Usuli Newsletters · 07. March 2026
View this email in your browser RAMADAN REFLECTIONS from Cherif Abou El Fadl “The Alchemy of Safety,” Cherif Abou El Fadl, 2/13/2026 Dear Usuli Community, Al salamu alaykum. It has been quite some time since I have written. I wanted this to be special and so I turned the lights down low and made a cup of herbal tea. I turned on the soundtrack from Interstellar to invite the slowing which used to beckon words back when I wrote as ritual. When writing was a form of solemn prayer that erected...
Usuli Newsletters · 28. February 2026
View this email in your browser RAMADAN REFLECTIONS from Dalia Abouelfadl!! Dear Usuli Community, Al salamu alaykum! As we approach the halfway point of Ramadan, I pray yours is full of blessings, good company, growth, and healing insha’Allah. For those of you who may not know, my name is Dalia, and I primarily handle Usuli’s social media and assist in digital communications. Each week this Ramadan, a member of the Usuli team will be sharing via the Usuli newsletter some of what is on their...
Usuli Newsletters · 21. February 2026
View this email in your browser RAMADAN REFLECTIONS from Shayan Parsai Dearest Usuli Community, Salam alaykum, May God’s peace and blessings be with you. I pray that our beloved month of Ramadan is filled with joy, love and fulfillment for you and all your loved ones. You are all very dear to me and to all of us at Usuli. I cannot express how much your ongoing support means to us. It is most heartwarming to receive your letters or comments on our material. Your encouragement means the world...
Usuli Newsletters · 05. March 2025
Dear Friends, Greetings of Peace (al salamu ‘alaykum) and Ramadan Mubarak! I pray that your first week of Ramadan has been blessed! We have been busy at Usuli in preparation for this beautiful month and have a few Ramadan content drops to share! EPISODE 1 OF PROJECT ILLUMINE II: THE LIGHT OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD I am soooo ecstatic to let you know that we have officially launched our long-awaited Sirah Project and Episode 1 is already receiving rave reviews! Alhamdulillah! We began dreaming of...
Usuli Newsletters · 29. January 2025
Dear Friends, Greetings of Peace (al salamu ‘alaykum)! I pray you are healthy and well despite the turbulence and life-altering changes taking place in our current moment everywhere. It is a difficult and uncertain time for so many in the world with so many challenges yet to come. Here in America, it feels like in some ways, we are returning to the wild, wild West, where there is a lot of chaos and danger, but also opportunity. It is clear to me that now is the time to find our strength,...
Khutbah Transcripts · 10. January 2025
The Qur'an is truly a madrassa (school). Like all schools, however, regardless of how well-organized or well-staffed it is, the quality of students varies significantly. If the student is not willing to apply himself or herself, if the student is unwilling to take in the instruction, then regardless of the quality of the school, the product will be deficient and defective. I am stating the obvious, of course, but it is often the obvious that eludes and escapes us. If you entrust the most...
Khutbah Transcripts · 27. December 2024
The unthought in the Islamic tradition is an enormous category. It is a category of so much guidance, so many kernels of truth, and so many seeds of the goodness, virtue, and righteousness that God embedded in the Qur'an and the Prophet embedded in his Sunna. For all practical purposes, however, Islamic thought has for centuries ceased to develop, and so much of our tradition remains unexplored and undeveloped. Take Surah Ar-Rahman (Q 55) in the Qur'an: The Most Compassionate has imparted this...
Usuli Newsletters · 21. December 2024
Dear Friends, Greetings of Peace (al salamu ‘alaykum)! I pray you are well. It is hard to believe we are at the end of yet another year. So much has happened in the blink of an eye that was 2024. The world is, well, you know. May next year be better than we expect, insha’Allah (God willing)! In the meantime, let us continue to be grateful for our blessings, and resolve to do better in every way we can in the new year insha’Allah. USULI MUSIC FELLOWSHIP Do you know any aspiring and...
Khutbah Transcripts · 20. December 2024
In so many khutbahs, I emphasize what is, in my view, a critical theme. We all know, or should know, that God has created us as trustees on this earth. God has literally made us khulafa’, which is the plural of “caliph,” and the obligation that God has given us, as caliphs or trustees, is that we worship God. That is our affirmative command. That is our duty, our function, and our purpose. God has also taught us that this charge of the caliphate (khilafah) and the obligation of worship...
Khutbah Transcripts · 06. December 2024
God tells us in His revealed Book that Muslims have a job. God gives us a charge, or marching orders, so to speak. The task that Muslims are given is to bear witness for God. As we have said before, the Qur'an interplays the roles of bearing witness for God for the sake of justice and bearing witness for justice for the sake of God (Q 4:135; 5:8). The message could not possibly be any clearer that God and justice are interchangeable. It is clear from both the text of the Qur'an and from the...