DePauw University's Muslim Student Association [MSA]

03/22/2019

Must watch! ❤️

03/16/2019

Please join the Muslim Student Association at Stewart Plaza at 7pm on Monday (March 18) in light of the white supremacist act of terror on the mosques in New Zealand. We will be making prayer for the 49 innocent lives lost and the several others critically wounded. Hope to see you all there!

10/30/2018

Make sure to come and celebrate Eid with the Muslim community on campus and Greencastle. We will have traditional South Asian food. Better than ever before😍

09/13/2018

Happening tomorrow! Hope to see most of you there. 🙏😊

08/17/2018

Thanks a lot for coming everyone. I hope you had a great time and enjoyed great food. A huge shoutout to Daniyal Saqib and Raj Kumar for cooking the delicious food for us.

Make sure you stop by MSAs table to sign up for more updates and events during the activities fair. We hope to have more events that will InShaAllah bring people together from
all different backgrounds.

See you soon! God bless
-President Rabia Daud
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]

08/12/2018

Islamic Holiday Alert: At sunset today started the first of 10 of the holiest days of the Islamic Calendar culminating with Eid ul-Adha (Festival of the Sacrifice) from August 21-August 24th. These days are a celebration and a reminder of Prophet Abraham and his family's struggle to stay mindful of the Creator. In his footsteps, millions of Muslims will mimic his Hajj (pilgrimage) to the Kabba (metaphorical house of the Creator). Around the world in this special time Muslims will increase their mindfulness of the Creator and creation in their daily lives, meditate longer in their daily prayer as well as conducting night prayers, fast from pre-dawn to sunset, do extra good deeds, be extra good, help people, give more charity, read more Quran, and try to be better in every way possible with the Creator & creation. Muslims will chant a special holiday chant throughout this time "Allaahu akbar, Allaahu akbar, laa ilaaha ill-Allaah, Allaahu akbar, Allaahu akbar, wa lillaahi’l-hamd (God is Most Great, God is Most Great, there is no god but God, God is Most Great, God is Most Great, and to God belongs all praise).

Picture: Top are Muslims circumambulating the Kabbah while praising the Creator at Hajj. Below is a picture of the Universal orbit aka Primordial Orbit. Muslims believe the Angels in the Heavens are also circumambulating the Kabbah.

More information on the Hajj and this special time can be found here:
-Science of Hajj https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnniP9RfGu0

-Reflections From Hajj - Imam Omar Suleiman & Imam Abdul Nasir Jangda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lchgZoVbxiw

-Virtues Of Dhul Hijjah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0F4khDd3GY

Many of the practices mentioned can be found in one form or another in other religions including
-Circumbulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumambulation

-Pilgrimage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage

04/25/2018

Muslim Student Association is proud to announce Basant! Please come out and celebrate this beautiful holiday with us! There will be an opportunity to learn about a new culture, amazing food, and henna!

09/08/2017

02/21/2017

Hey Everyone,

On Thursday, Feb. 23, at 8:00 PM in Peeler Auditorium, the artist Wafaa Bilal will be on campus to discuss the film Returning Fire, and his video and installation art project Domestic Tension (a.k.a. “Shoot an Iraqi”).



Bilal, who teaches art at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is an Iraqi-American artist. His most well-known work, Domestic Tension, involved living in a makeshift room in an art gallery in Chicago for a month in 2007, with a paintball gun trained at him. People could log onto a website around the clock and control the gun remotely to fire paintballs at the artist, as though they were playing a first person shooter game, or controlling drone strikes in the ongoing Iraq war.



Over the course of the month, eager visitors to the site clicked their mouse to fire at Wafaa approximately 60,000 times.



While the project represented a violence that was only barely “virtual,” and the chatroom which Bilal maintained would sometimes elicit a virulent Islamophobia, the artist nonetheless emphasized the goals of communicating across cultures and involving people in a discussion of the human cost of modern warfare. Nonetheless, the project took a heavy toll on Bilal. The work also had its personal side, as Bilal was himself a survivor of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime; the war to depose Hussein made a refugee of Bilal and took the life of his brother.



The film Returning Fire, which includes some discussion of the “Shoot an Iraqi” project, looks at war-themed video games and the militarization of the American entertainment industry, and also at timely issues like the use of the fear of terrorism to drive the militarization of American culture and constructions of masculinity. After the screening of the film (about 45 minutes), there will be a panel discussion with Wafaa Bilal and professors Mona Bhan (Sociology and Anthropology), Jeff Kenney (Religious Studies), Harry Brown (English), and Dan Solberg (Art and Art History).



Professor Bilal’s visit is made possible by the Ukrop lecture series fund, with support from the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.

We hope to see you all there In Shaa Allah!

12/04/2016

Please come support the DePauw University T.I.A.R.A.s official Interest Group of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc. TODAY at their Cultural Food Sale!