Patience Personified: Asma bint Umays (RA) | Ustadha Maryam Amir
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2022-09-27

Ustadha @themaryamamirgives comforting spiritual and practical insights about Asma bint Umays  رضي الله عنه.

Ustadha Maryam expands on her noble lineage, her embracing Islam early, her losses, and her patience in migrating twice and enduring the hardships for the sake of Allah ﷻ. 

Shaykha Maryam speaks at a women's retreat about the Prophetic virtues reflected in the women around the Messenger of Allah. Watch the complete seminar at http://mcceastbay.org/reimagine

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This program was sponsored by the Jannah Institute, The Rahmah Foundation & MCC. It was proudly hosted at Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on September 25, 2022.

Ustadha Maryam Amir received her master’s degree in Education from UCLA.  She holds a second bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies through Al-Azhar University.  Maryam has studied in Egypt, memorized the Quran, and researched a variety of religious sciences, ranging from Quranic exegesis, Islamic jurisprudence, Prophetic narrations and commentary, women’s rights within Islamic law, and more for the past 15 years.  She’s featured in a video series on faith produced by goodcast.net called The Maryam Amir Show. She actively hosts women who have memorized Quran from around the world to share their journeys through the #FOREMOTHERS campaign.  She is a SWISS and Hikmah Institutes instructor and has served as a bonus lecturer with AlMaghrib, DiscoverU, and more.  Major news outlets, including BBC, NPR, and CBS, have interviewed her for her work.  Maryam’s focus on spiritual connections, identity actualization, social justice, and women’s studies has humbled her with the opportunity to lecture throughout the United States and the world, including Jerusalem, Mecca, Medina, Stockholm, London, Toronto, and more. She holds a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and speaks multiple languages.

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