We enter Ramadan reflecting on the tragic loss of life in Manchester. We pray for the souls of the victims, for the recovery of survivors, and for strength of heart for all the families affected. There is small comfort in efforts to understand the terrorist mind, but perhaps some hope for the future lies there. The evils we understand we can perhaps avert. In a recent op-ed piece for the New York Times, columnist David Brooks used an illuminating word: alienation. Under the title for his ...
A Ramadan Prayer from Cordoba House
Imam Feisal on CNN: President Trump’s Speech to the Muslim World
Making Urban Sacred: Imam Feisal at UPenn
Imam Feisal took part in an interreligious panel as part of the Boardman Public Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania on April 20, 2017. The panel also included Venerable Rath Muni, Buddhist monk, Wat Preah Rangsey; A. Robert Jaegar, President of Partners for Sacred Places; and Sophia Rabliauskas, indigenous cultural sovereignty activist. The theme of the conversation was "Making Urban Sacred: Religion, Migration, and Contested spaces in the City." Event Media Press In advance of ...
Cordoba House Isra Mi’raj 2017
On Sunday April 23, 2017, the children of Cordoba House Sunday School commemorated the Isra and Mi'raj (or the night journey of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) from Mecca to Jerusalem) through a production demonstrating the deep mystical significance of the occasion. The children narrated and enacted the angels in various levels of the heavens standing, bowing, and prostrating to God. These movements came to be known as Salah, or the five times daily prayers, that Muslims perform today. The students ...
