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The moon has been sighted in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in Texas and Florida tonight (and maybe elsewhere)!
EID MUBARAK!!!
And as always, here is a sampling of Eid-inspired music around the world:
 
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Eid Mubarak to All!
Native Deen - Eid Morning
Not Afraid to Stand Alone
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786 - Eid Mubarak
786 (Debut Album)
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Sami Yusuf - Eid Song
My Ummah
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Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Takbir (Days of Eid)
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Ahmed [...]

Regardless of where in the world you are, and when you are officially celebrating it , EID MUBARAK to all! :).
Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Takbir (Days of Eid)
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Ahmed Bukhatir - Ya Eid
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Sami Yusuf - Eid Song
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Sami Yusuf [...]

Source: Al Jazeera (English)
Since the release of Al Mu’allim just four years ago Sami Yusuf has become an international sensation, selling more than two million albums and topping charts across the Muslim world.
He packs stadiums in Los Angeles, Paris and Damascus and causes traffic jams in Turkey.
And while his music easily mixes sounds from East [...]

Beautiful; You cant help but smile and say Subhanallah

For a better quality version of the video, check out this link (directly uploaded by the video’s director, Hani Osama)

Source:Wilton Park Conferences
A major conference has been taking place in the UK this week about how the Muslim world and the West can collaborate to tackle extremists. Featuring Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Sami Yusuf, Dr. Ali Gomaa (Grand Mufti of Egypt), and many others.

We don’t want to [...]

I would like to wish all of you an Eid Mubarak! This is our biggest holiday of the year! Lets make the most of it insha’Allah .
Here are some links from Sunnipath.com regarding Eid-ul-Adha:
The Fiqh of Eid al-Adha by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
The Fiqh of Eid From Heavenly Ornaments of Imam Ashraf al-Tahanawi
The Fiqh of the [...]

Now that the year is almost over, i thought it would be nice to look back on this past year and share my top 10 blog posts (in no particular order) of the past year. Enjoy!
1. 2006 SASL Champs: The Softballers 9/10
2. Isam Bachiri (from Outlandish) writes a letter to hahmed.com readers! - 4/24
3. Shameful [...]

Enjoy!

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Ever wondered how Isam Bachiri (from Outlandish) and Sami Yusuf first met? Why they collaberated? What Isam thinks of Sami?
Well all that and more has been answered in this great interview with Isam Bachiri:
(I apologize in advance for the poor quality, i didnt record it!)

There’s a new movement going on in the western world, you [...]

Alhamdulillah I finally got my laptop back (which has a SD slot), and was able to transfer all photos from the event to the computer, and they are now online in the photo gallery. (Feel free to contact me for the password if you know me personally). It truly was an amazing event on so [...]

By the way, yes i did volunteer at this past weekend’s Islamic Relief Concert with Sami Yusuf. I got to chill backstage during Sami’s performace and even got to shake his hand!!! Inshallah ill write a post about this experience (along with post pictures from the event!!!) later this week inshallah.
Meanwhile check out this article [...]

Part of Sami Yusuf’s increase in popularity may have to do with marketing, said Haroon Naderi, 23, of Long Island, who was listening to everything from Mariah Carey to DMX when his uncle gave him a Sami Yusuf compact disc as a birthday gift in 2003….
“America’s culture is a popular/pop culture,” Naderi said.
“It’s very hard [...]

I recently posted about brother Sami Yusuf responding to Sister Yvonne Ridleys article criticizing the “islamic pop culture scene”. Azhar Usman has also written a response to Ridley (and she replied to it as well - see end)
Source: Amir’s Blog
Azhar Usman writes:It is a rant written by a new convert (who saw the “beauty of [...]

In response to many comments and e-mails by people to some of my earlier posts on Sami Yusuf’s new album and video condemning Sami Yusuf’s music as haraam and him not being a real nasheed artist, I just thought I’d share this recent interview with you. It also features a couple of live solo performances [...]