Reconnecting & Rethinking: Salah

7pm – 9pm
Tickets available via Eventbrite

We’ve put our next halaqa together for Muslims who have complex feelings about salah or who have questions about the role and purpose of prayer in our lives. As usual, we’re not inviting experts but gathering the community to see if our shared knowledge can expand our understanding of what salah is for and how we can broaden our experiences of prayer. Join us in-person or online for a group discussion exploring:

• How prayer as an obligation impacts our ability to connect with Allah and ourselves.
• How punitive ideas on prayer from our childhoods affect how we pray now
• The ways maturing our understanding of prayer and embracing its complexity can release us from the overwhelm that can come with Islamic prayer practice.
• This event is not about learning how to pray salah, convincing people to pray or the benefits of prayer. The core of our discussion will be about complicating our ideas of prayer and maturing in our understanding of key Islamic practices such as salah, ibadah and du’a.

This is a participatory group discussion so please come prepared to contribute your thoughts and we will prioritise women, genderqueer people, disabled, Black and Shia Muslims who are so frequently marginalised in mosques.

Content Note: We will likely be discussing experiences of religious trauma, ableism, and exclusion, invalidation and violence experienced by people with mental health conditions.

Code of Conduct
We are asking all attendees to commit to showing up in a way that doesn’t put Inclusive Mosque or the people who attend our events in harms way. This means we will not make room for name-calling, racism of any kind, or incitement towards hatred or violence. As a charity, we cannot discuss political parties but we can critique government policy and mobilise towards changes to government policy that would address injustice. We will be sending a community agreement out to everyone who signs up to attend this event and we expect everyone to read and respect it.

Access
The venue is wheelchair accessible apart from the kitchen which only IMI volunteers will be able to access. Gender neutral toilets are available. This event is in-person with an option to join online. For those joining online, a link will be sent to you a few days in advance and we will have auto-captions enabled. For those attending in-person, please wear masks and take covid tests on the day of the event. We consider wearing masks a necessary act of care towards disabled and immunocompromised people. Windows in the room will be open to allow ventilation to prevent the spread of Covid.

We’re asking all attendees to purchase tickets if they can as this helps Inclusive Mosque to sustain our work. If you need a free ticket, use promo code free1532 when checking out and remember to click ‘apply’ when you enter the promo code.

• Discussion
• Prayers