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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
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SUMMARY:Women's Qiyam & Suhoor | The Rahmah Foundation
DESCRIPTION:Join our esteemed panel of speakers for a night of prayer\, remembrance\, and reminders starting after the Taraweeh prayer (11 p.m.). This year\, distinguished speakers will be Anse Sawsan Imady\, Ustadha Halima Afi\, Hafidha Husna Sabeer\, Ustadha Shamira Chothia Ahmed\, Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi and Dr. Rania Awaad. \n\n\n\n11:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. | Friday\, March 29 – Saturday\, March 30 | Prayer Hall | Free; girls and women ages 14+ | Suhoor provided at about 4 a.m. | Register for in-person at mcceastbay.org/womens-qiyam | To join online\, register at tinyurl.com/FridayRahmahHalaqa2 \n\n\n\nCosponsored with The Rahmah Foundation. For female teens and women only. No babysitting is provided. Space is limited. Please do not bring children.  \n\n\n\n\n– More The Rahmah Foundation at the MCC: https://mcceastbay.org/rahmah-foundation\n\n\n\n– More Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad: https://mcceastbay.org/rania\n\n\n\n– More sessions for Muslim women: https://mcceastbay.org/women\n\n\n\n– More Dr. Rania’s Friday Evening Halaqas: https://mcceastbay.org/womens-halaqa\n\n\n\n\nQiyam Ul-Layl translates to “standing during the night”. And in the Islamic Tradition\, the Prophet Muhammad PBUH said\, “The best prayer after the obligatory prayers is the night prayer.” (Sahih Muslim) \n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\nAnse Sawsan Imady \n\n\n\nUstadha Anse is the author of the forthcoming “Raising a Spiritual Child” manual and a leading scholar. We were honored to host a scholar of her caliber at our community center. Ustadha Anse Sawsan Imady is also a teacher to our own Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad. Ustadha Anse inspired the Young Muslimah Mentorship program Dr. Rania inaugurated at MCC through The Rahmah Foundation. \n\n\n\nUstadha Rania Awaad \n\n\n\nDr. Rania Awaad\, M.D.\, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Muslim Mental Health Lab and Wellness Program and the Director of the Diversity Clinic. She pursued her psychiatric residency training at Stanford and completed a postdoctoral clinical research fellowship with the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Her research and clinical work are focused on the mental health needs of Muslims. Her courses at Stanford range from teaching a pioneering study on Islamic Psychology\, instructing medical students and residents on implicit bias\, and integrating culture and religion into medical care to teaching undergraduate and graduate students the psychology of xenophobia. Her most recent academic publications include an edited volume on “Islamophobia and Psychiatry” (Springer\, 2019)\, Islamic Psychology (Routledge\, 2020)\, and an upcoming text on Muslim Mental Health. She has also produced a toolkit\, fact sheet\, CME course and is now editing a clinical textbook on Muslim mental health for the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Awaad is particularly passionate about uncovering the historical roots of mental health care in the Islamic intellectual heritage. Through her outreach work at Stanford\, she is also the Clinical Director of the San Francisco Bay Area branches of the Khalil Center\, a spiritual wellness center pioneering the application of traditional Islamic spiritual healing methods to modern clinical psychology. She has been the recipient of several awards and grants for her work. Before studying medicine\, she pursued classical Islamic studies in Damascus\, Syria\, and held certifications (ijaza) in the Qur’an\, Islamic Law\, and other Islamic science branches. Dr. Awaad has also served as the first female Professor of Islamic Law at Zaytuna College\, a Muslim Liberal Arts College in Berkeley\, CA\, where she taught courses on Shafi’i Fiqh and Women’s Fiqh and Qur’anic sciences for nearly a decade. In addition\, she serves as the Director of The Rahmah Foundation\, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating Muslim women and girls. At Rahmah\, she oversees the Murbiyyah spiritual mentoring program for girls. Dr. Awaad is a nationally recognized speaker\, award-winning teacher\, researcher\, and author in the Islamic and medical sciences. Follow her on I/T: Dr.RaniaAwaad \n\n\n\n– More from Dr. Rania: https://mcceastbay.org/rania \n\n\n\nUstadha Shamira Chothia Ahmed \n\n\n\nBorn and raised in California’s Central Valley\, Shamira is passionate about educating and empowering Muslim women to reach their highest spiritual potential through acquiring sacred knowledge.  \n\n\n\nAfter graduating as a Valedictorian from her large public high school\, Shamira’s studies led her — following a brief soul-searching stint at Georgetown University — to seek sacred knowledge from scholars on three continents — Africa\, Europe\, and Asia. \n\n\n\nAfter completing her intensive Alimah studies in South Africa and England and further studies in Damascus\, Syria\, Shamira received various licenses (ijazas) to teach the sacred sciences. \n\n\n\nIn 2005\, Ustadha Shamira taught Hanafi fiqh to women at the Zaytuna Institute in California and\, since then\, has led various Islamic sciences in venues across North America. In 2008\, she earned a Master’s Degree in Demographics and Social Analysis from the University of California at Irvine\, focusing on the identity formation of the Muslim-American population. \n\n\n\nIn 2013\, Ustadha Shamira specialized in the detailed rulings of menstruation\, lochia\, and abnormal discharge under Dr. Mufti Abdur Rahman Ibn Yusuf Mangera’s direction and assisted in compiling Imam Abu Hanifa’s Al-Fiqh al-Akbar Explained. \n\n\n\nIn 2008\, she earned a Master’s Degree in Demographics and Social Analysis from the University of California at Irvine \n\n\n\nUstadha Shamira is a co-founder of The Rahmah Foundation and is currently a teacher for Nur Al-Iman\, a full-time online shariah program teaching the fardh Al ayn and more to young women.  \n\n\n\nShe has passionately advocated for a natural birth\, infusing her natural birth classes with Islamic spirituality since 2009. She is also a certified lactation counselor\, a virtual birth doula\, and a birth consultant. \n\n\n\nYou can find Ustadha Shamira hiking\, playing\, or exploring with her husband and five children in sunny California. \n\n\n\nUstadha Hosai Mojaddidi \n\n\n\nUstadha Hosai Mojaddidi was born in Afghanistan and moved to the United States with her family at age two. She credits her Islamic journey to 1996\, when she began attending Islamic classes in Hayward\, California. Since then\, her teacher and mentor has been Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.  \n\n\n\nOne of her main areas of focus is to help create a strong sisterhood for women in the community by leading halaqas (spiritual study circles) and support groups while offering individual spiritual counseling and mentoring. She noted that many of the spiritual problems encountered were actually reflective of the deep and complicated mental health issues of the community and would be better served by focusing on mental health. Thus\, along with her cousin Dr. Nafisa Sekandari\, they co-founded a website called Mental Health 4 Muslims (www.mentalhealth4muslims.com).  \n\n\n\nUstadha Hosai is also a freelance writer and editor and lectures on various Islamic/spiritual topics.  \n\n\n\n– More Ustadha Hosai: http://mcceastbay.org/hosai \n\n\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org
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