Newest Classes:

Fiqh Al-Ikhtilaf: How to Understand and Deal with Disagreements Among Scholars : June 23-24, 2006

Fiqh of Muslims As Minorities (Fiqh Al-Aqaliat): July 14-15, 2006

 

MAS Boston's Islamic Learning Series
 

“Islamic Learning Catered to the busy Bostonian!”

 

Islamic Knowledge and Learning has always been a personal goal of many a Muslim in Boston. Indeed, if one’s intention is sincere, there is nothing more dear than seeking knowledge. For Allah says: “…Indeed the truly God-fearing are but those with knowledge…(35:28)” Yet if we were to list the obstacles towards this goal, we will find more than a few:

-          I can’t really learn from an online course

-          General halaqas are great for Islamic improvement, but do not go in depth into any one science or topic

-          Between my college classes and work, I do not have time for full semester-long or year long courses

-          The intensive two-week long summer programs, or even the occasional intensive weekend-long knowledge 
     programs are either too far apart or not practical for me

 

With all of the above considerations in mind (and more), the MAS Boston College Activities Committee has catered an Islamic learning program for the busy college student or professional.

So do your soul a favor and register!

 

Catered to the busy student or professional? How?
 

Each course will meet for 3 hours, for anywhere from 4 to 6 Saturdays in a row. This way, students do not have to worry about carrying the workload of an extra course for several months – rather, the course is for a limited, manageable duration. Furthermore, each Saturday session is a very manageable 2-3 hours. Overall, that’s 10-15 hours of class time – still enough for a good, substantive treatment of the topic being taught. To accommodate busy schedules, for the most part, there will not be overlapping courses (once in a while, two courses will overlap but for the most part only one course will be offered at a time) and since the duration of each course is fairly short, one can still take several courses over the year. Lastly, the gap between courses will be about a month to allow for a break for people to remain abreast in their work/school/activities.

 

What courses will be offered?

 

The course offerings will comprise a variety of categories in order to give students the opportunity to become meaningfully and broadly grounded, albeit at a high level, in religious knowledge. Namely, there will be courses on all the main Islamic sciences, courses on various periods or aspects of Islamic history, courses regarding special interest issues, and more. The following is a sample list of courses (note: the list is not complete or finalized yet).

 

-          Comparative Fiqh of Prayer (All the Rules of prayers from the different madhahibs, as well as a background  

           of Schools of Fiqh (madhahib), and the bases of differences in Fiqh)

-          Principles of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence (Usul ul Fiqh)

-          The Sciences of Hadith

-          The Quranic Sciences

-          Fundamentals of Faith (Aqeedah)

-          Ihsan and Purification of the Self

-          Going thru a specific spiritual purification text such as “Stations of the Righteous” of Ibnul Qayyim or

           “Spiritual Revival of the Religious Sciences” by Imam Ghazali

-          The Islamic Caliphate and The Four Rightly Guided Caliphs

-          Female Scholars of Islam

-          Major figures in Islamic History (from scholars like Bukhari and Imam Malik to Caliphs like Omar Abdel Aziz

           to “renewers” like Imam Ghazali and Salahuddin)

-          Da’wah (The significance and meaning of the concept from the Quran and Sunnah, Character, Etiquettes and

           Techniques of a Caller to Allah