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PRAYER TIMINGS Effective 09/12 MCA NOOR Fajr 5:50 6:00 Dhuhr 1:30 1:30 Asr 5:00 5:45 Maghrib Sunset Sunset Isha 8:50 8:50 Juma 1 1:30 1:30 Juma 2 2:00 2:00 Newsletter Juma 3 2:30 2:30 Published Weekly by the Muslim Community Association of San Francisco Bay Area www.mcabayarea.org Moharram 23, 1442 AH Friday, Sep 11, 2020 Suleymaniye Mosque (Istanbul; Turkey) AL-QURAN “Do not lose heart nor fall into despair! You shall triumph if you are believers. (Quran 3:139) HADITH Abu Zaid (viz. Amr b. Akhtab) reported: Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) led us in the dawn prayer and then mounted the pulpit and addressed us until it was (time for the) noon prayer. He then came down the pulpit and observed prayer and then again mounted the pulpit and again addressed us until it was time for the ‘Asr prayer. He then again came down and observed the prayer and again mounted the pulpit and addressed us until the sun was set and he informed (about) everything (pertaining to turmoil) that lay hidden in the past and what lies in (the womb) of) the future and the most learned amongst us is one who remembers them well. Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected Sahih Muslim, Book 54, Hadith 33 1442 Hijri (2020-2021) MCA Elections Announcement Rescheduling/Delay of MCA Elections to Sept 16 & 17, 2020 MCA Elections Committee Announcement- September 7, 2020 Assalamu Alaikum MCA Members: The MCA Elections Committee, by majority decision, has decided to reschedule this year’s MCA Elections to Wednesday, September 16 and Thursday, September 17. As previously announced, after considering all factors and circumstances, receiving input from the community, reviewing all available options and discussing the matter thoroughly, the MCA Elections Committee, by majority decision, decided to conduct and hold exclusively online voting for the 1442 Hijri (2020-2021) MCA Election. All members will be considered absentee in this year’s election and will only be able to vote online. The MCA Elections were originally to take place via an online ballot on September 11, September 12 and September 13, 2020. Given the unique circumstances in our community, namely the Covid-19 pandemic and the closure of the MCA facility, and given that this is the first time the MCA Elections would be held online, the MCA Elections Committee sought to vet all available online voting programs to ensure that our elections would be accessible and secure for all voters and produce uncompromised results in a timely manner that the community could have confidence in. After significant research and conversations, the MCA Elections Committee has contracted with and retained the service of ElectionBuddy.com, a company that has run over 40,000 elections, to run a secure, anonymous, high integrity election for the MCA this year. In order to have the necessary contact information from all MCA members to vote, to set up the process with the people at ElectionBuddy.com and to ensure the availability of ElectionBuddy.com staff to manage, facilitate and troubleshoot our election process, the MCA Elections Committee determined that this year’s elections should take place on the weekdays of Wednesday, September 16 and Thursday, September 17 as opposed to weekend days, as originally scheduled, when the ElectionBuddy.com staff would have limited capacity to manage our election. These selected dates, which fall on the 28th and 29th of Muharram, still fall within the timeframes for the MCA election dictated by Article XII, Section 1 of the MCA Constitution that require the elections to be held between the tenth and the end of Muharram. We are also aware of Section 7 of Article XII of the MCA Constitution which notes that “The exact time of the elections shall be announced by the Election Committee at least four weeks before the election.” However, given that we are moving the elections back and not forward, the vast discretion afforded to the MCA Elections Committee in setting the parameters of absentee balloting (as noted previously all members will be considered absentee in this year’s election), and the unique circumstances of the this year’s elections, we pray that we are still abiding by both the spirit and letter of MCA Constitutional mandates. Please contact us with any questions or concerns. Sincerely, MCA Election Committee Members: ● Sajid A. Khan (Chair) ● Altaf Khan ● Marwa Ahmed ● Christy Chase ● Khandaker Aza 2 24. Al-Mu’izz The Honourer-Bestower He gives esteem to whoever He willed, hence there is no one to degrade Him; And He degrades whoever He willed, hence there is no one to give Him esteem. “And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.” [Quran 7:180] 3 Al-Mundhiri on acting upon one’s knowledge In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the your nation who commanded people to be it, his wealth and how he earned it and he Merciful righteous and they forgot it themselves, yet spent it, and how he acted on his knowledge. they recited the Book. Will they not reason? Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi 2416, Grade: Sahih Al-Mundhiri recorded the following Source: Musnad Ahmad 13103, Grade: Sahih chapter in his book Al-Targhib wal-Tarhib: Luqman reported: Abu Darda, may Allah be Discouragement of one who knows but does In another narration, the Prophet said: pleased with him, said: Verily, I fear from my not act upon his knowledge, and he says Preachers from your nation who said what Lord on the Day of Resurrection that I will be what he does not do. Source: al-Targhib wal- they did not do, and who recited the Book of called in front of the heads of all creation, Tarhib 1/124 Allah and did not act upon it. Source: Shu’ab saying: O ‘Uwaymir! I will say: At your service, al-Iman 1636, Grade: Sahih my Lord. He will say: Did you not act upon Zayd ibn Arqam reported: The Messenger of what you knew? Source: Shu’ab al-Imaan Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Abu Barzah reported: The Messenger of 1712, Grade: Sahih li ghayrihi O Allah, I seek refuge in you from knowledge Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: that does not benefit, from a heart that is not Jundub ibn Abdullah reported: The The feet of a servant will not move on reverent, from a soul that is not content, and Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be the Day of Resurrection until he is asked from a supplication that is not answered. upon him, said: The parable of the scholar about his lifetime and how he used it, his who teaches people virtue but forgets Source: Sahih Muslim 2722, Grade: Sahih knowledge and how he acted upon it, his himself, is that of a lamp giving people light wealth and from where he acquired it and Usamah ibn Zayd reported: The Messenger while it burns itself. Source: al-Mu’jam al-Kabir how he spent it, and his body and how he of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, 1681, Grade: Sahih exhausted it. Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī said: A man will be brought on the Day 2417, Grade: Sahih ‘Imran ibn Husayn reported: The Messenger of Resurrection and cast into the Hellfire, of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and his intestines will pour forth in Hell. He Mu’adh ibn Jabal reported: The Messenger of said: Among what I fear most for you are the will go around them as a donkey around Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: debates of hypocrites with a knowledgeable a millstone. The people of Hell will gather The feet of a servant will not move on the tongue. Source: Sahih Ibn Hibban 80, Grade: around him and say: What has happened Day of Resurrection until he is asked about Sahih to you? Were you not enjoining good and four matters: his lifetime and how he used it, forbidding evil? He will say: Of course, I his youth and how he exhausted it, his wealth Umar ibn al-Khattab reported: The Messenger used to enjoin good but I did not practice and how he earned it and spent it, and of Allah, peace and blessings be upon it myself, and I used to forbid evil but I his knowledge and how he acted upon it. him, said: Verily, among what I fear most practiced it myself. Source: Sahih Al-Bukhari Source: al-Mu’jam al-Kabir 111, Grade: Sahih for my nation is every hypocrite with a 3094, Grade: Muttafaqun Alayhi li ghayrihi knowledgeable tongue. Source: Musnad Ahmad 140, Grade: Sahih Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Ibn Mas’ud reported: The Prophet, peace Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: and blessings be upon him, said: The son In another narration, Umar said:His tongue is of Adam will not be dismissed from his knowledgeable, but his heart and deeds are I saw some men on the night of my Lord on the Day of Resurrection until he is ignorant. Source: al-Adth al-Mukhtrah 215 ascension, whose lips were being sheared questioned about five issues: his life and by scissors of fire. I said: O Gabriel, who are Success comes from Allah, and Allah knows how he lived it, his youth and how he used these people? Gabriel said: Preachers from best. 4 DID YOU KNOW? The Umayyad caliphate established in 661 lasted for about a century.