El Socorro imam replaces Franklin Khan in Senate
Newly appointed government senator Imam Sheraz Ali. Photo courtesy Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago
IMAM SHERAZ ALI, head of the Nur-e-Islam mosque in El Socorro Road, San Juan, was sworn in on Tuesday as a permanent government senator to fill the vacancy left by the recent death of former energy minister the late Franklin Khan.
Senators stood for Ali s swearing-in, 45 minutes into the sitting, during which he was greeted by Opposition Senator Wade Mark and Independent Senator Paul Richards.
A brief biography of Ali appears on the website of the University of the Southern Caribbean.
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This trinity is especially evident in the fasting month, the month of Ramadan, the ninth of the Islamic lunar calendar (current year 1442H). A lunar month that begins with the new moon and lasts between 28 and 30 days, until the next new moon appears.
It is the month when the body, mind, and spirit are synchronized in a special way so that we remember and reaffirm the holistic way that we are human beings.
For the body, it is a training stage because you must stop eating and drinking and having sex during the daytime, without abandoning the necessary activities and duties of family, work, and study. An effort that is rewarded at the end of each day, with joy and integration with family and friends, around prayer and food. And practices that are established in the Koran (Sharia), as the supreme law of Islam and that must