1/12/2018 7:00:00 PM -05:00

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Usul al Fiqh with Shaykh Yasir Fahmy

In studying Imam al-Juwayni's Waraqaat, students will study the basics of the Islamic discipline of Usul al-Fiqh or "Islamic Legal Methodology." While fiqh involves knowledge of the legal rulings associated with deeds, obtained through specific evidences, usul al-fiqh involves the study of the evidences themselves. More completely, studying this science includes study of the following three: 1) Knowing the general evidences of fiqh, 2) How to use them, 3) the conditions of the person using them. Proper study of this subject allows for one to gain greater insight and better understanding into the Islamic legal system. Registration: $75 per person. $35 student discount (rate is also applicable to those in need of financial assistance) Register at http://isbcc.org/knowledge#classes Text: Sharh Al-Waraqat by Imam Al-Juwayni (Author) Musa Furber (Translator) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0985884045/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

12/19/2017 12:00:00 AM -04:00

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Qur'an Classes with Imam Muhammad Nabeel

Reading the Qur'an: Sundays at 6:00 for sisters, 7:00 for brothers Iqra’ is a class that will teach how to read properly in Arabic. It is for absolute beginners of the Arabic language, as well as those who consider themselves advanced. The course will teach all of the Arabic letters, their full names, and the vowels. It will also teach the letters’ characteristics (sifaat), and articulation points (makharij), which are areas where most reciters make mistakes. Students will have weekly opportunities to read, write and review with homework assignments. By the end of the course, students will inshaAllah leave being able to read the Qur’an. Students must come to class with a notebook, and be prepared to take notes. This class is a prerequisite to the advanced tajweed course. Kids' Qur'an: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 to 6:00 This is an afterschool program for kids ages 6-12. The program will offer Qur’an recitation with Imam Muhammad, in addition to homework help for students. Students in this class will be split into two sections based on their level, as determined by an exam. While one section recites the Qur’an, the other will be assisted by volunteers in completing their homework. Healthy snacks will also be provided. Mastering Tajweed: Mondays. Placement test required This course is an opportunity to review and implement rules of tajweed under Imam Muhammed Nabeel. The class experience includes preparing a selection from the Qur’an, identifying rules of tajweed verse-by-verse, and implementation of rules in out-loud recitation. Students are expected to be active participants in their learning, to bring their own mushaf, and a notebook.

12/18/2017 12:00:00 AM -04:00

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Friday Nights at the Mosque - Imam Suhaib Webb

A discussion of Imam Suhaib's new book "Essentials of Islamic Faith" with is available on Amazon at https://tinyurl.com/GetEssentials

12/8/2017 7:00:00 PM -05:00

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Sister Seekers: Discussions of Faith & Character

MAS Youth in coordination with MIT MSA and ISNU Present: Sister Seekers: Discussions of Faith and Character A halaqa dedicated to providing space for college students who are women and interested in deepening their journey with Islam, in community with one another. The halaqa facilitator will be Karin Firoza along with special guest speakers. The location will be transitory, check weekly for updates. First location is MIT McCormick Hall. Below are complete dates. Be sure to save the dates in your calendars! We hope you can be consistent in joining us throughout the semester. Complete Dates: Sunday, September 10 @ MIT McCormick Hall (320 Memorial Dr.) Saturday, September 16 Saturday, September 23 Saturday, September 30 Saturday, October 14 Saturday, October 21 Saturday, November 4 Saturday, November 11 Saturday, November 18 Saturday, December 2 To sign up or ask any questions, please email youth@masboston.org. Join us for Fall 2017!

12/2/2017 12:00:00 AM -04:00

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10/21/2017 11:00:00 AM -04:00

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Film Screening: "Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street"

Join us for film screenings and a discussion about the history of community organizing in Roxbury's Dudley neighborhood. Roxbury residents successfully organized in the 1970s and 80s and fought the City of Boston to push back against toxic and illegal dumping - and won. In the devastating aftermath of the Great Recession, they again came together to revitalize and rebuild their community. Date: Sunday, October 15, 2017 Time: 4:00-7:00pm Location: ISBCC 3rd Floor Function Hall - 100 Malcolm X Blvd, Roxbury 02120 Hosts: ISBCC, Neighbors for Neighbors, Reclaim Roxbury, Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE) About the films: Holding Ground is at once a cautionary tale of urban policies gone wrong and a message of hope for all American cities. In 1985, African-American, Latino, Cape Verdean, and European-American residents in Roxbury, MA united to revitalize their community. The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative went on to gain national recognition as residents fought to close down illegal dumps, gain unprecedented control of land from City Hall and create a comprehensive plan to rebuild the fabric of their community. Through the voices of committed residents, activists and city officials, this moving documentary shows how a Boston neighborhood was able to create and carry out its own agenda for change. Foreclosures. Unemployment. Childhood poverty. All these problems have hit American communities hard during the Great Recession. Gaining Ground, a follow-up to the award-winning documentary Holding Ground (1996), shows how one diverse Boston neighborhood has managed to stem the tide against enormous odds. Building on a 25-year legacy of innovative community organizing, a new generation of Dudley Street neighborhood leaders has managed to foster hope and create opportunity in challenging times. www.holdinggroundproductions.com Food will be served!

10/15/2017 4:00:00 PM -04:00

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9/4/2017 1:00:00 PM -04:00

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7/30/2017 4:00:00 PM -04:00

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Friday Nights at the Mosque with Ustadha Suzy Ismail

7/28/2017 7:00:00 PM -04:00

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Eid al Fitr

6/25/2017 7:30:00 AM -04:00

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Khatm al Quran

Khatm al Quran Program Welcoming Adhkaar & Dua Athan & breaking fast Maghrib (8:30 pm) Community Iftar Isha prayer (10:09 pm) Taraweeh (First four rakaat) Living Prophetically Video Khatira - Shaykh Yasir Fahmy Supporting Your Center Taraweeh (Last four rakaat) Khatm Dua Salawat Spiritual Lecture - Shaykh Yasir Fahmy Tahajud Shafaa & Witr Suhour Fajr (3:29 am) Khatira

6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM -04:00

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10/9/2016 5:30:00 AM -04:00

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Community Hike with Shaykh Yasir Fahmy

We will be meeting at Houghton’s Pond Picnic Site 3 840 Hillside St. Milton MA 02186. If you are in need of a ride or are able to offer a ride to others please fill out the carpooling form: http://isbcc.org/community-hike/

10/2/2016 10:00:00 AM -04:00

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8/7/2016 12:00:00 AM -04:00

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Teamfajr

Salams all! Please come join us this coming Sunday 7/31/16 for another TeamFajr experience. Athan will be at 4:05a.m. insha'Allah and Iqama at 4:25 a.m. insha'Allah. Please feel free to coordinate rides/carpool on this page/using the link posted Jazakum Allahu Kheiran. TeamFajr is bi-monthly experience designed to transform the way we understand the spiritual practice of the morning prayer. Join your community as we pray together to Allah in the early morning hours, practice important remembrances (adhkar), recite the Holy Qur’an in small men and women circles, and finish with a communal breakfast. TeamFajr Experience Activities: - Pray Salat al-Fajr together - Listen to a khatira (Reminder) given by one of our teachers. - Recite the Remembrances (Adkhar) – Ma’athurat - Divide up into Qur’an Circles and recite Qur’an together - Pray Salat al-Duha (The Morning Prayer) - Eat breakfast together

7/31/2016 4:05:00 PM -04:00

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Ramadan Reunion: An evening with Imam Suhaib Webb and Shaykh Yasir Fahmy

7/3/2016 7:00:00 PM -04:00

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TeamFajr is an experience that is designed to transform the way we understand the spiritual practice of the morning prayer. Join your community as we pray together to Allah in the early morning hours, practice important remembrances (adhkar), recite the Holy Qur’an in small men and women circles, and finish with a communal breakfast. TeamFajr Experience: - Pray Salat al-Fajr together - Listen to a khatira (Reminder) given by one of our teachers. - Recite the Remembrances (Adkhar) – Ma’athurat - Divide up into Qur’an Circles and recite Qur’an together - Pray Salat al-Duha (The Morning Prayer) - Eat breakfast together

2/28/2016 5:20:00 AM -05:00

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10/22/2015 7:00:00 PM -04:00

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Shaykh Umar Faruq Abd-Allah at The ISBCC!

Pre-modern cultures and civilizations were generally beautiful. This is especially but not uniquely true of pre-modern Islamic cultures and civilizations -- their visual arts, architecture, clothing, rugs, and other artifacts. On the other hand, modern cultures and civilizations struggle with the problem of ugliness. On occasion, ugliness becomes the norm. It is "real." Beauty is valued, but it is exotic and not normative. If you are fortunate, you go to a "beautiful" setting for vacation, but then have to return to the monotony, dullness, and ugliness of the world we live in. The one-day course, "Beauty, the Splendor of Truth: Timeless Universals and Time-Bound Modernisms" investigates this matter. In many traditional societies, it was believed that there is an intrinsic relation between God, truth, virtue (inward beauty), and outward beauty. In the modern world, by contrast, we often feel as though our understanding of reality vacillates between this objectivity of truth as understood by traditional peoples across the world for millennia, and the subjectivity of the self under the influence of the moral relativism of modernity. Meanwhile, beauty, virtue -- even truth itself -- hang in the imbalance. The individualistic and materialistic predispositions of modernity permeate our approach to art, architecture, music, culture, and economics. More gravely yet, it affects how the modern individual interprets himself. Modern man fulfills his purpose more faithfully the more he can paint the sacred with the colors of profanity, until the distinction between the two are sufficiently blurred as to strip both of any meaning. Beauty, however, is an entirely different matter. Though its experience may be subjective, its reality is objective, and it beckons to virtue, for it is the very splendor of truth! Sheikh's Bio: Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah (Wymann-Landgraf) is an American Muslim, born to a Protestant family in Columbus, Nebraska. He grew up in Athens, Georgia, where both of his parents taught at the University of Georgia. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Missouri with dual majors in history and English literature. In his last year there, he won a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and entrance to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to pursue a Ph.D. program in English literature. Shortly after coming to Cornell, Dr. Abd-Allah read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which inspired him to embrace Islam. He subsequently altered his field of study and transferred to the University of Chicago, where he studied Arabic and Islamic studies and received his doctorate with honors for a dissertation on the origins of Islamic law, “Malik's Concept of ‘Amal in the Light of Maliki Legal Theory.” He taught at the University of Windsor (Ontario), Temple University, and the University of Michigan. He then went to Spain to teach Arabic in Granada. Two years later, he was appointed to the Department of Islamic Studies at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah, where he taught Islamic studies and comparative religions for several years. During the time he spent in Jeddah, Dr. Abd-Allah was able to study with a number of traditional scholars. He then returned to the United States in 2000 under the auspices of the Nawawi Foundation (Chicago). He taught Islamic Studies at Darul Qasim Institute (Chicago) from 2012 to 2013. He is currently engaged in independent research, writing, and teaching activities with institutions across the United States, Europe, and Africa with a focus on Islamic theology. Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah has authored: A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) Malik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period (Leiden: Brill, 2013) His published articles include: “Abu Hanifa,” in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1:295-301. “Theological Dimensions of Islamic Law,” in The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). “One God, Many Names” “Islam and the Cultural Imperative” “Living Islam with Purpose”

10/10/2015 10:00:00 AM -04:00

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