BOOK A COURSE IN YOUR CITY HERE Opening Our Eyes to the Light of the Qur’an This workshop explores the potential that we have in understanding and building a personal relationship with the Qur’an. As Muslims, we often struggle with building an intimate relationship with the word of Allah, and this workshop will explore some […]
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BOOK A COURSE IN YOUR CITY HERE Rediscovering Femininity This four-hour workshop will explore themes of womanhood and female empowerment in a critical format. Key questions include: (1) What are Qur’anic paradigms of femininity and womanhood (if any)? What does it mean to be a woman?(2) Should we and can we deconstruct feminism? Or is
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BOOK A COURSE IN YOUR CITY HERE Ethical Dilemmas: Godly Decision Making and Moral Philosophy This five-hour workshop (with lunch and salah) discusses approaches to ethical dilemmas in postmodernity. The session will start by exploring some of today’s most buzz-worthy ethical conundrums on hijab, abortion, euthanasia, as well as the ethical foundations of common approaches
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BOOK A COURSE IN YOUR CITY HERE The Hour “The Hour” is an advanced course picking up where the “Death and Barzakh” course left off: after the resurrection of the bodies and their reuniting with the souls after the second blow in the Sur. Based on the works of ‘Allamah Tabatabai and his students, it
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In this 8 hour course, we will discuss the rulings of two great maraji’, Ayatullah Sistani and Ayatullah Khamenei on the topic of salat. This is not a course to cover the basics of salat. Rather, we will be focusing on the misunderstood and less known rulings of salat that, in most cases, will invalidate
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Despite being an influential and significant denomination within the Muslim world, the Shi’a have had to suffer a history of persecution. In this short presentation, we will briefly cover major events in the history of the Shi’a community, particularly in the post-Ghaybah era. What is the context behind the attacks on the Shi’a community in
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In this 6 hour course, Shaykh Mahdi discusses the etiquettes of a complete prayer as well as the secrets that lie behind many of the details of salat, such as the secrets behind ruku’, sujud, tashahhud, salam and much more, all based on the works of great scholars on the subject, namely Imam Khomeini and
The divine Unity and Oneness of Allah (swt) is one of our core beliefs as Muslims, and permeates so many of our other beliefs, as well as our actions and decisions. What is it about this belief that is so important? How can we manifest Allah (swt)’s divine Unity in our own lives and actions?
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The event of Karbala and the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (a) was one of those events that played a dominant role in the formation of a collective Imami Shi’a identity at the beginning of the second century Hijri. Anything attributed to Imam Husayn (a) would be deemed dear, as a memorial and identity symbol by
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