Update: We’d like to thank everyone who attended this seminar. Alhamdulillah, it was a great class, filled with many enlightening notes and anecdotes. We look forward to seeing you at our next class, The Prophet’s Smile!

The Conqueror’s Perspective

Stories are often told from the perspective of the conqueror: Ancient maps depicting exaggerated sizes of the European continent; stories told from a Euro-centric perspective; significant chunks in timelines distorted or removed entirely to cover up empowering truths.

The time is long overdue for the Muslim Ummah to reclaim its story…

Africa is a treasure cove embedded with scholarly tribes and ilm-powered cities.

Expand your knowledge on:

• The roots of Africa and its name

• Africa’s first encounter with Islam

• The role of Africans as Sahabah

• The extensive advancements of Islamic scholarship as result of African schools.

• The importance and history of major cities like Timbuktu and Qayrawaan

• African Heroes who saw to it that Islam remains upon the Quran and Sunnah

• The various movements and eras Africa witnessed among the Muslims

.:Increase Your Knowledge:.

ENROLL TODAY!

“Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.” [Saheeh Muslim]

The first meaning of path is a path that one walks on, such as when people leave their home to any location to gain knowledge.  The specific destination does not restrict the meaning.  Thus, the meaning includes a person traveling to a masjid, school, university, or any other location where knowledge is being dispensed. This meaning also includes a student of knowledge traveling from his city to another city to seek knowledge as the first meaning includes anyone literally ‘treading’ a path (stepping the steps on a path) towards knowledge.

A secondary meaning of path is defined as a process by which an individual seeks knowledge from scholars and books. Therefore, treading a path is not contingent on the actual movement of an individual-for example, one who investigates rulings without leaving his city or attends classes with scholars is indeed treading a path in search of knowledge according to this definition.

In summary, “treading on a path” is categorized into two primary definitions:
a)      Physically walking upon a path.
b)      Intention to connect oneself to knowledge, irrespective of ones physical state.

Whosoever treads this path, Allah subhana wa ta’ala facilitates for him a path to Paradise.   This is due to the significance placed on learning knowledge of the Shariah (Islamic Law), which enables an individual to understand the rulings that Allah has sent down. With this type of knowledge, both prohibitions and commands can be understood in there proper light, identifying the path that pleases Allah, and connect oneself with Paradise.  This connection will manifest itself in the obedience of Allah in ones life, and every time the desire for treading on the path increases, so too will ones connection with Paradise.

In this hadith, describing the fruits of the path to gaining knowledge, we learn that it is critical to take advantage of the opportunity to seek knowledge, specifically in times of our lives when we may be free from other difficulties. If the goal is to tread a path to your Lord by seeking knowledge, the efficient student would take heed before the obstacles of life litter his path (and distance his goal).

On the splendid occasion of young Maryam and Ali’s memorization and reading of the 30th chapter of the Glorious Quran, their parents would be honoured with your presence at Masjid Al Muminoon this Friday at 8 pm, insha Allah.

On Friday, eight-year-old twins Maryam and Ali will have one of the most splendid experiences of their lives.  She’ll get to wear that pretty princess dress Mama bought for her.  She’ll have flowers in her hair, and ice cream cake on her plate.  He’ll look like an Arabian prince in white thowb and shiny shoes.  They’ll play with the balloons and laugh with their friends.  Abu says that it is reward for a job well done, masha Allah.  The siblings did work hard, but the time invested and constant repetition was so worth it.  Best of all, Maryam feels that she is a good Muslim girl and Ali feels like he is a good Muslim boy and Allah will give them great reward!

Fast forward a decade or two:  Maryam and Ali wonder where the excitement of that night so long ago has gone?  They know the surahs still, constantly repeat them (especially the shorter ones) in their prayers, but it’s an exercise in automation.  Each of them wants desperately to reconnect with their inner para party child.  They want to live it once again.   But they aren’t eight year olds anymore.

They need the grown up version of a Quran Party.

Maryam and Ali need to be touched by an angel.

The Seminar that Launched it All

It’s time to Open the Vault
on the Classic

Touched By An Angel
Tafseer Juz’ Amma

Shaykh Shpendim Nadzaku

NEW Location:
National 4H Youth Conference Center
7100 Connecticut Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20815

Dates: January 8-10 and 15-17

ENROLL NOW!

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It was supposed to be a normal free Friday at Qabeelat Nurayn. At least that’s what everyone told him…..

1 WEEK BEFORE: Abdullah was just like any other Muslim born and raised in America- he enjoyed basketball, ice hockey, and the occasional round of croquet with the boys while gulping down a cold glass of Rooh Afza in the middle of the summer. But if there was anything he loved more than croquet, it was learning about Islam. And oh, how he loved it! He was a regular at the masjid, had more CD sets than he could keep track of, and his iPod only had lectures by people with the first name ‘Shaykh.’ Abdullah was no scholar, sure, but he was a person striving to learn about his religion.

One day, while at salatul jumuah, he came across a flier. The flier was brown in color and read ‘Torch Bearers’; intrigued- as he would be- he grabbed a few for him and his family. He rushed home, registered, paid, and found out about the AlMaghrib Forums. There, he discovered an ocean of people just like him! He read posts on a host of issues, and was able to access opinions of shuyukh, all at the convenience of his home. It was like a dream come true….or was it?

2 days before the class, a harsh reality sets in on Abdullah…….he has NO CAR!!!! How will he get to the class? In a desperate plea to find a ride, he contacts everyone he knows on a massive email with subject line: “I NEED A RIDE.” Only a handful of responses come back, all either apologizing for not being able to give him a ride, or laughing at his misfortune.

It’s finally Friday and Abdullah still keeps up hope. Surely someone would give him a ride. But as the clock ticks, the minutes pass like days, and hours like weeks. Agonizing over his dilemma, Abdullah feels helpless….and then, four hours later, the unthinkable has occurred:

Abdullah has missed all of the first Friday…Friday the 14th.

O’Nurayni and O’Nurayniiyah, (especially O’Nurayniiah because this scenario often happens to sisters), don’t let this happen to you or someone you know!

All you have to do is put your junk in your trunk and leave that extra seat for the brother or sister in need of a rideJ. They might be on your way, or a few turns away, but inshaAllah with the right intention, no curve or turn will go without the malkayn recording awayJ. So come on, sign up and help your peer in tawheed, and let your sister or brother in Islam experience the joy you’ve been waiting for—today!

Remember: “Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all.” –Prophet Muhammad Sallah Allahu Alyhi Wasalam [Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]

Let’s work together to make sure that everyone who needs a ride gets one: Click HERE.

Jazakum Allahu khairan

No doubt, one of the most important aspects of our deen and Fiqh is the performance of Salat, right? After all it’s the second pillar of this deen and the sign of a true Muslim.

Performing Salat is very important indeed, but performing it right is indeed the most important. Do you know if your Salat was correctly performed all these years? How do you know?

But what is the right way of performing Salat? And why do we have differences amongst fuqaha over its positions?

Fard and Sunnah, rawatib and nafl, duha and qiyamul-layl…what else do we have to know about Salat?

Jumu’ah, jama’ah’, Eid Salat, Istisqaa’, khusoof and kusoof, combining and shortening…are there anymore salawat we should learn about?

History of Salat, it’s meaning, its rulings, and all what is needed to know about Salat.

Women’s Salat vs. Men, Imam vs. Ma’moom, making up and coming late for Salat…

Value and virtue, why and how, Muslim and non-Muslim…how to talk to others about Salat?

In contemporary time, when and how to do your Salat, in school, at work, in the airport or in the chapel…How much more do we need to learn about Salat?

All of this, and we are still not offering any class exclusively for Salat?!