Author: OCAdmin

Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 8:15 PM (Eastern Time)

Zoom Link to the programs:

https://zoom.us/j/316797733?pwd=by9Mejh1NDJxU3ErU1hiaHNmZFlrZz09

Meeting ID: 316 797 733
One tap mobile +19294362866
Password: 351023

Joining Omid Center’s Telegram: https://t.me/OCofGB
Joining Omid Center’s WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KJaNxZYr7qw3Dv9tm2r3Th

Program:

8:15-8:25 Quran Recitation
8:25-9:25 Lecture by Dr. Ali Sharifkhani (in Farsi)
Title:Tafsir of verse number 114-129 of Surah As-Safaat
About the Speaker
Ali Sharifkhani received his Ph.D. in business administration in 2018 from the University of Toronto, Canada. Upon completion of his
studies, he moved to Boston to start his career as an assistant
professor at the Northeastern University. His research interests
include labor economics and finance.

9:25-9:35 Question and Answer
9:35-9:40 Dua

To access the announcement file please click file bellow

Program April 18, 2020

The Birth Anniversary of Imam Mahdi (AJ)

Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 8:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Zoom Link to the programs:

https://zoom.us/j/316797733?pwd=by9Mejh1NDJxU3ErU1hiaHNmZFlrZz09

Meeting ID: 316 797 733 One tap mobile +19294362866
Password: 351023
Updates will be posted on Telegram Channel : @OCofGB OR WhatsApp Group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/KJaNxZYr7qw3Dv9tm2r3Th

Please refer to Omid Center’s Telegram Channel for updates : @OCofGB

Program:

8:00-8:05 Quran Recitation
8:05-8:10 Dhikr
8:10-8:40 Dua Komail
8:40-9:10 Lecture (in English)
Speaker: Dr. Sadik Kassim
Title: “Waiting for the Imam During a Time of Pandemic”

Abstract:

“Is COVID-19 a sign that the Awaited Saviour (Imam Mahdi) Will soon (re)appear? In fact, this question has been asked in one form or another, by members of the Abrahamic faiths, during the emergence of virtually every pandemic and plague. This lecture will attempt to answer that question through the lens of Qur’anic verses and the Hadith literature.”

About the Speaker:

Sadik Kassim is a viral immunologist working on the development of Gen Therapies for Cancer. Dr. Kassim is a founder of the Islamic Message Foundation of New Orleans, Louisiana and has spoken at numerous Universities, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Hindu organizations round the country.

9:10-9:20 Question and Answer
9:20-9:50 Ziarat Aale Yaseen

To access the announcement file please click file bellow

Program April 9 2020 Komail

The Birth Anniversary of Imam Mahdi (AJ)

Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 8:00 PM (Eastern Time)

Zoom Link to the programs:

https://zoom.us/j/316797733?pwd=by9Mejh1NDJxU3ErU1hiaHNmZFlrZz09

Meeting ID: 316 797 733 One tap mobile +19294362866
Password: 351023

Updates will be posted on Telegram Channel : @OCofGB OR
WhatsApp Group:

https://chat.whatsapp.com/KJaNxZYr7qw3Dv9tm2r3Th

Program:

8:00-8:05 Quran Recitation
8:05-8:35 Dua Komail
8:35-9:25 Lecture by Dr. Sadraey (in Farsi)
عنوان: شیعه، انتظار، و وظایف منتظران
9:25-9:35 Question and Answer
9:35-9:50 Poem and Ziarat Imam Hussain (AS)

To access the announcement file please click file bellow

Program April 8 2020

Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 7:50 PM

Zoom Link to the programs:

https://zoom.us/j/316797733?pwd=by9Mejh1NDJxU3ErU1hiaHNmZFlrZz09

Meeting ID: 316 797 733  One tap mobile +19294362866
Password: 351023

Programs:

7:50-8:00 Quran Recitation
8:00-8:45 Lecture
Speaker: Mr. Mostafa Daneshgar  (in Farsi)

عنوان : نسبت شریعت و اخلاقِ مسئولانه در اسلام
Title: The Relationship Between the Laws and Ethics of Responsibility in Islam.
8:45-8:55 Question and Answer
8:55-9:00 Dua

چكيده: مباحث گسترده ای در باب چگونگی استخراج قانون شرعی از قرآن و سنت در بین متکلمین و فقها در طول تاریخ اسلام مطرح شده است. این امر منشا گفتگو، تبادل نظر و حتی اختلافات جدی در بین نه تنها شیعه و سنی بلکه در میان خود مکاتب سنی بوده است. در این جلسه، در باب چیستی قانون اسلامی به طور کلی از نظرگاه تبعیت و مسئولیت پذیری فردی و اخلاقی به هم اندیشی می نشینیم. به نظر می رسد همه مومنین اعم از شیعه و سنی با معضل و تجربه‌ی مشابهی در برابر وحی و امر قدسی مواجهند و نهایتاً به تکلیف رسیدن و به بلوغ اخلاقی رسیدن در اسلام به معنای درک این موقعیت معضل‌گونه‌ای است که همه ما در موقعیت انسانی با آن مواجهیم. در قرآن از این موقعیت معضل‌گونه با تعبیرات متعددی یاد شده است که یکی از آنها «فی کبد» است

Abstract:
The Philosophical discussions around the foundation of laws (Shari’a) in Islam have been a source of tension and discussion between not only Shiite and Sunni scholars but also between the Sunnis themselves leading to such divides as the schools of Mu’tazilite and Ash’arite. Each would consider either reason or revelation as the main source of legitimacy of the laws. In this talk, drawing on Ghazaali’s skeptic transcendental methodology, I would like to suspend dogmatic theological and sectarian presumptions and examine the experience of “following” the laws and its relation to the ethics of responsibility in a new philosophical light. We will discuss how Islam and the Qur’an depict the problematic situation of followers and invite Muslims to heedfulness and responsibility for each other.

About The Speaker:
Dr. Dehghani obtained a first Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran, Iran, with a dissertation titled “Interpretation and Literary Theory: From Structuralism to Ricoeurian Hermeneutics” (2011). In 2019, he earned a second Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston College, where he was a Fellow at the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy (2014-2018). His dissertation, “The Topology of Community in Aristotle: a Phenomenological Approach,” offers a phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s formulation of a “just community” and its appropriation in Islamic thought.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Bentley University, and a Lecturer in Persian and Arabic language and linguistics at Boston College.

To access the announcement file please click file bellow

Program April 4, 2020

Birth Anniversary of Imam Sajjad (PBUH)

Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 7:50 PM

Zoom Link to the programs:

https://zoom.us/j/316797733?pwd=by9Mejh1NDJxU3ErU1hiaHNmZFlrZz09

Meeting ID: 316 797 733  One tap mobile +19294362866
Password: 351023

Programs:

7:50-7:55 Quran Recitation
7:55-8:00 Dhikr
8:00-8:30 Dua Komail
8:30-9:15 Lecture by Mr. Mostafa Daneshgar  (in Farsi)
عنوان:“اخلاق انتقام در اندیشه امام زین العابدین (ع)”
9:15-9:25 Question and Answer
9:25-9:35 Ziarat AminAllah

About the Speaker:
Mr. Mostafa Daneshgar is currently a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University in Michigan. Prior to coming to US in 2010, he studied Shiite theology and Shiitjurisprudence at the Qum Seminary and continued these studies when he immigrated to Syria where he attended the Seminary of Zenobia at Damascus. Mr. Daneshgar has written more than 200 articles and speeches about Islam, Shiite, and relations between religions, specifically Shiite, as well as cultural and social challenges in Persian, Arabic, and English.

To access the announcement file please click file bellow

Program April 2, 2020

Zoom Link to the programs:

https://zoom.us/j/316797733?pwd=by9Mejh1NDJxU3ErU1hiaHNmZFlrZz09

Meeting ID: 316 797 733 One tap mobile +19294362866

Please refer to Omid Center’s Telegram Channel for updates : @OCofGB

Saturday, March 28, 2020 at 7:45 PM (EST)

Speaker: Mr. Mostafa Daneshgar  (in Farsi)

عنوان:“امام حسین علیه السلام، اسوه صبر و ثبات”
شرح و تفسیر آیه 250 سوره مبارکه بقره

About the Speaker:

Mr. Mostafa Daneshgar is currently a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University in Michigan. Prior to coming to US in 2010, he studied Shiite theology and Shiite jurisprudence at the Qum Seminary and continued these studies when he immigrated to Syria where he attended the Seminary of Zenobia at Damascus.
Mr. Daneshgar has written more than 200 articles and speeches about Islam, Shiite, and relations between religions, specifically Shiite, as well as cultural and social challenges in Persian, Arabic, and English.

Program:

7:45-7:50 Quran Recitation
7:50-8:40 Lecture
8:40-8:50 Question and Answer
8:50-9:00 Ziarat and Dua

To access the announcement file please click file bellow

Program March 28, 2020