12/22/17: Justice for Jerusalem! Details of Imam Words, Addressed in Civic Center in Dearborn!

Justice for Jerusalem!

Details of Imam Elahi Words, Addressed in Civic Center in Dearborn!

Jerusalem has been known as the spiritual capital of three Abrahamic faiths for thousands of years.

President Trump's decision to turn Jerusalem to the capital of Israel, is a damaging and dangerous decision not only for Muslims, but also for Christians who live in Palestine and see Jerusalem as Jesus city.

For the Palestinians wither Muslims or Christians, its unimaginable to think of Palestine without Jerusalem!

But president Trump and vice president, Mike Pence's direction is also dangerous for Jews.

To be fair, this administration is not responsible for this for this 70 year old mess in the Middle East.

But its responsible for not showing some courage, commitment and leadership and for not being part of a just and peaceful solution, this administration continues to be part of the problem, just for political purposes.

The solution is not by denying or ignoring the problem, or by keep changing the subject. If 14 out of 15 members of Security Council say we have a problem and Netanyahu is the only one who thanks Trump, then obviously we have problem.

The solution is not blaming the victims, or considering the Israeli occupation as someone else fault.

Counting on corrupt kingdoms and founders of al-Qaeda and Isis is not the solution.

The Saudis and Israeli can be

the best allies, but no honorable people of Jewish, Christian or Muslim nations would ever respect that union. That is the union of the thieves, either stealing the Palestinian property and building illegal settlements or the house of Saud of stealing the oil and money of their people to buy hundreds of palaces. Ben Salman paid $300 million for one house in in France, $450 million for one painting! and $550 million for one boat and he calls himself a reformer! How nice!

The world is vomiting to watch all those wasteful expenses, while 20 millions of Yemenis are starving to death while still under the daily bombardments and war crimes of house of Saud.

No one can blame the Palestinians for this long conflict!

Late Yasser Arafat went to Camp David and Oslo, he did every compromise yet he was punished under house arrest and finally suspicious death.

Mahmud Abbes is approaching the same end. 

As Abraham Lincoln said, you can't fool all of the people all of the time, Sooner or later the truth will be known by all the people.

I am worried not only for Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem but also my Jewish brothers and sisters in humanity. For how many more years or decades they should be protected in that military base called Israel? 

In the last 70 years, the US has spent trillions of dollars to protect Israel; it's not about just $ 4 billion a years, all the money in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, Yemen and Libya wars, partly to protect Israel. What if one day America stops doing that, what would happen to the Jewish people? 5 million Palestinian are already homeless and feel the pain of homelessness, let's have no homeless from any race or religion any more. 

Let's win the minds and minds of the people in the Middle East and everywhere, wining those luxurious palaces in Riyadh and tall towers in Tel Aviv is not the solution.

Let's be friends with those poor people who defended the churches, and saved Christian communities not those who supported the Isis, whether with their money or their air force.

Jerusalem was occupied one time in 1948 and second time in 1967 and third time now in 2017, this is no one else fault, except Israel.

Let's be honest, identify the real sources of threat and the real enemies of peace in the Middle East.

We pray for peace, for a day when all Abraham children live in Jerusalem with freedom, democracy, dignity peace and justice. Ameen.

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11/22/17: Hamtramck Interfaith Thanksgiving, an Inspiring Outreach and Bridge Building!

Hamtramck Interfaith Thanksgiving, an Inspiring Outreach and Bridge Building!
It was great to listen to so many officials, community and religious leaders. Honorable Judge Shakour address was very enlightening.
Imam Elahi made the closing words in which he thanked the Almighty for His Mercy and Wisdom. Everything in this universe is manifestation of His mercy and justice.
We thank Him for His gift of guidance, grace and for blessing us with Abraham, Muses, Jesus and Mohammad (pbut) to lead us to the straight path.
We thank God for our freedom, for our opportunities, and the ability of listening and learning from one another.
Imam Elahi mentioned that though the history of Thanksgiving is full of controversy, yet the concept of gratefulness is a common concept. The word of shokr or gratitude is mentioned in the Quran 75 times.
In conclusion, Imam Elahi expressed happiness that the butcher of Bosnia was brought to justice today and he prayed that soon the war criminals and butchers of Yemen (the evil aggressors of Saudi corrupt kingdom) and the criminals in Myanmar be taken to justice too.
Special Thank you to Br. Arif for bringing us together in such a magnificent meeting!

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11/24/17: 2018 Martin Luther King Annual Service was Discussed at IHW Imam Hussein (as) Interfaith Hall!

2018 Martin Luther King Annual Service Was Discussed at IHW Imam Hussein (as) Interfaith Hall!

MLK Voice of Freedom, Justice and Truth Will Be Honored!

The representatives of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights interfaith churches met at Islamic House of Wisdom this afternoon to discuss the New Year program for MLK.

The service will be held at Christ Episcopal Church in Dearborn Heights on Sunday January 14th in 2018 at 3pm. This year program will be titled as" Embracing a Beloved Community". 

During this meeting, Imam Elahi spoke about construction of this new hall which mainly serves our interfaith meetings and also a place for our senior citizens services. The hall is equipped with some educational and spiritual TV channels in Arabic and English so the elderly can enjoy their time before the prayer services.

During this interfaith meeting, Imam Elahi shared some information about 70 Islamophobic organizations and groups with over $200 million budget, with one agenda! Promoting hatred and hostility toward Islam and Muslims.

Using the general ignorance about Islam is the advantage of fear mongering forces and the best way of wining this psychological war is to meet, talk, listen and learn from one another. 
The voice of wisdom must win the voice of explosion, shooting, warmongering and terrorism.
Our guests also spoke about some other social, moral and national concerns and supported the idea of developing more dialogue and outreach among the mosques and churches in the area, while facing the daily struggles and challenges.

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11/9/17: Unity Dinner by MMCC at Burton Manor was a great Success!

Unity Dinner by MMCC at Burton Manor was a Great Success!

Hundreds of Muslims and nonMuslims attended the dinner. The members of Imams Council and both C-Chairs- Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi and Imam Mustafa Turk were on the stage for the Awards Ceremony that honored some religious, political and media leaders of Michiga

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11/9/17: Beautiful Unity breakfast!

Beautiful Unity Breakfast!

Unity Breakfast at the Islamic Center Hosted by Hajj Nasib Fawaz Honoring the Mayor O'Reilly of Dearborn!

We are one community, one family. There are different candidates for mayoral and the City Council positions, yet Tuesday election will be free of hatred and full of freedom, democracy and respect!

Regardless of your point of view, make sure you are out to vote on Tuesday! Voting is your both right and responsibility!

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11/9/17: Religious freedom in our Society Today

Religious Freedom In Our Society Today

Education-Engagement-Action!

Shared by Imam Elahi- First, I would like to say congratulations to the winners of yesterday's election and also those who didn't win but worked hard and made an investment of experience in their political life.

Next, I would like to talk about an important conference which was held in Detroit yesterday.
Thank you to honorable Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron the leader of Catholic Church in Michigan for your commitment, leadership and your extremely inspiring, intellectual and philosophical address in yesterday conference in SS. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church in Detroit.

The Archbishop made it clear that protecting our religious freedom is essential to our principle of patriotism. Religious liberty is based in human conscience and it is part of building our community and country. The Archbishop spoke about serious threats to our religious liberty in this political environment. 

Other speakers included Dr. Khaled Beydoun, Dr. Elizabeth Clark, Dr. Christopher Lund, Dr. Frank Ravitch and Rev. Elder Von G. Keetch also presented powerful messages on the perception of religious freedom, inclusion, diversity, looking for commonalities, defending the culture of tolerance, understanding, and respect as the fundamental elements of American dream!

Islamophobia was a central discussion in yesterday's conference.
Unfortunately the president, whose job is to unite the nation and be everyone's leader, has chosen to empower Islamophobia, which promotes hate crimes against the Muslim community!

In the afternoon session I read a hate letter I received yesterday. The letter is full of insults to our holy prophet Mohammad (pbuh) the Quran and Islamic teaching and tells me in order to be a moderate Muslim I have to publicly denounce my faith values!!

This 5 page letter attracted the attention of the entire panel, followed with big discussion of the afternoon conference. The speakers showed sympathy and support for the Muslim community and promised to work with our community to fight ignorance and bring more education and understanding to our society.

I wish our Muslim community get more involved and make some investment for the success of this educational struggle!

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10/19/17: Shia-Sunni Imam's Meeting at the IHW

Wednesday's Imams meeting at IHW-  discussing some important coming conferences and events!

1- MMCC Banquet on November 5th at Burton Manor at 6pm.

2- Interfaith Religious Freedom Conference on Tuesday, November 7th, 3:30-9 PM. University of Detroit Mercy Law School.

3- In this meeting the new interfaith Center at the Islamic House of Wisdom which will be also at the service of senior citizens was discussed.

The new addition will be officially open by the middle of November and all community seniors are welcomed to use this modern facility for their daily friendly meetings and for receiving spiritual and social services.
This way in addition to serving the educational needs of our youth, IHW will create more attention to elderly who may suffer from loneliness and age challenges.

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5-5-17: Non-Muslim Students Visit and Attend the Friday Prayer!

Non-Muslim Students Attended Friday Prayer!

5-5-17: Professor Martyn Smith and some of his non-Muslim students from the Lawrence University of Appleton, Wisconsin attended Friday prayer at the Islamic House of Wisdom yesterday!

It was their passion for knowledge and understanding that promoted them to drive over 500 miles to be in Dearborn area and I commended them for this!
They told me, they had heard a lot about Islam in the media and also Sharia law in Dearborn and they decided to come and find facts face to face!
After listening to Friday sermons and even following the ritual prayer with us, they came to our office for some chatting and conversation!
We talked about the vision of three Abrahamic traditions about the future of the world and the concept of Mahdi and Messiahin Islam, Christianity and Judaism!
The responsibility of the faithful during the time of expectation was another subject of discussion!
Not enough just to sit down and pray for the appearance of the savior, we all must rise to our responsibility and act to promote peace, justice and piety.
Our duty in the absence of Al-Mahdi is to stay faithful, optimistic, patient, while supporting the truth and standing against evil, hypocrisy, arrogance and oppression nationally and globally!
Our guests left the IHW with a heart full of joy and unforgettable memories of friendship, respect and mutual understanding!
We thank God for all of these outreach opportunities and blessings!

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5/4/17: Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi's Prayer on National Day of Prayer!

The National Day of Prayer Honored in Dearborn, Michigan!

I was so humbled and happy to stand with the Mayor, John O'Reilly of Dearborn, interfaith clergy, members of Dearborn's Police department and some community members to listen to their prayer and share with them my Islamic perspective of prayer! Please read the following words of grace and share your Ameen or Amin!

Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi's Prayer on National Day of Prayer!
Dearborn Administrative Center - 5/4/17

In the Name of God the Compassionate the Merciful.
Thank You God for guiding us to this gathering.
Please make every day of our nation, a day of prayer, a day of unity, a day of peace and a day of justice and generosity.
Bless our hearts with love, our minds with wisdom, our actions with compassion.
Lead us O Lord on the road of responsibility, so we can continue to raise our voice against the evil of ignorance, the sickness of extremism, the sin of segregation and racism, the hell of hypocrisy, injustice and oppression.
Bless our nation with the gift of health, happiness and prosperity and free us from any mental, moral, social and physical harms and evil.
Help our political leaders to be ambassadors of peace, rationality, rule of law and care for this country and the rest of humanity.
Bless O Lord our city and state and keep us all together, as one family during all times of sadness and happiness, tests and trials, tragedies and triumphs. Ameen!

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5-1-17: Dinner with Dr. Sell Harris a Demonstration of Interfaith Promise and Power!

Dinner with Dr. Sell Harris a Demonstration of Interfaith Promise and Power!

Professor Harris was the keynote speaker of IHW dinner on the birthday of Imam Hussein (sa) last Sunday!

Talking about Imam Hussein from a Christian perspective was very inspiring and energizing!

He spoke about love and sacrifice of Al-Hussein (SA) for the sake of God and humanity!

He was our guest and spent last few days in our house , while I took him to the airport this morning, he wanted our community to know that in his 35 years of interfaith he never met a community as loving, understanding, kind and hospitable than the Dearborn community!

He told me about his unique and enjoyable experience in our town and said that his sermon in this Sunday will be entirely dedicated to his experience of meeting with Muslim community in Dearborn.

He said his message for Virginia this week would be this: to know the real Muslim people you don't need to spend thousands of dollars traveling overseas, just visit Dearborn and taste culture, faith, kindness and love of Muslim people!

In his last night of staying in Michigan we enjoyed a friendly dinner with the presence of some religious and community leaders and enjoyed a delicious dinner and dialogue!

IHW is blessed to continue its interfaith journey and fight Islamophobia with giving non Muslims opportunity to meet Muslims!
Seeing believing!

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4/26/17: Shia-Sunni Imam's Meet

Tomorrow (Thursday) a Day of Fasting, Prayer and Sympathy with the Victims of Oppression and Injustice!

One Day of Fasting and Prayer in Sympathy with the Palestinians suffering from hunger strike in the Israeli jails, the prisoners in Bahrain and Saudi, the victims of terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya!
Based on the NGO Palestinian Prisoners' Club 1,500 people are taking part in this mass hunger strike. They ask for the most basic rights such as access to phones, better medical services and visiting rights for their families.
The Israeli government called the Palestinian prisoners terrorists and rejected any negotiation or compromise! They put Barghouti to solitary confinement for leading the hunger strike!
Let’s start our fasting and prayer from 5:13 in the morning (Thursday 4/26) till the Maghreb at 8:46 pm.
Today I asked the members of Shia and Sunni of Imams Council held at the Islamic House of Wisdom to participate in this practice and show sympathy and solidarity with the victims of injustice, occupation, oppression, war and terrorism from Palestine to everywhere in the Middle East and Africa!
I like to ask all the people of faith and consciousness in Muslim, Christian and Jewish community to show their spiritual support for this moral and humanitarian cause!

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4-23-17: NAACP Dinner begins with Prayer- Highlights of Imam Elahi's Prayer

Thousands of people stood up and respectfully listened to Islamic, Christian and Jewish Opening Invocations in Today’s NAACP Fight for Freedom Dinner at the Cobo Center in Detroit Michigan!

Before addressing this amazing annual assembly, I had a chance of meeting and having short conversations with many political and religious leaders including:

Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Congressman John Conyers, Senator Stabenow, Senator Gary Peters, Mayor Mike Duggan of Detroit, Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony the president of NAACP, Donnell White the Executive Director, Eric Sabree of Wayne County Treasury, Rev. Greg Roberts, Rabbi Yisrael Pinson and many more.

It was an amazing day of outreach and engagement. Islamic House of Wisdom is blessed with all these opportunities and fulfillment.

I was happy to see Br. Osama Siblani and Br. Nasser Beydoun during the dinner.

This is the text of my humble Invocation. During the invocation I tried to take an extra step to point out the suffering of other nations, such as Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Bahrain!

Imam Elahi's opening prayer at NAACP dinner in Detroit 4/23/17

I am so humbled and happy to be part of 62nd Annual Fight For Freedom Dinner this evening, honoring the NAACP for over a century of services and sacrifices for the sake of people who suffer from poverty, racism and discrimination.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Salaam alaikum (peace be with you all)

In Your name, O Lord of love and justice, peace and endless possibilities.

O Lord You promised both in the Bible and the Quran to make the weak and the oppressed the examples and the inheritors of this earth.

Thank you, O Lord for giving NAACP and all of us an opportunity and determination to be part of this struggle, to try to make the miracle of Your mercy and justice shining for all.

O Lord help our entire nation to join this journey of justice, and speak up against the evil of hypocrisy, dishonesty, discrimination, war, extremism, terrorism, death and destruction.

O Lord, we have lost our hope and trust, on those who chose to worship money, might, domination and devil over the Divine, , but we would never lose our hope, faith and trust in You and the universal messages of justice, human dignity, unity and brotherhood, You sent us through Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad (pbut).

O Lord, our world is thirsty of justice, freedom, peace, prosperity, reconciliation, forgiveness, friendship, solidarity, togetherness and cooperation!

Give us vision, courage and energy to replace racism with righteousness, discrimination with dignity, segregation with sympathy, hatred with love and empathy.

Please answer our prayers, provide protection, comfort, hope and healing for those who cry of pain, poverty, hunger and insecurity from the women and children in our neighborhoods to the suffering refugees, the victims of warmongering and terrorism in Africa and Middle East specially women and children in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and Bahrain and Nigeria.

Tonight we ask You to Bless NAACP dinner, bless our community, our country and our humanity, Amen!

PS

I invited some of those officials to Islamic House of Wisdom Dinner for this coming Sunday at 2:00pm.

Check your chance, you may win ziyarat of Imam Hussein, Imam Reda and other holy shrines in Iraq and Iraq during this dinner. The raffle is just for $10 and you may win more than $4000 for all the trip expenses.

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4-17-17: Visiting St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Livonia on Easter anniversary was an opportunity to enhance our interfaith understanding!

Visiting St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Livonia on Easter anniversary was an opportunity to enhance our interfaith understanding!

Ambassador Dr. Ali Ajami, our Khollan Al-Wafaa, Shaikh Hassan and I visited one of our best Interfath friend, Fr. Shalhoub the leader of St. Marry church in Livonia.

We did this after honoring the anniversary of Qana and also the victims of yesterday criminal terrorist tragedy in Syria in a memorial service in Dearborn!

Fr. Shalhoub is known as a great voice of wisdom, justice and human rights in our clergy community. Both the Fr. and his assistants and his congregation members warmly welcomed us and gave us an orientation about the artwork of their facility and the religious history behind it.

I told Fr. Shalhoub and his congregation that in this messy world, full of death, destruction, murder and corruption the concept of Easter is a reminder of life and resurrection, regardless of our theological differences on this Christian faith doctrine!

We need to promote the value of life and necessity of a global spiritual resurrection!

That should happen through fostering the culture of love, peace, forgiveness, friendship and reconciliation, not warmongering, fear, violence and hatred!

It's a blessing to be able to strengthen the gift of diversity in a world of division, darkness and destruction!

During the Islamic Hose of Wisdom dinner on April 30, we will listen to a great Christian pastor and professor who will fly all the way from Virginia to Detroit to speak about the love and sacrifice of imam Hussein for freedom, justice and peace in the world!

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4-13-17: Muslim Mental Health Conference

Thank you Dr. Halim Naeem for another educational conference on Muslim Mental Health!

I spent big part of my today's time in Lansing, Capital of Michigan interacting with other imams, doctors and professionals discussing the best ways of dealing with the diseases such as depression, mental disorder, suicide and other social problems.
As Muslims, we all are responsible to interact effectively to help, protect and express empathy with the suffering members of our society.
Today's gathering was another important step in identifying the urgent community issues and find the best ways of helping those who are going through stressful experiences in their lives.
Every speaker recognized the role of committed imams and their spiritual support in providing peace and tranquility specially for those who suffer from mental issues.
To follow the resolutions of this annual conference, the Islamic House of Wisdom has been holding some follow up gatherings and discussions in the last couple of years.

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4-5-17: Christian Nurses Interested to Know about the Islamic Values in serving their Muslim Patients!

Christian Nurses Interested to Know about the Islamic Values in serving their Muslim Patients!
A group of recent graduate students from the nursing department of EMU (Eastern Michigan University), who will start their job soon, visited the Islamic House of Wisdom today to learn more about the Islamic traditions in dealing with their Muslim patients in the hospitals.
The meeting this morning reminded me of almost 20 years ago when the late, M. Kay Siblani who herself originally was a nurse met with me to discuss some fundamentals about Islam in addition to issues like the impact of faith on healthcare delivery, clinical practices, tahara and cleanliness, modesty, terminal illness, hospice care and many other issues. The late, Key later wrote a book over 100 pages on the issues helpful for nurses to know about Islam and Muslims.
Today we had over an hour of conversation, question and answer, from sacredness of nursing career as an angelic service to people in pain to other related subjects. Also discussed general ignorance about Islam and the cancer of hatred, racism and Islamophobia to the concept of love, kindness, patience, peace and forgiveness both in Islam and Christianity.
I told the nurses that as you are helping and healing your patients with physical medicines in the hospitals, we try to turn our mosques in to spiritual hospitals and provide spiritual treatment.
The funny thing I told them, people get sick and come to the hospital because they get hurt by pain or scared of death but some of our attendees don’t always feel any urgency to come to the mosque because they don’t feel pain! Arrogance is an illness, greed is an illness, jealousy is an illness, selfishness is a sickness but instead of feeling pain, some may feel pleasure of these sicknesses and never feel the need to go to the emergency of spiritual hospitals. By the time they get the diagnoses, it might be too late to recover!
I concluded talking about the power of prayer even when doctors and nurses lose our hope!
Usually our office offers to our female guests to observe the scarf inside the mosque even if they are not Muslims, but today’s guests were welcomed by one of our new staff who was not aware that the scarves are kept in the prayer area, by the time they came up I had to welcome them with Islamic courtesy and hospitality. Till almost 40 years ago the ladies wouldn’t enter the Catholic Church without scarf. A lot to remember reflect and learn!

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3/23/17: Iraqi Religious Delegation Visited Islamic House of Wisdom This Morning!

Iraqi Religious Delegation Visited Islamic House of Wisdom This Morning!

A Kurdistani delegation of a Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian representatives visited House of Wisdom this morning.
The State Department in DC and Human Rights Organization in MI had coordinated the visitation.

We had over two hours of conversation, questions and answers about the experience of religious diversity both in Iraq and the U.S.
The Kurdistani Director of Religious affairs Mr. Mariwan Naqshbandy, also Khalid Alber, Awat Taieb and Sherzad Mamsani, shared with us information about the suffering of over a million refugees of all religious background from isis attacked areas to Kurdistan and told us about the pains and fears of the terrorism victims.
Dr. Shaikh Ahmad Iravani a professor of philosophy in Washington Catholic university, sayyed Hassan Qazwini and I explained the history of Code of Honor signed by over 30 Shia and Sunni leaders at IHW in 2007 and also our interfaith interest and interactions.
So many questions related to using religious texts to justify violence and we did our best to clarify and cover our guests’ questions.
Some representatives asked the best Tafsirs for the Quran with rejecting extremism and we provided some references.
I mentioned to our guests that isis and other extremists are political projects, created to destroy Islam, they are the worse enemies of our religion. Bombardment can’t finish them, the sources of their support must be blocked.
Rev. Edwin Rowe spoke about the Al-Qaeda mentality among some Christines in America and the interfaith work to stop hatred and clashes of cultures and religions.
Rasha Amulaiki spoke about the challenges of human and civil rights in the US and answered some of the guests’ questions.
Finally, I asked our guests to do everything to be part of one united Iraq. It’s great to be one strong country with diversity than a week and divided land, destroyed with war and violence.

The delegation expressed their joy and appreciation of today’s experience and invited us to visit Kurdistan of Iraq!
Hopefully one day we will visit Kurdestan but also Baghdad, Najaf and Karbala. Enshaallah

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3/20/17: Imam's Council Meeting with Delegation from Moscow Highlights Religious Diversity in US

3/20/17: Meeting at the Islamic House of Wisdom

The State Department in Washington DC had asked the Imams Council to host a religious delegation from Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Tatarstan and Daghestan for an orientation on religious diversity in the US.

They traveled to the USA to meet with the imams and other faith traditions leaders to discuss and experience of how religious diversity works among the Muslim communities and other communities in the US.
Imam Mustafa el-Turk and Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi as co-chairs of the Council talked about the code of honor signed by over 30 imams at IHW in 2007. Based on that code we decided to stand against Takfiri mentality and to reject extremism in any form. Imam Mohammad Musa, Imam Ali Soliaman, Imam Eshagh, imam Saleh Ahmad and sheikh Hassan also shared their experience.

We also listened to the experiences of our guests and exchanged questions and answers.
Imam Elahi mentioned how developments in Iraq, Syria and Yemen have created controversy among some leaders in Muslim community. Even between the two Co-Chairs of the Council imam Mustafa and Imam Elahi, yet we try to deal with our disagreements through dialogue not destruction. We get upset over certain approaches yet we resume our working relationships and try to focus on the issues that unite us rather than divide us.
One of the issues that unites us all is the issue of Islamophobia. We work on this through the media, social networks and specially our interfaith relationships.
The meeting lasted over two hours and our guests appreciated the hospitality of House of Wisdom and the imams openness and honesty in answering their questions.
We were also grateful of that inspiring experience of meeting with our brothers and sisters who traveled almost 8000 km from Moscow to Detroit and made this meeting possible. These kind of meetings would bring some healing to the wounds created by hatred and division caused by the Saudi money and Takfiri theology and the policy of divide and rule!

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3/18/17: Legacy and Leadership of Imam Musa Sadr Honored at Islamic House of Wisdom

Legacy and Leadership of Imam Musa Sadr Honored at Islamic House of Wisdom.

Dr. Raed Charafeddine the First Vice-Governor of Lebanon’s central bank, a lifelong activist in the areas of social justice and interfaith dialogue who has delivered lectures at many universities including Harvard, Yale, Tufts and Irvine stopped by in Dearborn for Sadr Foundation fundraising at the Islamic Center and visited the Islamic House of Wisdom yesterday.
Dr. Raed was accompanied by Sayyed Hameed Sadr the imam’s son and his brother Sayyed Nijad Charafeddine and the managers of Sadr Foundation in the US
Dr. Sayyed Raed spent couple of hours at the Islamic House of Wisdom yesterday morning, giving a spectacular presentation on the meaning of leadership in general and the leadership of Imam Musa Sadr in particular. The entire orientation was inspiring and educational.
I was impressed with Sayyed Raed’s powerful presentation specially his quotations from Imam Musa Sadr such as:
Social justice is a pre-requisite to national unity.
Serving the creature of God is the best deed of devotion.
God created science and religion as twins when He created human beings.
Faith in man is the earthy dimension of the faith in God.
All religions have the same root and purpose.
Congratulations to Sadr Foundation for their successful dinner yesterday!

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3/16/17: Faith Based Safety Summit Orientation- Shared by Imam Elahi

Living in a crazy, chaotic, violent and hateful world, messed up with war and targeted by terrorism is extremely dangerous. Prayer is Protective but Preparation is Needed too!


Shared by Imam Elahi- "Thank You to the County Administration for Today's Faith Based Safety Summit Orientation!
Over one Hundred Christian and Muslim clergy attended a safety summit at Larry K. Lewis Education Center today.
Representatives from law enforcement and Intelligence Organizations provided a great amount of vital information, so the churches and mosques are better prepared to respond to security threats.
These serious threats are created by human greed, ignorance, mental disorder and many other criminal causes.
How religious leaders can play a role in protection of places of worship against all these internal and external warning signs and symbols?
Five hours of security orientation was a great gift for places of prayer, education and community centers. I hope the Dearborn clergy community takes these sessions seriously in the future. I didn't see any of our local clergy in such a serious summit."

 

 

 

 

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