Fast-a-thon November 3!

The USC Muslim Student Union and Ansar Service Partnership would like to invite you to attend our annual Hassan Hathout Fast-a-thon Banquet. Fast-A-Thon is an event hosted by Muslim student organizations across North America in order to create awareness about the issue of hunger, about the Islamic way of life, and to raise money for charity to be distributed to local communities. We will be inviting students of all faiths to sign up to fast from food and drink on November 3, 2010. Businesses and individuals may either sponsor a certain amount of money on behalf of each participant or make a flat pledge. All the money raised is given to the ILM foundation who will use it to distribute personal items,food, hygiene products and medical screenings for the skid row community in Los Angeles. The distribution event is known as Humanitarian Day. 

Dr. Hassan Hathout was a respected Muslim American scholar, physician, and leader of the Muslim community in the United States. We name the Fastathon after him to honor his wish that there exist in the future a national "Will-Power Day" of fasting. To find out more about Hassan Hathout, please visit http://www.hassanhathout.org/.

The banquet to break our fast on the day of the Fastathon will be held at 5:45 pm on Wednesday, November 3, 2010 and will be located at the Omar Al-Khattab Masjid (at the corner of Exposition and Figueroa). Food will be served for all of the attendees, and we will have a number of speakers, including Dr. Maher Hathout (Dr. Hassan Hathout's brother), Mr. Dafer Dakhil, and Mr. Ali Mir, Director of Muslim Student Life at USC.

Please sign up to fast for Fastathon by going to the MSU website at uscmuslims.com. On the RSVP form, please indicate whether you will also be able to attend the evening banquet.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Muslim Student Union and Ansar Service Partnership
University of Southern California