Thursday, November 17, 2011

Fwd: [IqraReadingRoom] This Week at Iqra!



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From: Khalil Abdur-Rashid <khalilabdur@yahoo.com>
Date: November 17, 2011 1:09:19 PM EST
To: Iqra Masjid <iqramasjid@yahoogroups.com>, "iqrareadingroom@yahoogroups.com" <iqrareadingroom@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [IqraReadingRoom] This Week at Iqra!
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As Salamu Alaikum to all,
 
This week at Iqra, we are pleased to host Shaykh Taha Abdul-Baseer from Harvard University (http://chaplains.harvard.edu/chaplains/profile.php?id=30). He is a specialist in Islamic Finance as well as a scholar in Islamic law. He and his family will be joining us at Iqra this Saturday where he will give a lecture and answer questions regarding topics relevent to Islamic finance and communal banking and credit groups. Here is the summary of this week's events:
 
Friday (Nov. 18)
1.) Jumua Prayer (1:00 - 1:30pm) - Brothers and Sisters invited
2.) Soup Kitchen/Lunch after Jumua (1:45pm - 2:15pm)
 
Saturday (Nov. 19)
1.) Islamic Law & Ethics (2:30pm - 3:30pm) - Imam Khalil (Asr Prayer at 3:30pm)
2.) American Culture/Literature: The Alchemist (4:00pm - 5:00pm) - Imam Shair
3.) Tajweed (4:00pm - 5:00pm) - Imam Khalil (Maghrib at 4:40pm)
4.) Arabic Language (5:30pm - 6:45pm) - Ustadh Ebad
5.) French Table (5:30pm - 6:45pm) - Ustadha Fariha
6.) Isha Prayer at 6:45pm
7.) Dinner & Guest Lecture (7:00pm - 8:30pm) - Lecture by Shaykh Taha Abdul-Baseer
 
Tuesday (Nov. 22)
Iqra Board Meeting with the Brooklyn District Attorney
 
Wednesday (Nov. 23)
1.) Ladies Knowledge Circle (6:30pm - 8:30pm)
Please join us for an exciting week of activities, only at Iqra! 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Rally and Friday Prayers - Stop NYPD and CIA Repression

https://www.facebook.com/events/181427261941952/

David Barsamian with David Ludden | A Conversation on Kashmir

http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/events/206

Shaykh Naeem Abdul Wali's website

http://www.naeemabdulwali.com/

Islamophobia – A Response to Christians: Basic Apologetics for Bible-Belt-Muslims

http://www.naeemabdulwali.com/?page_id=554&event_id=2

Shaykh Naeem Abdul-Wali: Introduction for Response to Islamophobia event 12/03/11

http://vimeo.com/32247695


Introduction for Response to Islamophobia event 12/03/11 from Ahmad Muhammad on Vimeo.

Occupy Wall Street

http://occupywallst.org/

Dealing with Extreme Evangelicals - Part 4



http://youtu.be/dbxC0ZOfZpI

Articles by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on Sandala (available as pdf files)

http://sandala.org/multimedia/articles/

Fake terror plots, paid informants: the tactics of FBI 'entrapment' questioned

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment-fake-terror-plots/print

The Rachel Maddow Show: Detriot burdened by anti-Islam religious fanatic

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#45264757 via Haroon

Haroon Moghul: Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/5383/jesus,_carpet_bomb_my_heart:_an_undercover_muslim_in_detroit/

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

EIW 2011: The Quran, Timothy J. Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad), 17/2/11

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acE2IlTmM-w&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The Purpose Of Mawlid - Dr Timothy Winter - University of Cambridge

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyBzpP1RuVU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

A Muslim Wedding at Occupy Wall Street - The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/imam-khalid-latif/a-muslim-wedding-at-occupy-wall-street_b_1096124.html

Ayyuha al-'Ashiq (audio)

http://soundcloud.com/alkauthar/ayyuha-al-ashiq via Rika

Gardens of Mustafa - An Evening of Remembrance & Reflection [at the Islamic Center of NYU tonight at 7 pm]

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=291255254230020

Towards the One: A Thanksgiving Family Retreat

http://vimeo.com/31105506

http://www.towardstheone.com/

Dealing with Extreme Evangelicals - Part 3

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeVAwcWtXmg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Dealing with Extreme Evangelicals - Part 2

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ3Wx6OU7lQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Dealing with Extreme Evangelicals - Part 1

Abdal-Hakim Murad (Tim Winter) Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw3iX0TsBfQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Meccan Openings European Tour :: Film Trailer

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2qVJATX3c4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

TheReMINDers - The Way it is (Official Video 2011)

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUoZVHyiNAY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Work on 1km-tall Kingdom Tower [in Jeddah] set to begin in January....

http://www.thenational.ae/business/property/work-on-1km-tall-kingdom-tower-set-to-begin-in-january?pageCount=0

Arundhati Roy on Democracy Now: Occupy Wall Street is "So Important Because it is in the Heart of Empire"



http://youtu.be/W1iwoHUIKvo

The Occupy movements are the realists, not Europe's ruling elites

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/15/occupy-realists-europe-ruling-elites

Chris Hedges: This Is What Revolution Looks Like - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_is_what_revolution_looks_like_20111115/

Someone asked: How can we purify our lower selves from pride (`ujub)?

http://abdulkarimyahya.com/2011/11/15/advice-a-cure-for-pride/

ARUNDHATI ROY @ THE PEOPLE’S U - WED 11/16

http://peoplesu.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=316871611662319

Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hamza Yusuf - Community Advice

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7cCyhU95qM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Monday, November 14, 2011

AFP: Anti-Muslim 'hate crimes' up 50 percent in US: FBI

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jYDtVJ67MpEY_NjXVEVQw39B7QZg?docId=CNG.f8a1357252414e391fa429a67d8b9601.d41
via Sulayman F

The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student? - The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/jesse-kornbluth/the-police-riot-at-berkel_b_1091208.html
via Sumaya

Water Changes Everything.



http://youtu.be/BCHhwxvQqxg

Jewels of Jannah: Asiya (R) by Yasmin Mogahed



http://youtu.be/CJRbkYRQ9lw

Tajweed Untangled

http://soundvision.com/shop/pview.asp?item=TAJ00501 via Rayad

Calligrafy... One Stroke At A Time!: Coat Drive and Benefit Concert: Hosted By "MAI"

http://calligrafist.blogspot.com/2011/11/coat-drive-and-benefit-concert-hosted.html?m=1

Sounds from a wedding [by Khalid Latif] at Zuccotti Park just now #ows

http://soundcloud.com/megrobertson/sounds-from-a-wedding-at via Dustin

Also see: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/love-blooms-zuccotti-park-protesting-occupy-wall-street-lovebirds-tie-knot-article-1.976954

Mecca: A dangerous Adventure – Snouck Hurgronje’s early photographs 1885 by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje | Al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar

http://www.theemptyquarter.com/index.php?p=view_exhibit&ex_name=TWVjY2E6IEEgZGFuZ2Vyb3VzIEFkdmVudHVyZSCWIFNub3VjayBIdXJncm9uamWScyBlYXJseSBwaG90b2dyYXBocyAxODg1#ph via Iram

BMA: Black Media Archive: Malcolm X (video with journalists)




Slavoj Zizek and Harum Scarum - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

By Hamid Dabashi http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011111011283172950.html

Via Yusuf

Angry over spying, Muslims say: 'Don't call NYPD' - National Wire - fresnobee.com

http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/11/14/2613749/angry-over-spying-muslims-say.html

Jeff Sharlet’s Weird Religion, in 13 Chapters | Culture | Religion Dispatches

http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/culture/5291/jeff_sharlet%E2%80%99s_weird_religion%2C_in_13_chapters

No One Can Tell I’m a Muslim: All-American Muslim Debuts | Culture | Religion Dispatches

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/5380/

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Green Intensive: Humble Pie Tonight...Still No Venison!

By Dawood Yasin: http://greenintensive.blogspot.com/2011/11/humble-pie-tonightstill-no-venison.html

Love blooms in Zuccotti Park: Protesting Occupy Wall Street lovebirds tie the knot

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/love-blooms-zuccotti-park-protesting-occupy-wall-street-lovebirds-tie-knot-article-1.976954

Yasmin Mogahed Comes to NYU!

https://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=195875090491501&notif_t=event_invite

Time
Friday, November 18 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Location

Created By

ForIslamic Center at NYU

More Info
"What we so often forget is that God has honored the woman by giving her value in relation to God—not in relation to men. But as Western feminism erases God from the scene, there is no standard left—except men. As a result, the Western feminist is forced to find her value in relation to a man. And in so doing, she has accepted a faulty assumption. She has accepted that man is the standard, and thus a woman can never be a full human being until she becomes just like a man." - Yasmin Mogahed

Agree? Disagree? Don't know how you feel and wanna discuss it further?
Come through Friday, November 18th at 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM to here Yasmin Mogahed speak! Event is free and open to all. See y'all there.

Venue:
Islamic Center at NYU
371 6th Avenue
St. Joseph's Church, Basement.
NY, New York 10012

Dr. Jackson's new book: Sufism for Non-Sufis?

"Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Sakandari’s Taj al-‘Arus is the upcoming title by Dr. Sherman Jackson, on Oxford University Press. The book is due out March 14, 2012. Mark your calendars."

Description

Few forms of classical Islam are more controversial among modern Muslims than the spiritual discipline known as Sufism. Yet, in the face of the modern Muslim tendency to limit Islam's deployment to the emphatically political, few expressions of the religion could be more central to its spiritual vitality in the modern world. In his translation and analysis of Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus, Sherman A. Jackson demonstrates that violent, lax, or rigid readings of the texts of Islam are just as much a result of the state of spiritual health, awareness, and fortitude of those who read and deploy them as they are of the substance of the Qur'an, Sunna, and the teachings of Islam's sages.

Sufism for Non-Sufis?: Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari's Taj al-'Arus shows the effort of a renowned Sufi master (d. 1309 CE) to circumvent the controversies and misunderstandings concerning Sufism to explain Islam's tradition of devotional rectitude, spiritual refinement, and purification of the self to the everyday Muslim. To this end, al-Sakandari avoids virtually every aspect of Sufism known to raise problems for opponents or non-adepts - theological, institutional, even terminological - instead attempting to cultivate a proper relationship with God, not merely intellectually or theologically but experientially and psycho-dynamically. Written in the classical style of spiritual aphorisms, this work is a treasure-trove of classical Islamic spiritual wisdom, free of all of the usual barriers between Sufism and the common believer.

Features

* Demonstrates that the spiritual state of those who employ a religious text is as important as the text itself in determining the social role of the text
* First English translation of an important and popular work by an exceedingly influential pre-modern figure

Product Details
192 pages; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-987367-8ISBN10: 0-19-987367-4

About the Author(s)

King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, Professor of Religion, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, The University of Southern California
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Religion/?view=usa&ci=9780199873678#Features

YAAAAY!

via Marc Manley

Trailer - SeekersHub Online Fundraiser - November 19th 2011



http://youtu.be/IMkSC07Jqts

Sex objects: Pictures shift men's view of women

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/16/sex-object-photograph

Study Islamic Studies in America, not Overseas - Nouman Ali Khan, Imam O...



http://youtu.be/ilJdhT4IfXE

"Green Intensive" - Dawood Yasin's blog

http://greenintensive.blogspot.com/

Spring's Gift - Poem about Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)



http://youtu.be/wXo5kvhkGMg

Conver(t)sations: the Unheard Stories of Muslim Converts w/ Suhaib Webb,...

Uploaded by ICNYU on Mar 10, 2011

This panel was a part of 2nd Annual ICNYU Conference held during the first weekend of February at New York University. Panelists included Suhaib Webb, Raymond Brock Murray, Lisa Shah, Will Caldwell, Musa Bryant, Megan Putney, Whitney Terrill, Lisa Shah, Peter Casey, Cyrus McGoldrick , Jay Dabhi and the discussion was facilitated by Khalid Latif.

Usually when the convert experience is discussed in a Muslim community, the discussion focuses on why the individual converted. Although there is a great benefit in hearing these stories, the discussion never deepens into issues a convert faces after converting. This panel discusses the real experiences that converts face in dealing with the Muslim community after converting as well as issues with family, relationship, education, and many other topics.

ICNYU started the Conver(t)sations program this past January. This program aims to establish an entry point into the community for those who have converted or reverted to Islam. It can be hard for many of us to fit in and find a comfortable place in the Muslim community, and those who are converts are no exception to this. Our hope is to provide an outlet for socializing, mentorship, and discussion that makes the transition process easier for our brothers and sisters who have made the decision to embrace the faith.



http://youtu.be/npZenx6zK3k

There is no god but Allah, English song - Sh. Muhammad Abdul-Haqq Mendes

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-tQOSssKp8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hajj: the Inward Spiral - cambridge khutbas etc.

Check out this podcast by Abdal Hakim Murad on iTunes:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=323494094



Qad Kafani Ilmu Rabbi

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBgBoGR448&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Shaikh Hamza Yusuf - Allahu Allah Qasida

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n9TsFQobSQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Allah Allah Ya Hu Qaseedah with Habib Umar

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOf0l9GqsCo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Honoring Women Who Dedicate Their Lives to Helping Others

Check out this video of Aliya Latif on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfiXWd3KtA&feature=youtube_gdata_player