Women Islamic Mission (WIM) being established 1959 started off with a mission to promote educational, philanthropic and religious values in our society. WIM was founded by the noble Islamic scholar Dr .Farida Ahmed Siddiqui (R.A), daughter of Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (R.A), later on was joined by her colleague Mrs. Shamim Safder. Dr. Farida Ahmed was a former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the only serving women in the Council of Islamic Ideology.
Under her leadership followed by her daughter, the successor and current president Mrs. Summaiya Imran Salam, along with her companion Sayeda Shaheen Safder, the institute has evolved massively in the last 61 years with its services. WIM believes in quality education both religiously and academically by offering the following programs:
- Schooling from Pre-primary to Matric
- Tajweed + Hifz-e-Quran with academics
- Student Hifz-e-Quran Program
- Dars-e-Nizami Degree (Aalima course accredited with Tanzeem ul Madaris)
- Tajuma and Tafseer-e-Quran Course (1 year with Certification)
- Islamic Short Courses (Farz Uloom, Arabic Language and other courses with Certification)
WIM runs all expenses paid centers that provide free Islamic Education to women and children across the city and is expanding the WIM library through in house publications. After several years of dedication in educational and philanthropic work WIM now successfully entails 2 Islamic schools with over 500 students enrolled, an Islamic university (accredited with Tanzeem –ul- Madaris) with over 200 female students to be trained as Aalimas and 15 madrassas across Pakistan, where teams of highly skilled, dedicated and focused members have been working tirelessly to ensure the successful spread of the mission.
WIM has not only educated our youth and women but has always stood up to serve society and lend a helping hand to the less fortunate, staying loyal to our mission of sustaining social, educational, and humanitarian principles by offering the following:
- Monthly ration distribution to households.
- Monthly allowances to needy families.
- Ramadan food drives and rations distribution.
- Dowry arrangements for prospective couples.
BIOGRAPHY OF DR.FARIDA AHMED SIDDIQUI (R.A)
– Founder of Women Islamic Mission WIM
Having completed her Masters in Islamic History and Arabic language along with a Doctorate degree in Homeopathic Medicine.
The daughter of Late Maulana Shah Abdul Aleem Siddiqui, laid the foundations of the WIM in 1959 during her student life with the support of her family and close friends.
The Cosmopolitan School along with 7 other schools came into being however, after they got nationalized, she then started The Aleemia Academy which accommodated over 500 students in a short span of time and due to the increasing student body. Dr. Farida Ahmed Siddiqui laid the foundation of Islamic Mission schools and university which were established under the patronage of WIM. Her hard work and dedication towards this cause has made WIM a leading charitable trust and an honorable name in our society.
Dr Farida Ahmed was the first woman to start a university solely for women for the purpose of Islamic Studies.
In 1976, she took her first tableeghi trip to Mauritius and Kenya and eventually traveled across the globe to countries such as Holland, England, France, America, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and Germany where she opened branches of WIM along with tableeghi centers.
She entered Politics as the President of the Jamiat Ulma-e Pakistan’s womens’ wing and then the President of the Mutahidda Majlis- e Amal’s women’s wing. She served during President Musharraf’s tenure as a member of the National Assembly.
She has also served as an honorable member of the National Security Council, the Islamic Ideology Council and a member of the Karachi university syndicate.
May her soul rest in eternal peace and may we walk the path she walked, talk the talk she talked and may Allah bless her mission and and all the future endeavors by WIM.
Biography of Maulana Shah’ Muhammed Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (R.A)
– Father Of Dr.Farida Ahmed Siddiqui (RA)
Maulana Shah’ Muhammed Abdul Aleem Siddiqui (R.A) was a famous preacher of Islam to the far flung countries for about 40 years. Thousands of non Muslims. In Asia, Africa, Europe and America embraced Islam at his hands. Millions of Muslims received religious and worldly blessings through his dynamic and refulgent personality. Numerous Islamic missionary societies, mosques, schools and hospitals, libraries, infirmaries, orphanages and periodicals sprang in the wake of his Immortal missionary labors.
His Eminence was born at Meerut (UP-Province of Indo Pakistan Sub-continental), on 3rd April, 1892. Endowed with unusual intelligence exceptional memory, he completed his studies in Dars-e-Nizami, (a course of Islamic theological studies), at the age of sixteen. After the completion of Dars-e-Nizami acquired his modern education and obtained his Bachelors degree with distinction from Meerut College in 1917.
He did not discontinue his religious studies while acquiring modern education. He devoted himself simultaneously and especially during vacations to advance Islamic studies. In fact he continued it many years even after he had entered the field as religious leader and amassed further knowledge in Islamic law at Mecca and Medina through discussion with Muslim scholars. Missionary Work:
He began his work of preaching as soon as he had completed his theology studies. Among the countries he visited were Burma, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Viet Nam, China, Japan, the Philippines, Madagascar, South Africa, Portuguese East Africa, now Angola, Kenya. Tanzania, Guyana. Suriname, USA and Canada etc. Wherever he went he encountered dissensions, religious backwardness, ignorance of higher Islamic values, absence of planning on a large scale among Muslims and hatred of Islam among non-Muslims.
Every where he had to carve out his path in stony rocks and had to raise the edifice of his great message almost on virgin soil. The inexhaustible treasure of his moral earnestness, his profound sincerity, his deep piety, his versatile, knowledge and his matchless smile out matched the difficulties.
His thundering but musical voice proved a magical influence in awakening somnolent humanity. His clarion call for the establishment of righteousness and the effacement of sin for the adoption of good, for the enthronement of harmony and the dethronement of strife echoed over mountains and plains across green valleys and sandy deserts in the orient as well as in the Occident among the ‘whites as well as among the blacks. His travels around the globe brought the message of peace to millions of human souls. His visits every where gave new impetus to the religious fervor of the people.
As already been stated above, his eminence visited different parts of the world several times where he delivered lectures, presided over Educational Conferences, worked for the erection of mosque, strived hard to organize the Ulema, exposed false Qadiani beliefs and held discourses with eminent Hindus and Christians.
His Eminence also held discussions with Sultan lbn-e-Saud at Mecca, on the difficulties experienced by European converts in performing Hajj. He also exchanged thoughts with Muslim leaders from all over the world about the Improvement of conditions prevailing in the Hedjaz and conveyed the message of Islam to the non-Muslims of all the previously named countries.
He wrote about one and a half dozen books in Arabic Urdu and English. Great Islamic Scholar and Sufi Shaykh Maulana Shah Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddique al Qadiri (R.A) next to his son, Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddique al-Qadiri (R.A).
His Eminence worked with single minded and physical assistance of his son-inlaw Dr. Maulana Fazlur Rahman Ansari with complete devotion for the cause of Islam and humanity until his noble soul returned to Allan’s mercy on 22nd Zillhij 1372 A, H, (August 22, 1954) Medina Tayabba.