Por Juan Alvarado Para algunos musulmanes latinos, el comienzo del Ramadán es determinado por la información obtenida de países islámicos, organizaciones islámicas, por las mezquitas, o por amigos y familiares. La mayoría de musulmanes en los Estados Unidos son árabes, paquistanies, o afroamericanos. Los musulmanes hispanos son apenas una fracción de los musulmanes aquí. Por tal razón es que hay muy pocos programas islámicos para principiantes hispanos. Sin embargo, algunas mezquitas con poblaciones altas de creyentes hispanos tienen clases en espanol para los que no entienden el inglés u otros idiomas usados en la mezquita. En Ramadán algunos centros islámicos
Read MorePor Samantha Sanchez Preguntas que automaticamente consumen nuestra existencia¿Cómo y porque suceden las tragedias?¿Qué y Quienes son los responsables?La Fé se pone a prueba ¿Te preguntarás donde esta Dios?Dios estaba ahi mismoCon la gente inocente que murióCon la gente que milagrosamente sobrevivióAun con los que cometieron la horrible y desafortunada decisión de causarloDios lo controla todoEn su infinita sabiduría, el mundo gira como debe de girar ¿Quién lo hizo y como vengarse?Puede que sea más fácil decir quien no lo hizo.Los trabajadores del WTC quienes venian de diferentes caminos en la vida y detodas las razas y credosY aquellos que
Read MoreBy Samantha Sanchez Questions automatically consume our existenceHow and why does tragedy happenWho and what are responsibleFaith is put to the test Where was God you ask?God was right there.With the innocent people who diedWith the people who miraculously survivedEven with those who made the horrible and unfortunate choice to cause itGod controls everythingIn his infinite wisdom the world goes as it should be Who did this and how can we fight back?Perhaps I can answer who didn’t do this more easily.The workers at WTC who were from all walks of life and all races and creedsAnd those who now
Read More“God is the light of the heavens and the earth. His light is like a niche that holds a lamp; it is like a lamp which contains a crystal as bright as a star. It is kindled from a blessed tree, an olive tree that belongs neither to the east nor to the west. Its oil would almost shine, even with no fire touching it. It is light upon light. God guides towards his light all whom he chooses.” – Quran 24:35. “Swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for God loveth
Read MorePor Daniel Montenegro Noches se pasan en total soledadQuizá con la luna como único testigoA la más cercana unión entre él y su pareja.El amado aparece y el corazón responde,Ha sido muy larga la separación, demasiada la espera,Sin embargo, vino y me cuidó.Intoxicado, la flama del amor consumió mi almay le hizo pensar, “la espera ha sido larga, ha valido la espera.”Despues le dí un vistazo al mundo y con dolor me percatéSolo una noche de encontrarme con mi amado, penseque debería abrumarle las catastrofes que el hombre ha causado.Pero el hombre con su arrogancia no tiene teimpo de conocerlo,Está
Read More“When My servants ask thee (O Muhammad) concerning Me, tell them I am indeed close (to them). I listen to the prayer of every supplicant when he calls on Me. Therefore, they should respond to Me and put their trust in Me, so that they may be rightly guided.” – Quran 2:186. “Say: ‘O My servants who have transgressed against your own souls, do not despair of God’s mercy, for God forgives all sins. It is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful.’” – Quran 39:53. The Prophet said, “Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but
Read More“The Great 10th Annual Sisterhood Event”MAS & Latino Muslims of Chicago Islam is More Than a Religion Saturday, May 1st, 20103 PM to 7 PM9210 S. Oketo AveBridgeview, IL 60455 This is a women only event.Program will be in Spanish, dinner will be served Limited babysitting by RSVP only. Please contact: Rebecca, Diana, or Alma http://www.facebook.com/pages/Latino-Muslims-of-Chicago/118077384870808 The Latino Muslims of Chicago also attended a banquet hosted by the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (the Council). ciogc.org. “Latino Muslim Program in Spanish”2010 ICNA-MAS Convention 2010 Session 1: Saturday, May 29th, 6:00-8:00pm* “Salvando la Familia se Salva la Sociedad”Speaker: Br.
Read MoreFirst Quarter 2010! – IslamInSpanish.org June 16, 2010 Alhamdulilah, 2010 has become an exciting year with many new developments for IIS. By ALLAH’s Blessings thousands of people were educated on the truth about Islam by way of audiovisual means worldwide. We have heard and witnessed hundreds coming into the fold of Islam just through our efforts of sharing this information. Orange County WorkshopJanuary 15-17 IslamInSpanish kicked off 2010 with a workshop in Orange County, CA. The three day event started with a khutba by Isa Parada at the Islamic Center Orange County and Mujahid Fletcher at the Islamic Center of
Read MoreBy Hany Salah IslamOnlineMay. 27, 2009 http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C& cid=1242759218762&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout CAIRO In a vast country like Brazil, the internet is emerging as the most effective tool to spread the message of Islam, says a leading Muslim scholar in the South American nation. “The internet is one of the most successful contemporary da`wah tools,” Al-Sadiq Al-Othmani, head of the Islamic Affairs Department at the Center of Islamic Da`wah in Latin America, told IslamOnline.net over the phone. “That’s why I encourage scholars to spread the word to broader masses through the web, especially in such a vast country.” Othmani, a Moroccan who has lived
Read Morehttp://international.fiu.edu/index.php?name=news_item_islam_in_latin_america March 17, 2010 Florida International University (FIU) The Middle East Studies Program in FIU’s School of International and Public Affairs is organizing a one day conference on Islam in Latin America. The event will take place on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. in the MARC International Pavilion on FIU’s Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Leading scholars from Latin America will join FIU scholars to discuss the presence of Islam and Muslims in Latin America, their impact on and integration into Latin American societies, and their historical and contemporary ties to the Middle East and the larger Muslim world.
Read MoreCómo Orientalista: Telemundo’s El Clon, Part I By Sister Diana Muslimah Media Watch April 21st, 2010 http://muslimahmediawatch.org/2010/04/como-orientalista-telemundos-el-clon-part-i/ Spanish soap operas (telenovelas) are just like any other serial dramas, with all the conventional characteristics: star -crossed lovers, dramatic music, a flair for the outrageous and a seemingly never-ending plot. This is exactly what can be expected from Telemundo’s telenovela, El Clon (The Clone). A remake of a Brazilian soap opera that aired in 2001 and 2002 titled O Clone, this Spanish-language telenovela is targeted at the U.S.’s Spanish speaking market. However, what is unexpected is the drama’s lengthy commentary on Islam
Read MoreBy Khaleel Ahmad Gramajo Before I begin let me greet you with peace and blessings from our Creator, the ONE and only ONE without comparison. Asalam Alaykum wa rahma tullahi wa barakatu! I was born in Guatemala. I have resided in California for almost 25 years. I have been singing since an early young age. I used to perform as Christian singer almost every week but I stopped singing after I embraced Islam in 1995. Later in 2003 as a Muslim I started to listen to some Anasheed (plural for Nasheed). This inspiration brought me back to singing, and I
Read MoreAmong the Muslims listed in the book “The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World” were Muslims from the following countries: El Salvador, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Spain, and Portugal. CENTRAL AMERICA EL SALVADORQattan, Dr AhmadQattan is a Muslim convert from Palestinian origins. He is the co-founder of the Arab Islamic Center in Salvador. Qattan has been an educator and da’wa activist for the past 17 years, and has published more than 100,000 copies of a book introducing Islam, which has been read by an estimated 250,000 people. Al Salvadori, MustafaMustafa Al Salvadori
Read MoreBy Juan Galvan My definition of leadership is someone who has the ability through ceaseless commitment to inspire others to be their best. Although the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is the greatest leader of all time, I want to share with you the life of a lesser-known hero. Shaikh Yahia Suquillo has truly been an inspiration for many Latino Muslims including myself. Above all else, it has been the life of the Prophet Muhammad that has been his source of inspiration. Like all great Muslim leaders, he is a great leader for his ability to follow the lead of the Prophet
Read More877-WHY-ISLAM Spanish Billboard in Union City, NJ The Islamic Circle of North America has launched a nation-wide campaign to place WhyIslam billboards in major cities across the country in its ongoing efforts to educate others about Islam. As part of this campaign, the New Jersey chapter of ICNA has put up a Spanish billboard in Union City, New Jersey. In addition to the toll free 877-WHYISLAM hotline, the billboard also provides the address of the North Hudson Islamic Educational Center (NHIEC) masjid. The goal of the campaign is to provide unbiased information about Islam and to dispel commonly perceived misconceptions.
Read MoreIslamic Horizons March/April 2010 Heart of the Community Discussing her conversion, Khadijah Rivera, a Puerto Rican ex- Roman Catholic, wrote: “Reverting to Islam would be complicated by my childhood training that Jesus Christ was my savior and salvation. To pray to anyone but him would be blasphemy. I therefore studied several religions when I left my church and its rigid teachings. But they were all Christian and not much different from the original one. Of course they all believed that the papal aristocracy was nonsense and I praised them for that. But they could not justify Jesus Christ in a
Read MoreIslamic HorizonsMarch/April 2010 Widely Sharing Love of Islam Hajji Ibrahim Benjamin Perez Mahomah passed away peacefully in his sleep on 8 Dec. 2009 after a fight with brain and stomach cancer. He was laid to rest in Livermore, CA. One of the first, if not the first, Hispanic converts to what he thought was Islam in the San Francisco/Bay Area back in the 1950s, he told Deborah Kong of the Associated Press in June 2002 about his conversion. A Puerto Rican, he was nevertheless drawn to the Nation of Islam meeting in 1957 out of curiosity. The only Latino at
Read MoreThe Message InternationalNovember-December 2005, pg 17 Maslamah al-Majriti wrote a number of works on mathematics and astronomy, studied and elaborated the Arabic translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest, and enlarged and corrected the astronomical tables of the famous al-Khwarizmi. He also compiled conversion tables in which the dates of the Persian calendar were related to Hijrah dates, so that for the first time the events of Persia’s past could be dated with precision. Al-Zarqali, known to the West as Arzachel, combined theoretical knowledge with technical skill. He built a water clock capable of determining the hours of the day and night and indicating
Read MoreBy Jazmyn Bradford UNM TodayFebruary 24, 2010 http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/004821.html The Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies, Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, Latin American and Iberian Institute, Foreign Languages and Literatures, American Studies, and the Department of Student Affairs will co-host the 16th annual UNM Conference on Ibero-American Culture and Society, “Moros, Moriscos, Marranos y Mestizos: Alterity, Hybridity Identity in Diaspora.” The conference will be held on Feb. 25 through Feb. 27. On Thursday, the event will be held in the Student Union Building, Acoma, Isleta and Sandía rooms. On Friday, it will move to at the National Hispanic Resource
Read More—New York— Introduccion al Islam en EspanolClass Dates: February 10th, 2010 – May 5th, 2010Timings: Wednesdays, 7:00pm – 8:30pmLocation: The IC http://www.icnyu.org/index.php?option=com_eventcal&task=event&eventid=477&date=1268874000 Class Description: El propósito de esta clase será proveer conocimientos básicos sobre la religión del Islam, empezando por los seis principios de la fe Islámica y los cinco pilares de la misma. De igual forma, buscaremos entablar una conversación productiva sobre asuntos que atañen a los musulmanes hispanoparlantes hoy en día. Cuáles son los retos y posibilidades que enfrentamos los musulmanes latinos en relación a nuestras familias, nuestras comunidades, y la comunidad musulmana norteamericana en especifico? Cómo podemos
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