However, through-out Ramadan and before the Eid prayer starts, Muslims must make certain donation to poor people so they have a chance to celebrate the holiday as well. On the day of Eid, Muslims are encouraged to dress in their best clothes and gather early in the morn-ing in mosques to perform a special Eid prayer; this consists of a type of sermon followed by a short congre-gational prayer. After the Eid prayer, Muslims usu-ally scatter to visit various family and friends, give money or gifts (espe-cially to children), and communicate with distant relatives to give well-wishes for the holiday. These activi-ties traditionally continue for three days. In most Muslim countries, the entire three day period is an official government/school holiday. Not too long ago the only way Muslims used to observe Ramadan, Eid and other lunar months were by tracking and watching the moon by their bare eyes. Moon disappears by the end of each lunar month and new crescent born at the start of new lunar months. The accuracy was lim-ited to many factors such as weather, position of the moon, who’s watch-

ing, and so on. Therefore, some geo-graphic areas used to start Ramadan and Eid different than others.

Eid Al-Fitr

In modern technology, scientists

are able to give an exact start day for

each lunar month. Though, hypo-

thetical speaking all Muslims should

start fasting and celebrate Eid to-

gether, but the problem still exists

in this matter, even though, Islam

doesn’t stand against science and

sent to all time and places. But some

people like to stay living in Stone

Age. Until now, Muslims encounter

problem in this matter even in the

same household where one of the

parents follows certain mosque or

country and the other follows an-

other mosque or country. I wish all

Muslims and Islamic countries will

put their religious and political dif-

ferences aside and act as one group

for the sake of all Muslims.


Praying the Eid Al-Fitr prayer.


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