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SUMMARY:Women’s Seerah Bookclub (in-person & virtual) | Ustadha Leila Fakira
DESCRIPTION:Join our weekly sisters’ in-person & virtual Seerah book club\, where we have active discussions\, take away lessons for our daily lives\, and\, inshaAllah\, fall in love with the Prophet ﷺ. This year\, we are reading Hayatus Sahabah: The Lives of the Sahabah by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhelwi. \n\n\n\nEvery Monday\, in-person & virtual | 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Room 9 | Women only | RSVP for the live registration link at https://mcceastbay.org/bookclub | RSVP is needed to join us virtually \n\n\n\nEvent Details: \n\n\n\nThe in-person & virtual discussion takes place every Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a break in Ramadan ’27. \n\n\n\nPlease register online to receive the link to the WhatsApp thread where all communication and updates will be made. \n\n\n\nBook Purchase: \n\n\n\nIf you wish to follow along with the book\, please purchase the book. The book can be purchased here: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://a.co/d/0hoPIA1H\n\nFor those local to the Bay Area: \n\nRumi Bookstore\n\nQuestions? bookclub@mcceastbay.org \n\n  \n\nAbout the Book \nHayatus Sahabah (Lives of the Companions) is a comprehensive\, multi-volume masterpiece written by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi (r.a.) that meticulously documents the lives\, struggles\, and virtues of the Sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad). It is highly regarded as an authentic collection (over 2000+ pages)\, often available in a 3-volume English or Arabic set\, showcasing their devotion\, Da’wah efforts\, and training.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/womens-seerah-bookclub/2026-06-01/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes & Activities,Sisters Program,Women's Activities
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SUMMARY:Women’s Seerah Bookclub (in-person & virtual) | Ustadha Leila Fakira
DESCRIPTION:Join our weekly sisters’ in-person & virtual Seerah book club\, where we have active discussions\, take away lessons for our daily lives\, and\, inshaAllah\, fall in love with the Prophet ﷺ. This year\, we are reading Hayatus Sahabah: The Lives of the Sahabah by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhelwi. \n\n\n\nEvery Monday\, in-person & virtual | 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Room 9 | Women only | RSVP for the live registration link at https://mcceastbay.org/bookclub | RSVP is needed to join us virtually \n\n\n\nEvent Details: \n\n\n\nThe in-person & virtual discussion takes place every Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a break in Ramadan ’27. \n\n\n\nPlease register online to receive the link to the WhatsApp thread where all communication and updates will be made. \n\n\n\nBook Purchase: \n\n\n\nIf you wish to follow along with the book\, please purchase the book. The book can be purchased here: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://a.co/d/0hoPIA1H\n\nFor those local to the Bay Area: \n\nRumi Bookstore\n\nQuestions? bookclub@mcceastbay.org \n\n  \n\nAbout the Book \nHayatus Sahabah (Lives of the Companions) is a comprehensive\, multi-volume masterpiece written by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi (r.a.) that meticulously documents the lives\, struggles\, and virtues of the Sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad). It is highly regarded as an authentic collection (over 2000+ pages)\, often available in a 3-volume English or Arabic set\, showcasing their devotion\, Da’wah efforts\, and training.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/womens-seerah-bookclub/2026-06-08/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes & Activities,Sisters Program,Women's Activities
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SUMMARY:Blessed Birthings: The Spirituality & Fiqh  of Pregnancy\, Labor & After-Birth
DESCRIPTION:Join a female scholar\, certified birth doula\, and childbirth educator for this full-day Saturday workshop to learn Islamic insights on the spirituality and fiqh of pregnancy\, labor\, and after birth. \nNo matter where you plan to give birth—at home\, a birth center\, or a hospital—this mini-course is an invaluable tool for helping you connect with your Creator through the unique and empowering experience of carrying and birthing your beautiful baby. \nThis course is open to all women 16 years+\, pregnant\, or those who just want to learn more about this incredible journey of pregnancy and beyond. \n11 a.m. to 3 p.m. PST (prayer & lunch break in between) | Saturday\, June 13 | **$35/in-person & $25/online ($13 lunch option)| In-person or virtually (highly recommended to attend in person) | Women & Teens Ages 16+ only | Register at mcceastbay.org/blessed \n**Early-bird discount till May 31. After that\, tickets will be $45 for in-person & $35 for online. \nAll sisters who register online will receive a private live stream link to view the event virtually if they cannot attend in person. The unlisted link will be retained indefinitely for later viewing. \nAttending the workshop in person is highly recommended\, as we will have interactive\, educational demos. You don’t want to miss the in-person class if you’re local! Please note that no babysitting is provided. \nPlease note that no babysitting is provided. \nWe will take a break for Dhur and lunch at 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided to those who have pre-purchased it. Please bring your own water bottles and comfortable pillows/props if needed! \nUstadha Shamira Chothia Ahmed\, MA\, CBD\, CLEC\, is a certified birth doula\, certified lactation counselor\, childbirth educator\, midwifery student\, and mother of five. \nThe class will cover: \n\n\nIslamic birth model based on the Quran: to empower you in your own birth journey \n\n\nBrief Overview of Labor and Birth: Become knowledgeable about your body and the birth process to increase your confidence that your body was created for birth! \n\n\nLabor Relaxation/Breathing Techniques & Exercises: Including a powerful dhikr tool to connect with your Lord ﷻ and make your birth an elevated\, spiritually empowering experience \n\n\nHanafi Fiqh Rulings: Pregnancy\, Labor\, and Post-Partum\, including intimacy rulings and practical applications \n\n\nSunnahs of the newborn: what to do immediately in the postpartum and as your baby grows \n\n\nBest gift to baby: Love languages \n\n\nAnd more! \n\n\nYou can do it. Your body can do it. It is sacred. It is birth. \n“The instructor was great mA! Very helpful and enthusiastic\, also very inspirational. I’ve never studied birth like this!” -Blessed Birthings’ Attendee \nGet ready to learn\, share\, be inspired\, and have fun! \nMCC has a standing policy that financial need should not hold a person back from attaining spiritual knowledge offered at the community center. For a financial waiver\, please complete this form: http://mcceastbay.org/scholarship \nSponsored by Her Sacred Path\, The Rahmah Foundation & MCC East Bay \nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org \n\n\n– More sessions for Muslimahs: http://mcceastbay.org/women \n\n\n– More talks in conjunction with The Rahmah Foundation: http://mcceastbay.org/rahmah-foundation \n\n\nAbout the Teacher: \nUstadha Shamira Chothia Ahmed \nBorn and raised in California’s Central Valley\, Ustadha Shamira is passionate about educating and empowering Muslim women to reach their highest spiritual potential through acquiring sacred knowledge. Having graduated as valedictorian from a large public high school\, her 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. \nUstadha Shamira began her journey in seeking sacred knowledge at the women’s Dar-ul-Uloom Mu’eenal Islam seminary in South Africa\, and completed the five-year intensive ‘alima program at Ja’mia Al-Imam Muhammad Zakariyya\, one of Britain’s first and most renowned Islamic universities for women. Thereafter\, she continued her Arabic and Qur’anic studies in Damascus\, Syria\, where she obtained an ijāzah in Tajwīd of the Ḥafṣ recitation from the late eminent Syrian scholar Shaykh Ḥasan al-Kurdī. \nIn 2005\, Ustadha Shamira taught Hanafi fiqh for women at the Zaytuna Institute in California and has since taught 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. \nIn 2013\, Ustadha Shamira specialized in the detailed rulings of menstruation\, lochia\, and abnormal discharge under the direction of Mufti Abdur Rahman Ibn Yusuf Mangera and assisted in compiling Imam Abu Hanifa’s Al-Fiqh al-Akbar Explained. \nAs a wife and mother of five children\, Ustadha Shamira has a passion to empower women in their child bearing years to gain closeness to their Lord. As a certified birth doula and lactation educator\, she infuses her classes with Islamic spirituality and offers birth consultations and virtual doula services to Muslim women. \nUstadha Shamira is a co-founder of the Rahmah Foundation and currently teaches for Nur al-Iman\, a full-time girls’ shariah program with Ustadha Mona Elzankaly based in the Bay Area. \n****** \nTestimonials \nThis was such an amazing class and I am grateful Allah SWT guided me toward it… I have left this class feeling so inspired.. this course gave me so much hope and reminded me of how compassionate and merciful Allah SWT is. I pray others benefit from this course as much as I did. -FS \nI am a doula and childbirth educator and mother of three. I have appreciated sister Shamira’s class a lot\, she has embedded this beautiful topic very well into our Islamic beliefs\, with professional knowledge and skillful presentation\, Mashallah. JazakAllahu khairan -Livia \n“This [class] is a MUST for every Muslim woman…”
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/blessed-birthings-5/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes & Activities,Sisters Program,Women's Activities
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SUMMARY:Women’s Seerah Bookclub (in-person & virtual) | Ustadha Leila Fakira
DESCRIPTION:Join our weekly sisters’ in-person & virtual Seerah book club\, where we have active discussions\, take away lessons for our daily lives\, and\, inshaAllah\, fall in love with the Prophet ﷺ. This year\, we are reading Hayatus Sahabah: The Lives of the Sahabah by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhelwi. \n\n\n\nEvery Monday\, in-person & virtual | 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Room 9 | Women only | RSVP for the live registration link at https://mcceastbay.org/bookclub | RSVP is needed to join us virtually \n\n\n\nEvent Details: \n\n\n\nThe in-person & virtual discussion takes place every Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a break in Ramadan ’27. \n\n\n\nPlease register online to receive the link to the WhatsApp thread where all communication and updates will be made. \n\n\n\nBook Purchase: \n\n\n\nIf you wish to follow along with the book\, please purchase the book. The book can be purchased here: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://a.co/d/0hoPIA1H\n\nFor those local to the Bay Area: \n\nRumi Bookstore\n\nQuestions? bookclub@mcceastbay.org \n\n  \n\nAbout the Book \nHayatus Sahabah (Lives of the Companions) is a comprehensive\, multi-volume masterpiece written by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi (r.a.) that meticulously documents the lives\, struggles\, and virtues of the Sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad). It is highly regarded as an authentic collection (over 2000+ pages)\, often available in a 3-volume English or Arabic set\, showcasing their devotion\, Da’wah efforts\, and training.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/womens-seerah-bookclub/2026-06-15/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes & Activities,Sisters Program,Women's Activities
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SUMMARY:Women’s Seerah Bookclub (in-person & virtual) | Ustadha Leila Fakira
DESCRIPTION:Join our weekly sisters’ in-person & virtual Seerah book club\, where we have active discussions\, take away lessons for our daily lives\, and\, inshaAllah\, fall in love with the Prophet ﷺ. This year\, we are reading Hayatus Sahabah: The Lives of the Sahabah by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhelwi. \n\n\n\nEvery Monday\, in-person & virtual | 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Room 9 | Women only | RSVP for the live registration link at https://mcceastbay.org/bookclub | RSVP is needed to join us virtually \n\n\n\nEvent Details: \n\n\n\nThe in-person & virtual discussion takes place every Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a break in Ramadan ’27. \n\n\n\nPlease register online to receive the link to the WhatsApp thread where all communication and updates will be made. \n\n\n\nBook Purchase: \n\n\n\nIf you wish to follow along with the book\, please purchase the book. The book can be purchased here: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://a.co/d/0hoPIA1H\n\nFor those local to the Bay Area: \n\nRumi Bookstore\n\nQuestions? bookclub@mcceastbay.org \n\n  \n\nAbout the Book \nHayatus Sahabah (Lives of the Companions) is a comprehensive\, multi-volume masterpiece written by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi (r.a.) that meticulously documents the lives\, struggles\, and virtues of the Sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad). It is highly regarded as an authentic collection (over 2000+ pages)\, often available in a 3-volume English or Arabic set\, showcasing their devotion\, Da’wah efforts\, and training.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/womens-seerah-bookclub/2026-06-22/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes & Activities,Sisters Program,Women's Activities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260629T110000
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SUMMARY:Women’s Seerah Bookclub (in-person & virtual) | Ustadha Leila Fakira
DESCRIPTION:Join our weekly sisters’ in-person & virtual Seerah book club\, where we have active discussions\, take away lessons for our daily lives\, and\, inshaAllah\, fall in love with the Prophet ﷺ. This year\, we are reading Hayatus Sahabah: The Lives of the Sahabah by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhelwi. \n\n\n\nEvery Monday\, in-person & virtual | 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Room 9 | Women only | RSVP for the live registration link at https://mcceastbay.org/bookclub | RSVP is needed to join us virtually \n\n\n\nEvent Details: \n\n\n\nThe in-person & virtual discussion takes place every Monday from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with a break in Ramadan ’27. \n\n\n\nPlease register online to receive the link to the WhatsApp thread where all communication and updates will be made. \n\n\n\nBook Purchase: \n\n\n\nIf you wish to follow along with the book\, please purchase the book. The book can be purchased here: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://a.co/d/0hoPIA1H\n\nFor those local to the Bay Area: \n\nRumi Bookstore\n\nQuestions? bookclub@mcceastbay.org \n\n  \n\nAbout the Book \nHayatus Sahabah (Lives of the Companions) is a comprehensive\, multi-volume masterpiece written by Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Kandhlawi (r.a.) that meticulously documents the lives\, struggles\, and virtues of the Sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad). It is highly regarded as an authentic collection (over 2000+ pages)\, often available in a 3-volume English or Arabic set\, showcasing their devotion\, Da’wah efforts\, and training.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/womens-seerah-bookclub/2026-06-29/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes & Activities,Sisters Program,Women's Activities
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