Usama Canon – Who is Your BFF? – Keeping Good Company

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Ustadh Usama Canon gives a Khutbah about being wise about your friends and to keep company with people who elevate you and that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. This sermon was delivered at the Muslim Community Center – East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Friday, December 6, 2013.

Ustadh Usama Canon (1978–2021, rahimahullah) was an American Muslim teacher and the founding director of Ta'leef Collective, a pioneering third-space community organization in Fremont, California, and Chicago, built around the ethos "Come as you are, to Islam as it is." A convert of African-American and European descent who embraced Islam in 1996, he studied with scholars in the US and abroad, served as a chaplain in California state prisons, and mentored thousands of converts and seekers. Diagnosed with ALS in 2018, he continued teaching with profound grace until his passing in 2021, leaving a transformative legacy in American Muslim community work.

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