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SUMMARY:Weekend Retreat with Shaykh Samer Al-Nass
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the forty hadith on the Virtues of Dhikr of Allah (swt) & on Prophet Muhammad’s (saw) intercession (also known as Shifa’ al-Kubra) with Shaykh Samer Al-Nass at the weekend intensive. Shaykh Samer is a renowned scholar of Qur’an\, Tafsir\, and Hadith. \n\n\n\nIjaza with Sanad (certificate) will be given to the attendees.  \n\n\n\nForty Hadith on The Virtue of Dhikr of Allah (the Exalted) is Sheikh Yusuf al-Nabhani’s collection of forty hadith on dhikr/divine remembrance. This is from his collection of forty hadith on forty subjects. Included is the commentary on these hadiths\, which further elucidates the practice.  \n\n\n\nForty Hadith About His (may Allah bestow peace and blessings be upon him) Intercession/Shifa’ Al-Kubra is a collection of hadith about the Day of Judgement. \n\n\n\nBoth books will be available to purchase at a discounted price on-site. \n\n\n\nFri. Jan 12\, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Introduction – Free) | Sat. Jan 13\, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.\, Sun. Jan 14\, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. | MCC Conference Room | $25/in-person for the weekend or $10/person (watch live online both days)  \n\n\n\nRegister at https://mcceastbay.org/forty-hadith \n\n\n\nThe event will not be publicly live-streamed. Public release of the recordings will be at the discretion of every speaker. There’s no guarantee recordings will be released on the media channels for MCC East Bay. Please try to attend the program in person or live online. The event is taking place on Pacific Standard Time. \n\n\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org \n\n\n\nMCC has a standing policy that financial need should never hold a person back from attaining spiritual knowledge. For a financial-based scholarship discount code\, please email scholarship@mcceastbay.org \n\n\n\nAbout the PresenterShaykh Samer AlNass was born in Damascus\, Syria\, where he studied at the College of Medicine of the University of Damascus. He studied in the United States\, where he qualified in internal medicine. \n\n\n\nThe Shaykh has studied under some of the great ‘ulama of the Levant (Shaam) and the Arabian peninsula. He has a traditional license to teach (ijazah) in the ten styles of recitation of the narration of the Shatibiyyah and the Durra from the world-renowned Shaykh Muhammad Sukkar. He received an ijazah in the ten styles of recitation of the narration of Tayyibah from the Egyptian Shaykh Ahmad Mustafa in Riyadh\, Saudi Arabia\, himself a student of Shaykh Abd al-Aziz al-Zayyat of Egypt. Shaykh Samer has a traditional license to teach (ijazah) in Islamic law (fiqh) and theology and creed (‘aqida) from Shaykh Lutfi al-Fayumi and the late Hanafi Mufti\, Shaykh Adib al-Kallas. He also studied with the previous Mufti of Syria\, Shaykh Abu Yusr Ibn `Abidin. Shaykh Samer was honored to study hadith in Mecca with the great Indonesian-Meccan Shaykh Yasin al-Fadani and with Shaykh Nur ud-din `Itr of Syria. He also has an ijazah in Prophetic traditions (hadith) from the late Shaykh `Abd Allah Siraj al-Din of Aleppo\, Syria. \n\n\n\nShaykh Samer is presently a teacher at Ma’had al-Fatih al-Islami in Damascus\, teaching the Hanafi fiqh manual Al-Hidayah in the department of Islamic Law (Shariah)\, and lecturer on the ten recitations of the Qur’an in the MA program. The Shaykh teaches Qur’anic recitation (tajwid) after fajr prayers daily in the blessed mosque of Shaykh Ibn `Arabi\, a post given to him by his Shaykh and father-in-law\, one of the illustrious Shaykhs of Quran in the Levant (Sham)\, the late Shaykh Muhammad Sukkar. Shaykh Samer has taught various Islamic studies courses in England and North America since 2000. \n\n\n\n\nPast Shaykh Samer video recordings: https://mcceastbay.org/samer
URL:https://mcceastbay.org/event/shaykh-samer-al-nass-3/
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SUMMARY:*Postponed* Remosqued: Cultivating Intentional Community | Imam Ahmed Deeb & Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi
DESCRIPTION:Due to travel delays from two panelists\, this event has been rescheduled to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday\, January 21. See here: https://mcceastbay.org/event/rescheduled-remosqued \n\n\n\nWhat is community? How should it feel and look like? How did the Prophet (peace be upon him) develop the communal culture of the model community in Madinah? This interactive workshop will examine these and more through an integrated framework of community psychology and the Sunnah. Join us to be part of this groundbreaking community effort examining loneliness\, governance\, and a sense of community in the American mosque. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-UraE5oAyQ\n\n\n\n\n5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Sunday\, Jan. 14 | MCC Conference Room | In person only; event not live-streamed or recorded \n\n\n\nQuestions? events@mcceastbay.org \n\n\n\nThis is part of a series of interactive talks happening across masjids and Islamic centers in the Bay Area to redefine and reenergize the concept of community in our mosques. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImam Ahmad Deeb has been serving communities from an early age under the training and mentorship of his father\, Shaykh Abdallah Deeb. After finishing his bachelor’s in Psychology at 19\, he traveled to Cape Town\, SA\, and completed formal seminary training. He returned to the USA and completed his M.A. in Islamic Studies and Leadership at Bayan’s foremost accredited Muslim graduate school. His thesis topic was “Re-forming Islamic Reform: Ma’loom min al-Dīn bil Darūrah\, the Theology of Law\, and the Epistemological Limits of Ijtihād.” \n\n\n\nHis academic interests and love of community work led him to community psychology\, where he is a doctoral candidate and researcher in the field. He co-founded Itqaan Institute\, a premier Qur’an learning institute led by his father. He is co-founder and instructor of Pillars Seminary—a part-time institute that aims to provide the general public with formal\, balanced\, and structured training in Islam. Most recently\, with his father and Shaykh Ismail Bowers\, he established Shifaa Community\, a virtual intentional community that promotes holistic wellness and structured religious guidance. In his free time\, he continues his study of the Islamic tradition with scholars worldwide and provides consulting to communities across the country. \n\n\n\n\n– More Sidi Ahmed Deeb: https://mcceastbay.org/ahmad\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUstadha Hosai is the co-founder of MH4M (http://mentalhealth4muslims.com)\, which was established in 2010. For nearly 20 years\, she has been actively involved in the Bay Area and Southern California Muslim community\, working and volunteering for many notable organizations. Learn more about her at http://hosaimojaddidi.com  \n\n\n\n– More Ustadha Hosai: https://mcceastbay.org/hosai \n\n\n\nMunir Safi cut his teeth as a breaking newspaper reporter for several years in his home state of Missouri before finding a second career in Islamic nonprofit management after he moved to California. He has served the MCC East Bay community since 2016. He oversees the facility\, programming\, events\, classes\, congregation support\, website\, marketing\, communications\, A/V and media\, social media\, interfaith\, community\, prison outreach\, and supporting MCC’s varied social services. 
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