Zaynab Ansari – Leading female scholar on the need to support Muslim prisoners

			BismillahirRahmanir
		

			Rahim Assalamu alaikum.
		

			My name is Zainab Ansari, and I am
		

			pleased to endorse the noble work of Playbak
		

			Foundation.
		

			Playbak Foundation is led by Sheikh Rami Insur,
		

			a student of Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, who, in
		

			his own right, traveled to Mauritania
		

			and sat at the feet of traditional scholars.
		

			Sheikh Rami insur brings back
		

			expertise in malak I fiqh and Islamic law,
		

			as well as a passion for helping Muslims
		

			who are incarcerated.
		

			In fact, Taiba Foundation is one of the
		

			few Islamic organizations to focus on the spiritual
		

			and educational needs of Muslims in the judicial
		

			and penal system.
		

			The Daiba Foundation has pioneered a curriculum
		

			of distance learning, Islamic distance learning, for Muslim
		

			men and Muslim women who are incarcerated.
		

			And I really would encourage everybody to think
		

			about supporting this noble endeavor,
		

			keeping in mind that Muslims who are imprisoned
		

			are definitely
		

			eligible to receive
		

			support and zakat funds, and your donations to
		

			Tehba Foundation will greatly aid in furthering this
		

			noble objective.
		

			Currently, Tehba Foundation has 250 students enrolled this
		

			semester.
		

			With your support, they can bring in an
		

			additional
		

			150 students who have been waitlisted
		

			to receive services.
		

			So with your donations,
		

			you can actually directly assist,
		

			a fellow Muslim, a fellow believer,
		

			right, in gaining beneficial knowledge, sacred knowledge,
		

			transformative
		

			knowledge.
		

			Consider the role that knowledge played in the
		

			life of Malcolm x.
		

			On May 19, Malcolm x would have been
		

			90 years old, and
		

			Malcolm x made an amazing transformation
		

			to the thanks to the grace of Allah
		

			Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
		

			made an amazing transformation
		

			from Detroit Red to Malcolm x to Al
		

			Hajj As Shaheed Malik Ashabaz. And part of
		

			that transformation, a large part of it, owed
		

			to the critical role of education and literacy
		

			in his life.
		

			So support the work of Taiba Foundation as
		

			they make available
		

			spiritual and educational programs to our Muslim brothers
		

			and sisters who are incarcerated.
		

			The prophet
		

			said,
		

			Whosoever lifts
		

			a grief or a burden from their fellow
		

			believer,
		

			a worldly grief or burden from their fellow
		

			believer, that Allah will lift from that person
		

			one of the burdens
		

			or or or or or the one of
		

			the griefs of Yomul Qiyamah.
		

			So we ask Allah
		

			to allow us to be an assistance
		

			to our fellow Muslims
		

			and insha'Allah,
		

			that assistance, I think, will have benefits in
		

			this world
		

			and the next and the akhirah. Thank you
		

			so much.