Mohammed Idress
Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts
Mohammed (aka Mohammad) Idrees came to work at UMass as director of finance for the Campus Center in 1977. Leaving in 1988 to work in a similar position at Cornell University, he returned to the area and earned a doctorate in education with a major in finance.
Mohammad Idrees, Ameer, 6, and Sana, 4, selling vegetables at a new farm stand on University Drive
Shortly after his wife, Rahat, passed away, Mr Idrees returned to Pakistan in 1996 and married 26 year old Shakeela Yasmeen. Their two children, Ameer, 6, who will be a first-grader at Wildwood Elementary School in the fall and Sana, 4, can occasionally be seen at the farm stand Idrees has set up on the lawn by Gold’s Gym.
He is currently an adjunct professor of management at a branch of Cambridge College in Springfield and Holyoke Community College, and works closely with the ISWM to further the cause of Al’lah and his Prophet.
In 1998 Mohammed Idrees, Ali Awkal, and Gulam Kagzi filed a DECLARATION OF TRUST in order to conduct real estate transactions to further the sunna of their Prophet.
Hoping to build a mosque for the ISWM, he purchased land on University Drive in 2003.
August 4, 2008 – Veggie farm springs up from Muslim man’s dream to build a mosque.
We couldn’t build a mosque there, so I decided to grow zuchinni to keep my taxes low.
In 2003 Mohammed purchased land in Amherst at 100 University Drive, hoping to start a mosque there.
Several Muslims living in the area told the Gazette in 2003 they hoped a Muslim community center would help familiarize others with Sharia and the sunna of their Prophet.
Another local farmer admires Mohammad’ s zucchini.
Coming Soon – Hampshire mosque ?
If we can’t build a mosque there we can always grow some zucchini
“We’ll keep trying,” said Mohammed. “There’s nothing more important than following the perfect example of our Prophet.”
Safee Idrees earned a B.S in Engineering from UMass in 1996, and is currently employed by General Dynamics C4 Systems as Director for Middle East and North Africa, and Satellite and Communications sales and Afghanistan.
Our mosques are our barracks, our minarets our spears.
Doctors Hazratji, Bajwa, and Khatak of the ISWM have assured us they are still looking for target properties, and Ali Awkal will be “scouting out” around the area for suitable locations for a real Islamic mega-mosque.
Course Evaluation – Holyoke Community College – 2010
I enrolled in his online microeconomics course and to anyone reading this consider this a warning..
This is the worst professor I have ever encountered; he is not engaged in the classroom; offers no assistance to student’s answers and is unsympathetic and unkind.
There was a major illness in my family and despite his syllabus stating making up work would be allowed; he denied my work; after telling the dean; he was forced to let me back into the class.
However he chose to accept only some of courses; claiming he “never received” my homework assignments; by doing I did NOT receive an honest grade and my gpa suffered as a result. He is unprofessional and should not be teaching; do yourself a favor and stay away.
