Such a beautiful session. It actually made me scared about sharing information online, because everything is about context and that's obviously almost always missing from social media.

So insightful and thought provoking discussion! Mashallah!

May Allah reward and protect Sh. Dr. Hatem al-Haj and his family. He’s such an articulate and effective teacher. I enjoyed and learned a lot from his classes in 2003-2004 before moving from Minnesota to Texas. He would drive all the way from Albert Lea (near Mayo Clinic), which is about 2 hours away, to mpls to teach us at Masjid ar-Rahman and Dar al-Huda. May Allah accept his efforts.

This discussion is transformative for me.

Alhamdulillah, thank you for your message of hope ...in today's dunya that deludes the most righteous of us 24/7 ...

Allah bless you

What an essential topic for our entire community. I find it difficult to know how to respond when a friend posts photos of herself after removing hijab and many people praise her how lovely she looks. I found the sample responses shared to “change the paradigm” especially helpful.

Thank you for focusing on evasions , excuses and delusions to bypass following the tenets of our deen. . I learnt a lot!

I think “riba” is a sin that has become very normal in our Muslim community. Unfortunately many people do not consider it as a sin. Everyone is buying houses on riba and are not thinking of it as a sin.

In regard to avoid sins and situations that lead to sin: one of the challenges is ghibat , when your friends go in this direction and you need to use extra brain power to figure out how to steer away from it.

39:17 ❤

it sounds really nice