Saturday, November 26, 2011

Purchase Tickets › 30 Years of Masjid Taqwa - Celebrate by Building for the Next 30 Years of Our Muslim Community

http://taqwany.org/

Book Review: Sea Without Shore by Shaykh Nuh Keller

http://britishmisk.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/book-review-sea-without-shore-by-shaykh-nuh-keller/

حقيقة من نداء المصطفى وكرامة الملبين أهل الوفاء

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ9yCv0rZ4s&feature=youtube_gdata_player

A clip from "Berkeley in the Sixties"

Check out this video on YouTube:

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

Ya Arham al-Rahimin (O Most Merciful!) from Mawlid with Habib Munzir al-Musawwa

Check out this video on YouTube:

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

عبد السلام الحسني في بيت المثل -محمد وفيق

Check out this video of a qasida (poem) sung in the presence of Habib
Umar bin Hafiz and Habib Ali al-Jifri and others:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9CQIwwM1tM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

عبد السلام الحسني في سوريا وفي بيت الشاغوري

Check out this video of a qasida recited with Shaykh Abd al-Rahman al-
Shaguri, Habib Ali al-Jifri, Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, Shaykh Jihad
Brown and others in attendance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0PysGtj9tk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Friday, November 25, 2011

"His character reflected this Nur al-Muhammadi in many ways.

The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) had said: "The most perfect of believers in faith is the most considerate of them to others. And the best of you all is the most considerate of you to his wife" (Tirmidhi [103], 3.20: 1196. S). Few could keep pace with Sheikh 'Adel in chivalrous treatment of his wife. Wherever he traveled, he seldom returned without a special gift he had bought her. He was in love with her, and she bore him eight sons and three daughters. He shared his spiritual life with her and spoke to her about ultimate Realities, which Sheikh al-Kurdi had given him permission to teach to her. All this was in marked contrast to the attitude of many brothers in Jordan, who delegated the tariqa to the men, and the home and family to the women.
-Nuh Ha Mim Keller, Sea Without Shore, pg. 87.

Photos from the Rally Against NYPD Suppression of Muslim Communities (last Friday 11/18/11)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebeldefotografie/sets/72157628101591375/

via Hamza

Hamza Yusuf on Amir Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairi - "The Last Muslim"

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zsR2vW2ui0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Shaykh Ahmad Saad - New Year Message

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2TtnfsKG88&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Shaykh Yahya Rhodus in support of the FeedME Campaign

Check out this video on YouTube:

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

Nawawi Reading Room (with 7 articles by Dr. Umar in pdf)

http://nawawi.org/courses/index_reading_room.html

Towards The One (Nawawi Retreat): Live Stream & Schedule

http://livestream.nawawi.us/#schedule

Wajahat Ali: How turkey came to our Thanksgiving table

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/24/how_turkey_came_to_our_thanksgiving_table/

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf: Biography of Sidi Fudul al-Huwari

http://sandala.org/blog/2011/11/25/biography-of-sidi-fudul-al-huwari/

Rebel Diaz and The ReMINDers - Things Just Ain't The Same

Check out this video on YouTube:

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

Michele Bachmann Addresses the Zionist Organization of America




The occupy movement can’t be sprayed away - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-occupy-movement-cant-be-sprayed-away/2011/11/21/gIQAPYaIlN_story.html?wpisrc=emailtoafriend
via The Nation

At Occupy Berkeley, Beat Poets Has New Meaning - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html?_r=4&pagewanted=all

Via Manu

Commemorating the Life of Habib Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafiz and Anniversary of Dar al-Mustafa

http://abdulkarimyahya.com/2011/11/25/note-commemorating-the-life-of-hb-muhammad-bin-salim-and-anniversary-of-dar-al-mustafa/

From the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street: Religion & Social Activism

A wide ranging conversation between Dr. Ingrid Mattson—Director of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the HartfordTheological Seminary, author of The Story of the Qur’an , and former president of the Islamic Society of North America—and Dr. Jeffery Stout—esteemed professor of religion at Princeton University and author most recently of Blessed are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America .

Wednesday, December 7 | 5 pm | McCormick Hall, 101

Doors open 4.30 pm.

http://www.princeton.edu/muslimlife/events/ via Yusra :)

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Shaykh Khalil Abdur-Rashid on his father (Allah have mercy on him): The Man behind the Mountain...The Chuck Burris Too Few Knew...

http://oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-man-behind-the-mountain-the-chuck-burris-too-few-knew

Congrats to Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq for getting a Sundance grant for their doc 'These Birds Walk'

These Birds Walk (U.S. / Pakistan)
Directors: Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq
A portrait of contemporary Pakistan is created through the eyes of an ambulance driver and a runaway boy who call a humanitarian and his mission based organization home.

http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/29-documentaries-receive-582000-in-grants-from-sundance-institute-documenta/

via Musa Syeed

2011 Nyeleni Declaration on Land Grabbing | Raj Patel

http://rajpatel.org/2011/11/23/2011-nyeleni-declaration-on-land-grabbing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rajpatel%2Fhome+%28RajPatel.org%29

Firm Foundations Retreat Tickets in Angelus Oaks, CA, United States

http://seekers.ticketleap.com/firm-foundations/details

Monday, November 21, 2011

‘Lone Wolf’ Terror Suspect Pimentel Got High With NYPD Informant, Tried To Circumcise Himself

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/lone_wolf_terror_suspect_and_got_high_with_nypds_confidential_informant_tried_to_circumcise_himself.php

FBI Was Concerned NYPD’s ‘Lone Wolf’ Case Raised Issues Of Entrapment

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/fbi_was_concerned_nypds_lone_wolf_case_raised_issues_of_entrapment.php?ref=fpb

NYTimes: Informer’s Role in Terror Case Is Said to Have Deterred F.B.I.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/nyregion/for-jose-pimentel-bomb-plot-suspect-an-online-trail.html

Spirit of RIS 2011 - Amr Khaled, Tariq Ramadan, Hamza Yusuf, Habib Ali a...



http://youtu.be/R9m2wqvkWVg

Fertility math? Most women flunk, survey finds - Health

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45262603/ns/today-today_health/t/fertility-math-most-women-flunk-survey-finds/

Dr. J: Is There A Place For Gay Muslims? (video)



http://youtu.be/HisIwWhyU34

Glenn Greenwald:The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying

http://www.salon.com/2011/11/20/the_roots_of_the_uc_davis_pepper_spraying/

Dawud Walid (CAIR-MI)'s speech at Foley Square on Friday (11/18/11)

http://dawudwalid.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/audio-stopping-nypd-repression-and-spying-on-muslims/

(Alhamdullilah got to hear it in person)

‎"Allah Most Blessed and Exalted has said,

'My love is incumbent for those who love each other for My sake, those who sit together for My sake, those who visit each other for My sake, and those who spend on each other for my sake'" (al-Muwatta' [69], 2.953-954: s).

-Quoted in Sea Without Shore, pg. 26.

"Responding to the pressing needs to reconstruct

our global economic and political life in rational ways to prevent ecological disaster cannot happen until there is a fundamental change in the way that we in the West, and particularly in the United States, organize our own societies and control our multinational corporations. And that won't happen until we have a powerful spiritual movement that can speak to the hunger for meaning and purpose and win people over to a progressive spiritual perspective.
-Rabbi Michael Lerner, The Left Hand of God, pg. 363

"Responding to the pressing needs to reconstruct

our global economic and political life in rational ways to prevent ecological disaster cannot happen until there is a fundamental change in the way that we in the West, and particularily in the United States, organize our own socieites and control our multinational corporations. And that won't happen until we have a powerful spiritual movement that can speak to the hunder for meaning and purpose and win people over to a progressive spiritual perspective.
-Rabbi Michael Lerner, The Left Hand of God, 

Sunday, November 20, 2011

"The ego," he told me

"we deal with diplomatically. It wants whatever it wants, with or
without the Sacred Law: it doesn't care. So we give it what it wants
within the bounds of the Sacred Law, and exact from it what we want:
that it serves us, that it rises at night to pray, that it fulfill our
duties. This is our diplomacy with the ego."

-Sheikh 'Abd al-Rahman al-Shaghouri as quoted in Sea Without Shore: A
Manual of the Sufi Path by Sheikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller, pg. 17.

"Even the moments of community and solidarity

that can be achieved in the churches, synagogues, mosques, and ashrams
of a Religious Right cannot offset the massive spiritually and
psychologically destructive impact of the daily grind of life in a
competitive market society, with it's ethos of materialism and
selfishness."

-Rabbi Michael Lerner, pg. 359

Mawlid at Sh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi's home



http://youtu.be/nu_nGcmJtQA via Murabit

Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond

http://www.amazon.com/Backlash-11-Eastern-Americans-Respond/dp/0520257359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321839055&sr=8-1

Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at CUNY Grad

http://memeac.gc.cuny.edu/

Serene Jones (president of UTS): Protest 101: What Happens When A Seminary Is Occupied?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/serene-jones/occupy-seminary-protest-chaplains_b_1097972.html

Cornel West's Big Announcement - Leaving Princeton for Union Theological Seminary (UTS)

http://smileyandwest.ning.com/forum/topics/hot-stuff-west-s-big-announcement

A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521614872/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ebanew-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0521614872

Dustin: What many in the field consider to be the best history of Islam in America from @cambup_religion #sblaar http://pic.twitter.com/V1sKHGQX

99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement - animation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/video/2011/nov/16/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation via Iram

Police Pepper Spray Peaceful UC Davis Students



http://youtu.be/BjnR7xET7Uo via Iram

Dawah Addict NYT Interview - The New American Muslim

Check out this video of Peter Abdul Malik Casey on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08PB2oB_maI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Mos Def to Retire the Name 'Mos Def' Rapper says he will be known as Yasiin

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/mos-def-to-retire-the-name-mos-def-20110907 (September 7, 2011) via Yusuf

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]

http://www.amazon.com/Story-Stuff-Obsession-Communities-Health-/dp/B0048ELEUE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321801643&sr=8-1

Recommended by Imam Zaid

Tariq Ramadan: Democracies in crisis

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University and a visiting Professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Qatar. His new book Islam and the Arab Awakening will be out this month.


http://www.tariqramadan.com/Democracies-in-crisis.html

http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/western-democracies-are-undermining-people-s-rights-1.930694

Dustin Craun tweeting from the American Academy of Religion conference this weekend with 12,000 other folk mA

https://twitter.com/#!/ing_org

I'm on Twitter as well...

Things I post here on ebaadenews go there, but I'm starting to tweet a little and re-tweet other peoples' posts..

Check it out at: https://twitter.com/#!/i_baad

Reviving the Islamic Spirit Knowledge Retreat

http://www.revivingtheislamicspirit.com/convention/landing_page/kr/index.html

"Reviving the Islamic Spirit" convention

http://www.revivingtheislamicspirit.com/convention/index.php

"30 Years of Taqwa!"

http://taqwany.org/

Saturday Dec. 17, 5-11:30 PM at the New York Hilton with Dr. Sherman Jackson, Shaykh Abdullah Hakim Quick, Imam Suhaib Webb, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Imam Zaid Shakir, Boonaa Mohammed, Mos Def Official (or Yasiin) and others!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242877385734079

Also see: http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5fa17537ea7f3592923719ee1&id=62831d27d1

http://www.imamsiraj.org/