Usuli Institute Khutbah: On Preserving Women and Female Reciters of the Quran, 9 October 2020

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl delivers the Friday khutbah and jumu'ah prayer at The Usuli Institute (www.usuli.org). This week, he addresses the issue of Muslim women being forced to marry or stay married to men they do not love nor wish to stay with due to pressure from the family, the community, or the local imam. In the second part, he discusses the history of female reciters of the Quran in Islamic history. He closes with a detailed explanation of the conflict taking place between Azerbaijan and Armenia, and why the Los Angeles city government has taken a position on this foreign dispute. For more, visit www.usuli.org.