Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo holds intellectual seminar about Ahlul Bayt

Dr. Jihad Abbas, a vascular surgeon, board member, and one of the six people who founded Toledo’s latest mosque, located in the former Banner Mattress & Furniture Co. superstore at Hill Avenue and Holland-Sylvania Road. The center practices the Shia branch of Islam.

Dr. Jihad Abbas, a vascular surgeon, board member, and one of the six people who founded Toledo’s latest mosque, located in the former Banner Mattress & Furniture Co. superstore at Hill Avenue and Holland-Sylvania Road. The center practices the Shia branch of Islam.

Sayed Saleh Qazwini, 28, a guest speaker at the center, is a sociology student at the University of Michigan who has also studied at the Islamic Seminary of Iran, in Qom. 

He said in a recent lecture on Fatima, Mohammed’s youngest daughter and one of the Ahlul Bayt, “We have to take the Ahlul Bayt as role models because they are the ones who should be representing the religion of Islam. They are the ones who stood for justice, they are the ones who stood for equality, and they are the ones who stood for love and compassion.”

The Ahlul Bayt Center is the third Shia mosque in the greater Toledo area.

Ahlul Bayt Center of Toledo held its first services on Oct. 3, on the Shia holiday Eid al-Ghadeer, which celebrates Shias’ belief that whenProphetMohammed named Imam Ali as his successor.