Sat, 21 January 2012, 8:30pm (After Solat Isya') | English

Masjid Al Abdul Razak

Sout Ilaahi

Imam Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch

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The objective of this talk is to create an awareness of the Islamic perspective of purifying the heart. Explain the importance of the inner being and that Islam does not only contain of the outward from but also more importantly about having a purified heart from ugly traits.
– When the heart of a Muslim is clear of ugly traits, then he becomes spiritually, mentally and physically enduring in life's challenges. He looks at every trails and tribulation as from Allah his Lord and thus he overcomes them with Faith and easy. .

Muhammad Abdul Latif Finch is the imam at the Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland , California , and a teacher and program developer for Deen Intensive Foundation. He also works with SeekersGuidance and assists Zaytuna College's annual Summer Arabic Intensive program in Berkeley , California . He is one of five students who comprised the first graduating class of the Zaytuna seminary program. Born in El Paso , Texas , and raised in the south, Abdul Latif embraced Islam in 1995 in Atlanta , Georgia , when he was 20 years old. He subsequently traveled throughout the Muslim world and, in 2002, relocated with his family to the San Francisco Bay Area to take advantage of the resources of knowledge and the community that had formed around Zaytuna Institute. There, he spent his initial year of studies under the tutelage of Shaykh Salik bin Siddina. In 2004, he was accepted as the first of three initial students into Zaytuna\'s pilot seminary program. He studied at Zaytuna with several teachers, including Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Abdur Rahman Taahir, Qari Umar Bellahi, Shaykh Abdullah Ali, and Shaykh Yahya Rhodus, until he graduated in 2008 with an ijazah in the basic sciences of Islam. Since graduation, he has had the honor of tutelage under Dr. Umar Farooq Abdullah, Shaikh Mahi Cisse and Shaikh Abdulllah Ibrahim Niasse.

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