Imam Feisal spoke with Kate Bolduan on CNN's This Hour about President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East and his speech to the Muslim world. Watch the video by clicking on the image below. OR CLICK HERE TO LAUNCH THE VIDEO ...
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 ...
Op-Ed by Imam Feisal: Let Our Image of God Unite Us
In this op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Imam Feisal encourages us to expand our faithfulness in God beyond the "local"—to see the connections that exist between ourselves and other people of different communities, beliefs, and cultures and let our common love of God unite us. We are caught now on a divide between self-affirmation and affirmation of those different from us. Is my ultimate address Philadelphia or the mind of God? Are my neighbors only other Muslims or all created in ...
Cordoba House Stands with the Jewish Community
"A Hebrew prayer sometimes recited in Jewish cemeteries is the El Maleh Rahamim, which means 'God full of compassion.' It invokes the images of divine wings, spread protectively over the soul of the deceased. May we find our common humanity under the loving protection of God." - Imam Feisal Cordoba House Stands in Solidarity with Our Jewish Friends Our hearts break over the antisemitic acts recently reported in the national news. We learn of yet another wave of bomb threats against ...
