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10/25/2024 - Desecrating the House of the Prophet
10/11/2024 - 3 Levels of Gratitude for God
10/06/2024 - LAST CALL! TICKET SALES CLOSE MONDAY 10/7 at Midnight!!
09/27/2024 - The 4 Deadly Sins
09/21/2024 - ONLY THREE WEEKS AWAY!!! THE FIRST USULI IN-PERSON ANNUAL CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 11-12!!
09/20/2024 - The Muslim Cause: Working Hard or Hardly Working?
09/13/2024 - 5 Steps to Reconnecting With God
09/06/2024 - Hamim: Friendship as Decolonial Praxis
09/01/2024 - TODAY! LAST DAY TO GET YOUR EARLY BIRD TICKETS!
08/30/2024 - Living in The Now: The Paradox of Obeying Parents
08/23/2024 - What Do I Do Now? On Smoke & Clarity
08/16/2024 - Genocide, Tyranny and Trauma: Where is God's Mercy?
08/15/2024 - WE ARE BACK!! Make Your Plans for the Usuli Annual Conference!!
08/09/2024 - Bangladesh: Governance & Integrity
06/07/2024 - With Whom Does Your Loyalty Lie? Lessons from Surah Al-Zukhruf
05/24/2024 - Why We Have the Leaders We Deserve: Diagnosing the Muslim Psychosis
05/17/2024 - The Imperative of Intervention: Lessons from Surah Al-A'raf
05/17/2024 - USULI KHUTBAH TODAY WITH CHERIF ABOU EL FADL AT 1:45 PM ET!
05/10/2024 - Forming Foundations & The Sands of Time: Lessons from Surah Al-Ahqaf
05/08/2024 - REMINDER!! NEW MUSIC by Wietske Merison!
05/03/2024 - Protest or Perish: Lessons from The Ant Colony
04/28/2024 - New Music: "La Hawla" by Wietske Merison!
04/26/2024 - The Anatomy of Empathy: An Encampment Testimony
04/19/2024 - God's Heroes on God's Timing
04/17/2024 - The Ripple Effect of Goodness: Ramy on SNL!
04/12/2024 - Maryam's Lessons: Resistance, Devotion, & Revival
04/09/2024 - EID MUBARAK! SAVE THE DATE! 1ST USULI ANNUAL CONFERENCE OCT 11-12, 2024!
04/05/2024 - How to fix an Ummah: Hurriyah (Freedom) and ‘Izzah (Dignity)
03/31/2024 - NOW! 6 PM ET! LIVE HALAQA on The Book of Illuminations
03/29/2024 - Sulaiman and The Esteemed Ant
03/24/2024 - $50,000 MATCHING GIFT CAMPAIGN! HALAQA TONIGHT!
03/22/2024 - Turning Faith Into Superstition: God is Not Responsible for Gaza - We are.
03/17/2024 - WE'RE BACK! HALAQA TONIGHT @ 5 PM ET! BOOK OF ILLUMINATIONS!
03/11/2024 - SURVEY! Our First Usuli Annual Conference (In-Person!)
03/08/2024 - Rethinking and Reimagining Dignity for 1/4 of the Population
03/01/2024 - Taking an Ethical Stand on the System That Led to A Genocide
03/01/2024 - We Plan and God Plans, and A Gift of Thanks
02/23/2024 - Redirecting the Islamic Gaze, Usuli Khutbah by Cherif Abou El Fadl
02/17/2024 - Save An Islamic Manuscript and Donkeys Carrying Books?
02/16/2024 - Something is very, very wrong...And the Islamic heritage for sale on Ebay
02/09/2024 - A Pivotal Moment in History and the Hashish Sellers in Morocco
02/09/2024 - Free A Soul from Human Trafficking
02/02/2024 - The Power of Moral Unison: Confronting the Bid'ah of Despotism, Usuli Khutbah by Shayan Parsai
02/02/2024 - TODAY @ 3 PM ET! "The Complicity of Muslim Leadership" with Dr. Nader Hashemi
01/28/2024 - THIS FRIDAY! Real Talk with Dr. Nader Hashemi on The Complicity of Muslim Leadership
01/26/2024 - Donkeys Carrying Books or Just Donkeys?
01/12/2024 - The Cure to the "Cancer" of Islam
01/05/2024 - SPECIAL EVENT THIS SUNDAY @1PM ET! REAL TALK WITH @NICOLEJENES!
12/29/2023 - When the House is on Fire, Do We Worry About the Furniture?
12/24/2023 - The Best of Usuli in 2023 - Our TOP TEN List!
12/22/2023 - The Moment of Truth is Upon Us
12/18/2023 - Real Talk on Palestine No. 5: A Conversation with Professor Khaled Beydoun!
12/15/2023 - Calamity: The Great Moral Criterion
12/10/2023 - UPCOMING: A Conversation with Professor Khaled Beydoun!
12/08/2023 - Parable of the Palm Tree: Morality as the Language of Deceit
12/03/2023 - Emancipation from "Colonial Islam"
11/27/2023 - REAL TALK with Cherif and Baba, Episode 2!
11/24/2023 - Built on Racism: Modern Institutions and the Path to Liberation
11/19/2023 - When Goliath Wants to Nuke David and More
11/17/2023 - Emancipation from "Colonial Islam" and the Uselessness of Muslim Leaders
11/10/2023 - The Biblical Narrative on Wicked People and the Paradox of the West
11/10/2023 - Real Talk on Palestine, No. 4! Conversation with @GazanGirl
11/03/2023 - When Goliath Wants to Nuke David and David's Brothers Help Goliath
11/03/2023 - What Can We Do to Help Palestine?
10/27/2023 - The Logic of Terrorism and What Can We Do About Palestine
10/26/2023 - ANOTHER REAL TALK ON PALESTINE, NO. 3!
10/20/2023 - The Logic of Total Victory, Israeli Exceptionalism, and Muslims
10/19/2023 - The Truth About Palestine and Real Talk No. 2
10/13/2023 - The Truth About Palestine and Why I Will Testify Against You If...
10/12/2023 - Real Talk on Palestine 2X!
10/06/2023 - When Scholars Stop Testifying for God's Truth
10/04/2023 - Remembering Muhammad, the Child, and the Power of Being Human
09/29/2023 - On Banning Women's Voices While Living in the Modern World
09/27/2023 - A Special and Momentous Week at Usuli
09/22/2023 - The Delusion of Fear and the Power of Being Human
09/20/2023 - Dignity and The Myth of Victimhood Culture
09/15/2023 - The Warning, the Blame, and the Prescription: 'Ilm, Amal, and Hawl
09/13/2023 - The Day That Changed Everything and The Logic of Evil
09/08/2023 - When Water Shares Space with Poison and the Myth of Public Neutrality
09/05/2023 - On Music, Reason, and Real Talk with Mido, Cherif and Baba!
09/01/2023 - The Logic of Evil and Trying to Get What You Haven't Earned or Deserve
08/29/2023 - Another "Exceptional Converts" Conversation and More Good News!
08/25/2023 - On Music and the School of Reason, Rationality, and Beauty
08/22/2023 - In Honor of Mido!
08/18/2023 - The Case Study of Nahed Metwaly and the False Dignity of Victimhood
08/14/2023 - Being 18 and Muslim and An Illuminating Checklist
08/11/2023 - Luqman, His Son, and The True Parent
08/07/2023 - No Time To Waste and The Lifeline of "Current Events"
08/04/2023 - On "Global Boiling," Murdering Mother Earth, and The Greatest Tragedy of All
07/28/2023 - The Lifeline of "Current Events" and the Myth of Ijtihad
07/25/2023 - Greetings from California! And Meet Rami!
07/21/2023 - The Rise [and Fall] of Virtue
07/17/2023 - What Happened to Muslims? and The Jazz of Islam
07/14/2023 - The Jazz of Islam and Gender Identity Debates
07/10/2023 - Boundless Mercy and the Reality of the Post-Muslim World
07/07/2023 - What Happened to Muslims? And What To Do About It
06/30/2023 - The Myth of the Post-Racial World v. The Reality of the Post-Muslim World
06/26/2023 - On the Sacrifice of Eid Al-Adha and #HajjIsNotSafe
06/19/2023 - Car or Camel? And the Prophet's Last Will and Testament
06/16/2023 - When #HajjIsNotSafe and the Jihad (Hard Work) of Moral Deliberation
06/09/2023 - Do We Offer A Car or A Camel? And the Racism of Human Rights
06/05/2023 - On Love, Trust, and Conviction
06/02/2023 - Weaponizing the Language of Human Rights, The Secular Religion of Our Age
05/26/2023 - The "Argument" Your Life Represents and The Palestine Industry
05/21/2023 - Individual Excellence as Resistance
05/19/2023 - The Human Instinct for Beauty: Nurtured or Suppressed?
05/14/2023 - God's Covenant of Love and the People of the Qur'an
05/12/2023 - Muslim Exceptionalism and the Individual as Ummah
05/08/2023 - WE DID IT! 114 CHAPTERS! AND MIDO AND BABA ARE BACK!
05/05/2023 - God's Covenant of Love and The People of Qur'an
04/30/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 112: Al Ikhlas and Surah Al Fatiha
04/30/2023 - TONIGHT! THE PROJECT ILLUMINE QURAN TAFSIR JOURNEY CONCLUDES
04/23/2023 - EID MUBARAK! AND GOD'S INVITATION TO DIGNITY
04/21/2023 - "'Eid Mubarak Everyone, But I Don't See How"
04/15/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 97: Al Qadr, Surah 113: Al Falaq, and Surah 114: Al Nas
04/14/2023 - God's Invitation to Dignity and Liberation, NOT Blind Submission to Power
04/09/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 111: Al Masad and Surah 109: Al Kafirun
04/09/2023 - Early Usuli Eid Gift!
04/07/2023 - The Manipulation of Muslim Consciousness and the Art of Subordination
04/02/2023 - We Plan and God Plans, and A Gift of Thanks
03/31/2023 - The Dirty Secrets of a Smear Campaign and A Predator Leading Prayer
03/26/2023 - Ramadan Reflections on Time and a Visit Back Home
03/25/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 103: Al-Asr and Surah 108: Al-Kawthar
03/24/2023 - Rethinking "How to Address Islamophobia" as Worship during Ramadan
03/18/2023 - The Alchemy of Suffering and Intimacy with God and the Qur'an
03/18/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 91: Al Shams and Surah 104: Al Humazah
03/17/2023 - The Wellsprings of Islamophobia: It's Not Where You Think
03/11/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 100: Al 'Adiyat and Surah 101: Al Qari'ah
03/11/2023 - Where is the Love? Where is the Justice? Where is the Ihsan?
03/10/2023 - When the Lands of Islam Are No Longer Safe for Muslims
03/04/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 90: Al Balad and Surah 95: Al Tin
03/04/2023 - More Convert Birthday Presents to Share! WITNESS by Wietske is Launched!
03/03/2023 - Where is the Love? Where is the Justice? Where is the Ihsan?
02/25/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 98: Al Bayyinah and Surah 99: Al Zalzalah
02/25/2023 - Muslim Love and a Review of Project Illumine
02/24/2023 - From Kaaba to Mukaab, the "Abrahamic Faith," and Our Virtual Reality
02/18/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 105: Al Fil and Surah 106: Quraysh
02/18/2023 - Three Bits of Good News Amidst All the Bad News
02/17/2023 - How NOT to Become So Attractive that Shaytan Wants to Follow You
02/11/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 102: Al Takathur & Surah 107: Al Ma'un
02/11/2023 - On Love in the Islamic Tradition and the Arc of the Quran
02/10/2023 - Zelzalahs (Earthquakes) and the Moral (and Amoral) Choices We Make
02/04/2023 - Project Illumine: Surah 110: Al Nasr
02/04/2023 - A Gift of Song - My Birthday Gift to You!
02/03/2023 - The Arc of the Qur'an and the Failure of Muslim Capital
01/28/2023 - CJ Werleman and The Prophet's Pulpit
01/27/2023 - What Do You Do When You Learn the Prophet's Gravesite will be Desecrated?
01/21/2023 - Don't Believe The Losers and A Crisis of Faith
01/20/2023 - The Garb of Truth and the Courthouse of the Self
01/14/2023 - Slave Ship to A Penal Colony and A Riddle
01/13/2023 - Don't Believe the Losers
01/07/2023 - The Priceless Gift of 2023
01/06/2023 - Slave Ship Headed to a Penal Colony
12/31/2022 - HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS FROM THE USULI INSTITUTE!! TOP TEN LIST INCLUDED!
12/30/2022 - Is Your Peace Real or Fake? On the Lightness of Treading
12/23/2022 - Muslim Girl Magazine Interview: Grace on Islam and Usuli
12/23/2022 - Want the Path of the Divine? Don't Follow the Demonic
12/17/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 5: Al Ma'idah
12/16/2022 - Don't Be Stupid About Your Package, and What About Gaza?
12/16/2022 - Surah 5: Al Ma'idah and Necessary Intellectual Armor for Women
12/10/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 89: Al Fajr and Surah 92: Al Layl
12/09/2022 - Happy 5th Year Anniversary Usuli Institute!!!
12/09/2022 - Surah Al Ma'idah and The Feast
12/03/2022 - My Heart Beats for Mecca and The Visitor
12/03/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 93: Al Duha & Surah 94: Al Sharh
12/02/2022 - "Judeo-Christian Values" and the Road to Moral Bankruptcy
11/25/2022 - "Choosing Death over Life and the Illusion of Liberty" and Puppy Power!
11/25/2022 - The Art of Gratitude and Embodying Beauty as Islam
11/18/2022 - "The Moral Potential of Sharia: How are we faring?" and Mapping The Prophet's Pulpit!
11/18/2022 - Choosing Death over Life and The Illusion of Liberty
11/11/2022 - The Moral Potential of Sharia: How Are We Faring?
11/11/2022 - "Alcohol, Gambling, Self-Loathing and the Demonic Instrumentalities of Hate" and More from The Prophet's Pulpit!
11/04/2022 - Alcohol, Gambling, Self-Loathing, and the Demonic Instrumentalities of Hate
11/04/2022 - The Seeds of Sacred Beauty and The Prophet's Pulpit
10/28/2022 - The Seeds of Sacred Beauty: To Be Nurtured or Neutralized?
10/28/2022 - Notes to Self and What Happens When You Silence the Birds?
10/21/2022 - Doubling Down on Hijab, and the US as the Most Influential Imam in the World Today!
10/21/2022 - What Happens When You Silence the Birds?
10/14/2022 - How Many Uncovered Women's Heads Are Worth A Single Life Taken? And Self Care...
10/14/2022 - The U.S. Government is the Most Influential Imam in World Today
10/07/2022 - How Many Uncovered Women's Heads Are Worth A Single Life Taken?
10/07/2022 - The Blessing of RAMY, Season Three, Now on Hulu!
09/30/2022 - Khaled Abou El Fadl on The Battle Over Women's Hair
09/30/2022 - "Duties Before Rights: Are You Complicit in the Genocide of Muslims?"
09/25/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 9: Al Tawbah
09/23/2022 - "The Pulpit of Truth and the Battle over Women's Hair"
09/23/2022 - Ode to Oso! And SAT @ Noon ET: Panel on Blasphemy in the Islamic Tradition!
09/17/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 96: Al Alaq
09/16/2022 - More On Dogs! and Blasphemy in the Islamic Tradition!
09/16/2022 - "How to Kill the Soul of Islam"
09/10/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 60: Al Mumtahana
09/09/2022 - On Old Doggies, Calling Out Racism, and Liberal Islamophobia
09/09/2022 - "The Word of Power in A World of Disempowerment"
09/02/2022 - Tomorrow! Q&A for Surah Al Hajj and Surah Al Fath! Send Your ???'s!
09/02/2022 - "On Diversity and Inheriting Gold: Will The Qur'an Testify For or Against Us?"
08/27/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 48: Al Fath
08/26/2022 - "From Where and From Whom Do You Get Your Islam?"
08/26/2022 - CJ Werleman's Most Pivotal Moment and The Power of Education
08/19/2022 - On Exceptional Converts and Their Superpowers!
08/19/2022 - "Measuring One's Moral Illness: The Devil is in the Details"
08/13/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 22: Al Hajj
08/12/2022 - "The Sunni, The Shi'i, and The Gift of Consciousness"
08/12/2022 - It's a Dog's Life, and Share With A Friend Campaign!
08/06/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 66: Al Tahrim
08/05/2022 - "It's a Dog's Life: Reflecting on Rights to Life and Mercy"
08/05/2022 - And We Are Back! :) Conversation THIS SUNDAY with KAEF and The Mauritanian!
07/15/2022 - Cherif on Surah Al Azhab! We Are Off Next Week! :)
07/15/2022 - "Murder, Suicide, and Death by Abarahmic Accords"
07/08/2022 - Eid Al Adha Mubarak! 80 Surahs down, 34 to go!
07/08/2022 - "The Trust: When You Put Your Hand in the Hands of the Indecent"
07/06/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 33: Al Ahzab
07/01/2022 - "The Muslim Cost of SCOTUS and the Dawning of the New Colonizer"
07/01/2022 - From Cherif Abou El Fadl: "Reflecting on Light...and Makeup?" And KAEF on The Sin of Hajj
06/24/2022 - Reflecting on Light Upon Light and Surah Al Nur
06/24/2022 - "The Myth of the Decent Person and the Sin of Hajj"
06/17/2022 - Khaled Abou El Fadl on The Prophet's Pulpit, Shari'ah and Justice
06/17/2022 - "The Calculus of A Moral Decision and the Tapestry of Morality"
06/11/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 24: Al Nur
06/10/2022 - On Critiquing Hamza Yusuf
06/10/2022 - "Applying The Parable of Light Upon Light"
06/03/2022 - "On the Engineering of Faith and Being Worthy of God’s Aid"
06/03/2022 - A Note From Cherif Abou El Fadl: "On the Conduct of Anticipation"
05/28/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 59: Al Hashr
05/27/2022 - What Happens When Muslims Allow the Demolition of Al Aqsa?
05/27/2022 - "The Lessons of God The Teacher and Muhammad The Student"
05/21/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 61: Al Saff
05/20/2022 - Honoring Mama and a Beautiful Legacy
05/20/2022 - "What Happens When Muslims Allow The Demolition Al Aqsa Mosque?"
05/14/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 62: Al Jumu'ah
05/13/2022 - This Sunday! Dispelling Myths Q&A on Sexual and Spiritual Abuse, Part 2!
05/13/2022 - "And What Should Be Noted of Shireen Abu Akleh, Jared Kushner and Al Aqsa?"
05/06/2022 - The Intellectual Revolution Has Begun! Reading The Prophet's Pulpit
05/06/2022 - "The Power of the Collective and a Highly Relevant God"
04/30/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 63: Al Munafiqun
04/29/2022 - "Is Your Dignity Founded in God? Or is it Founded in Your Ego?"
04/29/2022 - Eid Mubarak Almost! Time for an Intellectual Revolution!
04/22/2022 - "It All Comes Down to Your Individual Choices and The State of Al Aqsa"
04/22/2022 - Ramadan Miracles and A Dream Realized!
04/16/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 58: Al Mujadilah
04/15/2022 - "Dreaming in Darkness and The Plight of Modern Day Israelites"
04/15/2022 - 74 Surahs Done. 40 to go. New Surah Tomorrow!
04/08/2022 - "Fasting, the Art of Closeness to God Through Denial"
04/08/2022 - Q&A on Surah 4: Al Nisa' TOMORROW! and Virtual Taraweeh Prayers!
04/01/2022 - "If You Journey Towards the Lord, Your Shaytan Can’t Come Along"
04/01/2022 - Ramadan Mubarak! The Latest at The Usuli Institute
03/25/2022 - "The Open Book Test That is The Quran & Testifying Against the Ego"
03/25/2022 - Recap on Q&A with Khaled Abou El Fadl on Spiritual and Sexual Abuse
03/18/2022 - "Are You Alive? Justice, Necropolitics, and The Living Dead"
03/18/2022 - This Sunday! Q&A with Khaled Abou El Fadl on Spiritual and Sexual Abuse
03/11/2022 - A Special Conversation On Life at Death and Surah Al Nisa' Continues Tomorrow!
03/11/2022 - "The Elixir of Faith and How to Change the World"
03/04/2022 - Reflecting on Our World with the Qur'an
03/04/2022 - "Intimacy With God and the Truth of the World Laid Bare"
02/25/2022 - What Islam Looks Like in Public and Surah 4: Al Nisa'
02/25/2022 - "The Plight of the Individual and the Sunnah of the Maker"
02/18/2022 - This Sunday! Khaled Abou El Fadl in Virtual Conversation with the Noor Centre
02/18/2022 - "The Hardest Tests of Apathy, Consuming & Being Consumed, and Not Giving Up"
02/11/2022 - "Learning Not to be Selfish and the Legacy of Killing the Prophet’s Grandson"
02/04/2022 - "The Commercialization of Targeting Muslims and Imprisoning Enlightenment"
01/28/2022 - "How Do Our Youth Make Sense of This World"
01/22/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 4: Al Nisa'
01/21/2022 - "God Talks. If Only We Would Listen"
01/15/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 49: Al Hujurat
01/14/2022 - "The Parable of the Doctor, the Patient, and the Illness"
01/08/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 47: Muhammad
01/07/2022 - "Addiction, Suicide, Identity and the Real Costs of Islamophobia"
01/01/2022 - Project Illumine: Surah 8: Al Anfal
12/31/2021 - "The Prophet's Last Words and the Christian New Year 2022,"
12/17/2021 - "The True Measure of Piety"
12/11/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 3: Al 'Imran
11/27/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 65: Al Talaq
11/26/2021 - "Banning Critical Race Theory: A Bellwether for Muslims?"
11/19/2021 - "On the American Islamophobia Industry and UAE’s new ‘Islam'"
11/12/2021 - "Muslims v. Supreme Court and Colonizing the Muslim Mind - UAE Version"
11/05/2021 - "What is Your Contribution to The Muslim Consciousness?"
10/29/2021 - "The ‘Angry’ Muslim Intellectual & Commercializing Muslim Murder"
10/22/2021 - "Trafficking 'Halal' Organs and Other Symbolic Signs of Our State"
10/15/2021 - "On Climate Catastrophe, Facebook's Secret Blacklist and the 'Love Jihad'"
10/08/2021 - "What Happens When Artificial Intelligence (AI) Turns Islamophobic?"
10/06/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 2: Al Baqarah
10/02/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 64: Al Taghabun
10/01/2021 - "What Occupies Your Heart? And More On Wolves in Shaykh's Clothing"
09/29/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 83: Al Mutaffifin
09/25/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 76: Al Insan
09/24/2021 - "The Unspoken Truth (Haqq) About Sexual Abuse and the Rights of Victims"
09/18/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 56: Al Waqi'ah
09/17/2021 - "Hypocrisy, Double Standards, and the Value of Muslim Life"
09/15/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 82: Al Infitar
09/11/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 30: Al Rum
09/10/2021 - "The Other Afghan Women and the American Liberation of the Taliban"
09/09/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 78: Al Naba
09/03/2021 - "Who Is More Deserving of Safety?"
08/28/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 6: Al An'am
08/21/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 12: Yusuf
08/20/2021 - "How Islam Is Supposed to Take People From Darkness to Light"
08/14/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 11: Hud
08/13/2021 - "Afghanistan, Self-determination and the Heartbreak of Hajj"
08/07/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 10: Yunus
08/06/2021 - "The Wisdom of Illness and the State of Muslim Instagram"
08/03/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 71: Nuh
07/31/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 23: Al Mu'minun
07/27/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 87: Al Ala
07/25/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 18: Al Kahf
07/20/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 88: Al Ghashiyah
07/17/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 21: Al Anbiya'
07/16/2021 - "The Meaning of Hajj and the Uyghur Holocaust"
07/13/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 70: Al Ma'arij
07/10/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 14: Ibrahim
07/09/2021 - "The Butterfly Effect: Choosing the Divine or the Demonic"
07/03/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 7: Al A'raf
07/02/2021 - "Bill Cosby, Britney Spears and The Gift of Light"
06/29/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 79: Al Nazi'at
06/26/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 42: Al Shura
06/25/2021 - "The Cost of Speaking Truth and True Feminists"
06/22/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 69: Al Haqqah
06/19/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 37: Al Saffat
06/18/2021 - "The Challenge of The Quran and Losing Our Sense of the Obvious"
06/15/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 67: Al Mulk
06/12/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 41: Al Fussilat
06/11/2021 - "The Tyranny of the Nervous System & The Muslim Betrayal of Uyghur Muslims "
06/08/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 51: Al Dhariyat
06/05/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 16: Al Nahl
06/04/2021 - "The Quranic Impulse and The Fallacy of Political Islam"
05/29/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 43: Al Zukhruf
05/28/2021 - "Who Invents Our Pharaohs"
05/25/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 54: Al Qamar
05/22/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 31: Luqman
05/21/2021 - "Why Jerusalem Matters"
05/15/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 17: Al Isra'
05/14/2021 - "Speaking the Unspoken Truth About Israel and Palestine"
05/11/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 13: Al Ra'd
05/07/2021 - "Habermas and the Immorality of Muslims"
05/04/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 77: Al Mursalat
05/01/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 34: Saba
04/30/2021 - "The Last 10 Days of Ramadan and Bearing Witness for Shaytan"
04/27/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 72: Al Jinn
04/24/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 27: Al Naml
04/23/2021 - "Are Muslims a Countermeasure to Racism or Part of the Problem?"
04/20/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 68 Al Qalam
04/17/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 28 Al Qasas
04/16/2021 - "Where Will You Be Next Ramadan? And the Pain of Racism"
04/10/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 26 Al Shu'ara
04/09/2021 - "Pathologies of A Defeated People and Aiding Muslim Prisoners"
04/06/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 86 Al Tariq
04/03/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 19 Maryam
04/02/2021 - "The Journey to God and Empowering Women"
03/30/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 75 Al Qiyamah
03/27/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 44 Al Dukhan
03/26/2021 - "On Nawal al Saadawi, Alhurra Channel and the Limits of Free Thinking"
03/23/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 85 Al Buruj
03/20/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 20 Ta Ha
03/19/2021 - "Surah al Najm and the Idols Within"
03/16/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 53 Al Najm
03/13/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 40 Ghafir
03/12/2021 - "The Unshackling of Human Beings"
03/09/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 80 Al Abasa
03/06/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 39 Al Zumar
03/05/2021 - "What Does Your Iman Amount To?"
03/02/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 84 Al Inshiqaq
02/27/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 35 Fatir
02/23/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 81 Al Takwir
02/20/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 38 Saad
02/19/2021 - "Mystifications of Power & The Eradication of the Prophet's Sunnah"
02/16/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 73 Al Muzzammil
02/13/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 50 Qaf
02/12/2021 - "The Legacy of Monotheism and the Seat of Power"
02/09/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 74 Al Muddaththir
02/06/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 25 Al Furqan
02/05/2021 - "The Prophet's Du'a and an Usuli Cult?"
01/30/2021 - Project Illumine: Surah 52 Al Tur
01/29/2021 - "The Paradigm Shift That is the Qur'an"
01/22/2021 - "What Does Islam Offer? On Taking God Seriously"
01/15/2021 - "Transporting The Library"
12/25/2020 - "Truth Justice, and Hope at Christmas"
12/18/2020 - "The Niche for Divine Light"
12/11/2020 - "A Profound Question From His Younger Son"
11/27/2020 - "What SubhanAllah Really Means and Which Muslims Orgs to Boycott"
11/20/2020 - "Allahu Akbar, "Political Islam" and the Radical Liberation of Faith"
11/13/2020 - "On the Representation and Perception of Muslims"
11/06/2020 - "Godliness, Democracy and The Post Colonial Muslim Super Ego"
10/30/2020 - "A Great Prophet and the Racism of France"
10/16/2020 - "The Prophet's Pulpit and French Islamophobia"
10/10/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah 29 Al Ankabut
10/09/2020 - "On Preserving Women and Female Reciters of the Quran"
10/02/2020 - "The Prophet's Hadith on the Intellect"
09/25/2020 - "Death by Doctrine of the 'Legitimacy of the Usurpers'"
09/18/2020 - "On Critical Race Studies and What is the Point of Religion?"
09/12/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah 46 Al Ahqaf
09/11/2020 - "The New Islam of Absolute Silence"
09/04/2020 - "On Democracy, Voting and Defending Dictators"
08/29/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah 15 Al Hijr
08/28/2020 - "All Lives vs Black Lives and the Sin of Holy Rhetoric"
08/21/2020 - "When Truth, Principle and Ethics are Trumped by Politics"
08/15/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah 36 Ya Sin
08/14/2020 - "The State of Jerusalem and the Test of Wealth"
08/07/2020 - "The Shame of the 'Commission on Unalienable Rights Report"
08/01/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah 32 Al Sajdah
07/31/2020 - "On Eid Al Adha and the Prophet's Last Will and Testament"
07/18/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah 55 Al Rahman
07/17/2020 - "The Entire Philosophy of Existence in a Paragraph"
07/11/2020 - Surah 89: Al Fajr, Verses 17 to 30 (Conclusion)
07/10/2020 - "The Story of Prophet Yunus and Why Despair is Not an Option"
07/04/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah 57 Al Hadid (Iron) and Surah 45 Al Jathiya
07/03/2020 - "Who is the Better Muslim and What Would God Think?"
06/27/2020 - Project Illumine: Surah al Hadid (Iron)
06/27/2020 - EXCERPT: New Quran Halaqa Project Description
06/26/2020 - "Our Character is Built On Our Stories"
06/19/2020 - "The Islam of Dignity: Are You on the Right Side of History?"
06/12/2020 - "The Prophet's First Khutbah and the Cornerstone of Faith"
06/06/2020 - Surah 89: Al Fajr, Verses 4 to 16
06/05/2020 - "Why All Evil is Interconnected and Why Muslims Should Protest"
05/29/2020 - "Jahiliyya and the Murder of George Flynn"
05/22/2020 - "The Bismillah Covenant"
05/15/2020 - "Narratives of Finding Dignity and Justice with God"
05/08/2020 - "What is Your Muslim Spirit? Why Islam was given to the Arabs"
05/02/2020 - Surah 89: Al Fajr, 1st Three Verses
05/01/2020 - "Bilal, The Prophet, and Casting Ourselves Unto Ruin"
04/24/2020 - "The Power of Ramadan: Fasting, Guidance and The Criterion"
04/17/2020 - "When Mecca is Empty, What Remains?"
04/10/2020 - "Addressing the Generational Divide Among Younger and Older Muslims (Note Accompanying Addendum)"
04/04/2020 - Surah 90: Al Balad (End)
04/03/2020 - "To God We Belong and To God We Return"
03/27/2020 - "More On Virtual Khutbahs and the Personal Nature of a Pandemic"
03/20/2020 - "Perhaps You Will Turn To God: On the Coronavirus and God's Love"
03/13/2020 - "Trials of a Prophet Loved and The Mirror of the Coronavirus"
03/06/2020 - "What Do You Hear When the World Goes Silent?"
02/28/2020 - "When the World Goes Silent: Reflecting on Loss"
02/15/2020 - Surah 90: Al Balad, Part 2
02/14/2020 - "The Theology of Despotism and Reflecting on the Coronavirus"
02/07/2020 - "The Higher Aspirations of Justice"
01/31/2020 - "Humility, Certitude and 'The Deal of the Century''"
01/24/2020 - "Reason and Revelation: On Becoming A Moral Human Being'"
01/17/2020 - "True Monotheism and Returning the Gaze, Part II'"
01/11/2020 - Surah 90: Al Balad (Start: 1st three verses)
01/10/2020 - "Resisting the Colonizing of Muslim Minds and Salat al Istisqa'"
12/27/2019 - "Tawheed and Trinity: Why is Monotheism so Hard?"
12/20/2019 - "The Symbolic Caliphate"
12/14/2019 - Surah 91: Al Shams (Conclusion)
12/13/2019 - "Liberation from Mythology and the Power of A White Jesus"
12/06/2019 - "Returning the Gaze: A Walk Through the Bible"
11/29/2019 - "On Knowing the Strength of Your Inner Light"
11/22/2019 - "Your Existence is No Coincidence"
11/15/2019 - "What God Expects From Us"
11/09/2019 - Surah 92: Al Layl (End) and Surah 91: Al Shams (Start)
11/08/2019 - "Parables of Light and Darkness"
11/01/2019 - "Cleansing Oneself of the Companionship of Satan"
10/25/2019 - "On Asserting the Truth of Al Haqq"
10/18/2019 - "On Internalizing Ayat al Kursi"
10/12/2019 - Surah 92: Al Layl (The Night), Part 1
10/11/2019 - "On Injustice and Muslims Defending the Muslim Ban"
10/04/2019 - "On the Definition of a Scholar"
09/27/2019 - "On Failing the Inheritance of the Prophets"
09/20/2019 - "More Lethal Than the Islamophobes - The Modern Day Murji'ah"
09/13/2019 - "On Reviving the Ideas of the Trash Bin of History"
09/06/2019 - "On Asking God for Light Upon Light"
08/31/2019 - Surah 93: Al Duha, Part 2 (Conclusion)
08/30/2019 - "On Slavery and a Moral Reading of the Quran"
08/23/2019 - "From Bearing Witness to Becoming the Opiate of the Masses'"
08/16/2019 - "On Fitna, Ethics and the Modern Day 'Marketplace'"
08/10/2019 - Surah 93: Al Duha, Part 1
08/09/2019 - "On Hajj and The Selling of the Soul of Islam"
08/02/2019 - "How to Live the Philosophy of Islam"
07/26/2019 - "On Reading and Testing the State of Your Faith"
07/19/2019 - "On Muslim Pharoahs, Terrorists and Recognizing the Straight Path"
07/13/2019 - Surah 94: Al Sharh (Relief)
07/12/2019 - "On the Price of Silence, Nicki Minaj, and the U.S. Commission on Human Rights"
07/05/2019 - "On Logic, Justice and Obeying Unjust Rulers"
06/28/2019 - "On Witnessing, and Closing the ICSC Chapter"
06/21/2019 - "On Being Banned: Shaming or Schooling the ICSC?"
06/15/2019 - Surah 95: Al Tin (The Fig)
06/14/2019 - "On Rupert Murdoch, Power and Resisting the Party of the Devil"
06/07/2019 - "On Eid, Sudan, and What to Do When the Muslim Body Ails"
05/31/2019 - "Which Islam? Dignity or Death?"
05/24/2019 - "On Divinity, Justice and Muslims Murdering Muslims"
05/18/2019 - Surah 97: Al Qadr
05/17/2019 - "School of Fasting for the Divine," ICSC Khutbah
05/10/2019 - "Why Our Youth Leave Islam; When Moses Will Not Confront the Pharoah"
05/03/2019 - "The Dalil (Evidence) of Love"
04/26/2019 - "The Prophet's Prayer of Love"
04/20/2019 - Surah 98: Al Bayyinah
04/19/2019 - "The Power of Love," ICSC Khutbah
04/12/2019 - "On Love and A Loving God in Islam"
04/05/2019 - "On the Truth of Jumu'a, Orphans and Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem"
03/29/2019 - "On the Accountability of Privilege," Princeton University Khutbah
03/22/2019 - "American Muslims - Moral Pilots or Moral Failures?"
03/16/2019 - Surah 99: Al Zalzalah
03/15/2019 - "Islamophobia, Racism and the New Zealand Massacre," ICSC Khutbah
03/08/2019 - "The New Crusades"
03/01/2019 - "On Evaluating Moral Character, Trusting Intuition and Cleaning your Vessel"
02/22/2019 - "Recolonization, Racism and the Role of Reason"
02/16/2019 - Surah 100: Al 'Adiyat
02/15/2019 - "Thinking Islam Anew Away from the Lands of Despotism and Hypocrisy"
02/08/2019 - "The Cycle of Life and Honoring Guido Santi"
02/01/2019 - "The Lifeline of Prayer, Perseverance and Patience," ICSC Khutbah
01/25/2019 - Usuli Institute First Virtual Khutbah
01/12/2019 - Surah 101: Al Qaria
12/22/2018 - Halaqa: The Meaning, Purpose and Effect of Prayer
12/08/2018 - Surah 102: At-Takathur
10/06/2018 - Surah 104: Al-Humazah
09/15/2018 - Surah 110: Al Nasr
09/01/2018 - Surah 55: Al Rahman, Verses 66 to 78 (End)
08/25/2018 - Surah 55: Al Rahman, Verses 49 to 65
08/11/2018 - Surah 55: Al Rahman, Verses 34 to 48
07/28/2018 - Surah 55: Al Rahman, Verses 26 to 33
07/14/2018 - Surah 55: Al Rahman, Verses 15 to 25
06/23/2018 - Surah 55: Al Rahman, Verses 1 to 14
05/19/2018 - Halaqa: On Luminosity
04/21/2018 - An Evening with Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl and The Usuli Institute
04/07/2018 - Conversation with Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl and Dr. Heather Laird on Muslim Mental Health
03/17/2018 - Conversation with Khaled Beydoun and Salam al-Marayati
02/03/2018 - The Usuli Institute Third Halaqa, 3 February 2018
01/06/2018 - The Usuli Institute Second Halaqa, 6 January 2018
12/09/2017 - The Inauguration of The Usuli Institute
12/01/2004 - English Translations of the Quran: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - References Sources Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - The WORST Books on Islam: Identified by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on Miscellany: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on Culture, Economics and Politics: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on Geographic Regions and Nation-states: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on History: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on Islamic Jurisprudence: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on Theology and Philosophy: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on Sufism: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on Shi'ism: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on The Quran (Translations, Commentaries, Studies): Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Books on The Prophet Muhammad: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl
12/01/2003 - Comprehensive Islamic Studies Bibliography by Professor Patrick O'Donnell (2003)
12/01/2003 - General Books on Islam: Recommended by Dr. Abou El Fadl