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(RNS) Since mosques have closed in the U.S. and around the world due to COVID-19 limitations, “virtual khutbahs” Muslim Friday sermons delivered online have become common. What is harder to find is the sense of community and full range of spiritual services that a mosque offers in normal times.
Now a virtual hub called ImamConnect aspires to provide just that: everything from Muslim circumcisions to headstone engravings on a platform designed to be an “Uber for imams.” On ImamConnect, Muslims can log on to find not just one imam but a crowd of co-religionists.
And it is not just imams. Billed as “the world’s first online marketplace for Muslim services,” the app connects users to brick-and-mortar businesses down the street and experts halfway around the world, offering instruction in everything from Islamic learning to Arabic calligraphy in 14 different languages.
A Covid-19 vaccine is not only permissible in Islam, but also obligatory as it has the potential to stop the spread of an extremely dangerous disease, says an edict issued by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America. Reuters/File
WASHINGTON: A Covid-19 vaccine is not only permissible in Islam, but also obligatory as it has the potential to stop the spread of an extremely dangerous disease, says an edict issued by the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AJMA).
On Saturday, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) arranged a seminar which also concluded that there’s no religious restriction on taking the vaccine as it’s meant to arrest the spread of a deadly virus.