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PRAYER TIMINGS Effective 12/19 MCA NOOR Fajr 6:30 6:30 Dhuhr 12:35 12:35 Asr 3:00 3:30 Maghrib Sunset Sunset Isha 7:00 7:00 Juma 1 12:15 12:15 Juma 2 01:00 01:00 Newsletter Juma 2 01:45 01:45 Published Weekly by the Muslim Community Association of San Francisco Bay Area www.mcabayarea.org Jamadi ‘I 03, 1442 AH Friday, December 18, 2020 Beautiful ceiling of The Blue Mosque, Turkey AL-QURAN And his (second) coming is truly a sign for the Hour. So have no “MCA is partnering with Support Life Foundation (SLF). On Saturday, Dec. 12, at MCA we met with volunteers and representatives of SLF and Second Harvest Of Silicon Valley. MashAllah this effort is serving FREE groceries/food to the tens and hundreds of the Bay Area neighbors/MCA doubt about it, and follow me. families every week. This is the Straight Path. And do not let Satan hinder you, for he is certainly your sworn enemy. 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ASHLEY MURPHY | GUEST Senior Program Manager, D E C E M B E R 1 9 | 1 2 P M Pathfinder | Salesforce Register today: tiny.cc/buildresumes Post your Ad online mca.inhood.me 3 Treating Christmas with Respect Abdul Malik Mujahid besides God, lest they insult God wrongfully This may not be an occasion to emphasis the without knowledge. Thus We have made fair- differences as much as the commonality of our Christmas is an annual Christian religious holiday seeming to each people its own doings; then to beliefs, unless someone is really asking you about commemorating the birth of Prophet Jesus, peace their Lord is their return and He shall then inform them. be upon him. For many Muslims who even do not them of all that they used to do” (Quran, 6:108). celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, A starting point for a discussion about Christmas peace be upon him, it becomes an issue of what We also have to remember that even if for could be the Islamic belief in all Books revealed stand they should take. many nominal Christians, the celebration is not by Allah and all Prophets sent by Him. In this really about participating in religious traditions, discussion, special emphasis could be made on There have been a number of legitimate criticisms Christmas is a time for families to get together. In a Prophet Jesus. Non-Muslims are often surprised of the holiday from Muslims and non-Muslims number of cases it is the only time of year families to discover that Muslims also believe in this noble based on theological and cultural considerations. get together, either because family members are Prophet and his great mother Mary (peace be However, this cannot be used to disregard the scattered in different parts of the country or the upon her). holiday as merely an exercise in ancient pagan world, because of communication and relationship practices, for instance, or excessive consumerism. Remember that respect does not mean problems, or because in America today, the family Muslims have to remember that for practicing compromise. This article is not asking you to unit is becoming weaker and weaker. Christians, Christmas really is about Jesus. compromise anything. You have freedom of Christmas is a great time to relate to our neighbors. religion given by God to believe in what you Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, was so We should not forget though, that “relating” does believe in. But in a world where conflict is accommodating of Christians that according to not mean “preaching”. Dawa cannot be made in a increasing, a Muslim should be a bridge- builder the two earliest Islamic historians, Ibn e Saad and rude manner. Allah says in the Quran: “Invite (all) to and a peacemaker. It was due to the Muslim Ibn Hisham, the Prophet even allowed a delegation the Way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful practice of Islamic ideals of respect and tolerance of 60 Byzantine Christians from Najran in Yemen advice, and reason with them by ways that are the that the key of the holiest Christian Shrine in to worship in his own mosque in Madinah. Lead best and most gracious: because your Lord knows Jerusalem, the church of the Holy Sepulcher, by their bishop (Usquf), they had come to discuss best, (those) who have strayed from His Path, and remains entrusted with a Muslim family, as it has a number of issues with him. When time of their those who receive guidance “ (Quran, 16:125). been for over 1400 years. prayer came, they asked the Prophet’s permission to perform this in the mosque. He answered, In particular, when dealing with Jews and These are the lessons which need to be learned “conduct your service here in the mosque. It is a Christians, Allah says: “Do not argue with the by those extremists who attack Christians during place consecrated to God.” People of the Book unless it is in the politest their worship in Nigeria and those extremists who manner, except for those of them who do wrong. burn Masjids in the USA. God expects us to stay away from mocking the Say: ‘We believe in what has been sent down religious beliefs of others, no matter how much we to us and what has been sent down to you. Our disagree with them. He says in the Quran: “And God and your God is [the same] One, and we are insult not those whom they (disbelievers) worship Muslims before Him’” (Quran, 29:46). 4 38. Al-Hafiz The Guarding One The Preserver, The Protector, The One who protects whatever and whoever He willed to protect. “And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.” [Quran 7:180] 5 6 Series on Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) Muhammad ibn Maslamah Black, tall and sturdy, Muhammad ibn Maslamah towered call of action. He once stood listening to the Prophet as as a Jewish leader of importance throughout the Hijaz. above his contemporaries. He was a giant among the he spoke to the Muslims about the designs of some of He provided means of support and sponsorship to many companions of the Prophet, a giant in body and a giant the Jewish leaders in the region. Jewish rabbis. in deeds. At the beginning of his stay in Madinah, the Prophet had Kab was openly hostile to Islam. He lampooned the Significantly he was called Muhammad even before he concluded an agreement with the Jews of the city which Prophet, besmirched in verse the reputation of Muslim became a Muslim. It would seem that his name was said in part: women, and incited the tribes in and around Madinah itself a pointer to the fact that he was among the first against the Prophet and Islam. He was particularly of the Yathribites to become a Muslim and to follow the “The Jews who attach themselves to our commonwealth distressed when he heard the news of the Muslim victory teachings of the great Prophet. (The name Muhammad shall be protected from all insults and harassment. at Badr. When he saw the returning army with the was practically unknown at the time but since the They shall have equal rights as our own people to our Quraysh prisoners of war, he was bitter and furious. He Prophet encouraged Muslims to name themselves after assistance...They shall join the Muslims in defending took it upon himself then to make the long journey to him, it has become one of the most widely used names Madinah against all enemies...They shall not declare war Makkah to express his grief and to incite the Quraysh in the world.) nor enter in treaty or agreement against the Muslims.” to take further revenge.
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