Sunday, November 21
Jummah Khutbah (1 pm) - "Amanah - Fulfilling our Sacred Trust"
Friday Night (7:30 pm) - "Understanding the Purpose of Life - Understanding the Test of Life"
Saturday After Fajr (6 am) - "Our Miraculous Prophet - Why Islam is the only valid faith"
Saturday Night (7:30 pm) - "Gender Relations - Reconciling our Faith with our Culture"
Sunday After Fajr - "Chasing Khushoo' - Achieving Desire for Prayer"
Sunday Morning (10 am) - "Sidq - Becoming People of Truth"
Each session will be followed with a Question and Answer Period.
Come and meet Imam Yahya - he is prospective candidate for Imam of the MAS Center. Read the short biography below. View his links and his online articles.
Imam John (Yahya) Ederer was born in Oklahoma City, OK and raised in Tulsa, OK. He accepted Islam in 1998 after trying to reconcile his life and spirituality. This self/spiritual search began as a result of going through some tough times being involved with a rough group of individuals, yet at the same time having a strong innate spiritual inclination to Almighty God.
In early 2000 he began attending the Masjid as-Salam in Tulsa, OK and became a regular member. By the end of 2000, he had become a very active member in the Islamic Society of Tulsa and in 2001 he was hired as a P.E. instructor at Peace Academy (the local Islamic elementary). During this time he became attached to the school and mosque libraries. In the summer of 2002, he accepted a scholarship offer from the Islamic American University (IAU) in Southfield, MI where he moved and stayed studying for 3 years. The IAU also sponsored him for a year in Cairo, Egypt studying an intensive curriculum of the Arabic language as well as Qur'anic memorization and recitation. In his last few months in Egypt he was
blessed with the opportunity to study traditionally in the lectures held by various scholars in the grand mosque of al-Azhar. He studied full-time traditionally for over six years in circles led by Dr. Ali Jum'ah, Dr. Ahmad Shleibak,Dr. Ali Sulaiman Ali, Dr. Salah Sultan, Dr. Sayid Nuh (ra), Dr. Muhammad 'Abdul-Ghaffar' ash-Shareef, Sh. Abdul-Warith Sa'eed (ra), Sh. Nabeel al-Awadi and many others.
