Islam students at LUC

Last blog! but seriously why can’t all classes be like this one?!?! I just read an article that my friend forwarded to me called “Man spends 12 months practicing 12 different religions, and finds peace at year’s end”. At first I was confused as to why someone would do that but then I found it [...]

I was just thinking about last week’s discussion about the five pillars and the levels of faith. When Mozaffar said something about connecting to nature, to God, to the Prophet, and to the community, I thought of one of my absolute favorite movies called “The Color of Paradise” for some reason. It’s an Iranian movie [...]

First off, Im so glad that Tariq Ramadan will be speaking at Loyola and its extra credit.. win win. He has been one of my favorite contemporary intellectuals. I recommend reading his book  “In the Footsteps of the Prophet”. Recently a friend of mine (who actually says he knows Professor Mozaffar…what a small world lol ) [...]

I guess I’ll try out the new format for blogs…even though I don’t remember what was agreed upon.  I recently read an article called “Progressive Muslims Launch Gay-Friendly, Women-Led Mosques in Attempt to Reform American Islam” from the Huffington Post.  It is about a group called Muslims for Progressive Values. They are reinterpreting Islamic norms [...]

Like the saying “If it ain’t broke done fix it” goes, I’m sticking with the old format for the blogs. In last week’s class we finished the Interrupters which I liked a lot. I tutor children weekly at a tutoring center off the Howard stop, which is a pretty shady area, and I’ve seen my [...]

Last week, we began to work on a group skit which I have to admit I am not looking forward to performing.  We also began to watch “The Interrupters” and it is a very eye opening documentary. It gives hope to humanity and shows that people who once partook in violence and murder can really [...]

Since we have been on Spring Break for the past week and did not have class, I’m just going to talk about MSA’s Islam Awareness Week. I have been checking out some of the events during my breaks between classes. And it also counts as leadership credits for the co-ed fraternity I am apart of [...]

In class, we finished watching the movie Mooz-lum; although the first half of the movie was not good, I found that it got better towards the end. We finally learned why Tariq was resentful towards his faith and upbringing. The movie concluded with Tariq and his family embracing each other and Tariq finally opening up [...]

In last week’s class we continued discussing the Prophet Muhammad. The professor asked how many of us believed Adam was the first human being. I was surprised that there were a lot of people who believed that he was not. I always assumed that everyone believed he was so it was good to see that [...]

In class we continued discussing Muhammad’s life. We touched on the subject of war with the Quraish fighting the Muslims. The Muslims won the first battle but lost the second won which made it even for both sides. We also learned that some followers were starting to disobey the prophet and there were people becoming [...]