Podcast Review: Caltech MSA Friday Khutbahs
Channel Title: Caltech MSA Friday Khutbahs
Summary: Can’t wait till next Friday? Get your Jumu’ah khutbah fix early this week, with this MSA podcast channel.
Creator/Host: Caltech MSA
An archive of Friday khutbahs (speeches) delivered at Caltech. We meet for Friday khutbah and prayer every Friday at Avery conference room at 1.10 pm. CalMSA is the Muslim Students Association in the California Institute of Technology. It is a religious and cultural student organization that is dedicated to:
- Helping Muslim students practice the different aspects of Islam.
- Promoting awareness of Muslim students to relevant domestic and global issues.
- Increasing understanding of the Caltech community to the Islamic religion and culture.
Last Podcast (title, date, info): The power of La ilaha illa Allah wa Muhammad Rasul Allah; 16/02/2008; The power of La ilaha illa Allah wa Muhammad Rasul Allah by brother Aamer Ali.
Overall Review:
There is not much to say about this podcast channel. Alhamdulillah, it does exactly what it says on the tin. I listened to the first and last podcasts in the series; they both contained the kind of good reminders and anecdotes from early Islamic history that you would expect to hear from the khateeb on a Friday. I felt the overall flow of the khutbah was a little confused at times, but then again, maybe I shouldn’t obsess so much about oratory style, when the message itself is more important.
Recommended audience: Seekers of knowledge, i.e., the kind that don’t have time to visit Al-Azhar university, and so download all the lectures and khutbahs that they can get their hands on instead. 
Score: 7/10
Make some podcast reviews for the Sacred Learning podcasts at http://www.sacredlearning.org/ - They are amazing, extremely deep and meanigful - truly moving. Shaykh Abdul Sattar is a real Islamic scholar who teaches a 7 year program in Chicago for free (provided you can pay for the books, most of which he provides for free online). He’s a truly amazing teacher - and he’s only 36!!!! (and there’s no engrish either, and yes that’s engrish not a typo).
I put them up along with many other great Islamic podcasts for easy on-demand access on an Islamic Toolbar you can download here: waterloomsa.ourtoolbar.com
Try it out and help muslims!
Insha’Allah, I will do that review for next week. Jazakallah for the heads up! I found the Weekly Dhikr podcast on iTunes, and am d/ling the latest one as I type.
With itunes - do you only have access to the latest material? Not all of the former material - I’m only asking because i’ve never used it - I only use the toolbar’s rss feed and radio player - It’s nice plus to be the author!
No, all the old podcasts are available way back to 2001!