Abdul Malik Mujahid

When you are an Imam or a Khateeb, you talk. People ask a question, you talk. You perform marriages, you talk. You conduct funerals, you talk. However, it is good listening which will help us carry out our responsibilities. Here are some suggestions for better listening for Imams. 

Thank you in Islam means that, let’s stop practicing “auto pilot thanksgiving” and start expressing heartfelt thanks, to God and His Creation. It is one small way we can not only reconnect with people beyond tweets and texts, but it will also deepen our relationship with Allah.

Hate never limits itself to one stop. It keeps looking for the new targets. Just as KKK targets were not limited to African-Americans as it attacked Catholics, Jews and other immigrants, the current phase of hate, ethnic bigotry and religious intolerance is looking for new targets.

Islamophobia like other forms of racism and religious or ethnic intolerance, is not the problem of its victims It is a societal problem. Unless we as a nation speak out against it, educate others about it, and fight, it will continue to perpetuate.

Suggested Eid day action items for Masjids and Islamic centers in the year 2010, when Eid day fell one or two days before the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan. 

Here are some examples of personal Duas, relevant Duas you can make throughout the year. Please adopt, modify, and write your own.

Dua is a Muslim's way of asking God for His blessings for himself or herself and for others. There are many prayers that are missing from our collective Duas. I request you to make the following Duas as an expression of our concern for humanity.