Light of Guidance - NYC - Qabilat Taybah

"Everyone's second home should be Taybah" Taybah is one of the names for the city of Madinah, the adopted city of the Prophet Muhammad, sull Allahi alayhi wa sallam. The New York Al Maghrib organization recently chose Taybah as its name when it became a full-fledged Qabilah. Al Maghrib Qabilahs are formed in cities where a strong commitment to learning about Islam in Al Maghrib courses is matched with an equally strong commitment to building a strong Muslim community. Anyone can enroll in an Al Maghrib Institute class, and the in-class time commitment is only two weekends. Classes are taught by dynamic instructors who are qualified scholars and students of Islam, most of whom grew up in North America but received degrees in their specialities abroad. What has been equally attractive to me about Al Maghrib courses, though, are the students. When I went on Hajj last year, alhamdolillah, there were quite a few Al Maghrib students in my group. And I came to respect greatly the way they conducted themselves. I also got to meet the founder of the Al Maghrib Institute, Muhammad Alshareef, and I really feel that his discussions of how a person should approach Hajj helped me to get the most out of my time there. I pray that Allah subhanahu wata ala will accept the efforts of these people to spread the right information about Islam and to live their lives as good Muslims. So far I have taken four Al Maghrib Institute courses. The fourth was Aqeedah 101, "Light of Guidance." The class is taught by Yasir Qadhi who got a bachelor's degree in Engineering in Houston before getting bachelor's and master's degrees from Madinah University. He is presently working on a doctorate from Yale. Yasir goes by his kunya, Abu Ammar. Not only was it a pleasure to take this core class in theology from him, but it was great to experience the hospitality of the students in New York, Taybah, as well. Here's the Google Video description (and yes, I did get included in the video): "A collection of reflections on the Al Maghrib course "Light of Guidance" which based on the fundamentals of Islam. Main topics include: Aqeedah, Iman, Shirk, Nifaq, Kufr, Biddah, Tawheed. The class is taught by Shaykh Yaser Qadhi."