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Juz’ 6: Sh. Yaser Birjas & Dr. Ahmed Khater | Our Deen is All About Caring For Each Other

March 27, 2023

Sh. Yaser Birjas, Ahmed Khater, Sh. Abdullah Oduro and Dr. Omar Suleiman

Islam invites us to unity, and the verses of juz 6 offers some guidelines on how best we can step towards unifying. Supporting one another in righteousness, enjoining good and forbidding evil, standing for justice, and supporting our scholars are just a few ways we achieve cohesion and show love for the sake of Allah.

Dr. Ahmed Khater and Sh. Yaser Birjas join Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro to discuss and ponder upon Surat al-Nisa and Surat al-Ma’idah from juz 6 of the Qur’an.

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0:00 – Intro
4:28 – Dr. Omar Suleiman reflects on how to work together for the sake of Allah
6:37 – The warnings in Surat Al Imran
8:09 – Support each other in unity
9:41 – The story of Cain and Abel
11:52 – Sh. Yaser reflects on the transition between Surat an-Nisa and Surat al-Ma’idah
15:07 – Our deen is all about caring for each other
16:21 – The problem with today’s society
18:34 – It’s not what you do; it’s how you do it
19:23 – Sh. Abdullah Oduro reflects on the lives of those who call to good and forbid evil
21:43 – The Qur’anic worldview on prophets
24:33 – The differentiation of iman
27:32 – Dr. Ahmed reflects on the importance or ruling by the rule of Allah
29:22 – Scholars and jurists preserve the religion
31:24 – It’s our turn to preserve this deen
36:17 – We must encourage people to learn their religion

Sh. Yaser Birjas

Advisor | Valedictorian of the class of 1996 from Islamic University of Madinah’s College of Shariah (Fiqh and Usul). Chair of Dept. of Islamic Law and Theory at Al-Maghrib Institute.

Ahmed Khater

Dr. Ahmed Khater was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in legal studies, and attained a second B.A. from Al-Azhar University in Islamic sciences and Arabic language. He received an M.A. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley with a specialization in Islamic law and legal theory, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union specializing in Islamic law and legal theory. He has received ijazat (licenses) in various Islamic sciences, including ones to teach and narrate the Hanbali school of law. He is an assistant professor of Islamic studies at Guidance College and the dean of the Department of Islamic Studies there. He is a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union where he previously was a lecturer of Islamic studies, an adjunct assistant professor of Islamic studies at Saint Mary’s College in California, an assistant professor of Islamic law and the dean of the English Faculty of Shariah at the Islamic University of Minnesota, a faculty member teaching Islamic law and a member of the academic committee at Mishkah University, and was a lecturer of Arabic language at the University of California, Berkeley. He previously worked with Al-Azhar University’s English Department of Islamic Studies to edit books and articles for the scholars of Al-Azhar. He works with the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America answering legal questions for their fatwa (legal edict) services, and as an Islamic law consultant, Resident Fatwa Committee secretary, and translator/editor. He teaches the traditional Islamic sciences at Zidni Institute, and is the resident scholar of Masjid Annur Islamic Center in California.

Sh. Abdullah Oduro

Fellow, Head of Convert Resources | Abdullah Oduro is a first generation Ghanian native that converted to Islam in 1997. He graduated from the College of Islamic Law from the University of AlMadinah in 2007. He conducts public speeches, sermons, lectures, and workshops around the US on Islamic Law, self-improvement, and convert life. He is currently the Imam at the Islamic Center of Coppell and Lewisville in Dallas, TX. He resides in Dallas, TX with his wife and four children.

Having recently joined Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research as a Scholar, Shaykh Abdullah leads a team providing unique and comprehensive resources for new Muslim converts and institutional convert care.

Dr. Omar Suleiman

President | Imam Dr. Omar Suleiman is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, and an Adjunct Professor of Islamic Studies in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Southern Methodist University.