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Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected Advertisements Is Tuesday at 5:00 PM 2 49 PRAYER TIMINGS Effective 03/06 MCA NOOR Fajr 5:40 5:40 Dhuhr 12:35 12:35 Asr 4:00 4:45 Maghrib Sunset Sunset Isha 7:40 7:40 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 Rajab 23, 1442 AH Friday, March 05, 2021 The Muslim Community Association of San Francisco Bay Area 3003 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054 - https://www.mcabayarea.org/donate/ Dear MCA Friends - As Salaam Alaikum; Thursday, March 4, 2021 I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits of Iman by Allah SWT grace and affection. First, we’ve re-opened restricted indoor prayer services at 25% capacity according to the directive of the County Health Officer. However, we should not let our guards down, despite an increase in vaccination rates, and our continued commitment to wearing face masks, and social distancing. I suggest that you of- fer your daily & Friday prayers Outdoors should you choose to attend MCA and or Masjid Al Noor. VIRUS IS NOT GONE AND WE’RE NOT FULLY SAFE. Great Mosque of Samarra, Iraq Second, we are cautiously optimistic as we’ve started making preparations for restricted Outdoor activities in Ramadan while strictly following County’s rules and recommendations for Outdoor gatherings. AL-QURAN Third, we have received the second round of the federal government's PPP (paycheck protection program) funding earlier this month. Although this provides some breathing space for our current monthly expens- es. However, I am requesting you for a substantial increase in your donations particularly for ‘Operations” O you who have been given the with the arrival of Ramadan next month, inshaAllah. Book! believe that which We Fourth, board of trustees (BoT) are making slow, but steady progress with respect to Conditional Use have revealed, verifying what Permit from the city for MCA 3.0 renovation. BoT have been satisfactorily servicing loans that were used in the purchase of buildings 2.0 and 3.0 using the rental income of building 2.0. In addition to reducing you have, before We alter faces the cost of servicing the loans, BOT has also been actively looking into options to accelerate payment of the loans. Over the years, you have given large donations in Ramadan. If you like to see the remaining then turn them on their backs, $5M loan paid-off early, I urge you—individuals, families, and businesses—to make directed donations for this purpose. or curse them as We cursed the violaters of the Sabbath, and Fifth, we’re proactively and quickly disbursing Zakah checks among Zakah eligible individuals /families, and non-profit organizations to help our Community members. I encourage you to attend our bi-weekly the command of Allah shall be online zoom meetings to see our work-in-progress and explore volunteering opportunities. Information is available on our MCA website. executed. Sixth, as Covid related financial challenges continued, we remained nimble with tight budget and PPP’s Quran 4:47 help. Hence, I am specifically requesting your generous donations this Ramadan to minimize budget cuts, reduction in our services, and or personnel in coming weeks. Seventh, with new variant spreading easily causing health issues for many, let us remember Allah SWT as HADITH mentioned in Surah Al-Hashr [59:19): وَﻻَ ﺗَﻜُﻮﻧُﻮا ﻛَﺎﻟ;ﺬِﻳﻦَ ﻧَﺴُﻮا اﻟﻠ;ﻪَ ﻓَﺄَﻧﺴَﺎﻫُﻢْ أَﻧﻔُﺴَﻬُﻢْ ۚ أُوﻟَٰﺌِﻚَ ﻫُﻢُ اﻟْﻔَﺎﺳِﻘُﻮنَ And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves. It is they who are truly Ali ibn Abi Talib reported: I was rebellious. And let us also pray to Allah SWT for forgiveness and well being [Sahih - Ibn Majah]: with the Prophet, peace and اﻟﻠ;ﻬُﻢ; إِﻧNﻲ أَﺳْﺄَﻟُﻚَ اﻟْﻌَﻔْﻮَ وَاﻟْﻌَﺎﻓِﻴَﺔَ ﻓِﻲ اﻟﺪIﻧْﻴَﺎ وَاﻵﺧِﺮَةِ O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness and my well-being in this world and the Hereafter. blessings be upon him, in Mecca and we went out to one of its Finally, may Allah SWT reward you and your families for your continued support and dua’s for the MCA’s well-being. neighborhoods. He did not face any mountain or tree but that it PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY: https://www.mcabayarea.org/donate/ would say, “Peace be upon you, JazakAllah Khair & Kind Regards, O Messenger of Allah.” Mohammed Nadeem, Ph.D. President, MCA. Source: Sunan al-Tirmidh: 3626 Final Deadline to submit Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected Advertisements is Tuesday at 5:00 PM www.mcabayarea.org/newsletter 2 49. Al-Ba’ith The Infuser of New Life The Resurrector, The Raiser (from death), The One who resurrects His slaves after death for reward and/or punishment. “And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.” [Quran 7:180] 3 4 Sister’s Space The MCA Women’s Committee is honored to share the writings of talented sisters in the “Sister’s Space” section of the weekly newsletter. We hope you enjoy these poems written by two young sisters in our community. If you or any other sister you know would like to contribute articles, poems, or any other content to this special section of the newsletter, please email your submissions to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you! Letters during COVID-19: To Those with Time By Jinan Yusef | https://www.virtualmosque.com/uncategorized/letters-during-covid-19-to-those-with-time/ While we are all facing the same pandemic to- to give you the time you needed to come back to a thing]; then protect us from the punishment of gether, we are affected differently depending on Him. Perhaps you got so distracted with life that the Fire.” (Qur’an, 3:191) This is an amazing time where we are, our employment, our socio-eco- you rushed your prayers, were not able to read to establish this practice of reflecting and talking nomic situations, our family status (married/ the Qur’an, and found it hard to wake up for the to Allah (swt). with kids/alone), and other factors. These letters night prayer or even fajr (the dawn prayer). There are to various groups of people who may be was no time for solitude or reflection. 3- Work on your daily prayers: Many of us are contending with different things, but we pray that guilty of rushing prayers and being unable to truly all can find some benefit in each letter. You can This period might be difficult, but nothing lasts connect with Allah (swt). This is the time to focus leave a comment if you want a letter for a general forever. The Qur’an tells us that in numerous and take each prayer slowly. The Salah series was situation. places, and we see its proof all around us. We written for this purpose, and can be found here. are put in different situations and adapt our To Those with Time, faith to what is best at the time. And now is the 4- Learn: The Prophet (PBUH) said, “If anyone time to build or re-build that relationship with pursues a path in search of knowledge, Allah will You may be not used to this. Always being so busy Allah (swt). Abu Hamid al-Ghazali said: “Choose thenby make easy for him a path to paradise.” with work and responsibilities, suddenly you find solitude over people, for they distract you from (Abu Dawud) Many Islamic institutes have online yourself with a lot of time, as a result of working worshipping Allah.” Many of us do not choose courses and classes, and there are plenty of from home or even not having work during this solitude, at least not for the purpose of connect- beneficial lectures online (this recent one is my period. ing to God, and this is a time when we have been favorite). You can also catch up with reading. given solitude. Ibn Ataillah said, “Nothing serves This might be a stressful time. A confusing time. the heart better than a reclusion (‘uzla) through 5- Limit distractions, but let yourself rest: We all And it is easy to distract yourself completely with which it enters the fray of thought.” need to take care of our emotional and mental the abundance of social media apps. well-being, so we should do what is best for Thus, this is a time to reflect on life, priority and us. We do not need to necessarily cut off social Or perhaps, in some way, it is an opportunity. purpose. Allah (swt) tells us, media apps, but ensure that our time is not dom- While the pandemic is affecting people different- inated by them. We can have time for Instagram ly, you find yourself suddenly having to contend “And I did not create the jinn and mankind except without going overboard. The Prophet (PBUH) with solitude. You are healthy, thank God, to worship Me.” (Qur’an, 51:56) said, “time should be devoted (to the worldly relatively youthful, and with more free time. The affairs) and time should be devoted (to the here- Prophet (PBUH) reminds us to: We know that the Prophet (PBUH) would go to after)” (Muslim) the Cave of Hira to reflect before he received the “Take advantage of five before five: your youth first revelation. Many righteous people would ap- 6- Set a time for the daily morning/afternoon -re before your old age, your health before your portion time for seclusion and reflection. Ahmad membrances, and understand their meanings: Ibn illness, your riches before your poverty, your free Al-Shuqairi wrote a book of forty lessons and al-Qayyim stated, “In the heart there is hardness time before your work, and your life before your reflections on life during a forty-day seclusion -ex which can only be softened by remembrance of death.” (Sahih) ercise, but he recommends that people take out Allah.
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