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Breaking the Two Desires & Repentance, Patience and Gratitute

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WeekTopic
Week 1The Book of Breaking the Two DesiresMerits of Hunger and avoiding satietyHadith that mention the merit of hunger. The physical and spiritual benefits found in hunger.
Week 2Methods of diet when considering one’s intake and how frequently one
should eat.
How to gradually lessen one’s food intake and varying durations of hunger
Week 3When is hunger praiseworthy and the two afflictions needing to be avoided as a resultEating in solitude and wanting to be known for observing a disciplined diet.
Week 4The two main benefits of sexual desire.The act of intercourse and how its pleasure is understood as a semblance of what awaits in Paradise and the main reason for procreating is to ensure the continuity of humans.
Week 5The Book of RepentanceThe necessity and merit of repentance
Week 6Integrals for a valid
repentance
How to perform repentance and when one should never doubt their repentance being accepted.
Week 7Asking for forgiveness and the fruits it bearsThe causational effect of Istighfar.
Week 8The Book on Patience and GratitudeThe merits of patience as mentioned in the Quran and Hadith. The reality of patience and how it is shown for different situations.
Week 9Gratitude and it’s states.The merit of gratitude as mentioned in the Quran and Hadith. The reality of gratitude and the different modes it is manifested in.
Week 10Gratitude and it’s states.The merit of gratitude as mentioned in the Quran and Hadith. The reality of gratitude and the different modes it is manifested in.

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Ahmad, Salih al-Shāmi. al-Muhadhab min lhya’ ‘ulum ai-din.  2 vols, Damascus, Dar al-Qalam (2018)

(Imam) Ghazali is Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Abu Hamid Hujjat ai-Islam al-Ghazali al-Tusi


(Imam) Ghazali is Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Abu Hamid Hujjat ai-Islam al-Ghazali al-Tusi, the Shafi’i Imam, Proof of Islam, and Sufi adept born in Tabiran, near Tus Gust north of present-day Mashhad, Iran), in 450/1058. The Imam of his time, nicknamed Shafi’i the Second for his legal virtuosity, he was a brilliant intellectual who first studied jurisprudence at Tus and then travelled the Islamic world to Baghdad, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Mecca, and Medina, taking Sacred Knowledge from its masters, among them the Imam of the Two Sanctuaries Juwayni, with whom he studied until the Imam’s death, becoming at his hands a scholar in Shafi’i law, logic, tenets of faith, debate, and in the rationalistic doctrines of the philosophical schools of his time, which he was later called upon to refute. When Juwayni died, Ghazali debated the Imams and scholars of Baghdad in the presence of the vizier Nizam al-Mulk, who was so impressed that he appointed him to a teaching post at the Nizamiyya Academy in Baghdad, where word of his’ brilliance spread and scholars journeyed to hear him. ...Read More

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Shaykh Thaqib Mahmood

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Bury Park Community Centre, 161, 161b Dunstable Rd, Luton LU1 1BW.
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Starting – 13th January 2024 for 10 weeks
Saturday – 11.30am to 12.30pm

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