The Center for Global Muslim Life

05/19/2026

Today our friend and protector of the community Amin Abdullah was martyred at the Islamic Center of San Diego along with 2 other community members. He was murdered by racist teenagers. He was the lead security guard of the mosque for years. There is an elementary school at the mosque and no students or teachers were injured despite two shooters attacking the Mosque and school. Brother Amins last Facebook post read, “What is success?To many people success is financial stability,good reputation,beauty,etc.
As for ME! Wallahi,thumma Wallahi.It is returning back to Allah OUR creator with the same pure soul he loaned me at birth.
Having the Mala’ikah of Allahu ta’ala saying
“don’t fear and don’t grieve,but receive the glad tidings of Jannah which you were promised by the Most forgiving and Most Merciful”.May Allahu ta’ala grant us Husnal Khatimah,AAAAMEEEEN🤲”

May Allah bless him with acceptance as a martyr and grant him the highest stations in jannah

05/19/2026

04/16/2026

What does it mean to pray on land whose peoples have been its sacred stewards for thousands of years?

That question became the Salish Sea Collection. 500+ rugs sold. $100K+ in philanthropic support. 100+ institutions ready to receive.

This is what Muslim civic life looks like.

Order a rug. Support the placement program. Link in bio 🔗
https://bit.ly/PNWRug

04/15/2026

Muslims pray five times a day. That's 1,825 times a year.

In hospitals, shelters, jails, and libraries across North America; there is often nowhere to do this with dignity.

The Salish Sea Prayer Rug Collection is changing that. Three years in the making, designed with Coast Salish Indigenous artists, handcrafted in Konya, Turkey, and going directly into the public institutions where it's needed most.

Order yours. Fund one for someone who can't. Link in bio 🔗
https://bit.ly/PNWRug

04/09/2026

The history of Islam in the Americas didn't begin with conquest, but through the courage of those who broke their chains. Our roots here are intertwined with African and Indigenous resistance against colonial violence. To understand Islam in this land, we must look at it as an indigenous spiritual practice passed down through generations.

Explore the full story at globalmuslimlife.substack.com

04/06/2026

Royal Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas returned to his Lord on the evening of March 8, 2026, the 20th of Ramadan, 1447, at the age of 94. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim described him as “one of the greatest minds of our age.”
He was a polymath in the truest sense — philosopher, metaphysician, calligrapher, architect, and one of the most important Muslim thinkers of the 20th century. He didn’t just theorize about Islamic civilization. He built it. His International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC) in Kuala Lumpur — which he designed down to the gardens and calligraphic inscriptions, personally selecting nearly every volume of its 150,000-book library — was an argument made physical.
His diagnosis of our age remains devastating in its clarity: the crisis facing Muslim communities is not, at its root, political. It is a crisis of knowledge and adab — and the global wars being waged against Muslim peoples are the consequence of that deeper civilizational fracture.
It was while living in Kuala Lumpur, immersed in his thought, that I first conceptualized the Center for Global Muslim Life. We have long hoped to produce a documentary about his ideas and vision. That work is now more urgent than ever — not as a memorial, but as a contribution to truth.
Read the full essay: globalmuslimlife.substack.com/p/be-legendary-like-syed-muhammad-naquib
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.

04/06/2026

Royal Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas returned to his Lord on the evening of March 8, 2026, the 20th of Ramadan, at the age of 94. He was a Malaysian genius polymath — philosopher, calligrapher, architect, Sufi — who spent his life articulating the Islamic worldview with a precision and depth unmatched in the modern period.
He didn’t just write books. He built ISTAC in Kuala Lumpur — designing the buildings, shaping the gardens, hand-selecting nearly every volume of its 150,000-book library. The entire campus was an argument made physical: that Islamic civilization is not a relic but a living reality.
In a time of global war against Muslim peoples — from Gaza to Sudan to Iran — his diagnosis has never been more urgent: the crisis we face is not political at its root. It is a crisis of knowledge. This is a civilizational crisis, what he called a crisis of adab. And the global war we are witnessing is the consequence of that deeper crisis.
Our future as Muslims is not going to come through politics alone. It has to do with our character, our spiritual states, our adab as a civilizational reality. This is what he spent 94 years telling us.
Read the full essay at the link in bio.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.
◆ globalmuslimlife.substack.com

04/05/2026

Mateo 28:1-7
Después del sábado, al amanecer del primer día de la semana, María Magdalena y la otra María fueron a ver el sepulcro.
2 Sucedió que hubo un terremoto violento porque un ángel del Señor bajó del cielo, se acercó al sepulcro, quitó la piedra y se sentó sobre ella. 3 Su aspecto era como el de un relámpago y su ropa era blanca como la nieve. 4 Los guardias tuvieron tanto miedo de él que se pusieron a temblar y quedaron como mu***os.
5 El ángel dijo a las mujeres:
—No tengan miedo; sé que ustedes buscan a Jesús, el que fue crucificado. 6 No está aquí, pues ha resucitado, tal como dijo. Vengan a ver el lugar donde estaba. 7 Luego vayan pronto a decirles a sus discípulos: “Él se ha levantado de entre los mu***os y va delante de ustedes a Galilea. Allí lo verán”. Eso vine a decirles.

Matthew 28:1-7
After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb. 2 There was a violent earthquake, because an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He rolled back the stone and was sitting on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing was as white as snow. 4 The guards were so shaken by fear of him that they became like dead men.
5 The angel told the women, “Don’t be afraid, because I know you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here. For he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there.’ Listen, I have told you.”

04/04/2026

The standard story says Islam in America started with the Mother Mosque in Iowa, 1934. It didn't. Muslim communities were already here, in the Gullah Geechee communities of South Carolina and Georgia, practicing in secret for generations. Choosing not to know this history is not neutrality. It is a choice. Full essay at globalmuslimlife.substack.com 🔗

04/03/2026

Malcolm X didn't come out of nowhere. He came out of 500 years of Muslim resistance on this land. From Hispaniola in 1522 to the streets of Bahia to Harlem in 1964, the thread never broke. Learn where it started. Full essay at globalmuslimlife.substack.com 🔗