About this Event
Salaam everyone!
Come wearing your finest Eid clothes and join us for a celebratory jumma'a on Friday, June 30th @ 1pm PST with returning Khateebah Hajjah Abrafi S. Sanyika. Her khutbah will take us through the spiritual journey of Hajj and Eid al-Adha, which we will continue to celebrate through our jumma'a service. Bring your loved ones -- and, if you'd like -- feel free to bring your favorite Eid treat to share afterward!
Did you know we provide FREE BABYSITTING? We are happy to offer this wonderful service so that mothers of young children can focus on nurturing their own spiritual experience during our religious services. Please RSVP early for yourself and your children so we can be sure to hire the correct amount of babysitters. Thank you!
After jumma'a prayer is over, we will provide you with FREE CHAI as we sit with our Imam for our beloved post-jumma'a Q&A Discussion Circle. This is a place where you can bring all your questions and reflections and where you get to witness the full range of diverse perspectives within our beautiful community.
If you are joining us online: Please log onto at 1pm PST to view the jumma'a livestream, and be sure to RSVP above to receive the Zoom link & password for our Q&A Discussion, which opens at 1:45pm PST.
We look forward to seeing all of you -- whether in person or online -- on Friday, June 30th @ 1pm PST, inshAllah!
With Love and Gratitude,
The Women's Mosque of America Team
P.S. Celebrate Eid with us in a blessed way:
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"We have appointed sacrificial animals for you among the rituals of God. There is much good for you in them, so mention God's name over them when they lined up, and, when they are on their sides, then eat from them and feed the needy ones who ask as well as the needy ones who do not ask. Thus We have subjected them to you so that hopefully you may be grateful. It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches God: what reaches God is your piety. Thus God has made them subject to you, so that you may glorify God for having guided you. And give good news to those who do their best at whatever they do." (Qur'an 22:36-37)
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Introducing Our June 30th Khateebah
Hajjah Abrafi S. Sanyika is a proud native of Chicago, which was founded on the shore of Lake Michigan by an African fur trader, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable. She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and listened as a young child to the life-affirming teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Even then she knew that there is only One God, because that is what her parents taught at home. She remembers being “thrown out” of Sunday school at age eleven, because she announced that Jesus (pbuh) was not the “son of God”, but a great prophet like all the other great prophets. She was exposed to many religious/spiritual traditions growing up and continues to honor the beauty in all of them.
Abrafi euphemistically describes her professional career as “eclectic”. She reflects that she is from that generation of women who chose either nursing, teaching, or secretarial work, because other professions were generally foreclosed to women. Originally an anthropology major, she redirected when she got a divorce and had to consider raising two small boys as a single parent. Instead, she obtained a B.A. and M.A. in education. Her M.A. thesis was a study of the cocoa industry of Ghana, West Africa. She first taught at the University of Chicago Lab School, then directed Ujima Family Center, an alternative school in Chicago. Moving to California, she attended UCLA Law School, worked for several attorneys, became a realtor, and eventually returned to professional education.
She is now retired and has published several position papers, including “An Open Letter to the Immigrant Muslim Community.” She co-wrote The Eternal Genetic Presence, an anthology of visual artist Nathaniel Bustion’s incredible talent; and is the author of Makeda, Queen of Sheba, a children’s book written in honor of her daughter, Makeda. She is the founder and director of The Egyptian Repertoire Company, a nonprofit educational foundation that researches, writes, and presents seminars and rituals based on African history and culture, and is currently writing two other books for publication.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
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