Status Updates From The Women’s Khutbah Book: C...

We are also raising critical questions about what it means to be part of a faith tradition that holds its own historical patriarchal imprint in thought and practice…Furthermore we are challenging how deeply entrenched values and attitudes about gender unfairly prejudice Muslim women & girls making them vulnerable to abuse and personal violation these are often tacitly considered appropriately religious and normal.

“How do members of a faith community attend to these social wounds and fractures? To what extent are we part of those who wound and those being wounded? What conversations are we holding as a community of believers regarding gender-based and sexual violence; what conversations are we avoiding too? What actions are we undertaking to really deal with this scourge; what actions are we failing to take?”

“when wisdom arrives, it sometimes emerges from unexpected places, break- ing down walls of exclusion and stereotypes. I began to recognize that divine light and guidance are the birthright of every human being. Laying down my personal expectations enabled my heart to open to the abundance of divine beauty and grace around me, manifest in sometimes unanticipated way”

“this relationship of gifting embodied in one’s very being, life and every deed is the station of the al insan al kamil (the complete human being). humans who exist as gifts to themselves, to their families, to others in their society, and to people everywhere are in fact giving birth to themselves to the fullest extent”