Nasheed Factor Movie 2012

Nasheed Factor gains further popularity! Alhumdullilah

Assalamo Alaykum to our Dear Fans!

Ramadhan Kareem!

We hope you are reaping the benefits of this blessed month of Ramadhan. May Allah swt bless each and everyone of you and accept your fasts!

The Nasheed Factor team bring you some more exciting news. As you know the prestigious event held by Islamic Relief and The Well Foundation in July really spurred things for the Nasheed Factor Project. Alhumdullilah we gained an immense amount of support which was overwhelming. This has put Nasheed Factor on the platform as being one of Scotland’s most anticipated Islamic competitions. We thank our fans and team for the support gained and inshallah continue to receive.
So the best part- what was this huge promotional launch which made people laugh, sad and think about the message being portrayed?

The Nasheed Factor Movie 2012 has been released! An exciting showcase of the project itself in the form of a role play. Featuring a comical performance, 2 very contrasting song performances and a story behind it all!

Our team members: Shahbaz, Akeel, Afia, Bushra, Sherin and Usman imitated the very well-known ‘The X Factor’ with an Islamic twist. The idea was to show to the audience that the applicant, who set out to sing Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean, had a voice for a much better cause. An opportunity to sing nasheeds to voice concerns on humanity and praise Allah swt. The applicant- Shahbaz returned the next day having been told he was at the ‘Nasheed Factor’ and not ‘X factor’ stunned the audience and judges with his nasheed- ‘For the Rest of My Life’ by Maher Zain. The applicant had reflected on his singing the night before, and discovered he had a voice for singing nasheeds which can send out a positive message.

The role play at the end also features video blogs from a number of famous nasheed artists such as Native Deen,Khaleel Muhammad,Outlandish & Shaam! They shared their thoughts on the Nasheed Factor and encouraged people to help in the cause. So we hope that this short entertaining drama has instilled passion into our fans and prompts them to listen and sing alternatively to the ordinary music being endorsed. Nasheeds, naats and Qiraats are the new and exciting way forward to strengthening your deen and making a positive change, inshallah.

So since the month of Ramadhan is upon us, we would like to wish our fans the best. This is an exciting time for applicants to brush up on their vocals and show to the Nasheed Factor team and the rest of Scotland, their Islamic talent blessed by Allah swt, inshallah.

Jazakallah Khair  

Nasheed Factor's Live Promotional Launch

A Moment of Glory for Nasheed Factor at the Water for Life Fundraising Dinner!!

Alhumdulilah what an excellent start to the month of July with the Water for Life Fundraising Dinner hosted by two prestigious charities: Islamic Relief and the Well-Foundation. A great event! A great success! And a great audience! The ambiance was immense filled with great speeches, remembering the cause of the event and followed by lovely entertainment by well-known nasheed artist- Saif Adam. The audience and Nasheed Factor were honoured to have Saif Adam sing two of his beautiful nasheeds, ‘I am strong’ and ‘Heart of a Muslim’.

Nasheed Factor Team with Nasheed Artist Saif Adam

Mashallah over £50,000 was raised for the Water Projects in West Africa- an outstanding amount which will go to a charitable cause, inshallah. A number of prestigious members of the community such as Habib Malik, First Minister Alex Salmond and CEO of Islamic Relief Dr. Mohammed Ashmawey were also present at the event and gave speeches.

Shahbaz Mirza - Nasheed Factor Producer explaining the main cause and objective of the project. 

The highlight of the evening was the Nasheed Factor Live Promotional Launch in the form of a role play, mimicking the X Factor with an Islamic twist. It was a delightful short drama exhibiting the purpose and cause of Nasheed Factor and spreading the love and excitement this project has brought with it. The audience were left stunned and excited with the promotional launch which has boosted the popularity of Nasheed Factor, Alhumdulilah.

Nasheed Factor Team  role play judging panel 

Our very own Nasheed Factor Producer- Shahbaz Mirza left the crowd speechless with his heart-moving voice, singing a nasheed.

 An excellent performance and excellent encouragement for others to come forth and join our great project, inshallah!

A very successful night for Nasheed Factor indeed and many more to come, inshallah! The team also auctioned off four tickets for the Nasheed Factor Finale, again adding credibility to the project and creating hype for the Finale!!!

Another great surprise is on your way which is still under cover, so stay tuned to find out folks!!
JazakAllah Khair and stay blessed!

Nasheed Factor Team on stage concluding the performance

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Nasheed Factor: Let your voice be heard by the world!

Have you applied to the Nasheed Factor? Are you a potential winner? Got the voice to touch people’s souls? Wondering what Nasheed Factor is actually going to offer YOU THE WINNER? That’s right read our top story of the week.

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Mashallah!! Nasheed Factor has just teamed up with the prestigious Glasgow Music Studios, a professional recording company to give the 2012 winners an opportunity of a lifetime. Similar to other multifarious entertainment shows, this is an awesome opportunity for the winner to showcase their voice with the help of a record company. Your winning voice, whether that be in the form of a nasheed, naat, humd, quran recitation or poem can be mastered and mixed by a professional producer. Nasheed Factor is an opportunity for you to make your own CD and be recognised as the NEW and EXCITING ISLAMIC VOCALIST.

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It’s all about making a difference to your life and a difference to others, so what are you waiting for? Nasheed Factor has faith in its applicants that this is the opportunity they have been longing for. We wish to encourage all our wonderful youth and respected adults to come forth and make a difference. To allow them to read and sing Islamic poetry, nasheeds, naats and recite Quran PROFESSIONALLY!!

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Nasheed Factor is not just about a competition but could change your life! Just look at professional renowned nasheed artists such as Kamal Uddin, Labbayk, Mishary Alafasy & Sami Yusuf. Have you thought maybe this might be that opportunity for you to SHINE LIKE A STAR and show to the world how amazing a voice you have?

Apply now at www.nasheedfactor.co.uk for your opportunity to shine!!!!!

                                                      

JazakAllah :) 

Poetry Qiraat & Nasheed Factor Touring ALL Of Scotland

Salam WR WB,

Recently it has been decided to incorporate a Poetry and Qiraat Category into the competition to allow a more diverse range of talent to be showcased.

SO we have 3 categories

• Nasheeds Naats Hamds
• Poetry
• Quran Recitation

An adult and a childrens winner will be selected from each category!

Quran Recitation is the bread and butter of Islam and we felt saddened to leave this out of the competition so it is back in, so if you know anyone who can hold their tone when reciting Quran please let us know and tell them to apply!

In addition we also have poetry now! Where Rap will also be allocated into this category so if you can lyrically impress us with your islamic words then apply!

OH! & We are also visiting ALL Scottish Cities.

• GLASGOW
• EDINBURGH
• DUNDEE
• ABERDEEN

We will be touring the whole of Scotland in the search for Scotlands Next Biggest Vocalist!

Watch this space for audition dates and more information!!

Remember this is for ............. THE POOR! We are singing .......... because they don't have the opportunity to!

www.nasheedfactor.co.uk

Jazakallah!

What is a Nasheed? Nasheed Factor are keeping it fresh

With many differences in opinion on the etiquette of what a Nasheed is, we thought it would be educational and beneficial for us to let the public know on what a Nasheed means to Nasheed Factor.

Nasheeds – beautiful, peaceful and calming songs that tell truths and tales; promote humanity, charity and Islam. This is the type of music which we must emanate to the community in order to tackle the social problems which societies face in the world today.
Established Nasheed Artists differ on what their opinion and thinking of what a Nasheed is. Some artists sing with a full instrumental band, some artists only sing with percussion instruments and others only sing with their voice. Many Scholars have differences in opinion on this matter.

The content of the Nasheed also differs, with some artists only singing Nasheeds which sends salutations to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and other artists sing any content as long as it is related to the teachings of Islam.

All the Nasheed Factor Production wants to say is ..............................................

Nasheed Factor is keeping it fresh.

By fresh we mean, traditional, old school and new school. But one thing is for sure, Nasheed Factor is only about The Voice. Backing tracks is a no go because it takes away the essence of the words which are being sung/recited, we want to listen to the message! Not the tune! And that is what every contestant will be based on. The message is what is most important, the meaning of the words, the story emanated from the words and the softness of the words. Secondly backing tracks are not easily accessible, hence it ensures fairness across all contestants.

The content of the Nasheed must not in any way be controversial to Islam and the teachings of Islam, because it is a simple matter of respecting our creator Allah swt.

We put together a beautiful pictorial diagram of what the essence of a Nasheed must be:

We have had great success in meeting with the Imams and Alims in Scotland who have taught us how best to execute the competition in order to ensure that this is a halal production and that is exactly what we are doing. Listening to the knowledge of Islam.

So you guys are saying right now .........................


"Man why you be hatin' on normal music, whats up with all the nasheed promotion y'all"


Subconsciously it is scientifically proven that music activates nearly every region of our brain, some songs are cleverly made to affect your brain waves, to release a chemical called Dopamine to make you feel good. This is what mainstream, non permissible music, does to you.

Music can have a massive influence on us all, it manipulates our mood, alters it or even programmes us!

We have all faced it! You are sitting in your car, a song comes on the radio and you start bopping your head! Or you drive faster!

This is something which we want to get away from in life as muslims. Only practising Islam should make you feel good, and you should fill up your mind what positive thoughts, positive images and positive actions. Not the sins which mainstream music portrays in the world today.

So from the Nasheed Factor team all we want to say is


We're keeping it real

 

Evening of Inspiration

Nasheed Factor: Evening of Inspiration 2012

On Sunday 8th April, the Nasheed Factor Team jetted down to the ICC Symphony Hall in Birmingham for the Evening of Inspiration Tour 2012 for the Orphans hosted by Islamic Relief.

The event set-up was mindblowing, the professionalism of Islamic Relief was on form with an army of volunteers not only from Birmingham but from all over the UK, ready to answer the call. The co-ordination of the volunteers, meeting and seating of guests and charismatic attitude they adopted made the night an unforgettable one to say the least.

Over £134,000 raised for orphans through the One Safe Village appeal. With 5 orphans being sponsored from members of the Nasheed Factor Team from Islamic Relief Scotland.

So what did the Nasheed Factor Team get up to?!

From the off start we went behind the scenes to visit all the stars of the show, we started off by meeting Junaid Jamshed, that's right I said it! Junaid Jamshed! Who was practising his vocals for his big performance on the night! Junaid kindly autographed an album wall frame which was professionally made to auction off to raise money. Which will be available on the Nasheed Factor Finale! He showed great interest in Nasheed Factor and praised the cause "Rebuilding People's Lives"

Next up .... Native Deen! 3 young men from the USA who are a phenomenal harmony group with exciting energy, bursting on stage. Being with Native Deen backstage; we realised how down to earth these nasheed artists were. Native Deen kindly shot some footage with us for the Nasheed Factor and signed nasheed memoribilia to auction off to raise money. Their response to hearing about Nasheed Factor was "Damnnn that's hottt".

We also bumped into, met and gret huge stars such as Ahmed Hussain! Preacher Moss! and not to mention SHAAM the Nasheed Group whom we had extensive interviews with regarding Nasheed Factor.

Finally we got to meet the biggest stars of the show .............

Outlandish! The 3 most coolest guys the Nasheed Factor Team have ever met, maxing and relaxing backstage with Outlandish was an unreal experience. They took great interest in Nasheed Factor and were overwhelmed by our Nasheed Factor Arabic Logo Canvas! Outlandish also shot some footage with us for the Nasheed Factor Production.

All in all the Nasheed Factor Team had a very productive night! Despite not getting to actually watch the show, being backstage with some of the top names in the industry provided to be a very interesting, worthwhile and mind blowing experience. The Nasheed Artists response to the concept of Nasheed Factor was uplifting, positive and supportive.

Please watch the video below for an interactive video of our trip to Evening of Inspiration!

Join our Nasheed Factor Team!

Nasheed Factor is an extravagant, thrilling and beautiful new project that is under the wing of Islamic Relief Scotland. There will be auditions where applicants from mainly Scotland will compete to make it into the final - which will be in September - A Grand Finale! X-Factor style but with all the contestants singing nasheeds!

All money raised is going to Islamic Reliefs One Safe Village Project. Where Islamic Relief empower a community by giving them education, healthcare and skills for women to be sustainable in their life, establish a work ethic and support their family.

"Rebuilding People's Lives" is what drives us, it is what is in our hearts, our breath and our self-being. We aim to rebuild villages so that women, children and men can have that opportunity in life which we all take for granted.

We are singing ....... To Rebuild Their Lives.

A small team of us from Glasgow have made amazing progress, to keep the ball rolling we now need volunteers from major cities in Scotland to join our team and become part of this fun and exciting event. It is for a huge cause, and our rewards will be great. So join us! We are enthusiastic, friendly, open minded and efficient!

We are looking for volunteers from Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.

You will be given a starter pack and ID badge to get you started and we will be there with you every step of the way, help you integrate into the team, we are all a fun loving bunch!
We are proud to say we are all set so far, have planned carefully and professionally and are willing to put in the extra work to make this an event to remember! There is a lot more to learn and know, so show your interest!

Be part of something special. Take charge of your city and let's get the show on the road!!

Email us: contact@nasheedfactor.co.uk

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