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.