Bilqis: We are a group of 6 girls and call ourselves Bilqis after the Queen of Sheba. We are one of the several 6 member ‘usr’ (Arabic: family) around Toronto which are geared towards self development of its members.

We follow curriculum as set out by MAC Youth. We meet every week for two hours and every month (last Friday) with other Usr’s. For our weekly meeting, we meet on campus of University of Toronto, where we all study. We have several different duties bit overall we read Quran, learn a hadtih, do a reminder, recite the ayah we have learned, learn about a book, discuss any issues we have, talk about the progress of our self-development plan (PDP’s), work on our monthly projects and conclude with dua. In our monthly meetings, we open with our reports about our monthly projects. We rate each usr’s presentation to choose the best one for the month. We are then given a short reminder talk by Br. Khaled Qazzaz or Sr. Sara Attia who organize and head the monthly programs, amongst others, who are all part of the MAC Committee. After that we have our main program, a seminar on a topic with a professional of that field. These topics vary from History to Politics to Consensus Building – each geared to make us develop ourselves. It has also been planned recently that every two months we will spend some parts of the Friday night praying in a mosque.