Day 1 of 2: Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl presents his Quranic commentary on Surah 49: Al Hujurat (Day 1) as part of the ongoing Project Illumine: Light of the Quran series at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org).
Project Illumine is a year-long intensive immersion into the unique moral messages in each of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran, the fruit of this scholar's lifetime relationship with the Quran. This is the seventy-third chapter in the series. This is not the traditional line-by-line exegesis, but a chapter-by-chapter thematic approach that seeks to rediscover the original meaning received by the early Muslims that sparked their passion such that they transformed from desert dwellers to civilization builders. It is an investigation of the timeless moral and ethical lessons of the Quran then applied to our modern day. In the introduction, our Executive Director Grace Song directs attention to the latest Usuli Institute Khtubah (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbbagjkT8Hs&t=0s) while making a call for Muslims to spend their wealth on principled causes while combatting the multi-million dollar industry of Islamophobia. Recorded at The Usuli Institute on 15 January 2022.