Muslim Students Association

Asalaamu alaykum all,

At the most recent Friday prayer, we spoke about the importance of service to humanity. I want to highlight one example
of Muslims making an amazing contribution. It’s a place called the UMMA Clinic in California. Please take the time to
watch the YouTube video below and visit the website. Insha’allah it will motivate all of us to do more for others.

About the UMMA Clinic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_p9dU5s3vg

Congresswoman Maxine Waters recognizes Umma Community Clinic’s achievements on its 10th Anniversary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7AXl4kvbOI

UMMA Community Clinic
http://www.ummaclinic.org

Wa alaykum asalaam

MSA National presents . . . “Maintaining Spirituality: Key Lessons for MSA Workers”
A Nationwide Conference Call with Imam Magid

The MSA National Conference Call Series kicks-off this Wednesday with a Nationwide conference call titled “Maintaining Spirituality: Key Lessons for MSA Workers” with Imam Mohamed Magid of the ADAMS Center. This amazing lecture is a must-listen for all MSA members!

Date: November 28th at 10pm EST

RSVP: msascholarcall@gmail.com to get the call information!

The MSA at VCU is announcing it’s 3rd Annual Short Film Competition!!

Top 3 videos will be played at the MSA Coffeehouse, April 5th, 2008, winners will also receive special prizes! To register for the competition, contact Bilal Aslam, AslamB@vcu.edu. The competition is open to all Muslim students. A full detail of competition rules and guidelines will be posted soon. Deadline for film submission is April 1st, 2008. For those needing equipment or assistance in film production, please specify when registering.

Good Luck!!

Project Downtown is an initiative that began with a few students that were dissatisfied. Dissatisfied with the plight of homeless and needy individuals in cities across the nation, dissatisfied with the blind eye that society has turned toward them, and dissatisfied to their own non-contribution to the betterment of their own communities. So they turned their dissatisfaction into action.

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Fulbright Scholars

10/3/2006The Fulbright Scholarship is one of the most prestigious – and competitive – grants available to college students. When Sohaib Mohiuddin and Sana Malik, who have been married for two years, each decided to seek the scholarship late last year, they were careful not to get their hopes up.

“We were really just praying that one of us would get selected,” Malik said. “It was beyond our wildest expectations that we’d both get picked.”
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Beliefwatch: Fasting Friends
MSNBC Newsweek

Oct. 9, 2006 issue - The Roman Catholic peace group Pax Christi USA has decided to fast, but it’s not waiting for Lent. After Pope Benedict XVI quoted a Byzantine emperor’s statement that Islam is ‘evil and inhuman,’ the group said that, to soothe tensions, thousands of its members are fasting for Ramadan. (For the 30 days of the Islamic holy month, observant Muslims abstain from food, drink and other earthly pleasures from sunup to sundown; the practice is one of the five required Pillars of Islam.) The people of Pax Christi are not alone. Especially since 9/11, non-Muslims have fasted to express political solidarity with Muslims, to increase awareness of global hunger, as a spiritual discipline, or to strengthen interfaith friendship.
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VCU MSA has sponsored an orphan through Islamic Relief. We seek to raise $20 a week to help provide food, shelter, and schooling for this child. Please check often on our website and in our office for updates on the child. JazakAllah.

Ramadan Mubarak!!!
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem.

Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

The Executive Committee of MSA National extends its sincere greetings to
each of you this blessed Ramadan.

God has blessed us again with the onset of the month of mercy, the month of
Ramadan. This month is a great opportunity for each of us to get closer to
Allah in both our hearts and through our actions by reconnecting with the
very purpose of our creation - ‘uboodiyah, engaging in devoted acts of
worship. Let Ramadan be a time where we reaffirm our faith by seeking
forgiveness and reflecting on the recent events in our lives, on our
campuses and around the world.
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According to the calculation criteria for determining the Islamic Lunar
dates adopted by the Fiqh Council of North America, following are the dates
for Ramadan and Eidul Fitr for the year 1427.

Ramadan 1427 - First of Fasting September 23, 2006
Eidul Fitr 1427 - First of Shawwal October 23, 2006

CLICK HERE FOR THE VCU MSA RAMADAN CALENDAR!