In light of the failure of the public school system and due to the influx of refugees, the concept of mentorship has become a necessity in any Muslim community.
Join Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi and Dr. Imam Sherif Ahmed (co-founder and dean of Tarbiya Institute Seminary) to learn the tools you need as a parent to find the right mentors for your children, the characteristics of the right mentor, how to prepare and train qualified mentors in our community, the expectations we should have from them, and how to prepare our children for a rich and profound mentorship experience.
Dr. Sherif will share the findings from his doctoral research in leadership and examine support systems within the Muslim community. He will also discuss the steps needed to nurture American Muslim youth leadership.
Friday, August 16 | 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. | Conference Room | Join in-person or watch live at mcceastbay.org/live
Dr. Sherif will also give the Second Khutbah (1:40 p.m. to 2:10 p.m.)Â at Rosewood Center and the Third Khutbah (2:30 p.m. to 2:50 p.m.) at MCC.
Sponsored by Tarbiya Institute, Bayan Islamic Graduate School, and MCC East Bay.
We will have dinner boxes for sale starting at 6 p.m. Before this talk, we will have a Back-to-School Ice Cream Social for youth ages 5-17 in the parking lot from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
About the Speakers
Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi was born in Afghanistan and moved to the United States with her family at age two. She credits her Islamic journey to 1996, when she attended Islamic classes in Hayward, California. Her teacher and mentor, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, has taught these classes since then.
One of her main focus areas is to help create a strong sisterhood for women in the community by leading halaqas (spiritual study circles) and support groups while offering individual spiritual counseling and mentoring. She noted that many of the spiritual problems encountered were reflective of the deep and complicated mental health issues of the community and would be better served by focusing on mental health. Thus, along with her cousin Dr. Nafisa Sekandari, they co-founded a website called Mental Health 4 Muslims (www.mentalhealth4muslims.com).
Ustadha Hosai is a freelance writer and editor who lectures on various Islamic/spiritual topics.
– More Ustadha Hosai: http://mcceastbay.org/hosai
Dr. Imam Sherif Ahmed is the Co-Founder and the Dean of Tarbiya Institute’s Seminary. Additionally, he is a visiting Scholar at Bayan Graduate Islamic School. Dr. Imam Sherif is an entrepreneur whose career spans more than two decades. He studied English Literature, Business Administration, and Islamic Studies and received a Master’s in Strategic Business Unit Management from HEC Paris. He got his Doctorate in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from the University of Colorado. Dr. Imam Sherif is working on his Master’s in Islamic Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary.
He is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of California Real Traders, A Real estate company in northern California.
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