Our Love for Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)'s Household (Ahlul-Bayt) | Dr. Ali Ataie

Dr. Ali Ataie speaks about the observant Muslim's compulsory love for the Ahl al-Bayt, or people of household of our dear Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

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Dr. Ataie delivers this talk at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on November 23, 2012.

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This is a beautiful lecture by Ali Ataie outlining the importance of love for the Ahlul Bayt from traditional Sunni sources. As Muslims, Sunni and Shia, we are commanded by the Prophet (pbuh) to hold on to the book of Allah and to his family. To love and follow the Ahlul Bayt is not a Shia practice; it is a Muslim practice.

About Ustadh Dr. Ali Ataie
Ali Ataie is a perennial student and researcher who has been involved in interfaith activities for over two decades. He holds a Masters in biblical studies with a focus on New Testament and biblical languages. He also holds a PhD in cultural and historical studies in religion from the Graduate Theological Union. His doctoral work focused on Muslim hermeneutics of Biblical texts, especially the Gospel of John. He lives in San Ramon, CA with his wife Roya and three daughters.

Dr. Ali Ataie is undoubtedly one of the foremost leading scholars in comparative religions today.

He is currently a teacher and researcher of the Islamic Sciences and specializes in theology and biblical interpretation. Additionally he is also the President and Founder of Muslim Interfaith Council and has been heavily involved in interfaith activities for the past 15 years. He earned his undergraduate degree in Accounting from Cal Poly State University in 2000, during which time he served as the President of the Muslim Students’ Association . He has been both a guest lecturer and guest instructor at several colleges and universities such as Cal Poly State , UC Davis , UC Berkeley, and Cal State East Bay . He studied various Islamic sciences under local Bay Area scholars and has dialogued and debated with several Christian scholars on a variety of topics ranging from the historicity of the resurrection of Christ (upon whom be peace) and the Prophet hood of Muhammad (upon whom be peace and blessings).

He is a graduate of the Badr Arabic Language Institute in Hadramawt, Yemen and studied at the prestigious Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most eminent scholars in the world. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Biblical Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, (the first Muslim seminarian in the 143 year history of the school to do so), and he has a PhD in Islamic Biblical Hermeneutics.

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