Usuli Weekly Newsletter
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 11. March 2023
Dear Friends, Greetings of Peace (al salamu 'alaykum)! I pray you are well! Coming off of last week's incredible new content additions which you can now find on the homepage of our website at www.usuli.org, this week kicked off with an amazing conversation between the powerhouse scholar and defender of justice, Professor Aminah Al-Deen and Dr. Abou El Fadl! In it, we had the opportunity to hear Shaykh talk about the driving forces behind several of his books, including The Search for Beauty in...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 04. March 2023
Greetings of Peace (al salamu 'alaykum) dear Friends, **Please note that for tonight's halaqa, we will start at 7 pm ET insha'Allah!** I pray you are well! This past Wednesday, March 1st, was one of the BEST. DAYS. EVER! It was my 29th convert birthday and wow, did I get some amazing presents! So in the interest of sharing my presents and spreading the gifts of light that came to me, here is what arrived for me on March 1st (where did the time go?? I don't feel like I am even 29 in real life...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 25. February 2023
Dear Friends, Greetings of Peace (Al salamu 'alaykum)! I pray you are well! This week, I wanted to share some great content! A REVIEW OF PROJECT ILLUMINE: THE LIGHT OF THE QUR'AN First, I would like to share a brilliant review of the Project Illumine Qur'anic commentaries written by someone who has been not only journeying with us along the way, but someone who has invested an enormous amount of time and energy into helping others gain access to the gold within all of our content. If you have...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 18. February 2023
Greetings of Peace (Al salamu 'alaykum) dear Friends, **First please note that tonight's halaqa will begin at 8 pm Eastern, just for tonight!** I pray you are well! We all need some good news to offset so much bad news in the world, so I hope that I can offer some welcome relief in this email God willing! I have three important items to share! MUSIC FOR THE SOUL! WITNESS BY WIETSKE MERISON! First, the countdown has begun for the release of WITNESS by our dear friend, Wietske Merison! The full...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 11. February 2023
Dear Friends, Al salamu 'alaykum (Greetings of Peace). Truly, what a devastating week for all of us with the news and pictures and stories coming out of Turkey and Syria after the earthquake. May God empower us to do whatever we can to help. With these difficult tests comes the opportunity to do a lot of good, and with this hardship, we can be the vehicle for the ease that comes in parallel. May we spread a lot of love and support wherever we can, and may God accept. Speaking of love, I wanted...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 04. February 2023
Al salamu 'alaykum (Greetings of Peace) dear Friends! I pray you are well! Yesterday was my birthday, and God gave me an amazing and unexpected gift that I want to now share with you! I have mentioned in the past that we have been working on some exciting projects at Usuli for 2023. Alhamdulillah (thank God!), one came to fruition just in time for my birthday, much sooner than I was expecting! So what is the gift? It is the gift of music - The Usuli Institute sponsored the professional creation...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 28. January 2023
Dear Friends, Al salamu 'alaykum (Greetings of Peace)! I pray you are well! We are less than two months away from the start of Ramadan, which is estimated to begin on March 23rd insha'Allah (God willing). Mind-blowing! The month of fasting is always such a precious and blessed time of the year! For us at Usuli, it is an exciting time for another reason - we have been working hard towards the goal of releasing Volume II of The Prophet's Pulpit around that time as well insha'Allah! :) . Volume I...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 21. January 2023
Greeting of Peace dear Friends! I pray you are well! It is hard to believe that two years ago this month, in January 2021, we arrived in Ohio from California with all of our belongings and our 100,000+ book library packed in boxes, and immediately jumped into our Project Illumine mission full-force, presenting two intense, several-hours-long halaqa classes per week as we began working our way chapter by chapter through the entire 114-chapter Qur'an. At that point, we already had eight surahs...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 14. January 2023
Greeting of Peace dear Friends! I pray you are well! Let's start with a riddle: "My sibling is one year older than me. We both look like we come from the same family, although our coloring is not quite the same. When we were born, respectively, I had over 91,000 and my sibling had over 70,000. My sibling likes to welcome people at the door. I like to take them deeper into the House. My sibling has traveled to 54 countries. I hope to start traveling soon. WHAT ARE WE?" HINT: Our favorite joke...
Usuli Weekly Newsletter · 07. January 2023
Dear Friends, Al salamu alaykum (Greetings of Peace)! I pray you are well and taking advantage of the energy of the first week of the year! I always find that when the Gregorian calendar turns into a new year, for some reason, I have a new-found motivation to take command of things anew, and to try to do things a little better. It is not that the days feel different or that I have any cosmic awareness of the changing alignment of the planets. I literally only have a different calendar date...