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When Eid al-Fitr meets Pride Month, we call it PrEID! Thereâs a lot of celebration to go around. (s/o to our amazing artist @smyazitouni)

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Masjid al-Rabia is the only institution of its kind--a women centered, LGBTQIA+ affirming, radically accessible Islamic community center. We need your help to keep this work sustainable.
Masjid al-Rabia is an Islamic community center founded by disabled trans and queer Muslims, led by disabled trans & queer Muslims and centering the needs of disabled queer and trans Muslims though education, advocacy and outreach. Our programming reaches thousands of people every month--both in Chicago, online, and through expansive Prison Outreach efforts. Last year we became the only organization of its kind to open our own independent community center--and have already outgrown our first home. This year we move into a bigger & more permanent home for our congregation. We need your help to do it. We need your help to keep this organization running.
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Hereâs a sneak-peek of Masjid al-Rabiaâs calendar for Ramadan 2019--including iftars and action days, SECRET WEDDING PARTIES, online meet-ups and celebrating the convergence of Eid al-Fitr and Pride Month via our 3rd annual PrEID celebration with a Gala! Canât join us in Chicago? No Problem! All programming is also available online in real time. contact us on twitter of facebook @MasjidalRabia or email [email protected] for full details.
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Converting to Islam does not absolve us of our complicity in white supremacy. Letâs talk about it.

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100% online inclusive feminist Qur'an study with Masjid al-Rabia
Want to study the Holy Qurâan in an inclusive, community-led pluralist environment? Masjid al-Rabia has launched a Digital Qurâan Study! Weâll be studying one sura a week with in-depth discussion, free resources and an environment dedicated to disrupting top-down patriarchal models of spiritual authority.
We started this week but you can join in any time!Â
Exciting thing! We just re-launched our Digital Qurâan Study to run parallel to the in-person study weâre hosting biweekly at our new location in downtown Chicago. Weâre studying one surah a week (so weâll be discussing two surahs at every in-person study) with discussion online AND you can participate in our biweekly meetings online via live broadcast! email [email protected] for deets
What did you say? Heterosexuality is haram? Wtf. Hope it's joke or something
- Noahâs wife was straight. Lotâs wife was straight. Pharaoh was straight. Literally every person who is punished ~by name~ in the Taurat, Injeel AND Qurâan were heterosexual. Coincidence?
- If Adamâs judgement wasnât clouded by his heterosexuality we wouldnât be in this worldly mess in the first place. IF Adam was gay like a normal person we never would have been kicked out of the garden.
- âStraightâ/âHetrosexualâ are modern sociological constructs. Heterosexuality is bidah.Â
- If heterosexuality is permissible then why are there gendered barriers in the masjid? Why are men allowed to expose their navels so wantonly amongst their brothers, but not amongst women?? HMMM?
The only straightness for true Muslims is as-sirat al-mustaqim. Itâs so obvious I donât know how you canât see it.Heterosexuality is haraam. Obviously.
I honestly canât feel if this is a troll or someone who is actually using a holy book to justify homosexuality while simultaneously putting down heterosexuality.
Sadly, i think itâs more likely that its the latter.
I know we live in a post-ironic dystopian hellscape and all, and I really try not to actually comment on this post because it ruins the joke but honestly: i get far too much hate mail in a week just because yâall need to work on your reading comprehension. Itâs been a few years of this. Iâm going to ruin the joke:
Youâll notice that every argument used here is a mirror of anti-gay rhetoric used by bigots to reject lgbtq people of faith. Each of the arguments is logically fallible for the exact same reason that the mirror argument against lgbtq Muslims wonât hold water. Those of us who deal with this nonsense every day recognize it easily. For the rest who donât get it, when you take apart this post to prove how wrong I am at the same time you end up also taking down every argument used to deny queer and trans people our rights and spiritual agency. win/win
this is the last time iâm going to comment on this post. salaams yâall.
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If youâd like to know about advocacy and resistance, reach out to local groups. If youâre in Chicago and/or Muslim you can hmu and Iâll let you know whatâs going on.
After years of hard work and support from thousands of community members, Masjid al-Rabia has become the first women-centered mosque in the Americas to open our own independent permanent location.Â
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reading the *scriptural/contextual evidence* in the Qur'an that supposedly condemns The Gay and idk man it seems to me like you can only interpret the source as condemning homosexuality if you presuppose homophobia while reading it. itâs been said a million times before but like its bad scholarship & bad practice dude, just let gay ppl live their lives.
Iâm very grateful to learning under Imam Ludovic Mohamed-Zahed (of the CALEM Institute)âs systematic approach to the etiology of homophobic interpretations in Islam, but especially for his meticulous research on pre- and early- Islamic history and how âthe people of Lotâ transitioned in meaning from âdepraved violent worshippers of a specific pagan goddess who practiced ritual rapeâ, to âancient practicers of cult prostitutionâ to âritually abusive criminal bandits and rapist khawarji warriorsâ a few thousand years later, then to âzoophiles and men-who-raped-menâ some hundred years after that, and only then after about five millennia of the telephone game (and influence from external-imperial criminal codes) did it come to be understood as people in consensual same gender relationships. The whole story, in all its players and interpretations, is fascinating tbqh.
Like this work doesnât just come from the heart. A lot of it feels intuitive, sure, and you shouldnât have to be an expert to be respected as a human being. But people like to attack us for saying thereâs no evidence for our theological practice when like. Itâs all there. There are centuries of oppressive & repressive shit obfuscating the truth, and itâs our duty to reconsider and make sense of it.Â
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If homosexuality is allowed, why arenât there any prophets or sahabas mentioned in saheeh hadeeths that were lgbtq+?
there literally are tho so get right with God and try again next time
PrEIDe Queer/Trans Muslim Beach Party!Â
@ Hollywood Beach in Chicago June 16th 2018 3-8pm
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This is a three-part podcast series produced and published by me. In this series, I have a conversation with writer and trans-activist Mahdia Lynn (@mahdialynn), exploring themes such as spiritual trauma, religion abuse, and marginalization experienced by LGBTQ+ Muslims.Â
I hope this short series becomes a resource for LGBTQ+ Muslims within the Tumblr community and beyond.Â
Please enjoy and peace.

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any & all lgbtq muslim youth with bad/nonexistent/whatever relationship with yr parents: i will be your mom for mother's day
youâre wonderful and i love you and i spend my twilights making dua for you; that you find peace and build a life full of affirmation and love
Honest Mixtape: Given and Chosen by Mahdia Lynn
Welcome to Aprilâs âHonest Mixtapeâ! Every month we will feature a new writer who will tackle one of your advice questions with words *and* music!
âWhat can I do to support a trans friend who has shitty parents and no real support system?â
Mahdia Says:
The answer to this one is very simple, but not very easy: When your friends are struggling and support systems are failing them, you have to come together and be that support system.
This is painful, heavy stuff. The things that society tells us are meant to be unbreakable can be shattered by ignorance, repression, and fear. Last month, Grace wrote a great piece (and made an excellent mixtape) about coping with shitty family, so I want to focus on this other side of the coin: the love, beauty, and magic found in the chosen family we make for ourselves.
One of the greatest blessings that we are given as queer and trans people is the opportunity to redefine the institutions that just donât work for us. When our given family leaves one of us in the dirt, we build our own with the people who are really there for us. Chosen family is one of the most important things you can find in this life, and it starts right in the here and now.
This is an imposition: The world can be cruel to people like us. Sometimes we are cruel to each other. It is our duty to be there for one another when it feels like the world is falling to pieces and other safety nets have failed. We find those people who need community and we build that community together.
You know that saying âBlood is thicker than water,â right? Do you know the other version of that statement? Well, this is the truth: the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. In other words, the bonds that we buildâthose people that we choose for ourselvesâare the strongest relationships in the world.
As queer and trans people we are given the opportunity to radically redefine relationships from the ground up. We get to decide what family means. Iâm not saying that we all have to hold hands and get along with anyone who happens to be LGBTQIA. But growing up takes time, care, and compassion. No one can go it alone. Everyone needs space to learn, to fuck up, and to get better without fear of losing everything. Time, care, and compassion.
For the trans person out there growing up at a loss for love and support, I want to tell you a bit about myself: When I was younger, I thought things were all my fault. The fragmented relationship with my given family, the relationships that burned away when I came out as trans, the daily struggle of connecting to others while navigating disability and neurodiversityâit was just so, so much for one person to go through. I didnât have anyone to look to where I saw someone like me. I carried that weight around with me for a long time.
Life was really hard for a while. In those days I could never imagine much of a future for myselfâbut looking back today I am so, so grateful to have made it through. At a point in my life where I could barely imagine making it to next week, it was time that saved me. In time I found other people like me, and where we felt all the hurt where society let us down, we built something better together.
I was nineteen the first time I met my sister, at Camp Trans. It blew my mind to see so many trans people in one space, but she and I bonded immediatelyâtwo genderweird trans women bonding over bad folk-punk and happening to live near one another. She was the first person in the world in whom I actually saw myself. In time, the circle of people in my life who understood each other grew. We built something new together. We became a family of our own making.
I am overflowing with love and pride for the family we made for ourselves. In the last decade weâve been through it all. Grief and joy, weddings and breakups, hospital beds and baby strollers. I am who I amâI am alive at allâbecause of my chosen family. This is what I want for you and your friend. It starts today.
Make a commitment today to be there for the people who need you. In time, friends become chosen family. Itâs a relationship forged over years, and itâs one of the strongest bonds in the world. The people in your life now can be the people you grow with; the people you hurt with; the people you heal with. Be there for one another. Make something new.
I made this mixtape for you in celebration of chosen family (with a lil side of fuck you for the bigots). If youâre having a rough go of it or struggling today, I strongly recommend blasting âBattle Cryâ on repeat and remembering that âthe time we spend in darkness when the rain comes is where we often find the light soon as the painâs done.â
Mahdia Lynn is the founder and Executive Director of Masjid al-Rabiaâa women centered, LGBTQ affirming, pluralist mosque in Chicagoâwhere she has spearheaded unprecedented programming in support of marginalized Muslims. Mahdiaâs prolific career as a community organizer has centered transgender liberation, disability justice, prison abolition, and youth suicide prevention. Her Black and Pink Crescent program provides services for hundreds of incarcerated LGBTQ Muslims across the globe. Mahdia lives in Chicago where she is a senior caregiver and works as a freelance writer, speaker and educator. You can learn more about Mahdia and her work at mahdialynn.com or on Twitter @mahdialynn
Cover Art designed by the incredible Isabella Rotman!