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Abo Ther Al-Ghafari Mosque Association is a none profit organization established in 1993, the organization bought a building in Ottawa City and turn it to a mosque named Abo ther Al-Ghafari in 1998, to serve the Shia Muslim community at Canada Capital region. Abo-ther Al-Ghafari Mosque is located very close to Ottawa downtown and to 417 highway, the mosque provide religious services to the Shia Muslim community in Particular and the Muslim community in general or whoever interested in Islam and need to know more about Islam and Shia Moslems.
Abo Ther Al-Ghafari Mosque is named
after one of the great companions of Prophet Mohammed (PUH), He was known
for his courage, his calmness and his far sightedness and also for the
repugnance he felt against the idols which his people worshipped. He
rejected the silly religious beliefs and the religious corruption in which
the Arabs were engaged. After the death of the Prophet, Abu Ther could not
bear to stay in Madinah because of grief and the knowledge that there was
to be no more of his guiding company. So he left for the Syrian desert and
stayed there during the caliphate of Abu Bakr and Umar. During the
caliphate of Uthman, he stayed in Damascus and saw the Muslims concern for
the world and their consuming desire for luxury. He was saddened and
repelled by this. So Uthman asked him to come to Madinah. At Madinah he
was also critical of the people's pursuit of worldly goods and pleasures
and they were critical in turn of his reviling them. Uthman therefore
ordered that he should go to Rubdhah, a small village near Madinah. There
he stayed far away from people, renouncing their preoccupation with
worldly goods and holding on to the legacy of the |