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5 Lessons Learned From Being A Youth Counselor at MMYC

5 Lessons Learned From Being A Youth Counselor at MMYC(12)

April 11, 2008

I recently attended the MMYC 2008 Spring Conference in Michigan this past weekend. The conference is a annual retreat for high schoolers, and I served as a counselor for a group of young brothers attending. I learned a number of lessons from counseling at the conference, and feel they apply just as much to anyone else involved in Da’wah.

5 Lessons Learned From Being A Youth Counselor at MMYC
Why Don’t You Dress Like Us?

Why Don’t You Dress Like Us?

On the Houston Chronicle’s Talking Tolerance blog I read this post, in which the author’s friend makes a comment along the lines of what I heard at last November’s elections. The question is, “Why don’t they just dress like us?” “They” refers to Muslim women wearing hijab.
It’s a question that reeks of ignorance, frankly, but […]

Islam surpasses Roman Catholicism as World’s Largest Religion

Islam surpasses Roman Catholicism as World’s Largest Religion

The Ummah is growing quite healthily, alhumdulillah, and according to the Vatican, the world Muslim population now exceeds that of Roman Catholics (not all Christians).
I remember while having ice cream with Shaykh Yasir in Chicago, he mentioned that the majority of the Ummah, particularly here in the West, are under the age of five. This […]

Dialogue with the People of the Book II

Dialogue with the People of the Book II

The following is an AlMaghrib class project that achieved top honors in the “Heavenly Hues” class given by Shaykh Yaser Birjas. See the other winning paper from a previous class here.

Dialogue with the People of the Book by Reem Abou-samra

The methodology of dialogue with the […]


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