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Sinopse
Imam Zaid Shakir is a co-founder, Board of Trustees, and Faculty member of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, CA.He was born in Berkeley, California and accepted Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force. He obtained a BA summa cum laude in International Relations at American University in Washington D.C. and later earned his MA in Political Science at Rutgers University. In 1983, he co-founded Masjid Al-Huda in New Brunswick, N.J. and was the Imam for 4 years.After a year of studying Arabic in Cairo, Egypt, in 1988 he settled in New Haven, Connecticut and continued his community activism, co-founding Masjid Al-Islam, the Tri-State Muslim Education Initiative, and the Connecticut Muslim Coordinating Committee. As Imam of Masjid Al-Islam from 1988 to 1994 he spear-headed a community renewal and grassroots anti-drug effort, and also taught political science and Arabic at Southern Connecticut State University. He served as an interfaith council Chaplain at Yale University and developed the Chaplaincy Sensitivity Training for physicians at Yale New Haven Hospital. He then left for Syria to pursue his studies in the traditional Islamic sciences.For seven years in Syria, and briefly in Morocco, he immersed himself in an intense study of Arabic, Islamic law, Quranic studies, and spirituality with some of the top Muslim scholars of our age. In 2001, Imam Zaid was the first American to graduate with a BA in Islamic Sciences from Syrias prestigious Abu Noor University.Imam Zaid is a co-founder and chairman of United For Change since 2009. This effort through modern discourse, is to create awareness of the broadest and most consuming topics within the Muslim community. The aim is to leverage the diversity through cooperation and goodwill and address the obstacles that have proven to be divisive.In 2007, he co-founded the Lighthouse mosque in Oakland, CA. As a gifted author and lecturer, Imam Zaid has also authored numerous articles, and translated into modern English several classical Arabic traditional texts. Imam Zaid currently resides in Northern California with his family.
Episódios
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![How to Pay Zakat]()
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![Joining The Heart and Limb - Inspiring Leadership Through Faith - Part 2]()
Joining The Heart and Limb - Inspiring Leadership Through Faith - Part 2
27/01/2020 Duração: 56minQ and A: Part -2 Imam Zaid Shakir informs Muslim students from across the Northeast what it truly means and takes to have a leadership or activism animated by sincere faith - in contrast to enterprises driven by ego or other aims.
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![Joining The Heart and Limb - Inspiring Leadership Through Faith - Part 1]()
Joining The Heart and Limb - Inspiring Leadership Through Faith - Part 1
27/01/2020 Duração: 52minImam Zaid Shakir informs Muslim students from across the Northeast what it truly means and takes to have a leadership or activism animated by sincere faith - in contrast to enterprises driven by ego or other aims.
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![Allah is Greater Than Our Problems]()
Allah is Greater Than Our Problems
27/01/2020 Duração: 45minImam Zaid Shakir speaks about how Prophet Abraham (upon him be peace) was an embodiment of leadership, obedience, and thankful for the blessings bestowed by Allah despite the trials and triumphs endured. To be a leader seek strength and guidance by relying on Allah, during these days and times of social confusion.
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![Avoid The Doubtful Matters]()
Avoid The Doubtful Matters
27/01/2020 Duração: 33minImam Zaid Shakir discusses in detail how to cultivate reverence and respect to implement the orders and commandments set by Allah and avoiding those things prohibited.
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![Try to Be Merciful]()
Try to Be Merciful
27/01/2020 Duração: 27minImam Zaid Shakir clarifies how to make an accurate assessment of what constitutes oppression, the consideration of justice, and not to separate the standards established by the divine law.
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![Rising in Revival, Setting in Submission]()
Rising in Revival, Setting in Submission
27/01/2020 Duração: 24minImam Zaid Shakir clarifies what it means to strive for communal empowerment and how Muslims can recommit to this lifelong journey starting from embracing our strangeness and ending at submission.
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![Allah is The Light of The Heavens and Earth]()
Allah is The Light of The Heavens and Earth
27/01/2020 Duração: 31minImam Zaid Shakir clarifies that Allah is described as light of the heavens and earth: unique in powers, wisdom, knowledge and brings forth the creation from darkness into light. The purpose for the believer is to protect faith and resist the evil maladies that lead to disbelief.
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![Reviving the Sunnah of Compassion]()
Reviving the Sunnah of Compassion
27/01/2020 Duração: 36minImam Zaid Shakir speaks about the prophetic tradition of compassion in our everyday life.
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![Relationship With Allah, Ourselves and People]()
Relationship With Allah, Ourselves and People
27/01/2020 Duração: 28minImam Zaid Shakir discusses a Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) narrated by Abu Thar (RA), be mindful of Allah, a good action clears a misdeed, and treat people with good character.
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![Reclaiming Our Legacy]()
Reclaiming Our Legacy
27/01/2020 Duração: 23minImam Zaid Shakir highlights reclaiming our legacy for an abandoned frontier, the community, people, and nation of Latin America (Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America), and impact of African Muslim interaction.
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![Reality of The Unseen]()
Reality of The Unseen
27/01/2020 Duração: 31minImam Zaid Shakir discusses the importance of internalizing and actualizing to the depths of our being the reality of God, heaven, hell, and other aspects of the unseen realm in these days and times.
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![Islam Suffices As A Blessing]()
Islam Suffices As A Blessing
27/01/2020 Duração: 23minImam Zaid Shakir provides integral advice on how to internalize the reality and meaning of Allah in our lives.
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![Transcend This World]()
Transcend This World
27/01/2020 Duração: 32minImam Zaid Shakir expounds on the crises of despair in society, impact on the Muslim community, and the cure for this disease.
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![LGBTQ and Islam - Our Approach]()
LGBTQ and Islam - Our Approach
27/01/2020 Duração: 30minImam Zaid Shakir discusses Islamâs stance on the LGBTQ issue and limits as Muslims, and in regards to the LGBTQ community. How, Muslim youth should interact with the LGBTQ community, including when their own Muslim friends identify as LGBTQ. He also explains how youth can be ambassadors of Islam while still respecting other communities.
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![Masculine and Feminine_ Gender In Islam]()
Masculine and Feminine_ Gender In Islam
27/01/2020 Duração: 24minImam Zaid Shakir clarifies masculine and feminine gender in Islam, and meaningful relationships between men and women.
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![ISNA Convention 2018]()
ISNA Convention 2018
27/01/2020 Duração: 21minImam Zaid Shakir explains that Muslims should be ambassadors of peace starting with As Salaam Alaikum and to exemplify dignity at ISNA's 55th Convention (Islamic Society of North America) entitled, "In God We Trust."
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![Blessings of Brotherhood and Sisterhood]()
Blessings of Brotherhood and Sisterhood
27/01/2020 Duração: 32minImam Zaid Shakir emphasizes the magnitude of envy and hatred violating the sanctity of brotherhood and sisterhood.
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![Do All Lives Matter]()
Do All Lives Matter
27/01/2020 Duração: 35minImam Zaid Shakir states God has sanctified life and murder of unarmed innocent human beings is a violation and crime against public order.
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![Path to Seek Knowledge of Religion]()
Path to Seek Knowledge of Religion
27/01/2020 Duração: 22minImam Zaid Shakir discusses how to obtain the path of divine oneness, and to overcome self righteousness, and worship of materialism.
