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Forwarded to me by Brother Rayad Khan: Insha’Allah Shaykh Kamaluddin will lead the Jummah prayer at NYU this Friday, September 1st 2006. He has kindly agreed to remain with us from Jummah salat till the Maghrib salat to answer any questions and address various concerns that our university attending youth face nowadays. Shaykh Mufti Kamaluddin [...]
Plainfield, IN 08/23/2006 -The Islamic Society of North America (www.isna.net), the largest religious organization representing Muslims in North America, has elected Dr. Ingrid Mattson as its President. She is the first woman to head the organization. (ISNA.net) The largest Muslim organization in North America has elected its first female president — a watershed that the [...]
Another great (and long-awaited) article by Dr. Umar Faruq Abdallah of the Nawawi Foundation Innovation & Creativity in Islam This article examines two fundamental concepts essential to the dynamic application of Islam: bid‘a (innovation) and ijtihad (critical thinking for solutions to new problems). Both concepts are meant to preserve continuity with Islam’s original sources while [...]
In just a matter of days, there is already a Refutation to ISNA’s Moonsighting Announcement by the Hilal Sighting Committee. It reads as follows. (This is the short version, for the long version, click here): In the name of Allah , the Beneficent, the Merciful A Refutation to ISNA/Fiqh Council’s Decision To Disregard the Qur’an [...]
Interesting article by Geneive Abdo from the Washington Post. The author has travelled around the US visiting many Masjids and Islamic Centers in her research. Although I dont agree with many statements and generalazations the author has made, she makes several important points. She also raises concerns that we, as American Muslims should take heed [...]
Unfortunately (fortunately for the Shock maybe, jk) today’s 2006 SASL Finals matchup between your Softballers and the Shock has been postponed due to rain. Eisenhower Park, as well as a backup park are both closed due to the weather as all fields are not in playable condition. Currently, the tentative make-up date for the Finals [...]
In light of recent recent terrorist attacks (9/11 [NYC]. 3/11 [Madrid], 7/7 [London]), 7/11 [Mumbai]), and the foiled terror plots in Canada and Britain (which was supposedly for an attack on a larger scale than any of these previous acts of terror), it is not surprising that more and more Americans are becoming even more [...]
Sorry about the lack of Mets updates. No I havent forgotten about my Mets, Ive just been caught up with softball, news, school, etc. the last couple of weeks. And what a couple of weeks it has been. Let me just run down the starting 9 for the Mets as it looks today: 1. Jose [...]
People warn us all the time, they say, oh man, watch out – “you are going to take Organic Chemistry this semester” – “Its gonna be tough, and youre gonna have to work hard”. So what happens – we start changing our schedule… we start thinking we are not going to do this, we arent [...]
Im sure most of you have heard about ISNA’s latest announcement on the fact that they will now rely on scientific astronomic calculations to determine the starting dates of the Islamic Calendar, including the beginning and end of Ramadan, and the 2 Eids. Therefore ISNA has now officially announced the start of Ramadan to be [...]
When: Sunday, August 27, 2006 @ 3:15 pm Where: Eisenhower Park (Softball Field D) (21-7) (23-5) Naveed Ahmed C Alisher Saeed Raheel Malick 1B Khaled Saeed Farhan Quereshi 2B Mustafa Khawaja Zeeshan Shaikh SS Ali Najimi Ahmad Ghumman 3B Hakim Najimi Talha Ghumman LF Wahid Omarzai Nadeem Khan LCF Solyman Najimi Usman Ghumman RCF Khaled [...]
We swept the Dynasty today 9-4, 6-3 in two well contested games. I will update this post soon with the box score, pics and videos inshallah. Pre-Game 2 Talk: Naveed hits an RBI single bringing home Usman For now I just wanted to share this victory with everyone and invite everyone out there to come [...]
Jon Stewart: White House correspondent Tony Snow is not buying Hezbollah’s generosity. Tony Snow: Hezbollah can spread out all the… money it wants, but people should remember who is putting rockets in their living rooms. Jon: Tony, uhh, we were the ones putting rockets in their living rooms. We sold them to Israel and they [...]
After two unsuccessful tries, Haroon Naderi has finally passed his road test! Alhamdulillah! In an exclusive post-test interview here is what Haroon had to say about his passing: Haseeb: haroon, how do u feel about finally passing your road test? haroonjooce: i feel good i guess haroonjooce: alhamdulillah haroonjooce: thanks for makign du’a niggs Haseeb: [...]
Source: CS Monitor linked by Amir Backstory: What it means to be Muslim They went to the same school in Saudi Arabia – so how did they turn out so differently? By Mona Eltahawy | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Yasir Kazi was the last person I wanted to sit next to [...]
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