YUSUF MOSQUE is honored to host the 2010 Qura’nic Arabic summer Program by the Fawakih institute. Fawakih is an Arabic and Islamic studies institute that aims to provide accessible and excellent outlets for study across America through the best teachers, so students may gain access to primary sources (Qu’ran, Hadith, etc.) through Arabic and develop a strong foundational understanding of Islam, without ever having to leave the U.S.

See below for more details on the complete one-month program.  Click here to Register!

Dear families and friends,

We had such a wonderful and blessed evening two weeks ago closing the Spring 2010 Sunday School Level 1 & 2 at YUSUF MOSQUE. We hope you all enjoyed it. Your children are becoming part of us and they are getting attached to the mosque in harmonious ways. It was satisfying and heart-warming to see them showcase their progress in reading Arabic, reciting the Quran and performing the Adhan with the proper rules; to see them engage, speak freely on the microphone in public, laugh, play and bond with each other boosted the energy of the evening. It was powerful to see the parents and friends cheer, applaud, support, hand the gifts to the kids and take memorable photographs.

We would like to thank again all the volunteers who contributed to making the event memorable. Many thanks to everybody who attended the ceremony. Thank you to Sheikh Abdel Monim and Dr. Hamza Belhaj for teaching the kids. Thank you for caring for your kids and bringing them to classes every Sunday even when the weather conditions weren’t the best.

Of course, we couldn’t have put this together without the will of God. The success of the kids, of the ceremony and of anything is clearly strengthened by the grace, reward and the pleasure of the most graceful, the best giver, the most knowledgeable, the one and only God. So many thanks to Allah.

Dinner Sold downstairs Sadaqa towards food preparation, library and school. Potluck encouraged.

The YUSUF MOSQUE’s Sunday school aims to provide students with an Islamic education so they can understand in Arabic, the sources of Islamic wisdom, the Quran, Hadith and scholarly contributions; to live according to Islamic teachings and values and be of service to humanity. For each start there is an end. Saturday May 22, 2010 marked the closing ceremony of the Spring semester. The LEVEL I and LEVEL II students demonstrated their progress reading Arabic and reciting short verses from the Quran in a fun, supportive and nurturing environment. The proud fathers and mothers rejoiced as their children, one by one, received certificates of recognition and gifts. A new start will begin soon taking the students to the next milestone in their journey of learning Arabic and the Quran.

About IMAM TAALIB MAHDEE:

Imam Taalib was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  In December 1978 he publicly declared that there is nothing of worship except our Creator, Alone and there is no like Him and that Prophet Muhammad) Peace Be Upon Him) is Allah’s last Messenger and servant through whom the Holy Qur’an was sent as the final revelation to humanity.   This simple public declaration added him to the international community of Muslims which to date is over a billion people.  He is a happily married husband and devoted father.

Imam Taalib Mahdee was educated in the Cambridge Public School System and has earned an Associate Degree from Roxbury Community College and a B.S. in Human Services from New Hampshire College.  He made the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) in 1980, which was the beginning of the 15th century Islamic calendar.

In the summer of 1989, he traveled to Cairo, Egypt to study Arabic at the prestigious Al-Azhar University.   I the spring 1990 he was part of a national declaration of Clara Mohammed School educators who traveled to Saudi Arabia to analyze its educational system.    Imam Warith Deen Muhammed earned this invitation for the community.   They were able to make the Lesser Hajj (‘Umrah) while they were there.

Imam Mahdee participates in several community organizations that represent a diverse population such as the United Way Faith and Action, Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, Islamic Council of New England and the Muslim American Society Northeast Region Masajid.     Currently, he is the resident Imam of Masjid Al-Qur’an.