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Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected Free Weekend Islamic School for Adults Open to All Brothers & Sisters PRAYER TIMINGS Effective 01/04 MCA NOOR Fajr 6:20 6:30 Dhuhr 12:35 12:35 Asr 3:00 3:30 Maghrib Sunset Sunset Isha 8:00 7:00 Juma 1 12:15 12:15 Newsletter Juma 2 1:30 1:30 Published Weekly by the Muslim Community Association of San Francisco Bay Area Jamadi-ul-Awwal 08, 1441 Jan 03, 2020 AL-QURAN MCA Wellness Committee “Whoever should desire the immediate - We hasten for him Chronic Lower Back Pain from it what We will to whom We intend. Then We have made for him Hell, which he will [enter to] burn, censured and banished. But whoever desires the Hereafter and exerts the effort due to it while he is a believer - it is those whose effort is ever appreciated [by Allah ]. To each [category] We extend - to these and By Dr. Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi to those - from the gift of your Lord. Pain Management Fellow, And never has the gift of your Lord Stanford University been restricted.” Vice President, SEMA US Quran 17: 18-20 Friday night Jan. 10 For more Info, email us at Khadija Banquet Hall [email protected] After Ishaa' prayer HADITH Anas b. Malik reported that while STANDING FOR JUSTICE the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) was IN KASHMIR AND INDIA delivering the sermon on Friday, people stood up before him and said FRIDAY JANUARY 3RD, 2020 in a loud voice: Apostle of Allah, 6:00PM MCA Banquet Hall 3003 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054 there is a drought and the trees have become yellow, the animals have died; and the rest of the hadith is the same, and in the narration JOIN US With Manzoor Ghori and transmitted by ‘Abd al-A’la the Raqib Naik for the first hand account of the suffering of Muslims words are:” The clouds cleard from and minorities in Kashmir and throughout India. Medina and it began to rain around Raqib will talk about Kashmir and current issues Muslims and minorities are facing: it and not a single drop of rain fell • Kashmir, 370 and lock-down in Medina. And as I looked towards • Supreme Court judgement • Anti Muslim Citizenship Bill Medina, I found it hollow like (the • NRC hollowness of) a basin. RAQIB NAIK Guest Speaker: Raqib Hameed Naik Sahih Muslim Book 9, Hadith 11 Kashmiri Journalist, International Correspondent with The Globe Post. TO ADVERTISE, VISIT MCA WEBSITE: Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected www.mcabayarea.org/newsletter Free Weekend Islamic School for Adults Open to All Brothers & Sisters These Classes are offered by Islamic Organization of North America IONA (Santa Clara Chapter) & sponsored by MCA Da’wah Committee for the past 10 years. Arabic Classes Themes of Quran By Sh. Mohammad Shadid By Br. Mamadou Ibrahim Beginners: 10:30 – 11:30 am Compiled by Dr. Israr Ahmed Letters, Vocabulary, reading, 9:30 am – 10:30 am writing and communication. Intermediate: 11:30 – 12:30 pm Grammars, Vocabulary and communication. Classes Start Jan 12, 2020 At MCA, Ayisha Room For more information Email us: [email protected] 2 3 Challenges of Women space in Masjids Abdul Malik Mujahid | http://soundvision.com Last Friday, I was all set to give a Khutba that day. This was despite the fact that are reports of interaction with the Prophet about the need for Muslims to plan ahead months ago, the leadership of this mosque when women raised questions. Caliph on an individual and community level. My had promised me that they would involve Omar even went back to give another notes were ready and I was in full “Khutba sisters in decision-making about how the sermon to withdraw his opinion when mode”. But before sermon time, I decided women’s space would be set up. a women from the audience gave him to change the topic completely -- to talk critical feedback after his Khutba. about the exclusion of Muslim women The Khutba from the mosque and community life. Moreover, when the Prophet felt that the I was speaking in Chicago’s oldest mosque women were too far away to hear or he It wasn’t an earth-shattering event that where the main prayer hall accommodates had specific points to make, he would walk made me change the topic. It was an about a thousand people. It has a small, over to their section and present a Khutba email. And it proved to be the proverbial curtained off space in the corner for about for them. straw that broke the camel’s back. It was 40 or so women. Due to the sensitive one of five emails I received last week nature of my topic, it did occur to me Examples from Islamic history about Islamic events with a clear “brothers before the Khutba that I might not be invited to give a Friday sermon there in the Women in early Islamic history were only” statement. One notice for a regional active not just as “mothers and wives” but conference even stated categorically future. Nonetheless, I made the following points and asked these questions: contributed as individual Muslim women that there was no space for women and in all aspects of the community. children under 15 at the event. Who decides how women’s space in the mosque is allocated and organized? On a scholarly level, there was Aisha, may But the emails were only part of the story. God be pleased with her. She is credited A week before, I had given a Khutba in How many women sit on the Board of with disseminating the knowledge of Islam another, brand-new mosque in the heart Directors of our mosques? and information about almost all aspects of Chicago. After the prayer, while in the of Islamic life. Today, nearly half of the elevator, I overheard four Muslim sisters If women are part of the Board of Islamic jurisprudence of the Hanafi school speaking angrily about their experience in Directors, are they elected, chosen by of thought (which is followed by about the Masjid. women, selected by both men and women 70 percent of the Muslim world) comes or are they simply the wives of male board through the students of Aisha alone. “If I wanted to watch TV, I’d stay home,” members? said one of the women, disgusted. I asked On a political level, there was Umm them what was wrong, and they told me I also reminded the audience that in the Salama. During the signing of the Treaty of how they could only see the Imam through Prophet’s mosque, women could hear Hudaibiya, when none of the Muslim men a TV system set up in the women’s section. and see the Prophet Muhammad, peace agreed to forego Hajj due to the demands Moreover, the space was inconvenient, and blessings are upon him, and later, the of the pagan Meccans, the Prophet uncomfortable and was changed twice leaders of the Muslims (Khulafa) when consulted Umm Salama. Her advice to they spoke from the pulpit. Actually there 4 him was to perform the rituals indicating more people came over, appreciating what community level. Moreover, few women that they would not be performing the I had said, Alhamdu lillah. That’s one of have easy access to the Imam, which pilgrimage, and the Muslims would the most positive instances of feedback worsens the problem, since the Imam is follow. He heeded her advice, and as she I’ve ever gotten in years of giving Khutbas! the one man who can make a significant suggested, the Muslims accepted this. Although I have yet to hear the response difference in bringing women’s issues and from the leadership of the Masjid, this problems to the attention of other Muslim After the death of the Prophet, one major gives me hope that the community is men in the community. This perhaps issue was how to preserve the authenticity ready for change. explains why you don’t normally hear of the Quran. Although the Quran had many Khutbas on women’s challenges here always been committed to memory and A few board members also spoke very in America or abroad. writing, the written pages were scattered. positively about the points I raised, When a master copy was put together at including one of the founding members. Negative Dawa the time of the first Khalifa, Abu Bakr, that The question is, who is stopping the copy was not kept with him or any other change? The situation becomes worse when non- Muslim man. It was kept with a woman -- Muslims visit. They see there are hardly Hafsa (may God be pleased with her). Current Chicago Masjid Spaces for any women present in the mosque. Or, Women if there are a few, they are confined to Finally, in Madina during the leadership of a small and less ceremonious corner. Omar (may God be pleased with him) Al In Chicago, I estimate that in about ten What kind of Dawa is this? What kind Shifa Bint Abdullah was made in charge of percent of the Friday prayer locations, of impression does this give in our trade and commerce in the city. there is proper space for sisters’ current context, where the battle against participation. In these places men and stereotypes is ten times harder than it These are just a few examples of the women are in the same location without a was pre-9/11 America? This visual impact dynamic role women played in early curtain or wall separating them. In terms is far greater and far more lasting then Islamic history.
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