Establish the Prayer for God's Remembrance Alone | Shaykh Jamaal Diwan

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In this post-Fajr Khatira, Shaykh Jamaal Diwan speaks on remembering Allah (swt) through establishing the Salat (daily prayer).
Shaykh Jamaal Diwan was born and raised in Southern California to parents from Canada and Pakistan. He grew up playing basketball and listening to Hip Hop. He accepted Islam in 2003 while at UCSD. After getting married and graduating from UCSD, he and his wife moved to Egypt to study Arabic and Islamic Studies. He stayed there for the next seven years, finishing an undergraduate degree in Sharia from al-Azhar. During that time, he also completed two years of graduate work in Islamic Studies from the American University in Cairo. Upon their return, he served as a religious teacher and instructor in Southern California and later became the Resident Scholar at the Islamic Center of Irvine.
He also helped start the first IOK Chaplaincy program, which began at UCLA and USC and eventually grew to cover seven college campuses in Southern California. He served student bodies at UCLA, USC, and UCI. In 2017, he and his wife Shaykha Muslema Purmul also co-founded The Majlis, an initiative in Southern Californian rooted in traditional religious learning contextualized for the particular cultural landscape and challenges of America, while developing an intentional community founded on the ethics of love and service. He continues serving the community through his work at The Majlis, teaching multiple weekly classes and supporting various programs. He is also the Islamic Studies Teacher at New Horizon Irvine Islamic School. He is a father of two and resides with his family in Southern California.
This talk was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Saturday, February 10, 2024.
Talks & sermons about the ritual prayer of a Muslim, which performed five times daily in a set form.
- Talks & Sermons on Salah: mcceastbay.org/salah
Salah (Arabic: صَلاة, plural salawat, also known as namāz (Persian: نماز) and also spelled salat, are prayers performed by Muslims. Facing the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba with respect to those praying, Muslims pray first standing and later kneeling or sitting on the ground, reciting prescribed prayers and phrases from the Quran as they bow and prostrate themselves in between. Salah is composed of prescribed repetitive cycles of bows and prostrations, called rakat (sing. rak'ah). The number of rak'ahs, also known as units of prayer, varies from prayer to prayer. Ritual purity and wudu are prerequisites for performing the prayers.
The daily obligatory prayers collectively form the second of the five pillars in Islam, observed five times every day at prescribed times. These are Fajr (observed at dawn), Zuhr (observed at noon), Asr (observed late in the afternoon), Maghrib (observed after sunset), and Isha (observed at dusk). Salah can be performed either in solitude, or collectively (known as jama'ah). When performed in jama'ah, worshippers line up in parallel rows behind a leader, known as the imam. Special prayers are exclusively performed in congregation, such as the Friday prayer and the Eid prayers, and are coupled with two sermons each, delivered by the imam.
- Talks & Sermons on Salah: mcceastbay.org/salah
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