The Prophet ﷺ is a Reflection of Perfection | Ustadh Dr. Ali Ataie
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 05/09/2022

Dr. Ali Ataie gives comforting spiritual insights about spreading the love of our beloved Messenger ﷺ

He said the more we know about his life, character, and way, the more we will come to love and follow the one beloved to Allah.

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This talk was held at the Al-Maqasid in Macungie, Pennsylvania on August 11, 2022. It was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California. Watch this entire program: https://youtu.be/MIMj7yyNEbI

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Ustadh Ali Ataie is a perennial student and researcher who has been involved in interfaith activities for over two decades. He holds a Masters in biblical studies with a focus on New Testament and biblical languages. He also holds a PhD in cultural and historical studies in religion from the Graduate Theological Union. His doctoral work focused on Muslim hermeneutics of biblical texts, especially the Gospel of John. He lives in San Ramon, CA with his wife Roya and three daughters. Learn more about him at https://zaytuna.edu/academics/faculty/ali-ataie

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Sidi Ali Ataie studied various Islamic sciences with local San Francisco Bay Area scholars. He is a graduate of the Badr Arabic Language Institute in Hadramawt, Yemen, and studied at the prestigious Dar al-Mustafa, also in Hadramawt, under some of the most eminent scholars in the world. He holds a Master’s Degree in Biblical Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (Oct. 2011), with emphasis upon the New Testament (he is the first Muslim seminarian in the over 150 year history of the school to earn this degree). He is certified in Arabic, Hebrew, and Biblical Greek, and is fluent in Farsi. He also holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Biblical Hermeneutics from the Graduate Theological Union (Oct. 2016) and is a professor of Arabic, Qur'an, and Comparative Theologies at Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim College in North America.

Education: M.A., Biblical Studies, Graduate Theological Union; Ph.D. Islamic Biblical Hermeneutics, Graduate Theological Union.

Although the Prophet ﷺ subtly objected that people should not rise for him the way they used to rise for kings, Hassan ibn Thabit, the celebrated poet, struck by the Messenger’s beauty, rose and recited the following lines,

- My rising for the beloved is upon me a mandate,
- deserting a mandate is not upright.
- I wonder about the one with insight and wit;
- who sets eyes on such beauty and rises not!

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