Saturday, July 4, 2009 in Washington D.C. at the 46th Annual ISNA Convention.

Some of the attendees present at the meeting: Shaykh Muhammad Ninowy, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, Shaykh Yasir Qadhi, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, Naeem Muhammad (of Native Deen and Islamic Relief), Imam Johari Abdulmalik, Tariq Subhani, Altaf Hussain (ISNA), Asma Mirza, Amadou Shakur, Imam Yahya Hendi, Imam Faris (ISNA Canada) and Sidi Yusuf Islam (also known as Sidi Cat Stevens).

Source: http://www.muslimsunitedforchange.com/gallery/

United For Change – Imam Zaid Shakir.

Imam Zaid Shakir, a highly respected American Muslim scholar, United For Change. After a recent trip to West Africa, Imam Zaid saw the devastating effects of malaria and decided to act. To launch United For Change, two special events have been set up to bring awareness about the deadly malaria disease and how we can help.

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Ta’leef Collective is a new organization that we are involved with. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ta’leef Collective provides the space, content, and companionship necessary for a healthy understanding, embrace and realization of Islam. Ta’leef Collective is an expansion of the program formerly known as Zaytuna Outreach.

Ta’leef Collective hopes to serve:

• Seekers of knowledge
• Converts
• Muslim Youth
• Other under served populations

If you are in the Bay Area, we would like to invite you to join us and your community at our new location.

Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009

Time: 7:30pm

Address: 43170 Osgood Rd., Fremont, CA 94539

Program:

• Recitation of the Burda poetry (Classical poem about the characteristics of the Prophet Muhammad, may the blessings of Allah be upon him)
• Spiritual and practical pearls of wisdom from our teachers
• For those who would like to stay, we will be continuing our weekly Mawlid gathering later in the evening

Tea and sweets will be available.

For more information, please email: admin {at} islamcrunch . com

Website: http://taleefcollective.org/2009/03/grand-opening-march-15-2009/

Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Taleef-Collective/133124145555

For those of you who were not able to attend the “I’m Mad as Hell and I Can’t Take it Anymore” – Turning Anger into Positive Action event with Habib Ali al-Jifri, Sidi Mas’ud Khan and his nieces have provided a Twitter (microblogging) feed of the event. You can see the full feed here: http://search.twitter.com/search?max_id=1205701831&page=8&q=%23rmw-ha1

You have to read from the bottom to the top and then click ‘Newer’ to see the proper sequence of tweets.

Read more about this on Sidi Mas’ud’s blog:

Live Twitter Notes from Habib Ali’s event at Friends’ House

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