Dear Trump Supporter, I am not afraid of you. I know you are good and kind. You brush your children’s teeth before bed and eat oatmeal for breakfast. You shop online and binge watch television when you’ve had a tough day. I do those things, too. Martin Luther King’s words, “People fail to get along […]
The Rabata Ride: A Narrative Poem By Anse Tamara Gray September 2016 In the year of our Lord two thousand and twelve I moved from Damascus without suitcase or helve I left breezes of cardamom, coffee and shrapnel And expected to arrive to something substantial (I once hurried along back streets in the heat To
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Sifting through the Mixed Messages: Gender Bias in Islamic Studies Curriculum Materials Tamara L. Gray University of St. Thomas & Rabata Inc Sifting through the Mixed Messages: Gender Bias in Islamic Studies Curriculum Materials Numerous full time Islamic schools and a plethora of weekend Islamic schools educate millions of Muslim children around the world. Moral
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Hatred, evil, anger and fear; war, bombing, terrorism, and death; sometimes it feels overwhelming. But Thanksgiving brings our thoughts to thankfulness and gratitude, reminding us that God is greater than all of this evil. Join us at Rabata as we lift our voices in a Latifiyya (say Ya Latif – call upon the gentle, subtle,
Listen Up America! In a little house in Amsterdam seven people huddled. They were afraid for their lives and indeed only one will survive. Anne Frank’s Jewish family was hiding from the Christian Nazis who hated them. They tried to get away. They applied for emigration status to both England and the United States of
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To God we belong and it is to Him that we return… The blessed upbringer and expert legal scholar, al-Hajja Duriyya al-‘Ayta has transferred on to the mercy of her Lord today. “If a scholar dies a gash opens up in Islam, and nothing will close it until the day of judgement.” We cannot console
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October 9th, 2015 It is not often that we are blessed with beautiful examples of what it means to be good. Coach Salah Abdul-Razacq was one of those examples. I visited Ustadha Zaynab Ansari and Abu Salah, as his wife lovingly and respectfully referred to him, in their home last year. I was struck by
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I often wonder what might have been written about the Prophet ﷺ if he had visited Japan, Europe, or the indigenous peoples of the American continents. We know, for example, that the Prophet ﷺ ate in the most beautiful way: clean, tidy and in the custom of the Arabs. He ate with his hands. If
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Today I sit at the mosque here in Minnesota and on my right are two American convert friends, on my left an elderly Somali woman, in front of me a Pakistani woman; down a little further are some Asian women, perhaps Malaysian or Indonesian; and the room is salt and peppered with Egyptians and women
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