convert care
Through publications, workshops, and mentorship, Rabata is proud to provide a place where Islamic education, spiritual upbringing and community care intersect for wholesome, joyful living.
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Anse Emmannuelle (Eman) was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She is a proud child of Haitian immigrants. Eman is the Convert Care Coordinator at Rabata and a graduate of Rabata’s Ribaat Academic Institute where she obtained her Ribaat Islamic Studies Teacher Certification in 2022 under the mentorship of Shayka Dr. Tamara Gray. She completed her masters degree in Pastoral Studies with a Certification in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto.
In addition to being a Ribaat graduation, she is the Chapter Lead for the Rabata Toronto Chapter where she strives to bring Rabata’s ethos of positive cultural change to her local community. Eman also serves in the steering committee for Black Canadian Muslims, a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the lives of Black Canadian Muslims of the African diaspora by reviving a sense of community based on Islamic principles, education, art, and support.
Eman resides in Toronto with her two beloved children and husband.
convertcare@rabata.org
Whether new to Islam or a seasoned convert with tales and advice of your own to share, Project Lina will help you bring your whole self to Islam.
Joy Jots is a collection of 52 weekly essays that take the reader through a year of seasons, blessings, and joyful spiritual growth.
Are you struggling to learn to pray? Are you not able to read arabic? Do you struggle to understand what the words mean for prayer?
This prayer card set includes four different sets of cards that show step by step what to say, what movements to make and what the words mean in english.
Each set includes:
- one for wudu (ablution, ritual washing before prayer),
- one for the prayer before dawn called Fajr (2 units of prayer),
- one for the prayer at sunset called maghrib (3 units of prayer),
- one for the prayers at midday called Zhuhr, Asr which is prayed in the late afternoon and Isha, the evening prayer (each prayer is four units of prayer).
In each prayer set, it is mentioned how to make the intention for prayer, showing drawings of which way to move your body and in which direction, and showing the transliteration (how to pronounce the arabic words using english letters) and also the meaning of the words in english on the back of each card.
✨For Converts, by Converts✨
Shaykha Dr. Tamara Gray and Anse Michelle Sekusky invite local convert women to Rabata Cultural Center’s Monthly Ladies Convert Halaqa.
In this safe space, convert Muslim women can find the support that resonates with their personal experiences, seek advice, and forge a path forward firm in joyful faith and surrounded by blessed companionship.
Sessions will run the first Tuesday of each month.
Drop in at the Rabata Cultural Center (3533 Lexington Ave N. Arden Hills, Minnesota)!