Entries for September 2008

Moonsighting for Shawwal 1429

The Astronomical New Moon is on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 8:12 GMT, 4:12 am EDT, 1:12 am PDT). It will not be visible on September 29 except small possibility in Ploynesian Islands

The Mosque Foundation an its community to celebrate the first day of Eid Al-Fitr on Wednesday October 1st. The Eid prayer well be held at Toyota Park of Bridgeview.

The Mosque Foundation will provide lots of fun activities FREE of charge for kids to enjoy and celebrate. Fun activites include: Pony rides, clowns, jumpers, face painting, balloons and more…

Ramadan is a month of cleansing: a month during which the believer is spiritually and physically cleansed from the impurities that are an inevitable fact of life on earth estranged from the Lord God. It is fitting to fast to achieve this goal. As physicians, whenever we want an accurate picture of the health and actions of the body's metabolic pathways, we ask the patient to fast before having their blood drawn.

The Muslim community throughout the US and in the Mosque Foundation mourns the loss of a great American Muslim Leader, a courageous man, and relentless fighter for Justice and Truth, Imam W. Deen Mohammed.

So we know we need to perform the daily prayers. What if you’re that person who knows s/he is supposed to pray, but you can’t bring yourself to do it? Maybe you’re just too lazy. Maybe, at those moments, you’re just out of energy. You wish you could pray, ....

by Dr. Zaher Sahloul

Message From the President:  What Not to Do This Ramadan ...

Message From the Imam: Ramadan, The Believer's Fortress...

September 2008 ....

The Muslim scholar and poet al-Rumi says, "There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach's emptiness." He compares people to reed pens, wooden instruments that could not write without first being hollowed out. "Be empty," he says, "and write secrets." Ramadan comes from the Arabic root "ramada," which refers to severe heat, as in the harsh