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SUMMARY:Annual Eid Toy Drive for Zakat-Eligible Families
DESCRIPTION:Please help us spread cheer to families in need during this blessed time by donating new unwrapped gifts (in person or online) to the MCC Girl Scouts’ 6th Annual Toy Drive. \n\n\n\nThis year\, we are collecting over 650 toys for local zakat-eligible families\, including many refugee families assisted by MCC East Bay.  \n\n\n\nHelp us ensure every child receives a gift in time for Eid by making donations or dropping off your gifts on March 1 – 25.  This gives us time to sort and pack individualized gifts appropriate for each family.  \n\n\n\nThere are four ways to bring a smile to a child’s face this Eid: \n\n\n\n\n– Ship to MCC via our Amazon wish list at https://mcceastbay.org/wishlist. Please use this list as a guide for the types/numbers of toys requested. We encourage you to shop elsewhere when possible and to boycott brands like Walmart and Fisher-Price.\n\n\n\n– Donate using Cheddar Up (secure link) or drop off cash/checks (made out to “Girl Scouts”) marked “Toy Drive” or gift cards to the MCC office.* These can be handed to Aminah on Fridays (9 am – 4 pm).\n\n\n\n– Drop off toys at MCC (bins are located in the lobby) (MCC doors are open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily) or Northstar School.\n\n\n\n– Ship toys/gift cards from any online retailer to: MCC Girl Scouts\, 5724 W. Las Positas Blvd.\, #300\, Pleasanton\, CA 94588\n\n\n\n\nPlease avoid: \n\n\n\n\n– Electronics or electronic accessories requiring children to have access to a particular device\n\n\n\n– Previously used items\n\n\n\n– Clothing\n\n\n\n– Dollar store or similar quality toys\n\n\n\n– Toys of a violent nature (guns\, swords\, etc.)\n\n\n\n– Toys that may be construed as having an inappropriate nature\n\n\n\n– Makeup\, nail polish\, ‘tattoos’\n\n\n\n\nRemember that we hope to share gifts these children may not typically have access to. If you donate a toy that needs batteries\, please attach a set. \n\n\n\nWe are grateful to all our interfaith community partners for their support\, year after year. \n\n\n\n\n\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n\n\n\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n\n\n\n*MCC Girl Scouts will use funds collected to purchase toys or wrapping supplies for the drive.  Any extra funds received will be used for school supplies for the same group of children for the next school year. \n\n\n\nQuestions for Girl Scouts Troops 30875 and 32705? girl-scouts@mcceastbay.org
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/annual-eid-toy-drive/
CATEGORIES:Charity & Community Service
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SUMMARY:Al Ghazali for Children | Sr. Aisha Gray Henry
DESCRIPTION:For children ages 5 to 12: Children’s Author Aisha Gray Henry\, the charismatic founder of the Ghazali’s Children Project\, talks to our children about the timeless teachings of Al-Ghazali in this four-part Ramadan workshop series.  \n\n\n\nThis Ramadan\, children will be read a story from the Al-Ghazali series (book 24)\, which talks about fasting of the tongue\, what we say\, and what we listen to. \n\n\n\nMondays | 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. PST | Free | Register at mcceastbay.org/ghazali-workshop \n\n\n\nMonday\, March 11Monday\, March 18Monday\, March 25Monday\, April 1 \n\n\n\nSponsored by Fons Vitae and MCC East Bay. \n\n\n\n\nMore Sister Virginia Gray Henry: https://mcceastbay.org/aisha\n\n\n\n\nParents are encouraged to join their children. Children of any age may join. The sessions are especially recommended for children 5 to 12. Sr. Aisha also highly encourages parents to have “The Book of Knowledge for Children” on hand during these sessions. Purchase the series here. \n\n\n\nShaykh Hamza Yusuf says about this book: “This work can help our Muslim children have a more humane and universal understanding of the ethics and teachings of Islam through Imam al-Ghazali. I believe the work is highly relevant and very likely life-altering for those who will be exposed to it early.” \n\n\n\n\nWatch Sister Aisha’s visit to the MCC Sunday School here.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nAisha Gray-Henry is the Founder and Director of the charitable foundation and publishing company Fons Vitae. Fons Vitae is currently engaged in the monumental task of bringing out Ghazali’s Ihya in readable English for parents and teachers and adapting it to accommodate children’s workbooks\, school curricula\, and an instructional DVD. The Book of Knowledge and The Principles of the Creed educational sets are available and used internationally\, with Purity and Prayer nearing completion. Included is a children’s interactive website\, HTTP://GhazaliChildren.org\, a pilot school project\, and a prison program. Translations into Urdu\, Arabic\, and Malay are underway. The Fons Vitae Ghazali Project has been launched with great acclaim in Morocco\, Canada\, Indonesia\, England\, and the USA. \n\n\n\nWho is Al Ghazali?\n\n\n\nAn alchemist is a person who can create gold from base metals. It is a quest as old as legend. The truth is that alchemy exists\, but not of base metals\, but of the human heart. \n\n\n\nImam al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE) is probably one of the greatest alchemists ever. And in an epoch where the human condition is in its direst straits\, never more has there been a need for the chemistry of Imam al-Ghazali. \n\n\n\nA theologian\, jurist\, philosopher\, mystic\, and polymath\, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali is not only ranked amongst Islam’s finest scholars but is one of mankind’s finest students of the human condition. Known as Algazel to the medieval world\, he was born in Tus\, the Khorasan province of ancient Persia. \n\n\n\nWhen he had the academic world at his feet in his early thirties\, he spurned fame and fortune to go into a mode of self-denial and spiritual seclusion that lasted for many years. \n\n\n\nAlready an acknowledged master of Holy Law\, he re-entered society as a practiced Sufi – a true gnostic. A genius\, Imam al-Ghazali was fully proficient in Greek and Roman philosophy\, and he debunked its central tenets\, proving that Revelation was always going to be superior to human reason. Human thinking could never evolve\, he wrote\, in an existential vacuum. \n\n\n\nAll this prompted him to write his magnum opus\, the Ihya ‘Ulumad-Din (the Revival of the Religious Sciences). Today\, it is regarded as one of the classic works on the human psyche. In the Ihya the author explains how to turn one’s base instincts and desires into the golden ideal. \n\n\n\nToday’s modern world – devolved of spirituality and fraught with destructive ills such as materialism\, multi-national greed\, and violence – needs people like Imam al-Ghazali. This is because Imam al-Ghazali teaches a way to balance the body and soul\, thus allowing us to reconcile modernity with spirituality in its broadest and most universal sense. (Source: Dome Publishers) \n\n\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/lessons-for-children/2024-03-11/
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SUMMARY:Nightly Taraweeh Prayers
DESCRIPTION:Based on moonsighting on the evening of Sunday\, March 10\, the first night of Taraweeh prayers at MCC will begin at 9 p.m. on Monday\, March 11. \n\n\n\nIn Ramadan 2024\, Qari Amar Bellaha will recite regular 20 rakats (cycles) at MCC’s nightly indoor Taraweeh\, which will begin after Isha at 9 p.m. (first week)\, and 9:15 p.m. (remaining three weeks). The Taraweeh prayers are also broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube. \n\n\n\nQari Amar will follow this recitation schedule: https://mcceastbay.org/schedule \n\n\n\nThe Tarawih prayers are held indoors\, and there is no social distancing in the prayer hall. Social distancing worship spaces in Banquet Hall & Parent-Child Prayer Hall (women) & Conference Room (men). \n\n\n\nAfter Asr each day\, Qari Amar will also virtually recite one chapter online in his sonorous voice.  The daily recitation (schedule) is broadcast from 6:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. on MCC’s Facebook and YouTube. \n\n\n\n\n– Past Ramadan ’24 Taraweeh live streams: https://mcceastbay.org/taraweeh\n\n\n\n– Qur’anic Recitation playlist: https://mcceastbay.org/tarwih\n\n\n\n– Qari Amar’s daily Taraweeh recitation schedule: https://mcceastbay.org/recitation\n\n\n\n– More Qari Amar: https://mcceastbay.org/amar\n\n\n\n– Qari Amar reciting Juz’ Ama 30 (the final chapter of the Qur’an): https://mcceastbay.org/juz-ama\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org \n\n\n\nFor Jumu’ah\, Iftars\, and Taraweeh prayer\, worshippers may park in our neighbor Hewlett Packard’s parking lot (now the Pleasanton School District). The MCC parking security team will stand watch during the prayers each night and direct motorists.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/nightly-taraweeh-prayers-2/
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SUMMARY:Special Needs Prayer Room During Taraweeh
DESCRIPTION:For our beloved special-needs families! \n\n\n\nWe want you to enjoy Ramadan just like everyone else. Alhamdulillah\, this year\, during the daily Taraweeh prayers\, MCC is providing a prayer room (Room 16) just for special needs children and adults. We will also live-stream the Taraweeh prayers in the room for everyone. We are not providing respite care at the moment.Daily | 9:15 p.m. to 11 p.m. | Classroom 16 | RSVP by emailing help@mcceastbay.org
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/special-needs-taraweeh/
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