Interracial Marriage: Cultural Preference or Racism? | Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2023-06-21

Shaykh Ubaydullah Evans gives comforting spiritual insights about how we assess our attitudes about interracial marriage and if we oppose it, is this type of union uncomfortable to us for our sons or daughters marrying outside of their race because of cultural convention or a sense of racism.

This is clip from a talk in which Ustadh Evans spoke about the anti-racist message in Islam: https://youtu.be/9PpMKZhbR4I- 

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This talk was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on February 11, 2022.

Narrated that Umm Kalthoom bint ‘Uqbah said: I never heard the Messenger of Allah grant a concession allowing any kind of lying except in three cases: a man who says something intending thereby to bring about reconciliation; a man who says something at the time of war; and a man talking to his wife or a woman talking to her husband. (Classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in as-Saheehah, 545)

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Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans is ALIM’s first Scholar-in-Residence. He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Ustadh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars while simultaneously pursuing a degree in journalism from Columbia.

Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he is the first African-American to graduate from its Shari’a program.

Ustadh Ubaydullah also instructs with the Ta’leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) at times. Follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/UbaydullahEvans

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