USTADH UBAYDULLAH EVANS VISIT TO TAWHEED CENTER

WHEN: SATURDAY, MAY 21ST

PROGRAM SCHEDULE AND TOPICS

7:15pm - 8:15pm - For High School and College Youth Only.

"Chivalry and Responsibility"  

8:15pm - 8:45pm - Dinner and discussion with the youth

8:55pm - Maghrib Prayer

9:15pm - 10:00pm - Community Halaqah. 

"Engaging with non-muslims - neighbors, coworkers, community and taking part in civic/humanitarian activities"

SPEAKER BIO:

Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans is the Executive Director of ALIM (American Learning Institute for Muslims). He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Ustadh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars while simultaneously pursuing a degree in journalism from Columbia. Since then he has studied at Chicagoland's Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he is the first African-American to graduate from its Shari'a program. Ustadh Ubaydullah also instructs with the Ta'leef Collective and the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) at times.