Middle Ground

Prayer Times

• al-Salām ‘alaykum. Class this week will be postponed. We will resume class/Fajr Club next week, in shā’ Allāh.
• Note: Middle Ground is not open for all daily prayers. Currently Middle Ground is only open for Jumu’ah Prayer on Fridays (1PM) and Fajr on Saturdays.

If you have any questions, please contact us at mgmcupland@gmail.com

Jumu’ah at Middle Ground

The Jumu’ah starts at 1PM, in shā’ Allāh. It is the same year round. The time never changes.

Upcoming Classes and Events at Middle Ground

Understanding the Qur’ān is our weekly tafsīr class. It follows Fajr Prayer (currently 5:30am iqamah time) and Fajr Club Breakfast (6am – 7am), starting at 7:30am. Sign up for our newsletter for receive the link to the livestream.

al-Ḥamdulillāh, Middle Ground started two new classes in July 2023, one of which is our new Mālikī Fiqh class, Fiqh Made Easy. It is offered the first two Saturdays of the month. Next session will be Saturday, October 18th from 9-10am. Check out our playlist below on YouTube for past sessions.

Our second new class (also the first two Saturdays of the month) will be The Book of Faith: A Reading of Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. This will be from 10:30am – 11:30am.

We hope you will enjoy us for these new classes. May Allāh bless them to make them a benefit in this life and the next. Āmīn.ˆ

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We look forward to seeing you at Middle Ground.

Every Saturday Middle Ground members gather for prayer and breakfast. We start the morning with Fajr Salah and then break bread with one another. It’s a great opportunity to get to know other members in the community as well as treat yourself to Shaykh Chef’s (Imam Marc!!) famous coffee and breakfast. Current iqamah time is 5:15AM. Front door code is 3923 and the rear entrance code is 0719*. Imam Marc’s Understanding the Qur’ān class follows. Currently, the class is on the Fifth Chapter of the Qur’ān, Sūrah al-Mā’idah.

*Note: this will be the last Understanding the Qur’ān Session until after Ramadan.

Current start time is 7AM.

After Fajr Club on Saturdays, Imam Marc teaches Understanding the Qur’an. This course explores such topics as tafsīr, ‘aqīdah (theology and creed), fiqh (jurisprudence), as well as insights into the Arabic language. The class also explores how we might understand Revelation in light of our culture as Americans.

Currently the class is on the Fifth Chapter of the Qur’ān, Sūrah al-Mā’idah, through such works by al-Sa’dī, Ibn Juzayy, al-Ṭabarī, and al-Qurṭubī and others.

For those who wish to attend remotely, please sign up for the e-mail list, or send us an email at contact@muslim.center, to be added to the e-mail notification. The live class is conducted through Google Meet.

Current start time is 7:30AM.

You can see some past sessions on our YouTube channel.

We also do a reading of Ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī’s al-Risalah the last two Sundays of every month.

All classes can be attended remotely. Please send us your email (to contact@muslim.center) if you have not already signed up for the email list.

Here’s the video for our first session for How Islam Works

For more session videos and notes, click here.

The Middle Ground website also features the writings of Imam Marc. He has not only been teaching but also writing about affairs concerning the American Muslim community for nearly two decades. You can find his posts here.