Celebrating a Global Ramadan at Home - 40 Ramadan Programs to Follow this Month

We can’t all be so lucky to live in a Moroccan riad during this Ramadan in retreat in our homes, but we can dream.

What a beautiful month this is wherever we spend it as we turn away from our daily desires and to the worship of fasting, prayer, and charity. We have been placed in retreat in our homes, the question for each of us, as it is every Ramadan, is how do we connect with Allah? How do we know God experientially in my worship and in my life? While most of us can’t leave our homes we are blessed to be able to access the world and to access scholars we would otherwise not have access to this month. Mosques and Muslim institutions around the world have worked tirelessly to put up a unique set of programs in the month and we wanted to celebrate them below.

Connecting the Diaspora of Hearts - Building the Center for Global Muslim Life

In 2018 as I was living in Kuala Lumpur, I was reflecting on how little we actually know about the diversity of Muslim life around the world. We know about our crises, the wars, and Islamophobia but what do we know about the leaders in our community building the collective future of the world’s largest and most diverse faith? What do we know about Muslims making a social and spiritual impact around our world? What do we know about diverse narratives about Muslims being produced around the world? The diverse startups growing around the world to serve Muslim communities?

What we are building can best be described as connecting the diaspora of hearts across the world through research, symposium, and cultural production. Check out our launch film, “Connecting the Diaspora of Hearts - Building the Center for Global Muslim Life.” You can support the launch of the CGML at our donation page and on our LaunchGood as part of the Ramadan Challenge, the campaign is launching tomorrow, May 1st.