This special selection from Zaytuna’s 2005 “Ethnic Jihad” Minara program
looks at how Muslims can honor and fulfill the spiritual and cultural legacy they have inherited. Imam Zaid highlights the importance of maintaining families, cultivating spirituality, and leveraging the blessings and opportunities of our time.
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CD 1
Opening/ The struggle to maintain our families
Cultivating spirituality, love, and mercy
Hope and the problem of despair
Seizing our literary and cultural heritage
The opportunities Allah has given to us
Delivering the message: “real dawah”
CD 2 (Questions and Answers)
Bridging the Muslim gaps
Muslim slaves and American Indians
Dawah through good character and example
Respecting parents, respecting children
The Muslim narrative: taking the baton
Imam Zaid Shakir is amongst the most respected and influential Islamic scholars in the West. A graduate of Syria's pretigious Abu Noor University, he has studied with renowned scholars in Syria, Egypt, and Morroco. He has translated and published several traditional texts and lectures frequently at conferences and workshops around North America. He is currently a scholar-in-residence at Zaytuna Institute. (Click here for a full bio)
