Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 08. May 2023
Al salamu 'alaykum (greetings of peace) dear Friends, First, my apologies for this late email as we had some technical difficulties! So, let me be among the first to wish you a happy Monday! :) ****** As of last Sunday, April 30th, I am proud to announce that WE DID IT! We completed the ENTIRE QUR'AN on our Project Illumine journey! And what a very special evening it was! We commemorated the end of the journey by sharing some of the incredibly beautiful Thank You messages we received from...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 30. April 2023
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his final two Quranic commentaries on Surah 112: Al Ikhlas and Surah Al Fatiha, concluding the Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Recorded at The Usuli Institute on 30 April 2023. Project Illumine is a three-year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. Surah Al Ikhlas is the 113th...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 25. March 2023
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 103: Al Asr and Surah 108: Al Kawthar as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Recorded at The Usuli Institute on 25 March 2023. Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. Surah Al Asr is the 106th surah in the...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 18. March 2023
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 91: Al Shams and Surah 104: Al Humazah as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Recorded at The Usuli Institute on 18 March 2023. Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. Surah Al 'Adiyat is the 102nd surah in...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 17. December 2022
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 5: Al Ma'idah as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Recorded at The Usuli Institute starting on 17 December 2022. Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. This is the 92nd surah in the series. This is not...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 09. December 2022
Dear Friends, Greetings of Peace! I pray you are well. Here we are embarking upon the last three weeks of 2022. Since Covid hit almost three years ago, I have been particularly bad at keeping track of anything date-related, from birthdays, to what day of the week it is, to sometimes what year it is. The distance of time in my mind's eye is often more a function of the significance and weight of an event rather than the actual passage of time. For example, the very first session of Project...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 03. December 2022
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 93: Al Duha and Surah 94: Al Sharh, along with a Q&A on these surahs and Surah 9: Al Tawbah, as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Recorded at The Usuli Institute on 3 December 2022. Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 10. September 2022
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 60: Al Mumtahana as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Recorded at The Usuli Institute on 10 September 2022. Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. This is the eighty-fifth chapter in the series. This is...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 27. August 2022
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 48: Al Fath as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of ths scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. This is the eighty-second chapter in the series. This is not the traditional line-by-line exegesis, but a...
Circles of Learning (Halaqas) · 13. August 2022
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 22: Al Hajj as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. This is the eighty-first chapter in the series. This is not the traditional line-by-line exegesis, but a...