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SP Monthly Oct 2008
Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi Read below for the latest edition of the SP monthly, in which you will find the latest news about the staff and happenings at SunniPath. The SP Monthly Latest news…..from our desks to you…
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Summer 2008 Student Survey Winner
Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi The winner of our Summer 08 Student Survey is Gulrana Syed from New York. Congratulations to Gulrana who wins a free course for the Spring 09 Semester.
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SP Monthly Nov 2008
Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi Read below for the latest edition of the SP monthly, in which you will find the latest news about the staff and happenings at SunniPath. The SP Monthly Latest news…..from our desks to you…
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Don’t let Fall Pass You By
Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatu Llahi We have some short courses starting soon. One upcoming course is already full so hurry and register for those courses still open for registration.
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Eid Mubarak!
Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager
Assalamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatahu, The entire team at SunniPath would like to say Eid Mubarak! May Allah accept all of prayers and worship over the last 10 days, Ameen.
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SP Monthly Dec 2008
Nasim Vora, Community Outreach Manager
Assalamu Alaykum Read below for the latest edition of the SunniPath monthly. In this edition we have news on our Associates Degree, New Courses for Spring 2009…. If you can’t read this email properly, viewit in your brow…
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A New Muslim: Her Story
Saudah Mirza, Outreach
assalamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullah, One of the students here at SunniPath recently became Muslim with Shaykh Abdul-Kareem Yahya. She wrote about her journey to Islam and sent it to us to share so that we could all get insp…
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“Know the Goal. Do Something Worthy.”
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate A couple of days ago, I entered the fourth decade of my life. Moving into the second decade was childishly exciting. Moving into the third decade was also exciting, b…
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A Student’s Journey
Saudah Mirza, Outreach
assalamu ‘alaykum, One of our students, Matthew Longacre from Lexington, USA, wrote us a note about his experience, both about his course and how he found SunniPath. He was a student in Introduction to Islamic Belief (BL…
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The First Knowledge to Be Taken from the Ummah
Saudah Mirza, Outreach
assalamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullah, We’re very excited to be offering a course on inheritance law for the first time this Spring. This is a topic that is so important for us to know, but that is not often taught in our tim…
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Respect
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate No one will listen to you until you respect them. Habib `Umar b. Hafiz (may Allah preserve him) said, No one will ever be fit for calling others to Islam except someo…
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No Place in Islam for Oppression
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful & Compassionate “Militants blow up five more schools.” I read the headlines, half the story, and then my mind wandered, imagining the thoughts that would race through readers’ minds as…
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The Light of Certainty
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate Preparing yesterday for a weekly hadith class I teach at my house, I chanced upon the following description of the Prophet’s (Allah bless him and give him peace) da`w…
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For Aasiya Zubair Hassan
Zaynab Ansari, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful Praise be to Allah. May Allah bless and give peace to our Master Muhammad, his family, companions, and followers. I have been contemplating posting on SunniPath’s b…
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Recording of “The Light of the Qur’an: Tafsir on Sura Ash Shams” Now Available
Besim Bruncaj, Outreach Manager, Designer & Teaholic
By the sun and his morning brightness and by the moon when she follows him, by the day when it displays him and by the night when it enshrouds him! By the heaven and that which built it and by the earth and that which ex…
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What did you learn?
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate The Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) used to seek Allah’s refuge from knowledge that did not bring any benefit. (Sahih Muslim) He used to say, “a…
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Praise Leads to Delusion
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate Ibn Ata’illah al-Iskandari (may Allah be pleased with him) said: People praise you for what they imagine you are, so be sure that you blame yourself for what you know…
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The Messenger’s Medicine: Free Live Event this Sunday, April 12
Besim Bruncaj
As salaamu alaykum In case you didn’t get the email, please go here to learn more and register for this Sunday’s exciting event: http://www.sunnipath.com/Outreach/2009-Summer/090408-EventMessengersMedicine.html Was salaa…
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The Passing Away of an Extraordinary Student
Khadija, SunniPath Course Assistant
Bissmillahi ar-rahmani ar-raheem. Assalamu alikum warahmatullah. On behalf of SunniPath I would like to write something short to express our sadness at the loss of one of our greatest students, Syed Mohammed al Bukhary, …
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Common Sense Has Died
Hedaya Hartford, SunniPath Instructor
assalam alaikum wa rahmatuLlah In the course the Successful Islamic Marriage, we spend a number of lessons discussing common marriage problems.
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In Thanks to Ustadha Zaynab Ansari
Ashraf Muneeb, Academic Director
Assalamu Alaikum, We are saddened to announce that Ustadha Zaynab Ansari will no longer be teaching with SunniPath at this time. All of us will miss her greatly, and we pray that she is in a position to return very soon.
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Audio Recordings of Habib Umar’s Australian Tour
Besim Bruncaj
Recordings of some of the talks by Habib Umar, Shaykh Abdul Kareem Yahya, and Shaykh Yahya Rhodus have been posted on the HabibTour website.
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Ihsan at Home
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, “Traveling [away from home] is a piece of punishment: it keeps you from your food, drink, and sleep.
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Pantheism Contradicts Islamic Belief
Saudah Mirza, Outreach
assalamu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatahu, Someone recently wrote that they heard SunniPath teaches that Allah is everywhere. In response to this, Shaykh Hamza Karamali wrote an Answer discussing this issue.
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Freedom of Thought
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
I’m teaching a new course this semester called The Pearl of Divine Oneness. Every week, I spend several hours preparing for the class, and every week, I am struck by the intellectual confidence of the Muslim theologians …
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Technology… in a mosque
Zaheer Razack
SunniPath is the vanguard of combining religion and technology. A funny thing happened a few days ago. I was reading a dua at a remote mosque. I didn’t have it memorized so I was reading along with a recording on my ipho…
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Showing off SunniPath
Zaheer Razack
I remember a few years ago I was trying to show off SunniPath to my father. I let him watch one of the live sessions with Shaykh Hamza Karamali on Shafi fiqh. It was the first class of the semester and he was teaching th…
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The Bowing of Stars – Story of Nabi Yusuf
Besim Bruncaj, Outreach Manager, Designer & Teaholic
Sr. Mehded Maryam Sinclair tells us of the dream of her neighbor’s son.
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The Patience of My Son
Zaheer Razack
Some time back I was showing my three-year-old son a short video on Youtube. I don’t often do this, so needless to say he was excited. The internet connection was slow so the video paused and the white circle in the midd…
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Living the Hadith in Virginia
Hamza Karamali, SunniPath Instructor
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate Last night marked the completion of the Living the Hadith program here in Virginia, where I have been teaching Introductory Arabic, Hadith and its Disciplines, and Na…