With the Tawfeeq of Allah (swt), last month's IlmFest hosted by Qabeelat Nurayn in Baltimore, MD was an astounding success. It was a gathering that attracted Muslims from as far as California, Texas, Canada and even the United Kingdom all coming to learn from a diverse speaker panel. For more information on IlmFest's schedule and speaker list, please visit IlmFest.com.
IlmFest also grabbed the attention of local media newspapers like the Baltimore Sun. Interviewing one of Qabeelat Nurayn's avid volunteers, Ify Okoye, we welcome you to read coverage on the IlmFest from a different perspective.
Muslims gather for weekend of learning about their faith
An adult convert to Islam, Ify Okoye spent her first couple of years
learning about the religion from books. It wasn't until the Beltsville woman
started going to seminars given by the AlMaghrib Institute that she really began
to understand her new faith.
"I look at my Islam completely as the pre-AlMaghrib phase and the
post-AlMaghrib phase," says the 25-year-old Okoye, a student at Bowie State
University. "After attending my first class, I see there's such a breadth and
depth to the Islamic tradition, and also a real practical intellectual tradition
that's vibrant, that can work today, that Muslims in America can use."
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