2021-10 Monthly Report

Monthly Report

October, 2021

  • Delivered a khutba on October 1st on the topic: “Calling to Allah and Responding to Him.”
  • Delivered a khutba on October 8th on the topic: “Getting to know Allah.”
  • Gave an online presentation on Friday, October 15th the first online lecture of a weekly series: “Commentary on the Forty Hadith of Imam Al-Nawawi.” The topic was: Hadith # 1 “Actions are judged by intentions.”  
  • Emailed to the board of trustees On October, 19th a few agenda items that could be discussed in the upcoming board meeting in November, 2021. One of the items was a curriculum designed to teach few Islamic courses to the community after my retirement from AMDA in the near future inshaAllah. 
  • Gave an online presentation on Friday, October 22nd on the topic: Hadith # 2 Islam Iman Ihsan & Qadar (Part 1) under the series: “Commentary on the Forty Hadith of Imam Al-Nawawi.”
  • Gave an online presentation on Friday, October 29th on the topic: Hadith # 2 Islam Iman Ihsan & Qadar (Part 2) under the series: “Commentary on the Forty Hadith of Imam Al-Nawawi.”
  • Invited Mufti Qari Sahil Vahora of the DarussSalam Islamic Center, Lombard, IL to give a khutbah at AMDA. He gave a khutbah on October 29th on the topic: “Lessons from Surat al-Kahf.”
  • Had an in-person meeting on October 30th with the board of trustees to discuss my post-retirement plans of teaching Islamic courses to the community. 
  • Edited and uploaded transcripts of khutbahs on AMDA’s website.
  • Delivered every day a short tafsir of few verses of the Qur’an after Salat ul-Fajr.
  • Conducted every Sunday an online weekly session on Tafsir of the Qur’an.
  •  Conducted every Monday an online weekly class on recitation of the Qur’an with Tajweed.  
  • Conducted every Tuesday an online weekly class on word to word translation of four pages of the Qur’an. 
  • Conducted every Wednesday an online weekly class on word to word translation of two pages of the Qur’an.  
  • Conducted every Saturday an interactive halaqa after Salat ul Fajr in which congregants discussed a pre-selected portion of the Qur’an assigned by brother Johar Sheikh.