Praying in Public: Creating Prostration Marks of Light | Sidi Haroon Sellars
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2023-06-10

Sidi Aaron Haroon Sellars gives tips to be creatively righteous when out in public and needing to fulfill our daily Salat prayers. 

He gives personal examples of finding quiet spaces to remember God in shopping malls and movie theaters and leaving behind sajda marks of light that will testify on our behalf on the Day of Judgement.

Sidi Haroon spoke in response to an online question about being Muslim in a city in America where there isn't a lot of diversity or other Muslims during a teen-parent forum at the MCC. Watch that insightful panel: https://youtu.be/U8bzS2tGAtI 

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This panel was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on April 12, 2019.

About Br. Aaron Haroon Sellars
Aaron Haroon Sellars was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where he majored in graphic arts and developed a special interest in film, photography and music. Subsequently, after joining the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists/Screen Actors Guild, he worked for four years as an extra in movies and television, acted in commercials, and did voiceover work for film and radio broadcasts. For over two years he was lead singer and songwriter for the alternative band Motiongrind as well as a producer of a large body of material as a solo artist.

He converted to Islam in 1994 and has been serving as the audio-visual technician at Zaytuna College (former Zaytuna Institute) since 2001. At Zaytuna he uses a variety of media including digital photography, audio and video to document and share the college’s historic mission to be the first fully accredited Muslim College in America. A published poet, he lives with his wife and their three daughters in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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