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The Night of Qadr is better than one thousand months Qur’an (Surah 97 Ayat 3) Tweet The search for Lailatul-Qadr is the highest reflection of our spiritual yearnings for the month of Ramadan. We seek this special night of blessings from Allah ta’ala during these last ten days of Ramadan. Please join us for a
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إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَThe Lamppost Education Initiative would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family of Imam Asim Abdur-Rahim. Imam Asim was the Amir of Al-Ummah National Community and the Imam of Masjid Mujahideen in Philadelphia, Pa. May Allah make Imam Asim’s grave spacious, forgive him his sins, and grant him paradise. Please
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The Prophets and the righteous have the greatest tribulations…so when we look at their lives we get a glimpse of what commitment is really like Dr. Abdullah bin Hamid Ali Tweet What does commitment of Allah ta’ala look like? How do we assess our own conviction and faith in Allah? What can we learn from
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“It’s critical for any community, if it wishes to thrive, to think for itself and on behalf of itself. And one of these areas critical for Muslims to be independent is in the area of race and the various conversations and theories surrounding it” Imam Marc Manley
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NEW BOOK RELEASE 2021: Islam & Economics Ali Salman “Islam and Economics provides the dogma-free foundations of Islamic economics. This is a valuable contribution to a broad understanding of Islamic economics and how it relates to capitalism and socialism” Hossein Askari, Emeritus Iran Professor of Business and International Affairs, The George Washington University This primer
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NEW BOOK RELEASE 2021: The Muslim Funeral Guide Dr. Abdullah bin Hamid Ali-Author of the Muslim Funeral Guide The Lamppost Education Initiative is pleased to announce our second edition of the Muslim Funeral Guide. This unique guide provides critical information about how Islam views death and dying and how our funeral rites are connected to
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Qur’anic Recitations Abdullah Ahmad Surah Hashr Imam Hamza Abdul-Tawwab Surah Baqarah Ayat 283 to Surah Ali ‘Imran Ayat 14 Salman Ahmad Surah al-Hadid Hamzah Hashmi Surah Ya Sin Qari Amar Bellaha Al-Furqan Ayats 25-77 Yaseen Mahmoud Surah Baqarah Ayats 182-190 Sidra Qazi Surah Maryam Ayats 1-40 Dr. Abdullah bin Hamid Ali Surah Nisa Ayats 1-23
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“Harun al-Rashid was at a very critical juncture in Muslim history where the fiqh was beginning to be recorded and elaborated…” Dr. Khalid Yahya Blankinship Tweet https://vimeo.com/455677388 Dr. Khalid Yahya Blankinship provides a fascinating and detailed look at the fourth Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate: Harun al-Rashid. He is known in the West because of
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