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SUMMARY:Muslim Appreciation Virtual Proclamation | San Ramon City Council
DESCRIPTION:At 7 p.m. on Tuesday\, Sept. 14\, the San Ramon City Council joins communities throughout the State of California in recognizing the month of August 2021 as Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month.\nThe event is virtual only. \nThe Proclamation recognizes the amazing contributions of San Ramon Valley Islamic Center (SRVIC) and Tri-Valley Muslims: \n\n\n– Watch the virtual meeting live (link pending): http://sanramonca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=4218\n\n\nThe MCC encourages all congregation members to watch the livestream and express our appreciation. We especially encourage residents who live in San Ramon to attend in person. \n7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Tuesday\, Sept. 14 \nThe Proclamation is the first agenda item so please be on time at 7 p.m. to the meeting. \nThis is the third year the San Ramon City Council has done so. Keep an eye out for Dublin\, Pleasanton\, San Ramon and Livermore City Council virtual proclamations in the coming weeks. \nLast year\, then-Vice Mayor Karla Brown presented the Proclamation\, which acknowledges the rich history and guiding virtues of American Muslims\, and commends Muslim communities in California for the lasting positive impact they have made\, and continue to make\, toward the advancement of the state and the nation. Watch that recording: https://youtu.be/AtAhIyvchpI \nThe San Ramon City Council follows in the steps of other City Councils in the San Francisco Bay Area\, like Pleasanton\, Dublin\, Fremont\, Santa Clara\, Union City\, Oakland\, San Jose\, and Redwood City. \n\nOur gratitude to San Ramon Vice Mayor Sabina Zafar for helping facilitate this Proclamation. \n\nOur gratitude also to Sr. Sameena Usman from CAIR – San Francisco Bay Area. She has been facilitated these Bay Area-wide Proclamations. \nOur gratitude also to Sr. Eman Tai for facilitating the Dublin Proclamation: https://youtu.be/5yLuSj2w-w0 & Pleasanton is at https://youtu.be/ZX_MdpThzek \nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org \n\n\n\nThe Proclamation acknowledges the rich history and guiding virtues of American Muslims\, and commends Muslim communities in California for the lasting positive impact they have made\, and continue to make\, toward the advancement of the state and the nation.\n\n\n\nThe Proclamation recognizes the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center and the San Ramon American Muslim Community for its efforts to provide COVID-19 reliefs assistance and declaring its appreciation for the contributions of American Muslims to the San Ramon community. It is presented by Mayor Hudson to Imad Abboushi\, President of the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center and Nadia Ann Shahab\, Treasurer of the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center. \n\n\n\nThe Proclamation recognizes the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center as fulfilling the spiritual and cultural needs of San Ramon residents\, helping families with food and cash assistance during the COVID-19 crisis and promoting interfaith cooperation by providing an environment for dialogue\, education\, and fellowship. The full text of the proclamation is below.\n\nAmerican Muslim Appreciation Month\nCity of San Ramon\n\n\n\n\nWHEREAS\, Freedom of religion holds distinction as a cherished and essential right and a fundamental value upon which this nation was founded; and  \nWHEREAS\, Muslims have been part of U.S. history from the beginning and have contributed to the production of wealth and construction of the nation; they are also part of the rich history of the civil rights movement; and \nWHEREAS\, Muslims are teachers\, lawyers\, doctors\, social workers\, tech workers\, nurses\, and business owners among numerous other valued professions\, as well as peace builders\, activists\, entrepreneurs\, and politicians; and \nWHEREAS\, there is a thriving community of 250\,000 Muslims in the Bay Area and over 100 mosques and religious centers; and Muslims pursue diverse professions and make rich contributions to the social\, cultural\, and economic vibrancy of the United States\, and have distinguished themselves by fostering greater respect and understanding among all people through faith and services; and  \nWHEREAS\, the shelter-in-place order due to the COVID-19 outbreak forced the temporary closure of Muslim nonprofits\, community centers\, mosques\, schools\, businesses\, and other establishments. Mosques and community organizations have provided online programming and sermons along with small group prayers outside. They have answered the call for help by donating funds\, distributing food\, by sewing masks\, and by serving on the front lines as healthcare and service workers; and they have educated their congregations about social distancing guidelines and practices to keep the community safe; and \nWHEREAS\, the San Ramon Valley Islamic Center (SRVIC) in partnership with Support Life Foundation and 47 other Bay Area mosques and organizations have packed and distributed over 100\,000 lbs. of food staples and masks to at-risk communities in the Bay Area through their “You Are Not Alone” program.  SRVIC has held blood drives with the American Red Cross\, and is one of the largest donors to the “Contra Costa Food Bank” donating $25\,000-30\,000 every year\, in addition to the estimated $150\,000 in donations to community members in need; and \nWHEREAS\, it is appropriate to acknowledge and promote awareness of the myriad of invaluable contributions of Muslims in California and across the country\, and extend to them the respect and camaraderie every person deserves. \nNow\, therefore\, be it resolved\, the City of San Ramon does hereby recognize the California State Designation of August 2021 as Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month (HR 58)  to acknowledge the rich history\, contributions\, and guiding virtues of Muslims and to commend all Muslim communities in California for the lasting positive impact they have made toward the advancement of our city and country. \nCitations:\n1. Senzai \, Farid \, and Hatem Bazian. “The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Identity and Community.” Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. One Nation Bay Area Project\, 01 May 2013. Page 9.\n2.  “SAN RAMON\, Calif. (KRON) — A nonprofit in the East Bay is donating more than 50. “kron4.Com: Bay Area Nonprofit Donates 50K Pounds of Food\, Supplies to at-Risk Communities.” Islamic Relief USA\, 19 May 2020\, irusa.org/bay-area-nonprofit-donates-50k-pounds-of-food-supplies-to-at-risk-communities/.\n3. “SRVIC Blood Drive March 21.” SRVIC\, www.srvic.org/announcement/srvic-blood-drive-march-21/.
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/san-ramon-city-council/
CATEGORIES:Interfaith & Community Outreach
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SUMMARY:Practical Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:Are you feeling stuck in your relationship with Allah? Feeling unsure about how to progress spiritually while balancing the hustle and bustle of life? \nJoin us for a virtual weekly class with Sidi Shahryar Abbasi focused on practical spirituality. Each week\, we discuss a topic to help us traverse the spiritual path and ultimately achieve nearness to Allah (SWT). The topics range from how to make intentions\, devotions and daily duas (supplications)\, easy shortcuts to maximize your rewards\, the importance of good character\, how to balance spirituality as a working professional\, and much\, much more. \nWe will primarily be focusing on the text “The Book of Assistance” by the great Saint and Knower of Allah\, Imam Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al Haddad. \n8 p.m. to 9 p.m. | Wednesdays | Sept. 8 to Summer ’22 (except in Ramadan) | Watch at https://mcceastbay.org/live and watch past series recordings at https://mcceastbay.org/practical \n\n\n\nMore Sidi Shahryar: https://mcceastbay.org/shahryar\nDownload Imam Al-Haddad’s “Book of Assistance”: https://mcceastbay.org/assistance\nDownload Practical Spirituality Resources: https://mcceastbay.org/awraad\nSidi Shahryar’s “Real Talk Series”: https://mcceastbay.org/real-talk\nSidi Shahryar’s “Traits of the Righteous” Series: https://mcceastbay.org/hallmark\nSidi Shahryar’s “Deceptive Desires” Series:  https://mcceastbay.org/desires\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/practical-spirituality/2021-09-15/
LOCATION:Lighthouse Mosque\, 620 42nd Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Workshops
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SUMMARY:Practical Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:Are you feeling stuck in your relationship with Allah? Feeling unsure about how to progress spiritually while balancing the hustle and bustle of life? \nJoin us for a virtual weekly class with Sidi Shahryar Abbasi focused on practical spirituality. Each week\, we discuss a topic to help us traverse the spiritual path and ultimately achieve nearness to Allah (SWT). The topics range from how to make intentions\, devotions and daily duas (supplications)\, easy shortcuts to maximize your rewards\, the importance of good character\, how to balance spirituality as a working professional\, and much\, much more. \nWe will primarily be focusing on the text “The Book of Assistance” by the great Saint and Knower of Allah\, Imam Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al Haddad. \n8 p.m. to 9 p.m. | Wednesdays | Sept. 8 to Summer ’22 (except in Ramadan) | Watch at https://mcceastbay.org/live and watch past series recordings at https://mcceastbay.org/practical \n\n\n\nMore Sidi Shahryar: https://mcceastbay.org/shahryar\nDownload Imam Al-Haddad’s “Book of Assistance”: https://mcceastbay.org/assistance\nDownload Practical Spirituality Resources: https://mcceastbay.org/awraad\nSidi Shahryar’s “Real Talk Series”: https://mcceastbay.org/real-talk\nSidi Shahryar’s “Traits of the Righteous” Series: https://mcceastbay.org/hallmark\nSidi Shahryar’s “Deceptive Desires” Series:  https://mcceastbay.org/desires\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/practical-spirituality/2021-09-15/
LOCATION:Lighthouse Mosque\, 620 42nd Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Workshops
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SUMMARY:MCC Indoor & Outdoor Jumu'ahs
DESCRIPTION:For our Friday\, September 17 Jumu’ah services\, masks are required to attend while inside MCC and no RSVP necessary: \n\n1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. – INDOOR ONLY\n \n\nSidi Mahdy Amine delivers this sermon.\n\nNo parallel outdoor services offered.\nNo social distancing in Prayer Hall (shoulder-to-shoulder). Social distance worship for women in Banquet Hall & men in Conference Room.\nMasks are required.\n\n\n\n\n2:30 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. – OUTDOOR ONLY \n\nSidi Mahdy Amine delivers this sermon.\n\nOutdoor in canopies in the MCC parking lot. No parallel indoor services offered.\nNo social distancing in first canopy near sermon speaker for men and no social distancing for first row for women. All other space is social distancing required.\nMasks are optional.\nPlease check Friday afternoon weather forecast and take precautions against heat.\n\n\n\n\n3:40 p.m. to 4 p.m. – INDOOR ONLY\n\nSidi Ibrahim Qureshi delivers this sermon.\n\nNo parallel outdoor services offered.\nNo social distancing in Prayer Hall (shoulder-to-shoulder). Social distance worship for women in Banquet Hall & men in Conference Room.\nMasks are required.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhenever possible\, please attend 2:30 or 3:40 p.m. prayer to avoid heavy first-prayer congestion. Jumu’ah service parking at all three services is in the MCC parking lot and the neighboring HP lot. Map at https://mcceastbay.org/hp \n\n– Watch these three sermons live from home: https://mcceastbay.org/live\n–  More Sidi Mahdy: https://mcceastbay.org/mahdy\n– More Sidi Ibrahaim: https://mcceastbay.org/ibrahim\n\nFor parents attending with young children\, MCC offers a private mothers and fathers room with an audio and visual connection to Prayer Hall. Parents can watch the sermon and pray while in the company of other parents with young children. The mothers/fathers prayer room are just past the Banquet Hall doors into the school area. \nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org \nAlameda County reports COVID-19 cases are still happening. \nWe are cautiously indoors for the five daily prayers and for two of the three Jumu’ah services. The second Jumu’ah is outdoors in the MCC parking lot\, weather permitting. Learn more at https://mcceastbay.org/prayer
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LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
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SUMMARY:Maintaining Tradition in a Post-Modern World | Imam Zaid Shakir
DESCRIPTION:After long last\, the “People’s Imam” returns in person to the Bay Area. Our community hearts were connected with Imam Zaid Shakir only virtually during the pandemic. \nAt this spiritual community homecoming\, join Imam Zaid as he speaks on “Maintaining Tradition in a Post-Modern World” and he reflects on what has happened to our world has changed since March 2020 and where we are now headed as a community. \n7:15 p.m. (Maghrib) to Isha (9 p.m.) | Friday\, Sept. 17 | MCC Prayer Hall \n– More Imam Zaid: https://mcceastbay.org/zaid-shakir \nAbout Imam Zaid Shakir\nBorn in Berkeley\, California and raised in the Atlanta and Hartford projects alongside six other children\, Imam Zaid Shakir converted to Islam in 1977\, and today is one of the foremost Islamic scholars in the west. \nHe found Islam while in the U.S. Air force\, spending time reading and learning about various faiths and practices\, from Christianity to Transcendental meditation\, but says he chose Islam because of its social aspects: \n“Transcendental meditation gives you peace of mind…but it didn’t do anything for anybody else\, so I had to keep looking\,” Shakir explains at a recent lecture at a Brooklyn mosque. “I was literally searching for truth\, and I made various stops along the way and I found what I believed was the truth.” \nImam Zaid began his study in the United States\, earning a BA with honors in International Relations at American University and an MA in Political Science at Rutgers University\, but continued his education in the Middle East\, studying Arabic\, Islamic law\, Quranic studies\, and spirituality at Syria’s prestigious Abu Noor University. Yet he returned to the United States seven years later\, settling in Connecticut\, co-founding Masjid al-Islam\, where he served as Imam\, the Tri-State Muslim Education Initiative\, and the Connecticut Muslim Coordinating Committee. \n“You have an American Muslim culture emerging\, which is very important\, because then you can get a unique understanding of the religion that would allow the American Muslim to take his or her rightful place amongst the various Muslim communities of the world” \nIn 2003\, Shakir moved to Hayward\, California to serve as scholar in residence and lecturer at Zaytuna Institute\, a non-profit\, educational institute focused on Islamic studies and surrounding topics. In 2005\, Zaytuna Institute published Shakir’s collection of essays\, SCATTERED PICTURES: REFLECTIONS OF AN AMERICAN MUSLIM. \nImam Zaid Shakir is a co-founder\, serves on its Board of Trustees\, and senior Faculty Member of Zaytuna College located in Berkeley\, CA. He is amongst the most respected and influential Islamic scholars in the West. As an American Muslim who came of age during the civil rights struggles\, he has brought both sensitivity about race and poverty issues and scholarly discipline to his faith-based work. \nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/imam-zaid/
LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family Events,Lectures & Workshops,Private Event
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DESCRIPTION:Private event in Prayer Hall & Banquet Hall.
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LOCATION:MCC East Bay\, 5724 W Las Positas Blvd #300\, Pleasanton\, CA\, 94588\, United States
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