October 2026: Integration and Harvesting

Bismillah-arahman-araheem.

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

This month we are taking the time to harvest and integrate what we’ve been studying and practicing through Jummahs and other programs. Throughout the month we will be revisiting Khutbahs from the year to reflect on the cycles to which they are relevant— cycles of resistance, cycles of rest, cycles of life, cycles of death. This month holds October 7th as the day genocide against Palestinians in Gaza increased tenfold for the past three and as the resistance movement has grown. October 12th as the long fought for Indigenous People’s Day recognized on Turtle Island. How can the studies and practices that came up through this past year’s jummahs serve us in current cycles— how are we integrating and harvesting? At the end of the month we will round off with a Khutbah by Yaffa on the cycle of death as a bringer of life.

Funds

By fundraising through Jummahs, it allows MASGD to sustain programming that in turn sustains those who are working to raise & distribute funds to trans people most impacted by genocide. There is always an accessible option.

Accessibility Note

We are honored to offer ASL services throughout this training program! ASL is available with at least two weeks request. Please email hey@themasgd.org to request ASL services.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee ASL with less than two weeks notice. We will do our best to honor these types of requests.

Session Topics

Session 1 | Reflections on Jummahs with MASGD: October 9, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

This Jummah, join us for a facilitated community conversation with Safwan about Jummahs in 2027. What worked about our Jummahs this past year? What didn’t? And what responsibility do we each have for the kind of Jummah community we want to build together? This will be a participative Jummah without a khutbah—a space to listen, reflect, share, and imagine what we want to create together. Come ready not only to name what you’d like to see offered, but to consider how we each participate in making community Jummah what it is. This will help organizers shape what we offer one another throughout 2027 jummahs.

Session 2 | Insights into Trans & Queer and Disability Justice Methodologies: October 16, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

Session 3 | Preparing for the Next Crisis, Revisited: October 23, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

In April we discussed Yaffa's khutbah– Preparing for the Next Crisis through Surat Youssef and Community Care. We will revisit the transcript of that khutbah that explores “What might a community look like now in order to organize when the next crisis comes?”

Session 4 | Harvest and Death, presented by Yaffa: October 30, 2026 @ 10 - 11 AM PT / 1 - 2 PM ET

A conversation about the spiral of life, how death leads to life and life leads to death which leads to new beginnings. What does it look like to process that through harvest we move through death, and it is through death that we move towards new beginnings, recognizing a liberated world is a new beginning.