A Refuge from Ignorance • Duas of U’lul Azm | ISR S15 Ep24 with Tom Facchine
Points of Reflection
- Reflect on how painful it can be for someone who’s loved one has rejected the message of Islam. Have you or someone you know experienced this? How can we comfort ourselves and others who face this situation?
- Have your ever assumed something to be true that you found was very clearly the opposite? What caused you to jump to conclusions?
- How do you discipline yourself from making hasty, entitled, or otherwise ill-informed assumptions?
Challenge
Find other instances in the Qur’an where family members of prophets disbelieve in their message. What does Allah tell us about them and what do we learn from these ayat about where a believer’s true bonds lie?
Get to Know the Speakers
Imam Tom Facchine
Tom Facchine is from Southern New Jersey. He obtained his Bachelors in Political Science/International Relations from Vassar College (2011), where he embraced Islam in his senior year. After studying Arabic independently, he was admitted to the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia where he obtained an Associates in Classical Arabic (2016) and a Bachelors in Comparative Islamic Law (2020).
He also completed the chaplaincy program conducted under the supervision of The Prophet’s Mosque (2019). Out of all his extracurricular studies, his study of tafseer under Shaykh Abdallah Shinqeeti in the Prophet’s Masjid was probably the most impactful.
Tom has always been a passionate advocate and instructor for Muslim Youth, founding multiple youth groups and conducting various afterschool programs. He is currently the Imam of the Muslim Community Association of Mohawk Valley in Utica, NY as well as nearby Hamilton College. In his ‘spare’ time, Tom enjoys birdwatching, hiking, camping, poetry, and learning languages. He lives in Utica with his wife and three children.
Dr. Imad Bayoun
Dr. Imad Bayoun is widely involved in religious education, especially among the youth, as a lecturer for the Muslim American Society (MAS), and its signature project the Oak Tree Institute. Dr. Imad was born in Beirut, Lebanon, where he received his BS and MS from the American University of Beirut. He received his PhD in Entomology from the Texas A&M University. He resides in Riverside and works as the Insectary and Quarantine Officer at the Entomology Department of University of California in Riverside.
He is currently pursuing a PhD in Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Foundation. He taught Aqeedah and Fiqhas-Seerah (Jurisprudence of the Prophet’s Biography) at the Islamic American University, and has published several audio series on “Purification of the Heart”, “Muslim Character”, and other topics.
Dr. Eaman Attia
Sr Eaman Attia is a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. However, over the past 20 years her passion has been and continues to be mentoring and inspiring lifelong growth and transformations in Muslim youth and community members.
She has served many communities as an inspirational speaker, youth director and mentor, tarbiya director, and Islamic School principal and teacher. She served as the MAS National Tarbiya Director and currently works as the Tarbiya Director in MAS Dallas. She resides in Dallas, TX with her husband and five children.
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