Suhaib Webb - Beyond the Fashion and Fighting around Mawlid

Suhaib WebbNovember 18, 20190 comments

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In this Mawlid lecture, Imam Suhaib Webb moves beyond the familiar debates about celebrating the Prophet's birthday ﷺ to explore what it truly means to love and follow Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Drawing on Quranic verses, hadith, and lessons from scholars and personal experience, he unpacks the universal principles embedded in the Prophet's life — including beauty, empathy, service to the poor, inclusion of those with disabilities, and stewardship of the natural world. The lecture is a call to translate love of the Prophet ﷺ into personal accountability, social responsibility, and justice.

Imam Suhaib Webb is an American scholar who embraced Islam in 1992 in Oklahoma after a youth spent as a hip-hop DJ. He studied under Senegalese Shaykh Muhammad Shareef, memorized the Qur'an, and graduated from Al-Azhar University's College of Shariah in Cairo. He served as imam of major communities including the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) — one of the largest mosques in New England — and as scholar-in-residence institutions in New York and Washington DC. Known for his fluency in both classical scholarship and American culture, he pioneered online Islamic education through virtual mosque platforms and his SWISS institute, and speaks on fiqh, spirituality, and Muslim-American identity.

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