American Muslims - Obama, the Change, and the Crossroads - Imam Zaid Shakir
Lecture on “Obama and American Muslims: The Way Forward” given at Columbia University on Thanksgiving Weekend, 2008. This event was conducted with Shaykh Faraz Rabbani. With special thanks to Shaykh Faraz for the recording. Original link here: http://www.seekersdigest.org/?p=126
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An audio podcast from the archives of Imam Zaid Shakir. From Meccaone Radio.
The Spiritual Struggle
An audio podcast from the archives of Imam Zaid Shakir.
Stand Up for The Truth
An audio podcast from the archives of Imam Zaid Shakir.
Friday Khutbah - October 3, 2008
Reflections of Surah Al ‘Asr (The Declining Day or the Ages). Khutbah was delivered at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland.
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‘Id Khutbah 1429 (2008)
Imam Zaid delivered this ‘Id khutbah at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, California on Wednesday, October 1.
Here is a message from Imam Zaid:
I wish to extend warmest ‘Id Greetings to all of you. May Allah bless you all during this blessed season. Here is my ‘Id Khutbah. Insha Allah, you will find some benefit in it.
Dear Self: A Year In The Life Of A Welfare Mother
It was the year 1973; the Vietnam War was officially over and Watergate was to begin. Pink Floyd’s, Dark Side of the Moon, was the coveted album of the year, reggae music was launched and bell-bottoms were all the rage.
Dear Self: A Year in the Life of a Welfare Mother, chronicles the journal of a young African American mother struggling to raise her seven children amidst the crushing poverty of housing projects, impassive public policy and deep-rooted discrimination. Restricted by unfortunate circumstance, 39-year old Richelene Mitchell expresses her intense literary yearning and activist awareness by writing letters to herself.
An open and moving memoir of the trials and platitudes of life, Dear Self is very likely the first literary work of its kind. Narrations in crystalline prose tell of a system that snares it’s most vulnerable; of endless poverty and sacrifice, hope and conflict, societal prejudices and a precarious health condition endured in secret. Her dignity and intellect unrepressed by her economic and social status, Richelene’s hopes and dreams falter with her tenuous hold on life. She writes how spirit-breaking ‘adequate’ can be, stretching pennies and food stamps for her children and trying to keep a warm home.
Read more here: http://www.newislamicdirections.com/nid/articles/dear_self_a_year_in_the_life_of_a_welfare_mother/
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