Usrah@Masat

Anas Ibn Malik  says: “I have never seen a man who was more compassionate to his family members than Muhammad” (Muslim)

Usrah agenda:-

1- Tasmi’: Qur’an recitation
2- Tazkirah: Topic TBA
3- A brief summary of Educating Your Child in Modern Times by Shaikh Hamza Yusuf and John Taylor Gatto.
4- Home school anyone? – some thoughts on school system.
5- Are our mosques children-friendly?
6-  Who respect who? – the wisdom of Ali r.a.
7- Haram? – positive psychology
8- Rotan?!?!?!  Prophetic relation with children.

Note: full note will be posted after Usrah

‘Islamists’ or Muslims?

• Islamist: a new consciousness and new agencies involving a desire to reshape the modern world according to Islamic principles. (Activist)
• Muslim: a more passive historical and cultural stance on the part of the religion and its believers.

“Conservative democrats” or “Muslim democrats”?

The term ‘conservative democracy’ then points at two parallel processes: a new Muslim self on the one hand that does not put an ‘and’ to demarcate between Islam and democracy and who is open to the possibility of a mutual borrowing. In this case, this term involves a renunciation of an earlier Islamist claim that Islam was totally distinct from Western frames of reference. The prefix ‘conservative’ on the other hand testifies to Muslim actors’ long lasting desire to blend democracy with conservative values such as emphasis on the family or the prohibition of pornography.

(Kenan Cayir) (more…)