Iftar and Dinner with the Examinees

As a concluding event of the bar operations, AMAL hosted the

"AMAL POST BAR GATHERING: Iftar and Dinner with the Muslim Examinees"

last September 23 at the new SWEEPSTEAK Resturant fronting De La Salle University.

Opening Dua led by Mr. Nomaire Madid of the Mindanao State University

Dean Basari Mapupuno with bar candidates.

Meeting students form Notre Dame University of Cotabato City

Examinees from Ateneo de Davao and Philippine Law School

Ms Amihilda Sangcopan delivers a talk on behald of Anak Mindanao (AMIN)

TOYM Awardee Samira Gutoc of Arellano University shares her experience

Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Lead Convenor of the Philippine Council for Islam and Democracy (PCID)

Atty Baratucal Caudang, Remedial Law professor from MSU

AMAL Members pose after the event
.

Friday Prayer in Arellano

Muslim bar candidates enrolled in the Arellano Bar Review Program

requested for the holding of the Friday congregational prayer in the AUSL campus.

Alhamdulillah, the AUSL Administration readily allowed the use of the AUSL Mock Court.

meeting up with friends

The AMAL Bar Operations also served as a venue where new friendships were made and old friends and schoolmates were reunited. Here, Muslim Students' Association members from Emilio Aguinaldo College, Philippine Women's University and the University of the Philippines meet during the Post Bar Gathering.

AMAL Sec Gen Anna Farina visits former schoolmates from Xavier University

MSU law students from different batches join Dean Basari Mapupuno

Lunch Distribution

Waiting for the examinees near the Quirino exit.


Ready to distribute at the MSU tent.



Ms. Amie Sangcopan, Rep. Hataman's Chief of Staff, gives her instructions at the AMIN tent.

Preparing, transporting and handing meals were the main tasks during daytime.

Headquarters: a place to...

eat ...

discuss strategies ...

... and rest (of course).

Indeed, without our headquarters,

sponsored by the families of

Mayor Datu Saudi Shamrun Ampatuan

and Governor Datu Zaldy Ampatuan,

our bar operations would not have been as successful.

MUSLAF

Atty. Karim Panumpang, President of the Muslim Legal Assistance Foundation (MUSLAF), is not only a major sponsor of the our bar operations.

He also contributed many ideas and moral support for its realization.

In this picture taken during the first AMAL assembly last April 1, 2007, he was sharing his experience and encouraging AMAL members to push through with a bar operations project.

It's Year 5 for AMIN

September 2007 marks the fifth year

of Anak Mindanao's presence in the Bar Site.

Since 2003, it has been giving food and other assistance

for the Mindanaon bar examinees.

For its support for the AMAL Bar Operations,

it pledged at least 50 meals per Sunday

and shared its tent with the AMAL bar operators

Volunteers

Volunteers from UP- Muslim Students Association and Muslim Students Association of Philippine Women's University

Muslim Students Association - Emilio Aguinaldo College President Mazen Khayat
and
UP (Diliman) - Muslim Students Association President Al Julkipli

UP (Manila) - Association of Muslim Students President Zhamir Umag

The Barristers

May Allah s.w.t bless them
as they take the 2007 Bar Exams!

3rd Sunday of the BAR: During the Month of Ramadhan

Putting up the second AMAL banner
is as symbolic as the first one.

Certain sacrifices and adjustments
are made to strengthen the group and its mission.

The 3rd Sunday Bar Operations continues... ; )

These photos were taken at the AMAL HQ, Orchid Garden,
on September 16, 2007.

AMAL Bar Ops during the month of Ramadhan

In the middle of the bar operations,
and before fasting,

AMAL members ate together.

~ sharing food and exchanging insightful stories ~

"Fasting in Ramadan develops in a person the real spirit of social belonging,
of unity and brotherhood, and of equality before God.
This spirit is the natural product of the fact that when people fast they feel that they are joining the whole Muslim society (which makes up more than one fifth of world's population) in observing the same duty, in the same manner, at the same time, for the same motives, and for the same end. No sociologist or historian can say that there has been at any period of history anything comparable to this powerful institution of Islam: Fasting in the month of Ramadan. People have been crying throughout the ages for acceptable 'belonging', for unity, for brotherhood, for equality, but how echoless their voices have been, and how very little success they have met..." says Hammudah Abdalati, in Islam in Focus.

While waiting for the barristers to pass-by
(to give them the last minute tips...)

These few good men still manage to show their best smiles
after a hard day-and-night's work.


Salam! (peace!)
Thank you, AMIN (Anak Mindanao)
for the support!
AMAL volunteers posed at the AMIN tent.

THANK YOU

FOR VISITING OUR BLOG!

Ready to Take the Challenge: Bar Ops

Just like any organization that has just started,
AMAL is experiencing
growing pains.

Putting up this first banner is symbolic.
It shows that the AMAL as a group
is now officially ready
to take responsibilities and challenges.

Its members have voluntarily pledged their commitment
in order to make their projects work,
especially major projects like
the 2007 Bar-Ops.

With our faith in

ALLAH s.w.t.
and in one another,
we will survive,
and we will learn what we need to learn
in order to make AMAL
truly beautiful,
just like our banner.

INSHAALLAH.

1st Sunday of the Bar

The Alliance of Muslim Advocates of the Law (AMAL)

is spearheading the still ongoing

AMAL BAR OPERATIONS 2007

These were taken during

the first Saturday of the bar month,

September 1, 2007.

As you can see, a lot of volunteers,

including the Mindanao State University (MSU)
Bar-Ops Team,

were there to coordinate with AMAL.

Thanks to all those who helped and are helping.

ALHAMDULILLAH!

ALLAHU AKBAR

and

RAMADHAN KAREEM!