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Since the Orlando massacre, there have been at least 125 more deaths due to senseless gun shootings in the U.S., with more than 269 gun violence injuries.

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As Muslim youth leaders were lobbying elected officials on “Young Leaders Capitol Hill Day" for gun violence prevention, the U.S. Capitol complex was locked down after D.C. police chased a car with a passenger firing a “mini machine gun” at officers. No one was hurt and three suspects were apprehended. After the Orlando massacre,

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Helping Hand Recognized for Critical Water Project | pg 5 Family: Accused American ISIS Plotter Was “Set Up”| pg 5 Arctic Ramadan: Fasting In Land of Midnight Sun | pg 10 ICCL Academy To Supervise Home Schooling | pg 14

Imam Recognized for Youth Work In Poor, Crime Plagued DC Neighborhoods

Cali Makes Important Corrections to Islamic History| pg 16

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Ramadan for Muslim Inmates: Worship with Limits | pg 16

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Imam Abdul-Ali, also known as Avon Twitty, received the first ever Exemplary Community Service Award given by the Muslim Democratic Caucus at the 5th annual John A. Wilson Building Iftar on June 20,

2016. The award was given in recognition of the nature of his work, which occurs without any governmental support and because the communities he serves are the most underserved parts of the District of Columbia.

local politicians, who host the celebration. This year the chairperson of DC City Council, Phil Mendelson, and Mayor Muriel Bowser were co-hosts. “This event highlights the spirit of brotherhood in the month of

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Helping Hand Recognized for Critical Water Project in Pakistan By Hena Zuberi

aspires to link cities and people through business, educational, cultural, and humanitarian endeavors, the HoustonKarachi chapter was established in 2009 —5 years after applying for the competitive program.

Muslim Link Staff Reporter In Washington DC’s historic Mayflower Hotel, amongst 700 leaders, ambassadors and dignitaries, a project by HoustonKarachi Sister City Association (HKSCA), in collaboration with Helping Hand for Relief & Development (HHRD), was awarded the 2016 Innovation in Humanitarian Assistance Award on the 60th Anniversary of the Sisters Cites International Conference. Muhammad Saeed Shaikh, the current president of the HKSCA was also awarded with the Circle of Distinguished Volunteers award, given out once a decade. Ilyas Hasan Choudry, Program Director of HHRD, the Mayor of Houston’s representative Tomiko Olah and the Deputy Ambassador of Pakistan accompanied Shaikh as he accepted the 2016 Lou Wozar Diplomatic award for the project.

SCI also works with ordinary citizens to participate in people-to-people exchanges and to build long-term partnerships between U.S. and international municipalities. SCI represents more than 700 U.S. communities and nearly 2,500 partnerships with sister communities in 134 countries.

“It is an honor to receive these awards. They will play a great role in further cementing the friendship between the two cities. We are grateful for our collaboration with HHRD,” stated Shaikh.

Created in 1956 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sister City International’s (SCI) develops municipal partnerships between U.S. cities, counties, and states and similar jurisdictions in other nations. With an organizational mandate that

Nicholas D. Johnson, Legislative Assistant to Congressman Al Green of the 9th District of Texas attended the event to present the Congressman’s support for the American Muslim community which raised the funds for the project.

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Accused American ISIS Plotter Was “Set Up,” Family Says they deemed fit.”

By Murtaza Hussain

The Intercept, July 12 2016 A criminal complaint unsealed last week and widely publicized revealed that Jalloh had been speaking for months with a government informant, who recorded conversations in which Jalloh seemed to support acts of violence. The informant solicited Jalloh’s help in procuring money and weapons that he said would be used in support of ISIS. At one point, Jalloh was provided with a mobile messaging application to help him send $500 to an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS member abroad.

MOHAMED BAILOR JALLOH, the former Virginia National Guardsman arrested last week on charges of plotting to provide material support to the Islamic State, was manipulated by a government informant, his siblings say. Jalloh was also mischaracterized by the government, the family members added, with innocent or thoughtless words twisted to make the 26-year-old naturalized citizen, originally from Sierra Leone, sound like a budding terrorist. Jalloh faces up to 20 years in prison. “He is just another Mohamed that got set up,” his brother Chernor Jalloh told The Intercept. “He sympathizes with the oppressed abroad. … The FBI used his

love for those being oppressed against him by inciting him in all manners that

by watching the lectures of former al Qaeda ideologue Anwar al-Awlaki. But his family says that Jalloh was young and impressionable, and had been manipulated by his conversations with the government informant. Chernor also said he believed his brother looked up to the informant as someone who was older and whose opinion should be respected. “He looked at him as an older brother with more knowledge about what is going on in the Middle East and was trying to understand their plight.”

After Jalloh attempted to purchase a rifle at a local gun store, he was placed under arrest.

The use of informants in FBI terrorism cases has become a source of controversy after several high-profile cases in which terrorism plots appeared to have been

The government affidavit against Jalloh alleges that he had been radicalized

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Arctic Ramadan: Fasting In Land of Midnight Sun Comes with a Challenge In Iqaluit and the other Muslim communities that dot Canada’s Arctic, 20 or more hours of sunlight have forced many to adjust to unique circumstances By Ashifa Kassam The Guardian, July 3, 2016 In Canada’s Arctic, summers are marked by a bright light that bathes the treeless tundra for more than 20 hours a day. For some, it’s a welcome change from the unrelenting darkness of winter. But for the small but growing Muslim community of Iqaluit, Nunavut, life in the land of the midnight sun poses a singular challenge during the month of Ramadan, during which Muslims typically fast from sunrise to sunset. “I haven’t fainted once,” said 29-yearold Abdul Karim, one of the few in the city who has fastidiously timed his Ramadan fast to the Arctic sun since moving from Ottawa in 2011. This year that means eating at about 1.30am before the sun rises and breaking his fast at about 11pm when the sun sets. “The only reason to stop would be if it hurts my health,” Karim said. Pointing to his sizable frame, he laughed as he added: “But looking at my condition, I don’t think fasting will hurt me.” As the end of Ramadan draws near for Muslims around the world, much of the holy month’s focus on community work, prayer and reflection has been a constant in communities around the world. But in Iqaluit and the other Muslim communities that dot the Arctic, the long days have forced a shift in how the element of fasting is approached. Most in Iqaluit adhere to the timetable followed by Muslims in Ottawa, some 1,300 miles south of the city – a nod to the advice of Muslim scholars who have

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said Muslims in the far north should observe Ramadan using the timetable of Mecca or the nearest Muslim city. It still means fasting for some 18 hours a day, said Atif Jilani, who moved to Iqaluit from Toronto a little over a year ago. “It’s long days, but more manageable.” Many in the 100-strong community break their fast together, gathering in the city’s brand new mosque – completed in February amid temperatures that dropped as low as -50C with windchill – for nightly potluck suppers. As they tuck into traditional meals such as dates, and goat or lamb curries, the sun shines brightly through the windows. It’s a scene that plays out across Canada’s northernmost mosques during Ramadan, as Muslim communities wrestle with the country’s unique geography. The 300 or so Muslims in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories, have several options when it comes to fasting during Ramadan, said Nazim Awan, president of the Yellowknife Islamic Centre, with exceptions made for those who are pregnant or ill.

The Midnight Sun mosque in Inuvik was built in Manitoba and moved to its current location in the Arctic. Photograph: Alamy

encourage his son with the more manageable timetable of about 15 hours of fasting as compared with about 18 hours in Edmonton. “If I fast Yellowknife or Edmonton times, my son might say, Papa, you are really insane, what are you doing?” he said. Faced with the impossibility of following the local movements of the sun, the 100 or so Muslims in Inuvik, a small town that sits 125 miles north of the Arctic circle, have also been following Edmonton’s timetable. “We currently have 24 hours a day of sun,” said Ahmad Alkhalaf. “There’s no sunrise or sunset.”

“There might be some superhumans who want to fast for 23 hours, but the other option is to follow the intent and spirit of fasting by following nearby cities, or they can follow the times of Mecca and Medina.”

The adherence to Edmonton’s schedule was already in place in 2001 when he moved from Toronto to the small northern community of 3,500 people. “My first Ramadan here was in December. There’s no sun at that time; it’s dark all day and night. So we used Edmonton time.”

In recent years, much of the community has opted to follow the Ramadan timetable of Edmonton, in Alberta. Some, such as Awan – a father of two young kids, including a 12-year-old who recently started fasting – follow the timings of Mecca. He hopes to

At times, it can be psychologically challenging to follow the clock rather than what is happening outside, Alkhalaf said. “You’re supposed to break your fast when it’s dusk, and we eat when the sun is out. It’s not usual to

have iftar [the meal breaking the fast] when the sun is up,” he said. In Inuvik, where much of the population is Inuit, the Muslim community has sought to strike a balance between Ramadan and the local culture and traditions. The iftar meal includes dates and rich curries – as well as local game such as reindeer, prepared in accordance with Islamic law. “We make a soup or curry it – we make a biryani, but instead of using beef, we use reindeer.” In Iqaluit, as the Muslim community prepares to mark the end of Ramadan, some reflect that this year’s timing – stretching across some of the longest days of the year – has made this year one of the more challenging of recent years. It’s particularly true for those like Karim who have determinedly followed the local sunrise and sunset. But his efforts will be rewarded years from now, said Karim, thanks to the lunar calendar. Ramadan will eventually fall during winter, which in Iqaluit sees the sun rise and set within a few hours each day. “I’ll follow those hours too,” he said with a laugh. “Oh yes, definitely.”

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that took the lives of over 1,400 people in Karachi. HKSCA approached Helping Hands for Relief & Development, a leading US-based humanitarian organization, and offered to sponsor one of its three ongoing water pump projects in Karachi.

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The $30,000 water project that won in the 500,000+ residents category is a reverse osmosis water filtration plant with a submersible pump installed in Block “L” of the North Nazimabad area in Karachi, Pakistan, one of the largest cities in the Muslim world. The R.O Water filtration plant has the capacity to provide 2,000 liters of fresh, clean water a day to over 60,000 people in a city that suffers from water shortages and severe heat waves.

The water mafia exacerbates the water crisis in one of South Asia’s most water stressed countries. Water traders who siphon municipalities water sources and run fleets of tankers earning as much as $16,000 a day, according to a special investigation by Al Jazeera, leaving the poor high and dry. “This is a humble gift from the people

Ramadan 2015 witnessed a heat wave

of Houston, Texas, USA, to the people of Karachi,” said Sheikh, president of the HKSCA. Working with a major NGO in the country, the Al Khidmat Foundation Pakistan (AKFP), the HHRD team completed the project in 5 months. Residents of the area are charged Rs 1 per liter (approx. one penny). This money is used to locally maintain the plant and pay for the salary of a plant manager. This project is based on the success of a similar submersible water pump plant constructed by the HKSCA and the

HHRD in 2014, which currently supplies 1,800 liters of water a day to the village of Dadsar, Tharparkar, shared Shaikh. Pakistan’s Thar Desert is drought-stricken since December 2013 leaving more than 1,000 dead, mostly children under the age of 5. The drought, blamed on a lack of rain, has also devastated agriculture and killed nearly 4,000 cows, sheep and goats. Today, the area of where the pump is installed is green with vegetation, much to the delight of locals. A few thousand people giving up their cup of morning Joe can fill the cups of thousands of others with clean drinking water.

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ICCL Academy To Supervise Home Schooling Education. The center is in the process of reorganizing some its existing academic programs in the coming weeks and opening enrollment in the supervised home schooling program, under the guidance of the religious director, Imam Javid Bhaiyat. The current school will also fall under the homeschool umbrella.

By Muslim Link Staff The Maryland State Department of Education has recognized Islamic Community Center of Laurel as a bona fide Education Ministry. The center is now a registered homeschooling center and can supervise home schooling for students in conformity with the requirements set forth by the Board of

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of tomorrow, we must establish the proper foundations today. May Allah bless this community,” stated Karamat Syed, Chairman of the Board of the Islamic Community Center of Laurel.

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California Makes Important Corrections to History of Islam and South Asia State Board of Education accepts some recommendations from scholars to reverse Islamophobic edits pushed by US based Hindu nationalist groups July 16, 2016 - The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC - iamc. com), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos expressed satisfaction that progress was made in reversing some of the Islamophobic content that had been injected into the California curriculum. At the public hearing in Sacramento on July 14th, the Board of Education responded positively to a letter by the Muslim Studies Faculty Group,

a formidable collective of 25 scholars on Islam and Muslim Civilization from premier institutions such as Harvard, UCLA, Georgetown University and Berkeley. The scholars had called on the Board to delete Islamophobic content from the curriculum, while also urging a reversal of false and malicious statements on Islamic history introduced by the Hindu nationalist lobby in the US Adding to the weight of scholarship

represented by the letter from the Muslim Studies Faculty Group, was a letter from the major American Muslim organizations , urging the State Board of Education to reverse the factually incorrect and biased edits that had made their way into the curriculum framework during the review process. These edits comprised of painting Islamic history in the Indian subcontinent as one of forced conversions, and projecting Islam as an inherently war-mongering religion. The

hearing witnessed a large turnout from the American Muslim community, who were motivated by the desire to ensure that their faith was not misrepresented in order to serve an Islamophobic and Hindu supremacist narrative. Essentially, the State Board of Education accepted three of the five edits >> HISTORY Pg 17

Ramadan for Muslim Inmates: Mixing Religious Duty With Prison’s Limits By SAMANTHA SCHMIDT JULY 6, 2016 OSSINING, N.Y. — As they heard the beginning of the 8:30 p.m. call to prayer on Tuesday, the Muslim men took their first sips of water of the day, breaking the Ramadan fast for the last time this year. They passed around apples, chips and juice, their bodies aching for food but their minds reminding them that first, they must pray. The men filed into the white-walled mosque, joining more than 100 others facing east, their arms crossed and their heads bowed. “Allahu akbar,” the imam called from the front of the two-tiered room. Some of the men wore knit kufi caps, and almost all were clothed in green uniforms, signifying their status as inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility

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here in Westchester County. Sing Sing, a maximum-security prison, holds more than 1,600 inmates, including many convicted of crimes like murder and manslaughter. The prison’s imam, Jon Young, said that 80 percent of the Muslim inmates in Sing Sing had converted to Islam after entering prison. “Islam has discipline that they didn’t have before,” Mr. Young said. “They have a real sense of brotherhood. They protect each other.” But being a Muslim behind bars has its complications. Those incarcerated, like Muslims in the general public, may face a lack of understanding, discrimination

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Muslims in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, N.Y., at evening prayer on Tuesday after they broke their fast. It was the final night of Ramadan this year. HIROKO MASUIKE / THE NEW YORK TIMES or indifference. This friction can be heightened during the holy month of Ramadan, when religious obligations

require complicated changes to rigid prison schedules.

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partners in the "South Asian Histories For All" (SAHFA) coalition, a broadbased interfaith and inter-caste alliance comprising of Dalits, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians, as well as the American Muslim organizations whose support was instrumental in achieving this progress.

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recommended by the Muslim Studies Faculty Group, and overturned several edits proposed by the alliance of Hindu nationalist organizations comprising of Hindu American Foundation (HAF), Uberoi Foundation and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF).

Despite much pressure brought upon the State Board of Education (SBE) by the Hindu nationalist groups, the SBE accepted alternative language recommended by the Muslim Studies Faculty Group that represent a more

IAMC has expressed its sincere appreciation for all the coalition

accurate and balanced portrayal of the faith and its complex history.

are running a fool's errand," added Mr. Malick.

"It is ironic that while publicly claiming to seek a fair portrayal of Hinduism, H i n d u n a t i o n a l i s t o rg a n i z a t i o n s expended considerable resources in order to inject Islamophobia into the California curriculum," said Mr. Umar Malick, President of the Indian American Muslim Council. "The State Board of Education's courageous stance in resisting political pressure and a well-funded PR machinery demonstrates that those seeking to normalize anti-Muslim bigotry

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A Third of Nice Truck Attack’s Dead Were Muslim, Group Says By Alissa J. Rubin And Lilia Blaise New York Times, JULY 19, 2016

and other West African countries where French is spoken, and there is also a sizable community of Muslims from the Comoros Islands.

NICE, France — When a Tunisian man drove a truck down a crowded street in Nice last week in an attack claimed by the Islamic State, more than one-third of the people he killed were Muslim, the head of a regional Islamic association said on Tuesday.

French leaders held a moment of silence in Nice, France, on Monday to honor the victims of last week's attack. Eightyfour people were killed and dozens more injured when a truck plowed through a crowd on Bastille Day.

Kawthar Ben Salem, a spokeswoman for the Union of Muslims of the AlpesMaritimes, said that Muslim funerals were being held for at least 30 of those who died during the Bastille Day attack, including men, women and children. The Paris prosecutor’s office, which handles terrorism investigations, said on Tuesday that all 84 people killed in the attack had been formally identified, meaning that the number of Muslim fatalities may be even higher. The number of people who were wounded was also raised, to 308 people. The attack occurred after a fireworks display, as the Tunisian man, identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, drove

a cargo truck around a barrier and accelerated as people were slowly beginning to leave the beach area. The truck plowed into the crowds, tacking from one side of the road to the other. The road had been closed to vehicular traffic for the display.

About 120,000 people in the AlpesMaritimes are from the Maghreb — including Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco — and while the majority are most likely Muslims, some are Jews and Christians, according to rough estimates by various local associations. Nice is also a destination for Muslims from Senegal

“This is complicated in terms of mourning for the whole world; this is also a little complicated for the Muslim community which is afraid that acts of violence,” will be directed at them, said Ms. Ben Salem. “We hope that this sends a global message that the barbarity touches the whole world and that the people here, the victims, are not those who commit the crimes in Syria and Iraq.” At least 10 children and teenagers were killed in the attack, but because Mr. Lahouaiej Bouhlel was identified as a Muslim, she said, many people “don’t >> NICE Pg 26

Six Richest Nations 'Host Just 9 Percent of Refugees' Aid agency says "shameful" that richest countries are turning their backs on the most vulnerable people in the world. Al-Jazeera, July 18, 2016 The six richest countries - which make up more than half the global economy host less than nine percent of the world's refugees, an aid group has said. The United States, China, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom hosted 2.1 million refugees and asylum seekers last year - just 8.88 percent of the global total, the report from the Britain-based Oxfam said. Poorer countries, in contrast, have

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accommodated most of those looking for save havens, Oxfam said. "Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, South Africa as well as the Occupied Palestinian Territory host over 50 percent of the world’s refugees and asylum seekers but account for under two percent of the world’s economy," it said. "While Germany has recently welcomed far more refugees than the other of the

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devised and propagated by the informants themselves. The FBI is believed to have at least 15,000 informants active in the United States. An undated photo of Jalloh, left, at his military graduation. While the full details of Jalloh’s interactions with the informant are not yet known, his family says the behavior linked by the government to terrorism is being mischaracterized. Its unclear how long Jalloh had been under government surveillance. His conversations with the informant lasted several months, though reference is also made in the affidavit to a trip Jalloh took to Nigeria last year. Privacy advocates and whistleblowers have long warned that extended government surveillance could create “databases of ruin” about innocent people, whereby harmful or provocative statements are catalogued over time and then later contextualized in an incriminating manner. Jalloh’s family claims that in his case, innocent actions and thoughtless words, or “tough talk,” are being conflated together by the government to paint a picture of him that is more nefarious than the reality. “Mohamed was a military kid, he owned other guns before this all happened, and he generally bought and practiced with guns all the time anyways,” says Jalloh’s sister, Mariatu Jalloh. “He grew up here in Virginia and never thought of something like buying a gun as remarkable or suspicious.” She described Mohamed’s statements to the informant as an emotional response to incitement and said her brother engaged in tough talk to impress someone he respected.

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8 Tips to Stay Connected to the Qur’an After Ramadan By Aishah Iqbal

help keep you focused to achieve it in sha ’Allah. This is a personal goal for you, your abilities and what you are in need of to boost your iman. Write it down in your diary, phone or wall – keep it around you before your eyes so you always remember what the goal is.

Source: productivemuslim.com. As the days of Ramadan leave us, we get a feeling of emptiness. Many of us may have achieved a great deal this month whilst others may have been disappointed in how they spent their blessed Ramadan days. But, how could we stay connected to its good deeds, particularly our relationship with the Qur’an, after Ramadan? The passing of Ramadan so quickly usually leaves the hearts of Muslims around the world saddened. But, what is it that truly saddens us? Is it the end of the iftar (breaking the fast meal) party invites? The rumbling belly at lunchtime? Or perhaps something much more important and frightening? The fear of not being able to maintain as much `ibadah and concentration on the faith as in the month that has passed, and the distractions of life that overwhelm us soon after `Eid?

4- Set a time for Qur’an We can set as many goals as we like, but without being prepared or planning the journey to that destination, it can be extremely difficult.

is no longer strong. Feed the soul to keep your heart awake. Here are 8 tips to help you start, develop and maintain a strong relationship with the book of Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) even after Ramadan in sha’ Allah: 1- Treat every month as if it’s Ramadan

Whilst this is the case, like in any battle, the soldiers must prepare themselves to win. Our battle in this instance is to maintain a relationship with the Qur’an and continue to build on whatever we have accomplished this Ramadan. Even if it was not as productive as you would have liked, to learn from the mistakes in Ramadan and kick start a solid relationship with the Qur’an in the coming months is equally as important. `Abdullah ibn Mas`ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The house in which the Qur’an is not recited is like a derelict (forsaken) house that has no one to maintain it.” (Al-Musannaf) Never let your home become forsaken; so long as you have breath in your lungs, you are able to stay connected , hold tight to the Qur’an and its teachings. There are no excuses. We all take time to ensure we smell nice, look good and eat well. So, give your soul as well the food it requires by nourishing it with the Qur’an, and never neglect it. Our bodies are finite entities, so feed the soul that will hold you up when your body

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While the blessed days have passed, this does not mean our mentality should change. We make time in this month because we are aware of the blessings and importance of spending time in ibadah. However, this does not mean the time outside of Ramadan should be wasted. This is the Book about which there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah. (Al-Baqarah 2:2) This verse applies to everyday; Ramadan is a special time to spend with the Qur’an, get truly connected to it, but that does not mean we should neglect it outside of this month.

We procrastinate with excuses as to why we cannot regularly recite and ponder over the Qur’an. You might ‘lack time’ – but you are reading this which means you have time to surf the net! Cut out idle activities or wake up 15 minutes earlier. You feel bad because ‘you don’t understand’ what you read – find a Qur’an teacher, read translations and tafseer (exegesis of Qur’an) or start learning Arabic. You may think ‘you’ll do it on the weekend’ – give yourself the reality check of life. You may not have tomorrow so do what you need to today! Sadly, it may just be a case of “I don’t know why, I just can’t get in the habit”. In order to make a habit, you must strive. The climb up the mountain is never easy but if you stop midway you will never reach the top. Small steps are better than no steps.

On a weekly basis, work out when you will have the time to read the Qur’an and associated activities that you are focusing on. Are you able to have a set time? It is great if you can but if not, do not panic. Use whatever time you have to do as much as you can. 5- Catch up on what you’ve missed Some days may be busier than others and you may not be able to read whatever portion you had planned for. Hold yourself accountable for this and ensure to catch up with what you have missed on top of the planned activities for the next day. This is important in ensuring you have a regular habit in place that you try to maintain to attain the goals you have made for that month. Even better, create a post-Ramadan Qur’an group with your friends to help you stay motivated and connected to the Qur’an even when you feel your enthusiasm dipping.

3- Have a monthly goal 6- Focus on understanding

Imagine every month to be like Ramadan and try to put as much passion into developing your relationship with the Qur’an as you can. The truth is, any day could be our last and therefore we should optimize our time spent in reading and pondering over the book that was sent as a guidance for us.

At the beginning of each month, set a target for yourself. Do you want to complete the entire Qur’an or focus on particular surahs?

2- No excuses to get Connected!

Whatever the case may be, having an idea in mind about what your goal is will

Is there a portion you want to successfully memorize? Or perhaps you want to focus on your recitation rather than a particular quantity?

As well as reciting the Qur’an, make time to read the translation and tafseer. This could be by reading them on your own, or by attending classes at a local masjid or institute. This is really an important part of

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Istiqamah: How To Remain Steadfast After Ramadan By Naseema Zulfiqar

of being inconsistent in their deeds after Ramadan. In fact, Islam discourages this great danger.

20 July 2016 THE word istiqamah comes from the Arabic root word (qaama) which means to rise, to stand upright. The word (mustaqeem) is derived from the same root.

Narrated Abdullah bin Amr bin al-Aas that, Messenger of Allah Sallallahu 'alyhi wa sallam said to me, “O Abdullah!, Do not be like so and so who used to pray at night and then stopped the night prayer.” [Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Prayer at Night (Tahajjud), no. 1121]

From the perspective of Shari’ah, it means “to remain consistent on the path you are in, no matter what happens.” It is a quality that we continuously strive to attain in order to remain steadfast in deen, although we may fail many times in the process. It is one of the tools to attain the pleasure of Allah and it strengthens our belief in Allah. Let’s have a look on what Allah and his messenger has said about istiqamah in Quran and Sunnah. Allah says: Verily, those who say: “our lord is Allah (alone)”, and then they stand firm, on them the angels will descend (at the time of their death) (saying): “Fear not, nor grieve! But receive the glad tidings of Paradise which you have been promised!” [Surah Fussilat, 41:30] So stand you (Muhammad Sallallahu 'alyhi wa sallam) firm and straight. [Surah Hud,

11:112] In the hadith: On the authority of Abu Amr who said: I said: “O Messenger of Allah Sallallahu 'alyhi wa sallam, tell me something about Islam which I could not ask anyone about it save you”. He answered: “Say: I believe in Allah and then stand firm and steadfast.” [Sahih Muslim, no. 21, Arba’oon Nawawi] In history, we see that the Sahabah usually never gave up an act of worship that they started. An excellent example would be that from the life of Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). (From a narration of long hadith)… Ibn Umar reported that: “I saw in a dream as

if two angels have taken hold of me... (He narrated the dream to the Prophet) who replied: “Worthy is this man Abdullah, O that he would pray a night. ” [Sahih Muslim, Book of Merits Pertaining to the Companions of the Prophet (Sallallahu 'alyhi wa sallam), no. 6391] It is said that after that he never missed his night prayer even during travel. He slept not but for a small part of the night. Istiqamah does not depend on Ramadan, Hajj or Umrah, but Ramadan could be an opportunity for us to build and maintain the istiqamah skills.

This hadith makes clear that istiqamah is an essential element to be followed up in terms of ibadah. This hadith also fits the one who leaves night prayer after Ramadan. Imam Ash-Shafi’ee used to divide his night into three parts: he would write (knowledge) in the first third part, he would pray during the second part and sleep during the last part. (This was his usual schedule.) In Ramadan, he made himself busy with the recitation of the Quran. It is said that he used to complete Qur'an twice every day. [Al-Bayhaqi, Marifatul Sunan, article362,365] It is reported that Imam Al-Bukhari used to complete a recitation of Quran once a day in Ramadan and would pray taraweeh

Istiqamah of the Early Generations Sadly, today Muslims face the problem

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Keeping Ramadan Alive the Rest of the Year By Hesham Hassaballa IslamiCity.org

and God-consciousness:

Almost invariably it happens a few days after the end of Ramadan: the letdown.

“Believers! Fasting has been prescribed for you-as it was prescribed for those before you-so that you may be conscious of God.” (2:183).

Fasting is finished; the nightly prayers are over; the group gatherings to break the fast have vanished. We can eat, drink, and be merry again when the sun is shining. And that special feeling you have in your heartthe one that keeps you going despite your hunger and thirst-gradually fades away.

The point is not to be an angel for Ramadan and a demon at other times. The lessons learned and spiritual benefits gained during that month are intended to carry over for the rest of the year until next Ramadan.

The spiritual high evaporates, and all you are left with are the bad habits you tried to shed during Ramadan, but mysteriously rear their ugly heads once it is over.

Yet frequently they do not. Is there anything we can do about it? Absolutely and here are five ways we can try to keep the spirit of Ramadan alive and well throughout the rest of the year.

Ramadan is supposed to increase your faith

Good Habits Kept Up

Well, once Ramadan is over, these good behaviors should continue.

about other people, why not continue to refrain from doing so after Ramadan is over? We should continue to go to the mosque for congregational prayers. It is so amazing to see the mosque-which was packed just a few days earlier-stand almost completely empty during Isha’, or night prayers, after Ramadan. If we can go to the mosque each day during Ramadan, we can get there every day during the rest of the year. Smoking is prohibited during daylight hours during Ramadan, which makes it the perfect opportunity to quit cigarettes. Yes, the nicotine in tobacco smoke is more addictive than heroin, and it is one of the most difficult addictions to beat. But if you can go without smoking

For instance, if you took the opportunity of the month of Ramadan to try to curb talking

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More than just denying oneself food and drink, the fast of Ramadan is a complete body-and-soul fast. Although this should be the behavior of the believer at all times, when one is fasting, he or she should take special care not to harm anyone, curse anyone, or do anything wrong. In fact, Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said: “Whoever does not give up forged speech and evil actions [while fasting], God is not in need of his leaving his food and drink.”

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every night, completing another recitation of Quran in every three nights. [Siyar Alam an- Nubala, 12: 439 by Imam Dhahabi]

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This means he would recite the entire Quran and additional 10 Juz in a day. Conditions To Achieve Istiqmah According to Ibn al-Qayyim, there are five conditions to achieve istiqamah. 1. The act should be done for the sake of Allah (Ikhlaas). 2. It should be done on the basis of ‘ilm (knowledge). 3. Performing ibaadah should be in the same manner that they have been commanded. 4. To do it in the best way possible. 5. Restricting oneself to what is lawful while performing those deeds.

Jahannam. Fulfill the faraidh (obligations) of the religion properly. Seek beneficial knowledge i.e., knowledge of the shariah. Have good companions. Contemplate on things that turn you away from steadfastness. Be humble towards Allah.

Factors Which Affect Istiqamah: Committing sins, Shirk, Hypocrisy, Bid’ah, Recklessness, reluctance, heedlessness, and being misled by desires. One must know the factors affecting steadfastness in order to avoid the barriers. [Commentary on 40 Hadith of An-Nawawi by Dr. Jamal Ahmad Badi, p. 103] Conclusion May Allah make this Ramadan, a turning point in our life. It is worth mentioning about the sayings of salaf, regarding losing steadfastness after Ramadan.

Commentary of 40 hadith of An-Nawawi by Dr. Jamal Ahmad Badi, Page no. 103.

Worst are those people who remember Allah in Ramadan alone.

Tips To Achieve Istiqamah:

May Allah make this Ramadan a turning point in our life.

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O turners of hearts, keep our hearts firm on your religion. [Sahih Muslim]

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Have a sound and righteous heart. Read Quran regularly. Spend your valuable time in du’aa and dhikr of Allah. Read the seerah of the Prophet Sallallahu 'alyhi wa sallam and biographies of the Sahabah and righteous people of the past. Remind yourself about Jannah and

Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate (from the truth) after you guided us, and grant us mercy from you. [Qur’an, Surah AalImran, 3:

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>> continued from pg 20 developing an understanding of the Qur’an; many of us fall out of the habit of reading the Qur’an and stay connected to it because we fail to understand what it is that we are reading. Allah (Exalted be He) says that the Qur’an is “a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. (Al-Baqarah 2:184) We should not miss out on obtaining this guidance because we do not understand the language. Make it a goal to learn Arabic, however in the meantime, utilize the translated works available to understand, absorb and implement the message of the Qur’an in your daily life. 7- Implement what you learn The stories in the Qur’an are full of lessons. Take time to ponder over them and ask yourself how you can implement what you have learned into your life? The Qur ’an highlights for us the imperfections we have, whilst giving us the ideas on how to change for the best. Listening to the Qur’an can be healing and soothing, however the fundamental reason for the verses to be revealed is to guide a person to the straight path. Whatever portion you read, ask yourself how you can change your life based on it. Keep a journal with the points you have learned and how you will work towards developing a personality complementary to the Qur’an. Remember the hadith of `A’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her): “The character of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was the Qur’an.” (Abu Dawud) 8- Make du`aa’ Lastly, but by no means least – always ask Allah to help you in your quest to understand His words. We are unable to achieve anything without Allah granting us the ability to do so. The beauty of this is that Allah can help us achieve that which everyone else thinks we are unable to do. Never let the words or actions of others put you down; whatever your goals are concerning the Qur’an, getting connected to it and understanding it, put your trust in Allah (Exalted be He) that He will make it possible.

Whatever rocks, boulders or mountains come in your way, never forget that Allah knows your soul can handle the struggle. Break down whatever blocks that try to prevent you from grasping the Qur’an by always turning to Allah and asking Him to make the Qur’an the light of your life and heart! Share with us your tips on maintaining a close relationship with the Qur’an post-Ramadan. What do you do to stay connected to it?

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Opinion

Incarcerated Muslim Youth Often Lack Ramadan Accommodations Youth Services Center in the District of Columbia. Because there were no written policies each approaching Ramadan heralded a new round of letters, emails and phone calls on behalf of the Muslim youth who wanted to fast; the results were always different and often didn't last even the entire month. One Ramadan the youth were told by administrators that they would be able to eat their morning meal before sunrise, but would not have access to food after sunset. A young man taking prescription medication was told that it could only be dispensed at noon when the nurse made rounds, causing him to resist taking needed medicine and then an enormous amount of stress when he was eventually forced to take his medicine and break his fast. Young women who asked

By Kamilah A. Pickett

Muslim Link Contributing Writer As Muslims around the world welcomed the month of Ramadan, a celebration of the revelation of the Holy Quran and a period of fasting, reflection and spiritual renewal that is a foundation of the Islamic faith. Millions of American Muslims abstained from food and drink from dawn to sunset, seeking to seamlessly integrate their religious obligations with the realities of their day to day lives; among that number will be incarcerated men and women and youth in the custody of juvenile detention facilities. While fasting and other religious obligation accommodations in prisons and jails have become commonplace, we know of no such policies or practices in juvenile detention facilities.

For more than five years I co-directed

an Islamic mentoring program at the

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When State Replaces God By Sharmin Sadequee

against Muslims in general.

Following every international or domestic terrorism act committed by a Muslim, the American-Muslim community divides under political pressure on the issue of whether or not Muslims should take collective responsibility and communally condemn the acts of a few individuals. On one hand is a group of Muslim activists and organizations who condemn and account for such acts and accept collective responsibility; they are therefore viewed by the dominant EuroAmerican society as patriotic, “good” Muslims. On the other hand is a group of activists and organizations who reject collective responsibility and may be viewed as unpatriotic, “bad” terrorist sympathizers. Critics of the former view claim collective responsibility aligns one with the oppressors of Muslims, thus the supporters are viewed as “bad” Muslims. From this perspective, “good” Muslims don’t take collective responsibility but stand up against the state and its violence

Although the schism over this debate reverses the “good” and “bad” binary within the community in relationship to Muslims’ experiences of state violence and structural oppression, the dichotomous construct is a result of the historical encounter of colonized people with European colonialization which is perpetuated in the logics of the state’s “war on terror.” Through this logic European colonizers were able to divide and conquer through violence, where “good” Muslims collaborated with colonial masters and accepted the values of the dominant power. “Bad” Muslims resisted colonial power and domination and were also systematically dismissed as the “dangerous.” The binary that has emerged around Muslims engagement with collective responsibility and collective condemnation since 9/11 reproduces these colonial politics and practices between Muslim Americans and their relationship with the state in the “war on terror.” George W. Bush deployed this

Anthropology Now, July 19, 2016

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June 6, 2016 – Vigilers gather outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, NY in support of A Post 9-11 Domestic Human Rights Campaign put on by the organization, No Separate Justice. Photo courtesy of No Separate Justice. binary to advance foreign and domestic policies using Islam and Muslims for the expansion of US imperialism.

working with and advocating for families of Muslims imprisoned preemptively in

As an American Muslim who has been

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they did an awesome job,” she said.

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a loud sound, which sounded like a gunshot.” Hassan heard the second shot and the sirens. They were pulled into the Senator Mark Warner’s office by his staff and were asked to move away from the door and windows. “I was in disbelief. Is this possible? We [were] advocating against gun violence and were experiencing it at the same time. With parents calling her to pick up their children, Hassan said she was scared because of the responsibility of the kids with her. “Gun violence has become the new norm in American culture, whether it’s perpetrated by barbaric civilians with assault weapons or by bad, racist cops. We need to limit the fatalities and the casualties on the street. The only way to make America safer is to take the assault weapons out of the hands of civilians,” added Hassan in a statement. Huma Chowdhury, a junior at Al Huda School, started her internship at YLI in May after attending a young leaders training. She and Iman (another intern) kept a close eye on the news via Twitter after the Orlando shooting. “The shooting happened while we were interning. We saw the [Sen. Murphy] filibuster on the Senate floor and wondered why nothing was happening,” said Chowdhury. Sen. Murphy’s 15 hour series of speeches resulted in an agreement that a vote would be held on whether to ban people on the government's terrorist watch list from obtaining gun licenses and whether to expand background checks to gun shows and internet sales. “Maybe we can do something,” said the

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wealthiest nations, there still remains a major gap with poorer countries providing the vast majority of safe havens for refugees." Oxfam called on governments to host more refugees and to give more help to countries sheltering the majority of them - ahead of two major summits about

Is this possible? We [were] advocating against gun violence and were experiencing it at the same time.

two young leaders and they decided to lobby their elected officials on these two bills. The seven YLI interns implemented the idea to lobby Capitol Hill for gun violence prevention. Normally high school students do not get this kind of experience. With Hassan’s help, it took several weeks of back and forth with Congressional staffers to set up appointments. “It takes a lot to confirm

The Young Leaders met with one Congressman and other staffers. Congressman Andre Carson welcomed the students into his office. In the morning, they met with the House Representatives from Maryland and Virginia. Most were Democrats. “We only met with one Republican—Andy Harris of Maryland,” shared Hassan, who wishes they had met more Republicans as the Democrats they met were already in support of the bill.

Right before the lockdown, Chowdhury heard gunshots and big bangs— the huge wooden doors in the Senate building were slamming. these meetings and we had 11 confirmed appointments,” stated Hassan. “When I hear an idea they have, I take it seriously- a lot of my training is about listening to what their interests are. YLI gives them the space where they can create their own reality and materialize their interests. This Capitol Hill Day is a product of that training,” said Hassan.

refugees and so-called economic migrants in the US in September. 'It is shameful' "It is shameful so many governments are turning their backs on the suffering of millions of vulnerable people who have fled their homes and are often risking their lives to reach safety," Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of Oxfam, said. "Poorer countries are shouldering the duty

“The Democrats we visited were very much in favor for supporting these two bills, however, the Republicans danced and skirted around the issue, with many excuses. We have a lot more work to do with our Republican friends.” The YLI is planning on reaching out to more Republicans in office. Hassan said that the young leaders asked very meaningful questions. “I thought

of protecting refugees when it should be a shared responsibility, but many richer countries are doing next to nothing." An unprecedented 65 million people from around the world have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution and violence, the report said. More than a third of them are refugees and asylum seekers, Oxfam said, and the remainder have had to move within their own countries.

Thirty students—ranging in age from 12 to 25— mostly from Maryland and Virginia and two from Texas and Georgia experienced lobbying for the first time. “It was a great experience,” said Chowdhury. “Having those discussions with the staffers was so valuable. Nothing happens fast but just being there gives me hope that something will hopefully change. Knowing that someone is actually going to do something about it.” Most of the stories that were shared by the young leaders were stories of police brutality, racism and prejudice. A lot of students raised these issues, which are directly related to the gun violence issue. A conference call with the participants gave them some preliminary information before their meetings. Jameel Johnson of the Prince George’s County Muslim Council gave the students a Capitol Hill 101 talk to introduce them to the process. Right before the lockdown, Chowdhury heard gunshots and big bangs— the huge wooden doors in the Senate building were slamming. “It was just such a coincidence. It was surreal,” said Chowdhury. Attendee Dua’a Tafesh, also a junior at Al Huda School, said the lockdown was frightening. “It was the first time…I have experienced [gun violence] and I was so close to that incident- I [feel] more strongly about the issue,” she said. ICNA's Council for Social Justice and Prince George's County Muslim Council sponsored the event and trip to Capitol Hill.

"Too many people who have taken treacherous journeys to reach safety end up living in degrading situations littered with abuse, hostility and discrimination, and too few governments are doing anywhere near enough to help or protect them," Byanyima said. Source: Agencies

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see that some Muslim children were killed with the other children.” Thousands of locals and tourists turned out for the July 14 fireworks, a free event held on the beautiful waterfront that arcs along the bay. Oucine Jamouli, 62, the head of a Moroccan association, attributed the heavy Muslim turnout at least partly to the fact that there is less drinking at the Bastille Day festival than at other big events in Nice because it is a familyoriented celebration. It is also less religious than Nice’s other major festivals: a Christmas market, the Carnival festival at Mardi Gras and the fireworks for Aug. 15, which marks the Catholic feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to heaven. “There are so many people at the fireworks, of every race, every color, every religion,” said Mr. Jamouli, who runs a Moroccan restaurant a block from the Promenade des Anglais, where the attack occurred. “Terror basically aims at the whole society and at its freedom.” People from at least 13 countries lost their lives, according to reports drawn from foreign ministries around the world, including citizens of Estonia, France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Tunisia and the United States.

association will conduct a ritual Muslim cleansing of the body and will say prayers. Depending on the wishes of the families, the bodies will either be buried in the Nice area or be repatriated to their home countries. The United States Embassy said that several Americans were not accounted for, according to reports it had received from relatives who reached out to diplomats there to say that they have not heard from family members who were believed to have been in Nice around the time of the attacks. Estonia’s prime minister, Taavi Roivas, said in a statement on Tuesday: “For the first time, we have to face a harsh reality and say that the agony of terrorism has reached us in the saddest way imaginable.” The two Estonians killed in the attack were a woman whose name has not been released, who was strolling along the Promenade des Anglais with her granddaughter, and a 21-year-old student at the Tallinn University of Technology, identified by officials as Rickhard Kruusberg. Michel Raineri, the French ambassador to Estonia, sent a letter of condolence to President Toomas Hendrik Ilves on Tuesday, writing that the attack “reaffirms that only the unity of Europe can help us win over hate and hostility.” Aurelien Breeden contributed reporting from Paris, and Richard Martyn-Hemphill from London.

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the United States, I want to disrupt the binary around collective responsibility and collective condemnation. I contend that Muslims’ engagement or disengagement in this divisive issue is a result of internalizing Orientalist stereotypes about Islam and Muslims which is constructed as inherently violent. Involvement with the issue further perpetuates dehumanization and state violence. To understand this process I would like to explore whether criticizing condemnation erases and hurts some community members and perpetuates state violence. Does rejection of collective responsibility absolve Muslims from condemning certain harmful individuals? Does standing up against oppression itself become a form of oppression in the face of multiple oppressions, and is that a form of violence? Collective Responsibility and Collective Condemnation Collective responsibility suggests that a group is liable for the wrongful acts of a few. The assertion communicates the idea of a collective mind; all are connected to perpetrators without ever having contact with them. Historically, marginalized groups in the United States have been forced to be accountable for the actions of one person through the principle of collective responsibility and the practice of collective punishment, part and process of racialization of marginalized communities of color and central to racism and Euro-American dominance in this country. Muslims subjected to such racializing politics at this current moment have been forced to self-contaminate themselves with “guilt by association” with individuals who cause harm and share the same faith. But the limits of that responsibility must be interrogated. Connected to holding Muslims collectively responsible for the wrongful act of a criminal individual is the state demand for collective condemnation. Muslims are under tremendous pressure from government officials, media platforms and dominant Euro-American society to loudly declare and visibly perform their position against terrorism. The implication is that if Muslims don’t condemn, they secretly support terrorism

CONTINUED | 27 and are therefore a potential threat, warranting suspicion, surveillance and retribution. In the absence of outward condemnation, all Muslims are guilty until proven innocent and the entire community should be punished and held collectively responsible for any atrocity committed by a Muslim culprit. Although condemnation can operate independently, when individuals desire to condemn wrongful acts out of their own volition without force, Muslims have been compelled to engage in collective condemnation of “terrorism” as a form of collective responsibility. A similar demand and response from Euro-American Christian populations is missing when a white Christian engages in violence.

bounded by religious symbols and ritual practices from their very inception, where politics and the legal and penal systems have always blended with Christianity. Among dominant groups, “sinners” have been replaced by criminals who are individually held responsible and punished in modern state systems.

and control over the population—in other words, state violence. The most common forms of state violence are human rights violations, crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, torture, prisoner abuse and the systemic and structural oppression of racial, ethnic, gender, religious or marginalized political groups.

Muslim Supporters of Collective Responsibility

The expectation of collective responsibility is also a state mechanism for continuously scapegoating innocent Muslims and Islam as threats and dangers. Scapegoats emerge during times of crisis and moral panic when individuals or groups resembling perpetrators get classified as a threat to societal values and wellbeing. An increased level of hostility towards the group collectively designated as the enemy is exhibited. Through these processes of scapegoating and panic, Muslims or people perceived to be Muslims are socially constructed and racialized as “terrorist.” Scapegoating promotes exclusion and otherization of unwanted individuals or groups, empowering dominant groups to exercise power and discipline both the scapegoated population and the rest of the society. Muslims have been collectively used as scapegoats in the aftermath of 9/11; innocent people have been detained, deported, arrested and tortured both domestically and globally in notorious camps such as Communications Management Units and Guantanamo Bay. Muslim Americans have been subject to a separate system of justice where human rights violations through the judicial and penal system are accepted as legal and legitimate. When Muslims accept collective responsibility, they acknowledge the acceptance of abuse of Muslims as scapegoats for atrocities. Therefore, Muslim Americans need to rethink whether this position is helpful in the political struggle to secure collective dignity and self-determination.

Demands for collective responsibility and punishment are not based on modern liberal principles. In a modern normative morality, only individuals are responsible for wrongful actions. When the dominant Euro-American society calls for collective responsibility, the Muslim community is

Historically, marginalized groups in the United States have been forced to be accountable for the actions of one person through the principle of collective responsibility and the practice of collective punishment, part and process of racialization of marginalized communities of color and central to racism and Euro-American dominance in this country.

The root of collective responsibility and punishment can be traced to religious scriptures of the Bible and Quran where whole nations were held responsible for the bad actions of a few individuals and punished by God. This can be found in many stories of prophets, including the story of Isa (Jesus). Isa cried over Jerusalem because he realized God’s punishment would descend on the entire city for the actions of a few. When officials in a liberal, secular, modern nation-state demand collective responsibility from Muslims, religion is mixed with the state in a ritualized way. The fusion of religion and state formation was established in ancient times, when religion was the law that guided the conducts of people’s lives, and punished those who sinned against God or gods. Evolving from ancient state systems, modern nation-states such as the United States claim to be secular, yet were

compelled to engage in anti-American ethical conduct and forced to go against modern Western values. This position undermines the very concept and practice treasured in modern notions of accountability and justice. This stance also serves to legitimize the dominant discourse that Islam and Muslims are violent. Further, acknowledging association with wrongdoers also permits the US government to continue sending informants to mosques and communities. Supporting this position perpetuates unintended state surveillance, violations of civil liberties and human rights and increased civilian hate attacks on Muslims. As a consequence, Muslims solicit more expansive counter-terror measures and affirm the use of governmental authority to cause harm to groups, individuals and states to achieve certain implicit or explicit goals to maintain state power

Muslim Critics of Collective Responsibility and Collective Condemnation Muslims who reject collective responsibility are usually also the ones denouncing collective condemnation in this debate. Public performances of rejecting collective responsibility and collective condemnation might be viewed by some as revolutionary,

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standing against oppressors and state violence. However, the outward dismissal of one’s responsibility and collective condemnation does not liberate us from the transference of implicit condemnation of individuals. Muslims’ abstention from condemnation vicariously affirms their support for condemnation by the state. Whether or not some Muslims reject responsibility and condemnation they deliver the perpetrator to the law and expect the state to punish the criminal. Thus, rejecters of this position support retributive justice, the idea that violence deserves to be repaid with violence. This is not a novel position for Americans, however; retribution is a morally acceptable American value and daily law enforcement practice. There is strong public support for harsh criminal penalties based on retributive justice. When Muslim Americans invoke the law of the state for retribution against a culprit individual, they condemn the wrongdoer to the violence of the state. As a consequence, rejecters support and maintain state violence on individuals as long as the collective is not subjected to this violence. This norm of permitting retributive violence is connected to the way the state uses military force in global conflicts. Vicariously endorsing this norm tacitly supports the use of torture for terrorism suspects and the use of military force abroad. This stance supports the violent prison-militaryindustrial complex, which include the practices of government surveillance, and the use of informants and the predatory prosecution of Muslims. Thus the critics of collective responsibility and collective condemnation uphold oppressive systems. This paradox raises questions about rejecters who claim to be resisting state violence in the “war on terror” and whether or not they are working toward dismantling or maintaining oppressive systems. Further critics are very much aligned with American and Western values and support modern, liberal, democratic normative principles of individual accountability when they indirectly condemn the culprit. The modern liberal morality assumes that there is individual autonomy in committing a crime and affirms the

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validity of criminal law. Therefore, this position does not absolve criticizers from condemning the wrongdoer; instead, it raises questions about whether or not and how this public performance leads to ending US imperial violence both domestically and globally. Not only do critics condemn few wrongdoers in this way, they actually also denounce another group of Muslims who have committed no act of violence— individuals the state selects as scapegoats for predatory prosecution. The fissure between critics and supporters in the mainstream debates around

and the larger Muslim community. In order to understand how scapegoating and predatory prosecution occur, it might be helpful to examine how law and religion were intertwined within ancient state systems. In Teotihuacan, for example, ritual sacrifices were made to the state or gods to control communal violence. It was believed that group competition for resources and power would lead to violence and destruction, and, in order to manage such violence, human or animal sacrifices were needed to maintain social order and stability. Violence in ritual and sacrifice was

A similar demand and response from Euro-American Christian populations is missing when a white Christian engages in violence.

collective responsibility and collective condemnation is based on the experiences of these two sides which homogenizes Muslim American experiences within this binary. This position does not distinguish between criminal and non-criminal acts as opposed to acts of atrocity and criminalization of Muslims and Islam which involve no actions. When this position flourishes in public spaces, when an act of terrorism violence does occur, it encourages the Muslim mass to internalize the public debate and reject collective responsibility whenever one is accused of “terrorism,” even when there is no violence or intent of violence. The State, the Muslim Scapegoat and Collective Condemnation More than 500 innocent American Muslims have been targeted, imprisoned and condemned by the state in governmentmanufactured, “terrorism”-related cases through entrapment or violation of constitutional and human rights in the domestic “war on terror.” According to the Human Rights Watch report, these Muslims are victims of predatory prosecution used as scapegoats in the federal criminal justice system. These Muslims and their families have been expunged and silenced by government institutions, dominant American society

required to prevent greater violence in human society. Those sacrificed became the scapegoats, viewed and treated as outsiders or blamed for social evil. They operated as vessels through which the community relieved itself from harm and achieved collective social cohesion. In modern nation-states, this punishment and sacrifice based on religious ritual is a foundation of the formation of a criminal justice and penal system influenced by Christian ideals, where scapegoats from marginalized groups are identified and punished. The dominant racial group maintains power by punishing and banishing marginalized groups as evidenced by America’s mass imprisonment of black and brown people. In the “war on terror,” the criminal justice system is an integral component for the construction and racialization of innocent Muslims as “terrorists.” Predatory prosecutions are scapegoat cases of “imagined” terrorists, where innocent people have been chosen by the state, ensnared in manufactured charges and processed through the criminal justice system. These prosecutions are part of America’s preemptive imperial wars overseas and exemplified by the torture of Muslims in Guantanamo Bay. Preemptive prosecutions that target

Muslim sociality and religious and political expressions are used domestically to repress and regulate Muslims as a part of the state’s racial management process. It is through the labeling of a targeted population as “monster” and “terrorist” in the penal system that the state maintains moral panic about the specter of terrorism as “real” in public space; it also extends state-sponsored violence against the same population. By merging race and religion with terrorism violence, the state socially and legally constructs Muslims for expulsion as criminals, preserves whiteness as hegemonic political power and sustains the culture of fear and hatred. Media sources further bolster the hype around predatory cases and assault Americans with relentless reports of terror. Living in constant fear of terrorist attack, such reports can induce subjective beliefs and psychological responses which can make it difficult for the American public to disentangle the real from the unreal—the “terrorists” and the scapegoats who are racialized as “terrorist.” When Americans are forced to internalize moral panic about imaginary Muslim “terrorists” to the point where people are unable to distinguish reality from falsehood, it becomes a situation for serious public concern. Targeted Muslims, primarily men, have been convenient scapegoats that society at large has come to blame and indict for everything from social disorder to the economic and political crises of a declining empire. While ancient and modern state systems treat these individuals as “other,” stories in Scriptures expose the innocence of scapegoated individuals and reveal their special connection to God. However, the mainstream dispute around collective responsibility and condemnation erases such individuals from the conversation. Moreover, the violence against imprisoned Muslims, who are mostly men, extends beyond the accused and has tangible consequences for women and families as well. The Rejecters of Responsibility and Condemnation and the Women and Families of the Accused I have had the opportunity to work with many families and relatives of accused Muslims during my ethnographic research and advocacy work. Coupled with state >> GOD III Pg 29

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surveillance and demonization from the Euro-American dominant society, some of these women and families are traumatized, isolated, stigmatized and alienated in their local communities and expunged from public debates about Muslim Americans. Moreover, these women and families experience withdrawal of collective aid and solidarity and are treated as “other” within the Muslim community. Like other forms of repression, the assault by arrest, prison and courts has adverse effects on the women and families, their relationships with others, and the community in general. To have a loved one accused, arrested and disappeared on accusations of “terrorism” and imprisoned in pre-trial solitary confinement for years or in special prisons such as the Communications Management Unit become a dangerous stigma, adding to their pain and suffering. Laila Yaghi has shared with me the pain experienced with her son’s case which left her in depression: “Injustice is different. It just hurts. Oppression really, really hurts. It’s like somebody lost a family member due to a car accident – it’s going to hurt a lot but eventually that person is going to accept that it’s an act from God, and you’re going to accept, and everyone at some point is going to die, our life is going end sooner or later, that is an act of God. We are going to accept it, and it does hurt, but it doesn’t hurt down to the core. However, injustice and oppression has a whole different meaning. The pain is so different, and it’s so harsh and so strong. It emanates even from your face, from your whole body, your whole body language and your souls, and speaks volumes that you are being oppressed, and it has to stop. This is not an act of God. This is from a human being oppressing other humans because they can do it, because they are allowed to do it, because they think they are better in some way than other human beings, because they are superior. Muslims need to work together and help all these families.” Some families shared that no one usually helped them throughout their entire ordeal. Some of the families worked on these issues individually on their own by going to mosques, trying to talk with community leaders and activists,

CONTINUED | 29 attempting to raise funds for legal representation. Some of the women and families felt dehumanized when trying to raise funds for legal defense, as people ignored them out of fear of surveillance or treated them badly. Shahina Parveen shared her experiences of trying to seek assistance from her community when her son was imprisoned on entrapment case: “I was in a lot of trouble and I went to several places for help because I needed money for a lawyer. It was very difficult to find a lawyer as they ask for millions of dollars. It was like we became beggars so we put out an advertisement in the

with hashtag #MuslimApologies, no one tweeted about Muslim men unjustly imprisoned in the federal system or about their families, the people punished and chosen by the state to take collective blame for the Muslims who were tweeting. The #MuslimApologies campaign involved people from privileged backgrounds who have usually distanced themselves from supporting or standing in solidarity with the accused and their families. American-Muslims have been engaging with this divisive performance since the atrocity of 9-11, yet there has been little or no support from the community for

When Muslims accept collective responsibility, they acknowledge the acceptance of abuse of Muslims as scapegoats for atrocities. Therefore, Muslim Americans need to rethink whether this position is helpful in the political struggle to secure collective dignity and self-determination. newspaper for help. I went to several organizations but they were not able to assist. I went to [organizations], but I didn’t get any help or support from them or from anywhere, but I still went. I went to mosque leaders for help but no help from anywhere. They didn’t help because they didn’t want the same thing happening to them. They probably thought if they help us they will be targeted too as terrorists. This is the environment that we are in. It’s all injustice. They are afraid of injustice happening to them.” Trying to seek assistance from the community has been a difficult process for many families. Major nonprofit local and national civil rights and human rights organizations sometimes condemn them and others have denied support to families of the accused. Moreover, the Muslim mainstream engaged in the collective responsibility debate also dismisses the scapegoated population. For example, when the Muslim mainstream erupted on social media rejecting collective responsibility for violence committed by others in 2014

campaigns by scapegoated families to free their accused loved ones. These families and a handful of Euro-American activists established the No Separate Justice educational campaign to address rights violations in the domestic judicial system, but there has been no sign of the rejecters or supporters of this discussion in support of this national campaign focused on scapegoated Muslims. Moreover, my conversations with women reveal that they expect the Muslim community to stand in solidarity with their cause and the entire community to claim collective responsibility for the innocence of their loved ones. To these women, collective responsibility is an act of social justice that is positive and worthy of commitment. However, communal assistance has not been forthcoming from the Muslim community, including its activist and social justice groups. That the loved ones of these women were imprisoned on manufactured offenses and have not committed any acts of violence, does not help these families to secure support and remove the stigma manifest within the Muslim community. No revolutionary collective solidarity and support exists

for them to this day. This situation raises questions not so much about the supporters of collective responsibility, who align themselves with the state, but about the denouncers. When critics promote dissociation from collective responsibility, this position cultivates a certain kind of connotation and meaning about this issue that educates the Muslim mass to reject collective responsibility for people in predatory prosecution by withdrawing support from the accused families as well. Moreover, when some Muslims claim to support this population but maintain their position as rejecters of collective responsibility, this demonstrates their defense of oppressive systems and raises questions about their social justice work and support of state violence through retribution. Criticizing collective responsibility does not translate to or generate collective support for the families of the accused. Critics are not liberating these women from the accusation of “terrorism,” but instead perpetuate the “guilty until proven innocent” myth as evidenced by the withdrawal of support by the larger society and the Muslim mainstream. The denouncers of apologetic statements are not illuminating or relieving the distressful experiences of these members but exercising domination and protecting the status quo by engaging in schismatic performances around collective responsibility; through their public proclamation critics maintain and perpetuate their relative positions of power and privileges as mainstream Muslim voices, marginalizing the vulnerable population within the community. Dissociating from responsibility has not helped women and families much with accountability structures or obtaining justice. As a result, these families occupy a precarious position in the “war on terror.” The withdrawal of support from this population and their existence as the imagined “monster” exposes moral disorder and the guilt of protecting oneself from becoming scapegoats. Like the Euro-American dominant society, Muslims seem to have internalized the myths about these accused people and feel justified in their actions against collective support. Muslims believe that their troubles will be eradicated if

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One Ramadan the youth were told by administrators that they would be able to eat their morning meal before sunrise, but would not have access to food after sunset.

for accommodations were teased by staff about not “really being Muslim” when they abstained from fasting during their menses, a time when Muslim women are not obligated to fast. There isn't a lot of empirical data about Muslim youth in juvenile detention facilities, but we do know a lot about the demographics of the American Muslim community. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States; African Americans make up the largest group of the Muslim population, the Latino Muslim community is growing rapidly and the American Muslim community skews younger than the general population and is more susceptible to impoverished conditions. These facts intersect with the general demographics of youth in custody and lead us to presume that at least some portion of youth in juvenile detention facilities will be Muslim and seeking to fast during Ramadan. We would suggest the following accommodations: GOD IV

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these individuals are punished or simply vanished. As a result, Muslims obliterate the voices and experiences of this population and deny them their position as the innocent oppressed whose status is elevated in the Scriptures, revealing their special connection to sacred cosmology. Their existence as scapegoats, taking on the burden of America’s collective guilt, seems to function to unify American society, the Muslim American community and the ummah in this current historical moment. It is through the existence of this accused population that Americans in general, and Muslim Americans in particular, seem to feel a sense of security, order, stability and purification. Will the Muslim not condemning, please stand up? The simplified distinction between rejecter and supporter of collective responsibility raises questions about the extent to which both sides of this debacle have internalized Islamophobia. Internalization of Islamophobia means Muslims have assumed or co-opted the

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Fasting youth should be allowed to eat a meal before sunrise (suhoor) and have access to a meal after sunset (iftar). They should also be allowed to drink water during the evening in order to stay properly hydrated during the daylight hours. Youth taking medications should be allowed to do so either with their morning or evening meals. Youth who have to medicine multiple times a day or have a medical condition

dominant and Orientalist discourse about Islam and their identities; they have come to believe and accept that Islam is inherently problematic and violent. The deliberate or inadvertent inability to distinguish an accusation as mythical or real is a symptom of internalized Islamophobia. When we believe myth over real, as intended by the state, we have condemned our own community members as “monsters.” The willful or unwitting denial of collective solidarity and collective aid as a form of collective responsibility is an act of erasure and condemnation as well. Critiquing collective responsibility has not generated collective support for these families, but instead maintains their guilt. Thus critics become collective condemners, and the pressure on the accused functions as a form of dehumanization and violence. Renouncement of responsibility for violent crimes does not result in recognition of support for non-violence when state-perpetrated guilt and stigma continue to expand and operate on a scapegoated population. This position also supports state retribution against culprit individuals. Thus the stateperpetrated demand that calls for the outward expression of collective responsibility and condemnation in which

which makes abstaining from food or drink dangerous are exempted from fasting. Injections that are purely medicinal with no nutritional value will not break the fast. •

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Young women are exempt from fasting during their menses, but might be embarrassed to explain this after having fought for accommodation. Staff should be sensitive to this. Yo u t h s h o u l d b e a l l o w e d t o congregate with other Muslim

Muslim Americans engage reproduces colonial practices and experiences. Through this binary the state maintains its hegemonic power over and violence against Muslims and other marginalized communities at home and abroad. Works Consulted Alsultany, Evelyn. 2012. Arabs and Muslims in the Media Race and Representation after 9/11. New York, NY: New York University Press. Cohen, Stanley. 1973. Folk Devils and Moral Panic. New York, NY: Routledge Girard, Rene. 1979. Violence and the Sacred. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University. Haney, Craig. 1982. Criminal Justice and the Nineteenth-Century Paradigm: The Triumph of Psychological Individualism in the “Formative Era.” In Law and Human Behavior. Vol. 6, No. 3/4: 191-235. Human Rights Watch. 2014. Illusion of Justice: Human Rights Abuses in US Terrorism Prosecution. Accessed, May 2, 2016. https:// www.hrw.org/report/2014/07/21/illusionjustice/human-rights-abuses-us-terrorismprosecutions Kertzer, David. 1988. Rituals, Politics and Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

youth for daily prayers and meals if possible. If safety precludes such gatherings then youth should have access to a quiet place to perform their prayers. Ejaba means “answer” in Arabic. The mission of Project Ejaba is to help young American Muslims develop the confidence to live authentically at a time when many feel pressured to respond to the many misconceptions about Muslims and the practice of Islam in America. Fasting is a time of meditation and selfcontrol, a time to reflect on our current state and strive towards a better version of ourselves. We want that for all Muslim youth, but especially those who are vulnerable and seeking a new direction in life. We are now working with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) to advance this conversation and develop policies and procedures that safeguard religious freedom for Muslim youth under their authority. Kamilah A. Pickett, JD, MPH is a Policy Consultant and heads Project Ejaba.

Rothman, David. 2002 Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Sadequee, Sharmin. 2014. Families of Muslim Political Prisoners in the United States “war on terror.” In Ummah Wide. Accessed, May 19, 2016. https://ummahwide.com/ families-of-muslim-political-prisoners-in-theunited-states-war-on-terror-87e3d60faa9b#. mnoahcv6u SpearIt. 2009. Criminal Justice & Religion. In Religion and Everyday Life and Culture. Eds. Vincent F. Biondo and Richard D. Hecht. Accessed, May 17, http://papers.ssrn.com/ sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1651139 Sharmin Sadequee is a PhD student at Michigan State University writing her Anthropology dissertation that examines Muslims and Islam at the intersections of national security laws, modern state, religion and social justice movements. Based on her participatory action research, she has helped develop support programs for Muslim American families targeted in the war on terror for a civil rights organization. She is an organizer with the No Separate Justice and Critical Resistance, and a founding member of the Aafia Foundation, a Muslim American human rights organization. As an artist, she incorporates visual art and photography in her academic and organizing work

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“Gun violence does pertain to you. Islam is a solution to our problems.” AbdulAli wants to use Islam to change East of the River. “We need to bring Islam to the neighborhood out of the masjids and schools. They are not well enough to come to the masjid. Some of the places where we work some people don’t want to go there, not even government officials,” he said.

>> continued from pg 1 the Ramadan, when the political leadership come together to recognize what people are doing to support Muslims in the District and vice versa,” stated Amin Muslim, the political advisor at the Muslim Democratic Caucus and the Director of Constituent Services at DC City Council Ward 7 in the office of Councilwoman Yvette Alexander. “[Imam Abdul-Ali] has had a significant impact on ostracized communities,” said Muslim. Muslim is acutely aware of the issues as he is from some of the communities that Imam Abdul-Ali operates in. “I grew up in that community and I know what that community is like. That community doesn’t have a rec center; the elementary school was closed down; there is no grocery store or library— all these amenities are absent in this there,’ shared Muslim. He presented the award to Imam Ali in the presence of the City councilman Robert White, and representatives from the office of Anita Barnes. Mamadou Samba, the Director of African Affairs as well as Mónica Palacio, the Director of Human Rights were present. Palacio’s office also organized a Ramadan event hastagged #FastWithDCMuslims, where she participated in fasting. “The Muslim community is frequently targeted for discrimination, and we want to show our Muslim neighbors that D.C. is united against such discrimination.” “The Muslim community indicated it felt left out of antidiscrimination work,” says Palacio, the human rights office’s director, said at the iftar, according to the office’s website. In 2015, Imam Abdul-Ali held a combined iftar for youth from Kenilworth, Lincoln Heights, Benning Terrace and Congress Heights. Government officials are often too afraid to mix youth from different neighborhoods, as they fear that the situation is too volatile. “They stayed there and some spent the night there without incident. We mix them because we know that Muslim youth from that area are not gang bangers. They serve the people and give back to the community. These are the same young men that people are afraid of. “ “Imam Abdul-Ali has demonstrated that a lack of resources don’t inhibit you from going into communities and making a difference. He spearheaded a weekly iftar in the Bennington Terrace community. He went into that community and fed everyone who showed up. It was a tremendous show of brotherhood. Many people have

“Our greatest need is literature and material. I don’t have 9-5 job. We need financial support. I can’t get a donated van insured, because I don’t have finances for tags,” he says. had no previous contact with Muslims during Ramadan, so it was a wonderful opportunity. I can only imagine what he could do for our communities with adequate resources,” stated Amin Muslim. The imam’s work started as overflow from his work in the federal penitentiary. “Lot of the young guys become Muslim in prison,” says Abdul-Ali. He thought that if we propagate Islam in the younger guys before they get to prison, maybe we could stop them from entering prison. With Imam Musa from Masjid Islam, he started giving dawah on Benning Road in Ward 7. “In the heart of DC are people that need Islam the most,” says Imam Abdul-Ali. The program he is best known for is called Feed the Hood. Every first Sunday of the month, Imam Abdul-Ali and his volunteers are and third Saturday of the month on Martin Luther King Ave and Malcolm X intersection South East Washington D.C. handing out canned and dry food to neighbors in need. Another long-standing program is the Brothers’ Huddle Fish Fry in Woodland Terrance in South East D.C. every Friday night from 7-9 p.m. where they serve fish dinner to the neighbors. Ten volunteers carry the equipment in their cars. The largest program run by Abdul-Ali is the 3-day Muslim Youth Summit with Abdur-Rasheed that takes place every year in a different masjid in D.C. Drugs, crime and importance of Deen are on the agenda, which ends with a basketball or flag football tournament. “We work with 25 down. The youngest guy in our program was 7 years old,” says Abdul-Ali. On Wednesdays, you will find Imam Abdul-Ali teaching classes with youth worker Luqman As-Saboor (the Amir of this

particular project) on 37th and Eli from 6-9 pm, engaged in seriously combating the K2 Spice drug in the area and running a youth center. “We pass out fliers and handouts, educating the youth about the dangers of this drug,” he said. A prison service project, where books are sent to prisoners and aid is given when they get out, is one is that is close to Imam Abdul-Ali’s heart. A recent partnership with the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF) on prisoner’s civil freedoms is also an important aspect of Imam Abdul-Ali’s work. “I have been in free society since 2011. Starting out, we had almost no resources other than our own pockets. We just did community outreach. We started in the 49th Street Rec center. We would participate at events at that Rec center.” Then Imam Abdul-Ali worked with Daddy’s Corner, a public housing unit converted into a community center with a grant from the District of Columbia. He ran ‘Al Islam in the Circle’, a basic salah and Quran class for young men, keeping them off the streets. When the unit closed shop, Imam Abdul –Ali moved to the street and started teaching on the street. “This put us directly on the street- dealing with the youth,” added Imam Abdul-Ali. “Ms. Tina Newman allowed us to use the community center from 2011-2013. We left from that area because we changed our program. We started focusing on the masjid,” says the imam. The masjid in South East became home to his work. The Muslim community is greatly affected by the violence in that area. “We buried two young men in their twenties during Ramadan, another one is still in the hospital with a bullet in his head. They found one murdered in front of his children and other died in the hospital,” says the Imam.

The Ar-Rashidoon Program is officially set to re-launch on 1605 Kenilworth Avenue: from a free clinic, an Islamic Community Center, GED training, job prep, to basic education, marital counseling, sex education, drug abuse counseling, alcohol abuse counseling, many programs are planned aimed at helping people get their lives back. “We need to teach little guys how to be fathers at 14, give them the Deen of Islam,” he says. In the plans are also offerings of free breakfast and lunch, especially during the holidays and vacation. This space is directly across from a public housing complex; on the border of a severely economically depressed siteplaces in dire need of attention and support. Imam Abdul-Ali met with the leadership of the Department of Youth rehabilitation and Services, Linda K Harper and Director Clinton Lacey, who requested the services of Ar-Rashidoon. “The Muslims are more successful than anyone else in this neighborhood —because we have no strings attached; we do it for Allah,” he says. “We are talking to the guys in the public housing on Kenilworth, let them know that this is about Islam and the center will help everybody. Once he has their ‘in’ and support, the Islamic community center will make the announcement that this space is a non-territorial zone and will be open to all people from any area in Ward 7. Through this he hopes to break down the barriers of separation and division that breed violence in the city. “You don’t have to be on the battlefield but giving from your means, whether it is talent or capital resources is just as commendable. It is honorable to support someone like Imam Abdul-Ali. Your contribution can be just as great,” says Amin Muslim, urging the DMV community to support the work of people like Imam Abdul-Ali.

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when it is not Ramadan, perhaps devoting a little bit of what we earn to help the poor. You could even open a donor-directed fund or a charitable gift fund at a brokerage firm and invest your donations so you could give more. If you want to be even more ambitious, you can start your own charitable endowment, an essential aspect of the classical Islamic tradition that has unfortunately gone by the wayside in modern times. "Haven’t Seen You Since Last Ramadan…”

>> continued from pg 21 for 14-17 hours a day during Ramadan, you can go without it for the remaining 7-10 hours. Ideally, there should be no Muslims who smoke, given the fact that they have to stop doing so for most of a month every year. Sadly, the reality is quite different. Many, many Muslims smoke, and it saddens me-especially since I am a lung specialist who sees firsthand the devastation wrought by cigarette smokingto see groups of men outside the mosque immediately light up the moment sunset arrives.

Yet we can keep the spirit of the month alive and well throughout the rest of the year. For that is the whole purpose of the fast, - to be conscious of God. be upon him, used to fast every Monday and Thursday, and if one is able, he or she could follow this Sunnah, or tradition of the Prophet. The very, very ambitious could even fast in the tradition of the Prophet David, peace be upon him; fasting every other day. If this is too much, perhaps we can fast one, two, or three days each month. Whatever the number, we should try to fast outside of Ramadan to help keep the spirit of the month alive in our daily lives.

Fast Throughout the Year I must admit that this is the most difficult one for me to follow, but I must mention it anyway. The fast of Ramadan is obligatory for every adult Muslim, but there are numerous other fasts that Muslims are encouraged to undertake throughout the year, and we should try to participate. For instance, Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, encouraged Muslims to fast six days of the month of Shawwal, the month after Ramadan. The reward is equivalent to fasting the entire year. In a few months, the season of Hajj will begin, and those Muslims who do not perform the Hajj are encouraged to fast the day of Arafat, when all the pilgrims will be standing on that plain and begging God for forgiveness. We should fast that day. For Ashura, the day that commemorates the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, Muslims are encouraged to fast that day as well as the day before. (Ideally, Muslims should fast the first nine days of the month of DhulHijjah, when the Hajj occurs.)

Qiyam Praying During the month of Ramadan, Muslims gather together and perform the Isha, or night prayer, and then special devotional prayers, called Tarawih, in congregation (together these are called, qiyam, extra devotional night prayers). It is such a wonderful time, and it is perhaps-after actually getting to eat and drink-the best part of Ramadan. We are all together in the mosque, and we get to hear the entire Qur’an recited if we go every night of Ramadan. Why not, at home, have your own “miniTarawih”? You can either read what you

For the very ambitious, the Prophet, peace

have already memorized, or you can read from the Qur’an itself. If you continue this throughout the year, it is quite possible to finish reading the entire Qur’an many times over. This is an excellent way to keep the feeling and spirit of Ramadan alive. Charity Ramadan is also the month of charity. It was said that the Prophet, already the most generous of men, was even more generous during the month of Ramadan. Along with teaching the believer discipline and spiritual focus, the fast of Ramadan is a potent reminder that there are millions of people around the world who must forgo food and drink involuntarily, out of sheer poverty. As a result, Muslims are frequently motivated to give to the poor during Ramadan, and the reward for an act of charity-already substantial-is multiplied many times over in the month of Ramadan. Muslims often discharge their obligatory annual alms tax, the Zakah, during this month. Yet that does not mean we should be stingy and miserly throughout the rest of the year. We should continue to be generous even

Another beautiful aspect of Ramadan is the frequent invitation to people’s homes for iftar meals after sunset. Here, Muslims gather and break their fast together. Many times, it is an opportunity to see friends (and maybe even family) they do not normally get a chance to see during the rest of the year. Well, the same theme applies: if you can do it during Ramadan, you can do it at any other time as well. Why not keep up the contacts made during Ramadan throughout the rest of the year? Have monthly gatherings at each other’s homes or at a favorite restaurant. Let it not be another year when you say to a friend, “Wow! I haven’t seen you since last Ramadan!” For Muslims, the month of Ramadan is the most wonderful time of the year. The benefits and beauties of this month are boundless, and-even though I can once again drink my 24 oz. French-IrishVanilla-Choc-Crme Coffee chino in the morning-I always feel a tinge of sadness when Ramadan is over. Yet we can keep the spirit of the month alive and well throughout the rest of the year. For that is the whole purpose of the fast, - to be conscious of God.

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Each year, the inmates organize a fundraiser, selling essential oils to fellow inmates through the commissary. They use half of the revenue to supplement Ramadan meals and to subsidize religious festivals. They also give part of the money to other religious and academic programs at Sing Sing — fulfilling a Ramadan obligation of donating to charity.

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Across the state, 5,842 inmates, or about 11 percent of the total prison population, are Muslim. During Ramadan, these inmates are entitled by federal law to fulfill their religious obligations, including eating only between sundown and sunrise, showering once a day and praying five times a day. New York prisons follow a detailed, systemwide directive that requires delivery of Ramadan meals at appropriate times and that dictates other accommodations for those observing the holy month. Sing Sing in particular is known by Muslim inmates in the state as having the best programs pertaining to Islam. Because Sing Sing has its own mosque and offers daily prayer services and classes on Islam, Dontey Middleton, 32, requested that he be transferred here about two years ago. “Up north, in other spots, it’s always scrutinized by the police,” Mr. Middleton said of prayer in group settings. “Being down here, we have the liberty to, every day, study our religion and pray.” But even in states like New York that have detailed provisions for religious accommodations, some inmates in prisons and jails report lapses during Ramadan. At Auburn Correctional Facility, a number of Muslim inmates complained that when the prison was in a lockdown in 2013, they were denied Ramadan meals and access to communal prayer. At Attica Correctional Facility, an inmate complained that he had been denied showers nine times during Ramadan in 2012, apparently for no reason. “It does seem to come up every year,” said William Burgess, a senior staff attorney

During an evening class before the breaking of the fast on Tuesday, Mr. Young, the imam, taught a lesson on the prophet Yusuf, or Joseph, who spent many years in prison but came out as an honest man.

From left, Michael Tineo, Dontey Middleton, James Syphrette, Ivan Seabrooks, and Sequan Prude on the last day of Ramadan at Sing Sing. HIROKO MASUIKE / THE NEW YORK TIMES

“People should know you for your character as a Muslim,” Mr. Young said, urging the members of the class to be honest and forgiving.

at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Often, these “hiccups,” as Mr. Burgess put it, may occur in smaller jails or as a result of staff turnover.

He then showed the class a video of thousands of Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, a trip that many inmates dream of someday making.

In 2005, Darryl Holland filed a lawsuit pertaining to his time at Wende Correctional Facility. During Ramadan in 2003, corrections officers instructed Mr. Holland to drink water so they could collect a urine sample. Because he was fasting, he refused to drink and asked to give the sample after sundown instead. For his refusal, he was placed in an isolation cell for 77 days. After Mr. Holland sued, New York prisons changed their policy in 2012, allowing Muslim prisoners who are fasting to give urine samples after sunset. Muslim inmates at Sing Sing described less-accommodating experiences at other prisons, some of which do not have Friday prayer services and regular Islamic education classes. Mr. Middleton said at some prisons, he was allowed to take only three showers a week during Ramadan.

Michael Tineo, a 33-year-old inmate at Sing Sing, said that while he was at Elmira Correctional Facility, he was running late for Ramadan dinner in the mess hall one night. He said a corrections officer refused to escort him to the mess hall, telling him: “That’s too bad. Deal with it.” In a statement in response to the recent lawsuits, Thomas Mailey, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, said the department “has been and remains committed to ensuring the free exercise of religion by the inmates housed within each of its facilities.” At Sing Sing, the Ramadan program and meals are so well organized that even non-Muslims ask to partake, Mr. Tineo said. The prison houses 250 registered Muslims, all of whom are given a meal after sundown and a bag for suhur, a meal eaten before sunrise. Even 60 Muslim inmates in isolation are fed meals after sundown.

“You’ve got to give them something to aspire to” after getting out, Mr. Young said. “A lot of these guys haven’t been out of New York.” Many Muslim inmates at Sing Sing said their families had noticed a change in their behavior since their conversion: They curse less, they pray more, and they have a more positive outlook. Ivan Seabrooks, 41, has been in prison for about 13 years, and he converted to Islam six years ago. Before his conversion, he never thought he would go back to school. But last year, he earned his associate degree, and he hopes to complete his bachelor’s degree this year. “Turning Muslim changed my whole perspective,” Mr. Seabrooks said. “I was an angry guy. It teaches you patience.”

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Salaah times for July 22nd - August 18th 2016 Date

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If a person had a stream outside his door and he bathed in it five times a day, do you think he would have any filth left on him?” The people said, “No filth would remain on him whatsoever.” The Prophet (peace be upon him) then said, “That is like the fi ve daily prayers: Allah wipes away the sins by them.” ---Hadith in Sahih al Bukhari and Muslim

Prayer times generated from www.islamicfinder.com for the WASHINGTON, DC area. *The begining of Ramadan depends on the sighting of the new moon. Check with your masjid for the begining and end of Ramadan. Source: Islamicfinder.org

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Greater Richmond 6324 Rigsby Road, Richamond, VA 23226 Tel: 804-673-4177 | www.isgr.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al Rahman: 1305 Hull St., Richmond, VA 23224 Tel: 804-232-7640 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjidullah Of Richmond: 211 North Ave., Richmond, VA 23222 Tel: 804-321-8864/804-647-4297 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar-ul Huda: 6666 Commerce St., Springfield, VA 22150, Tel: 703-922-0111 www.darulhuda.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Foundation of America: 6606 Electronic Drive, Springfield, VA 22151 Tel: 703-914-4982 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Noor: 8608 Pohick Rd, Springfield, VA 22153 Tel: 703-451-7615 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Adams Center: 46903 Sugarland Rd, Sterling,VA 20164, Tel: 703-433-1325 www.adamscenter.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Ummah of Fredericksburg Masjid Ar Raja 10127 Piney Branch Rd, Spotsylvania, VA 22553 sheikh.ummah@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Heritage Center (IHC): 262 A-3 Cedar Ln., Vienna, VA 22180 Tel: 703-206-9056 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-Falah 14918 Jefferson Davis Hwy Woodbridge, VA 22191 Tel: 703-490-2220|masjidal-falah.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------WASHINGTON D.C. --------------------------------------------------------------------------Ivy City Masjid: 2001 Galludet St. NE, Washington, D.C. 20002 Tel: 202-904-9668 E-mail: masjidivycity@yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Muhammad: 1519 4th St. NW, Washington D.C. 20001 Tel: 202-483-8832 www.masjidmuhammad.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------The Islamic Center: 2551 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington D.C. 20008 Tel: 202-332-8343 www.theislamiccenter.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------First Hijra Muslim Comm. Center: 4324 Georgia Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20011 www.firsthijrah.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-islam: 4603 Benning Rd., SE, Washington, D.C. 20019 E-mail: Imammusa@hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

New Africa Islamic Community Center of Washington. DC. 1628 Good Hope Road, SE Washington, DC. 20020 202.678-1881 | www.naiccdc.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Darr ul Tawheed 3765 First St SE Washington DC 20032 202-248-4628 Islamicheritage123@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Muslim Society Of Washington, D.C.: Howard Center, Room 805 (Above Hu Bookstore) Tel: 202-328-3236 --------------------------------------------------------------------------MARYLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Annapolis: 2635 Riva Rd. Suite 110, Annapolis, MD 21401 Tel: 410-266-6660 | www.isamd.org Email: Info@islamannapolis.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Bait-Allah Masjid of Baltimore Inc 200 S. Calhoun Street Baltimore, MD 21223 email: baitallahmasjid@yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Bilal Dawah Center, Inc: 1910 Frederick Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223 Tel: 410-945-1515 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Bilal Ibn Rabah Hall 4903 Liberty Heights Ave, Baltimore, MD 21207 www.islamicleadership.org/bilal --------------------------------------------------------------------------Dar ul Uloom: 6334 Dogwoood Rd, Baltimore, MD 21207, Tel: 410-493-0785 Email: Darululoommd@aol.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Ul-haq: 514 Islamic Way (Wilson St.), Baltimore, MD 21217 Tel: 410-728-1363 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-mumineen: 2642 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD 21218 Tel: 410-467-8798 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Jamaat Al-Muslimeen: 4624 York Rd., Baltimore, MD 21212 Tel: 443-804-5620 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-rahmah/ISB: 6631 Johnnycake Rd., Baltimore, MD 21244 Tel: 410-747-4869 | www.isb.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid As Saffat: 1335 W. North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21217 Tel: 410-669-0655 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Brentwood Islamic Community Center

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www.pgmamd.org E-mail: Imam@pgmamd.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------Turkish American Community Center 9704 Good Luck Rd, Lanham, MD 20706 Tel: 301-459-9589 | www.taccenter.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------La Plata Masjid: 111 Howard Street, La Plata, MD 20646 Tel: 301-609-8769 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Com. Center Of Laurel (ICCL): 7306 Contee Rd., Laurel, MD 20707 Tel: 301-317-4584 | www.icclmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-Ghurabaa: 8220 Washington St., South Laurel, MD 20724. Tel: 301-604-3295 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Center Of Lexington Park 22583 Three Notch Road, Lexington Park, MD 20619 Tel: 240-538-7839 or 561-414-0994 www.iclpmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of Southern Pg County P O Box 99, Clinton, MD 20735 5410 Indian Head Hwy, Oxon Hill, MD 20745 Tel: 240 603 4618 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Community Center of Potomac 10601River Road, Potomac MD 20854 www.iccpmd.com | 301-983-0383 E-mail: info@iccpmd.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Society Of The Washington Area (ISWA): 2701 Briggs Chaney Rd., Silver Spring, MD 20904 Tel: 301-879-0930 | www.iswamd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------Islamic Education Society of Maryland 11504 Veirs Mills Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20902 Tel: 301- 933-3838 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Muslim Community Center (MCC): 15200 New Hampshire Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20905 Tel: 301-384-3454 | www.mccmd.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------IMAAM Center (Indonesian Muslim Association of America): 9100 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, MD 20910 Tel: 301-588-0693 | www.imaam.org Email: infoimaam@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid An-nur: 5418 Ebenezer Road, White Marsh, MD 21162 Tel: 410-663-9637 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Masjid Al-inshirah: 7832 Fairbrook Road, Windsor Mill, MD 21244 Tel: 410-298-2977 --------------------------------------------------------------------------Randallstown Islamic Center 3117 Rices Lane Windsor Mill, MD 21244 Tel: 443-845-3504 www.ricbaltimore.org E-mail: Info@ricbaltimore.org

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Upcoming Events In Your Area Islamic Finance Awareness Friday, July 22, 2016 07:30pm - 09:30pm PGMA & PGCMC present a discussion on Islamic Finance Awareness with Ashraf G. Ali. Topics of Discussion: An introduction to Islamic transaction law, the Islamic Finance industry, and best practices for running and supervising Sharia compliant companies; An introduction to Islamic Finance methods: home finance, auto finance, personal finance, and business finance. Refreshments Served. RSVP your attendance at www.pgcmc.org Location : Prince George's Muslim Association, 9150 Lanham-Severn Road, Lanham, MD 20706 ================================================ McLean Islamic Center Annual Banquet Saturday, July 23, 2016 07:00pm - 10:00pm Jeremy McLellan, comedian; Dr Altaf Husain, MSW, PhD, VP, ISNA; Dr Johnathan Brown, Georgetown University, Author, Scholar of Hadith. Tickets now available: www.McLeanMuslims.com Location: The Westin Hotel, 400 Courthouse Square, (Old Town Alexandria) Alexandria, VA 22314 ================================================ ISWA Marriage Event Sunday, July 24, 2016 10:30am - 01:30pm Are You Single, Divorced, Widowed? Are you looking for a compatible mate for marriage? Then, plan to attend the Nineteenth (19th) session of Muslim brothers and sisters who are seeking life partners. Agenda: Pre-marital Counseling, Marriage in Islam, Introductions and Interviews. Breakfast Buffet provided. Registration fee: $30. Location : ISWA Center, 2701 Briggs Chaney Road, Silver Spring, MD Contact : For futher information, please call 301-879-0930 ================================================ Quran: The Ultimate Guide To Success Saturday, July 30, 2016 02:00pm - 07:00pm Imam Alkisai Institute of America presents: Quran the Ultimate Guide to Sucess. Speakers: Sheikh Yusuf Estes, Baba Ali. Adults: $25, Children: $15. To purchase a ticket, visit: www.myiaia.org. Free

Ample parking at Lot "A". Location: George Mason University, Hub Ball Room, 4400 University Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030 For information, call: 703-627-5145 or 703-307-7586 ================================================= PGCMC Community Cookout Sunday, August 07, 2016 12:00pm - 04:00pm Save the Date - Moon Bounce, Carnival Ride, 3 on 3 Basketball, Food, Arts and Crafts, Sports and Games, Fellowship, Salah. Lots of fun activities! $8 Unlimited Carnival Rides. Location : Prince Georges Muslim Association, 9150 Lanham Severn Rd, Lanham, MD Contact : If you are interested in more information, contact us at info@pgcmc. org or visit www.pgcmc.org ================================================ Muslim FoodFest at ISB Saturday, August 13, 2016, 12PM Please come out and join us insha'Allah for great food, and family fun, all while enjoying our live entertainment program. Food will be available for purchase by all of our vendors and a limited supply of sample sizes will also be available for a nominal fee. Along with our food extravaganza, we will be hosting a grand bazaar with over 30 vendors where you can get all your shopping done! All proceeds will be going towards benefitting the Al-Rahmah School Educational Trust! Early bird $5 special ends 8/14! Price will increase to $7 on 8/15. www.muslimfoodfest.com info@muslimfoodfest.com LIMITED VENDING SPOTS AVAILABLE! ================================================= ADAMS 1st Annual Job Fair and Professional Networking Expo Saturday, August 20, 2016 10:00am - 05:00pm We are expecting approx. 50 employers to attend that specialize in the fields of IT, hospitality, food services, retail, healthcare, business administration, a distinguished Key Note speaker and a panel of professionals to provide networking guidance for this event. We will be partnering with Skill Source* for this initiative. ADAMS Sterling, Main Hall, 46903 Sugarland Road, Sterling, VA 20164 Contact : Aneela Rehman, ADAMS Center, 703-433-1325, hr@adamscenter.org

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To Allah We Belong, and to Him is Our Return “Everyone is going to taste death, and We shall make a trial of you with evil and good, and to Us you will be returned.” (Surah Al-Anbiya:35)” 06-14-2016 PGMA sends condolences to the family of Sister Karimot Animashaun, who has passed away. Salaat al-Janazah was on June 15, 2016 in Lanham, Maryland. May Allah (SWT) forgive her shortcomings and grant her Jannat ul Firdaus. May Allah (SWT) also grant her family patience and ease, Ameen. (Source: PGMA) 06-15-2016 PGMA sends sincere condolences to the family of Sister Elaine Tinsley Womack who has passed away. Salaat al-Janazah was on June 16, 2016 in Lanham, Maryland. May Allah (SWT) forgive her shortcomings and grant her Jannat ul Firdaus. May Allah (SWT) also grant her family patience and ease, Ameen. (Source: PGMA) 06-20-2016 The Masjid Al-Falaah community extends its condolences to the family of brother Br Abdelmalek Benchaaboun has who passed away. Brother Abdelmalek Benchaaboun was father of Br Noor. The Salatul-Janazah was on June 21, 2016 in Frederick, Maryland. May Allah SWT forgive Br Abdelmalek and grant him Jannah al-firdaus. May Allah SWT grant strength and patience to the family of Br Abdelmalek, Aameen. (Source: Masjid Al-Falaah) 06-16-2016 Sister Adabi, mother of Dr. Ramleth Shakir and Br. Yusuf Hameed has passed away. May Allah accept her good deeds, forgive her shortcomings and enter her in Jannat ul Firdaus, Aameen. (Source: ICM) 06-17-2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Sr. Shamsa Butt, sister of Br. Nadeem Butt, a current Council member of ISB. We ask Allah (SWT) to shower her with His mercy, compassion and forgiveness, grant her the highest ranks in paradise and give her family support and patience during this difficult time. (Source: ISB) 06-20-2016 Sister Randa Melhem, wife of Brother Murad Melhem, has passed away. Sister Melhem leaves behind six children, ages 6 to 18. Janazah was on June 21, 2016 in Manassas, Virginia. May Allah (swt) have mercy on her soul and may He grant her Jannah. May Allah (swt) grant sabr to her family and friends. (Source: Dar Alnoor) 06-23-2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Naseem Akhtar, wife of the late Mohammed Ikram Khokhar. The Salat ul Janaza was on June 23, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. We ask Allah (SWT) to shower her with His mercy, compassion and forgiveness, grant her the highest ranks in paradise and give her family support and patience during this difficult time. (Source: ISB) 06-24-2016 Br. Fred Adams has has passed away. He was the only Muslim in his family

and leaves behind his wife, Susan Adams and three sons. Janazah was on June 24, 2016 in Manassas, Virginia. May Allah (swt) have mercy on his soul and may He grant him Jannah. May Allah (swt) grant sabr to his family and friends. (Source: Dar Alnoor) 06-26-2016 Brother Mohammad Naseem Khan has passed away. Janazah was on June 26, 2016 in Manassas, Virginia. May Allah (swt) have mercy on his soul and may He grant him Jannah. May Allah (swt) grant sabr to her family and friends. (Source: Dar Alnoor) 06-27-2016 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of the husband of Mary Darab, father of Marjan Darab, Amenah Darab, and Hamza Darab. Father in law of Naveed Kolia. Brother of Abdul Hamid Darab, Wahid Darab, Samad Darab Latif Darab, Ahmad Darab, Abdullah Darab, Anisa Darab Nassiry. Our beloved Haji Abdul Samey Darab has returned to his Lord. May Allah make it easy for him, inshaAllah. (Source: Dar Al-Hijrah) 06-28-2016 PGMA sends condolences to the family of Brother Edouard A. Myers who has passed away. Salaat al-Janazah was on June 28, 2016 in Lanham, Maryland. May Allah (SWT) forgive his shortcomings and grant him Jannat ul Firdaus. May Allah (SWT) also grant his family patience and ease, Ameen. (Source: PGMA) 06-28-2016 One of our community members, Dr. Adnan Sonmez has passed away. Salatul Janaza was on June 28, 2016 in Lanham, Maryland. May Allah forgive the deceased, and induce his family with patience. (Source: Diyanet Center of America) 06-29-2016 One of our community members, Meryem Sahin, mother of three beautiful kids, and wife of Abdulkadir Sahin, has passed away. Janaza was on June 30, 2016 in Lanham, Maryland. May Allah swt forgive her, and all her sins, and grant her the highest of level of jannah, Amin. (Source: Diyanet Center of America) 06-29-2016 PGMA sends our sincere condolences to the family of Brother Mohamed Barry, PGMA's Muezzin, on the passing of his dear wife, Sister Fatima Barry who has passed away. Salaat al-Janazah was on June 30, 2016. May Allah (SWT) forgive her shortcomings and grant her Jannat ul Firdaus. May Allah (SWT) also grant the Barry family patience and ease, Ameen. (Source: PGMA) 07-01-2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dorey Alvi, wife of Masood Alvi, daughter in law of Major Aslam Alvi. The Salat ul Janaza was on July 1, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. We ask Allah (SWT) to shower her with His mercy, compassion

and forgiveness, grant her the highest ranks in paradise and give her family support and patience during this difficult time. (Source: ISB) 07-02-2016 PGMA sends condolences to the family of Brother Yusuf Mansaray who passed away. Brother Yusuf Mansaray was the Brother-in-Law of Brother Ousseynou Camara. The Salat al Janazah was on July 3, 2016 in Lanham, Maryland. May Allah SWT forgive his shortcomings and grant him Jannat ul Firdaus. May Allah SWT also grant his family patience and ease, Ameen. (Source: PGMA) 07-03-2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Br. Mohammed Bashir. He is the father-in-law of Irfan Raza and father of Shamila Raza. We ask Allah (SWT) to shower him with His mercy, compassion and forgiveness, grant him the highest ranks in paradise and give his family support and patience during this difficult time. (Source: ISB) 07-07-2016 One of our community members, Sabahat Vural has passed away. Salat al Janazah was on July 7, 2016 in Lanham, Maryland. May Allah forgive the deceased and induce her family with patience. (Source: Diyanet Center of America) 07-09-2016 PGMA sends condolences to Brother Idris Murrray, Brother Jamil White, and their families, on the passing of their brother Ibrahim Hebron who has passed away. Salaat al-Janazah was on July 9, 2016 in Capitol Heights, Maryland. May Allah (SWT) forgive his shortcomings and grant him Jannat ul Firdaus. May Allah (SWT) also grant the family patience and ease, Ameen. (Source: PGMA) 07-09-2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Abdul Rahim Adeyemo. The Salat ul Janaza was on July 9, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. We ask Allah (SWT) to shower him with His mercy, compassion and forgiveness, grant him the highest ranks in paradise and give his family support and patience during this difficult time. (Source: ISB) 07-11-2016 We are saddened to announce that Haja Aminata Thomas has passed away. She has survived with four sisters: Haja Asanatu, Haja Fatu, Haja Gbessay and Theresa and four daughters and one son: Hannah Elizabeth Thomas, Erica Abie Marah, Ernest Thomas, Gloria Marie Jacob, Adeyemi Jah. Her funeral prayer was on July 12, 2016 in Silver Spring, Maryland. May Allah (SWT) allow her to smell the sweetest smells of Jannah, bless her with the highest level in Jannah, Aameen. (Source: MCC)

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Fasting the Six Days of Shawwal Source: IslamToday.net Abû Ayyûb al-Ansârî relates that Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) says: "Whoever fasts the month of Ramadan and then follows it with six days of fasting in the month of Shawwâl, it will be as if he had fasted the year through." [Sahîh Muslim (1163)] The month of Shawwâl is singled out for the observance of extra fasts, since this month follows immediately after Ramadan. The six days of voluntary fasting are to the obligatory fast of Ramadan what the Sunnah prayers are to the obligatory prayers. It is related from Thawbân that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "The fast of Ramadan is like observing ten months of fasting. Fasting six days of Shawwâl is like observing two months of fasting. This together is like fasting throughout the year." [Sahîh Ibn Khuzaymah (2115) and Sunan al-Nasâ'î al-Kubrâ (2860) – and authenticated by al-Albânî] Al-Nawawî observes [Sharh Sahîh Muslim (8/56)]: Scholars have explained that it is like observing a year of fasting because the reward of one's good deeds are multiplied tenfold. Therefore fasting the month of Ramadan is like fasting for ten months and fasting six days in the month of Shawwâl is like fasting for two months. Virtues of Fasting Six Days in Shawwâl 1. Fasting six days in Shawwâl after observing the Ramadan fast gives the person the reward of fasting throughout the year. 2. The fasts of Sha`bân and Shawwâl are like the Sunnah prayers that accompany the five obligatory prayers. Like the Sunnah prayers, these extra fasts cover up for the deficiencies in our performance of our obligatory worship. On the Day of Judgment, our voluntary acts of worship will compensate for the shortcomings in how we carried out our duties. Most of us have deficiencies in our observance of our Ramadan fasts and we need something to cover up for those deficiencies. [Note: The deficiencies being discussed here are not missing days of fasting.

Rather, they are the deficiencies in our conduct that detract from the value of our worship.] 3. Our return to the habit of fasting right after Ramadan is a sign that our Ramadan fasts were accepted. When Allah accepts our worship, He blesses us to engage in further acts of piety. The saying goes: The reward of virtue is further virtue. Therefore, following one good deed with others like it is a sign that the first deed had been accepted by Allah. By contrast, if a person's good deed is followed by a sinful one, it is an indication that the first good deed might not have been accepted. 4. Those who observe the fast of Ramadan are given their recompense of the day of`Id al-Fitr, the day when the fast is rewarded. Getting into the habit of fasting again soon thereafter is a means of giving thanks to Allah for the blessings that we have received. There is no blessing greater than forgiveness for one's sins, and we know that fast of Ramadan is recompensed with forgiveness of one's previous sins. Indeed, Allah has commanded us to give thanks for the blessings of the Ramadan fast and to do so by making mention of Him and through other means of giving thanks. Allah says: "(He wants you) to complete the number of days, and to glorify Him in that He has guided you; and perchance you may give thanks." [Sûrah al-Baqarah: 185] Fasting these days in Shawwâl is one way for us to express our thanks for Allah blessing us in our observance of the Ramadan fast. It is known that some of the Pious Predecessors would try to get up at night to pray the Tahajjud prayer. When Allah blessed them to wake up and do so, they would fast the next day in thanks to Allah for blessing them to observe that prayer. Once Wuhayb b. al-Ward was asked about the blessings of various acts of devotion and he replied: "Do not ask about the blessings that can be earned by performing these acts of worship. Rather, ask how you can show your thanks to Allah if He blesses you to perform them, for he is the one who assists us in doing so."

Every blessing that Allah gives us is something that we have to be thankful about. Moreover, when Allah blesses us to show thanks, this is a further blessing from Allah that deserves further thanks from us. If we show further thanks, this in turn is another blessing deserving our gratitude. There is no end to this and we can never be thankful enough. When we recognize that our thanks is never enough, this is the highest expression of gratitude we can give. The Legal Ruling Regarding the Six Days of Shawwâl Al-Shâfi`î, Ahmad b. Hanbal, and Ishâq al-Râhawayh hold that is preferable and recommended to fast six days in the month of Shawwâl. This opinion has also been related from Ibn Àbbâs, Ka`b al-Ahbâr, Tâwûs, al-Sha`bî, Maymûn b. Mahrân, and Ibn al-Mubârak. They base their opinion upon the hadîth that we have discussed above. Others have regarded fasting six days in the month of Shawwâl to be something disliked. This view has been related from Mâlik and Abû Hanîfah. They argue that it is feared from the general public that they might misconstrue fasting these six days to be something obligatory. They also see it as emulating the People of the Scripture to exceed the number of fasting days in the prescribed month of fasting. However, these objections are spurious in the face of the clear statements of the Prophet (peace be upon him) that encourage this fast. If we were to abandon a Sunnah act on the grounds that we are exceeding what is obligatory, then we would have to abandon all recommended fasts, including the fast of Àshûrâ' and the fast of the middle of the month. It has been related that Mâlik used to personally fast six days in Shawwâl. Also, later Hanafî scholars decided that there is no objection to fasting these days. The Mâlikî jurist Ibn Àbd al-Bar explains [al-Istidhkâr (3/380)]: Mâlik did not know of the hadîth related by Abû Ayyûb al-Ansârî, even though it is a hadîth from the people of Madînah. No one possesses all the knowledge held

by others. Mâlik explained and clarified what he disliked about it – He was afraid that it would be added to the obligatory fast of Ramadan by the general public. Mâlik was extremely cautious when it came to matters of religion. As for fasting six days in the month of Shawwâl to seek extra blessings – as Thawbân depicts it – this is something that Mâlik had no objection against – and Allah knows best – since fasting is a person's protective shield and its virtues are well-known. When we give up our food and drink for Allah's sake, it is a virtuous and good deed. Allah says: "and engage in good works that perchance you will be successful." [Sûrah al-Hajj: 77] Mâlik was well aware of all this. How We Should Fast the Six Days in Shawwâl There are various opinions about this question: 1. Some scholars hold the view that it is preferable to fast the six days in consecutive order, starting from the second day of Shawwâl. This is the view of al-Shâfi`î and Ibn al-Mubârak. 2. Others are of the opinion that it is preferable to fast the six days intermittently, spreading them out throughout the month of Shawwâl. Thisis the position of Ahmad b. Hanbal and Wakî`. 3. Then there are those who hold the view that the days should all be postponed until later in the month and not close to the day of `Id, which is a time of celebration and feasting. They prefer fasting the three days in the middle of the month (ayyâm al-bîd) along with the three days right before or after. This is the opinion of Ma`mar and `Abd al-Razzâq. There is considerable flexibility in all of this. We can choose to follow any of these approaches that we wish. And Allah knows best.

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Microsoft MCSA Linux Administration SQL Database Ethical Hacker CISSP

4810 Beauregard Street GD5 Alexandria, VA 22312 (703) 642‐ 0760 (202) 294‐8923 ....

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