Leading a Life In Which Everything Revolves Around Your Creator | Imam Ahmad Deeb
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2023-01-06

Imam Ahmad Deeb gives practical and spiritual insights about having a salient focus on God in every aspect of our life. 

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This gathering was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Sunday, January 1, 2023. Watch the entire gathering: https://youtu.be/g_8EJSbgCdk

About the Speaker:
Imam Ahmad Deeb's grandfather Dr. Sheikh Ramadan Deeb, one of the oldest living scholars in Damascus, is a renowned Syrian scholar who built important bridges between western and eastern scholarship. He grew up watching his father, Shaykh Abdallah Deeb, lead a Muslim community in Orlando, Florida.

But, even though he was born into a family of Muslim scholars, Imam Ahmad Deeb struggled as a teenager seeking answers to fundamental questions about religion.

It wasn’t until University, when he began attending a local halaqa and listening online to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, that Imam Deeb felt his mind and his heart begins to find a connection to Islam. Upon graduation, he turned his focus to seeking knowledge at a higher level.

Shaykh Muhammad bin Yahya al-Husayni al-Ninowy, a family friend, invited him to join a Madina Institute pilot program he was starting in South Africa. Imam Ahmad Deeb spent a year at the Madina Institute in Cape Town. When he returned, he continued studying with local scholars, including his father and began a Master’s in Islamic Studies at Bayan Islamic Graduate School in Claremont, California.

Today, Imam Ahmad Deeb is the Imam at the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, located in one of the oldest Muslim communities in North America. He is the co-founder of Pillars Seminary alongside Shaykh Ismail Bowers, which focuses on teaching the foundational Islamic sciences to busy professionals, as well as the co-founder of Itqaan Institute, dedicated to developing a love of God through a relationship and mastery of reciting the Qur’an, with his father as the primary teacher and leader.

His story intersects with many familiar names: Shaykh Ramadan Deeb, Shaykh Muhammad bin Yahya al-Ninowy, Shaykh Abdallah Deeb, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Dr. Sherman Jackson, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad (Timothy J. Winter), Shaykh Jihad Hashim Brown, Shaykh Ismail Bowers, Ustadh Arthur Richards Jr., Dr. Ali Shahata, and Imam Mohamed Masri.

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The Mawlid is a joyous expression of the greatest blessing from Allah.

Mawlid (or Mawlid al-Nabi al-Sharif) is the observance of the birth of Islamic Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), which is commemorated in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.

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Mawlid al-Nabi (مولد النبي), Arabic for the "Birthday of the Prophet" (ﷺ), marks the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's (ﷺ) birth. Please join the MCC for our annual Mawlid as we commemorate the birth and life of our beloved Prophet (ﷺ). These are blessed evenings filled with Qur'anic recitation, poetry, speeches, and desserts, insha'Allah.

We take this blessed opportunity to remind ourselves of the three rights that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ requires from us.

1. Marifah – Recognizing who the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is.
2. Muhabbah – Loving the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
3. Ittiba’ – Obedience to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

The second two (loving and obeying) are not fully possible without really recognizing the first – who the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was.