Defend Your Faith, Tradition and Legacy | Imam Zaid Shakir

Описание: Imam Zaid Shakir delivers a profound sermon about recent insults upon the Prophets (peace be upon them) and satanic forces tearing apart families and society as a whole.

This Khutbah was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Friday, March 23, 2018.

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Don’t Believe the Hype

Imam Zaid Shakir’s speaks on the immaturity of character that leads to the breaking up of Muslim families, due to the neglect of inherent responsibilities in act and word.

He then makes note of how it is now possible and even acceptable to say things about the Prophets, peace be upon them, both unbecoming and in contradiction of the Deen as it has been passed down to us.

The dangers in not understanding and embracing known truths in favor of complete freedom of interpretation without sound foundations are laid bare.

The embrace of philosophical attitudes of deconstruction where nothing is sacred but the self and its proclivities leave us in a wasteland.

Reconstruction is the Remedy

Imam Zaid then poignantly reminds us that the remedy of our societal and communal ills lies not in deconstruction but in revivification — in a sincere return to the Straight Path.

Imam Dawud Walid says: “Imam Zaid’s khutbah about secular liberalism and Western feminism’s unintended consequences needs to be discussed in every masjid and MSA in the West.”

May Allah protect him and all of our teachers and guides.

Imam Zaid Shakir is a co-founder, serves on its Board of Trustees, and senior Faculty Member of Zaytuna College located in Berkeley, CA. He is amongst the most respected and influential Islamic scholars in the West. As an American Muslim who came of age during the civil rights struggles, he has brought both sensitivity about race and poverty issues and scholarly discipline to his faith-based work.

Born in Berkeley, California, he accepted Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force. He obtained a BA with honors in International Relations at American University in Washington D.C. and later earned his MA in Political Science at Rutgers University. While at Rutgers, he led a successful campaign for divestment from South Africa, and co-founded New Brunswick Islamic Center formerly Masjid al-Huda.

After a year of studying Arabic in Cairo, Egypt, he settled in New Haven, Connecticut and continued his community activism, co-founding Masjid Al-Islam, the Tri-State Muslim Education Initiative, and the Connecticut Muslim Coordinating Committee. As Imam of Masjid Al-Islam from 1988 to 1994 he spear-headed a community renewal and grassroots anti-drug effort, and also taught political science and Arabic at Southern Connecticut State University. He served as an interfaith council Chaplain at Yale University and developed the Chaplaincy Sensitivity Training for physicians at Yale New Haven Hospital. He then left for Syria to pursue his studies in the traditional Islamic sciences.

For seven years in Syria, and briefly in Morocco, he immersed himself in an intense study of Arabic, Islamic law, Quranic studies, and spirituality with some of the top Muslim scholars of our age. In 2001, he graduated from Syria’s prestigious Abu Noor University with a BA in Islamic Sciences and returned to Connecticut, serving again as the Imam of Masjid al-Islam, and writing and speaking frequently on a host of issues. That same year, his translation from Arabic into English of The Heirs of the Prophets was published by Starlatch Press.

In 2003, he moved to Hayward, California to serve as a scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute, where he taught courses on Arabic, Islamic law, history, and Islamic spirituality. In 2004, he initiated a pilot seminary program at Zaytuna Institute, which was useful in Zaytuna College’s refinement of its Islamic Studies curriculum and its educational philosophy. For four years, students in the pilot program were engaged in the study of contemporary and classical texts. In 2005, Zaytuna Institute published Scattered Pictures: Reflections of An American Muslim„ an anthology of diverse essays penned by Zaid Shakir. He co-founded the Lighthouse Mosque, Oakland, CA. in 2007.

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