Pacifist Posted February 15, 2005 DEEN INTENSIVE PRESENTS: 1st Annual Sisters-Only Three-Day Intensive March 24th- 27th, 2005 Limited capacity, applications accepted on a first come-first served basis All praise is due to Allah, and May His Peace and Blessings be upon the Prophet Muhammad and upon his family, and his companions and all those who follow his way until the Day of Judgment, Ameen. The 1st annual Sisters-only Deen Intensive Program will take place in San Jose, CA from March 24, 2005 to March 27, 2005 at the Hyatt Hotel. Applications are open only to sisters. "WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?" This intensive is the first program devoted specifically to female-related fiqh issues and it has been designed exclusively for Muslim women who wish to embody this great and noble tradition. The subjects and the material that will be covered by an impressive line-up of qualified teachers will Inshaa Allah enlighten and empower the participants by providing them with an introduction to the core Islamic sacred sciences from a gender specific orientation. THE TEACHERS Praise be to Allah, many scholars, both local and international have been confirmed for the program including Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Imam Zaid Shakir, Hakima Karima Burns, Ustadhah Umm Hassan (Saliha Shakir), Ustadhah Umm Huzayfah, Ustadhah Fadwa Silmi, Ustadhah Sairah AbuBakr and Ustadhah Rania Awaad. Biographies of all the teachers participating in this program follow below. CURRICULUM This intensive will focus on female-related fiqh issues as well as topics pertaining to womanhood and motherhood. Daily sessions include: Tajwid (Hafs and Warsh) We are pleased to announce that Tajwid sessions will cover the rules and fundamentals of proper recitation of the Holy Quran according to both the Hafs and Warsh recitations. Beginner, intermediate and advanced levels will be taught. Fiqh (Hanafi, Maliki and Shafi'i) Fiqh sessions will focus on the chapters of Menstruation (Hayd), Postnatal Bleeding (Nifas) and Chronic/Irregular Bleeding (Istihada) for each of the three madhhabs. Sessions will also cover aspects of ritual purification (Ghusl) pertaining to each of the above topics as well as address the issues of discharge and contraceptive use. These are parallel sessions with Ustadhah Umm Huzayfah (Hanafi), Ustadhah Fadwa Silmi and Ustadhah Sairah AbuBakr (Maliki), and Ustadhah Rania Awaad (Shafi’i). Birr: the Attainment of Righteousness to One’s Parents Ustadhah Rania Awaad will be teaching the classic text of Shaykh Muhammad Mawlud entitled al-Dhafr bil Murad fil birr bil aabaa’ wal ajdad, The Attainment of What is Sought in the Birr of Parents and Grandparents. This famous text summarizes the responsibilities and etiquettes children should exhibit towards their parents and the means by which parents can raise children who embody the quality of Birr, righteousness towards the parents. Nurturing healthy children in the West. Ustadhah Umm Hassan (Saliha Shakir) will be teaching Tarbiyat ul Awlad fil Iyan, The Methodological Training of Children, by Ubaydullah Taaseh Ulwan. Sessions will focus on a methodological approach to the training and upbringing of Muslim children following on the guidelines of this classical two volume text which addresses the application of child rearing based on age appropriateness and levels of developmental years. Special Evening Sessions: The Legacy of Pious Women in the Quran, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf This lecture will examine the legacy of three great Quranic women: Mariam, Asiyah, and Bilquis. Contemporary Significance of Great Muslim Women, Imam Zaid Shakir This lecture will examine the lives of several great Muslim women, and will endeavor to seek out the implications of their careers for our understanding of Islam today. Healing the Woman and Child through Herbs and Nutrition. Hakima Karima Burns, Mh, ND will speak about how herbs and nutrition can help women deal with a number of female issues from menstruation to menopause and help children with a number of problems from hyperactivity and ADHD to colds, flues and other health problems. She will also share how healing can be accomplished with simple foods and herbs from the kitchen. The Hakima’s philosophy on healing is that each person should seek the knowledge to heal themselves with cost efficiency and ease as Allah has provided us with such knowledge. COURSE MATERIALS Course materials for the fiqh classes in each of the three madhhabs as well as for the afternoon and special evening sessions will be provided on site. Students participating in the morning Tajwid classes are expected to bring a mushaf, a copy of the Holy Quran in Arabic, with them to the program. THE SITE The program will be held at the Hyatt hotel in San Jose, CA. San Jose is northern California's largest city and is 45 miles SE of San Francisco. Students are highly recommended to fly into the San Jose Mineta International Airport as the hotel provides complimentary airport transportation to and from the hotel. There will be a one to two hour wait for pickup/drop-off for students who choose to fly into the Oakland International Airport or San Francisco International Airport. Please be advised that the program organizers will not be held responsible if an applicant books a non-refundable ticket before acceptance to the program has been confirmed. ACCOMMODATIONS Accommodations for the program will be offered from Thursday March 24 until checkout on Sunday March 27, 2005 in the Hyatt hotel. Students are expected to arrive by 5pm on Thursday night and depart by 1pm on Sunday March 27, 2005. Sisters will be accommodated in double-occupancy rooms on site. It is imperative for sisters wishing to room together to submit the name of their roommate in their application form. Local sisters who will not be staying at the hotel are expected to arrive by 5pm Thursday evening and by 8:30am sharp on Friday and Saturday mornings. However, local sisters wishing to participate in the Tajwid sessions are welcomed to arrive by 6am. Please be advised that the regular program will begin after Fajr prayers (6am) on Sunday morning. Sisters not requesting hotel accommodations are expected to be on time to all sessions. The fiqh, Birr and childrearing sessions will be continuous throughout the duration of the program, requiring students to attend the program in its entirety with no exceptions. FOOD For students staying at the hotel, food consists of three meals per day on Friday and Saturday, dinner on Thursday and breakfast on Sunday. For students not requesting hotel accommodations, meals include lunch and dinner on Friday/Saturday and dinner on Thursday. Meals will consist of mixed cuisine, with less emphasis on meat in the diet. Those with special dietary requirements or allergies should include this information in their application. ELIGIBILITY All applicants must meet the following minimum requirements: (a) 18 years of age or older (with exceptions where merited) and (b) must submit an application form. APPLICATION PROCESS Register and Download Sisters-Only Deen Intensive Application Form To obtain a form please register your contact information by going to www.deen-intensive.com and you will be provided a link to MS Word application. Please note that registration for this program is open from Feb.5 to March 5, 2005. Your registration fee must be received by March 11 in order to hold your spot. If you would like to place copies of the flier in your local masjid or to give to family and friends, please email us your shipping address at deenintensive@gmail.com. TUITION The cost of the program is $295 with hotel accommodations and $195 without hotel accommodations. The cost includes all sessions, required course materials, meals and snacks (childcare is additional, see details below). For online application registration and payment visit www.deen-intensive.com. Pay with money order or mail check payable to ‘Deen Intensive’ to: P.O. Box 6141, Oakland, CA 94603 INQUIRIES All inquiries should be directed to the Sisters Deen Intensive Committee at deenintensive@gmail.com. We may also be contacted by phone at (510) 868-8318. Someone will be in touch with you as soon as possible. All decisions regarding the program are made in committee according to the principles of shura (mutual consultation). CHILDCARE Childcare is available for children 3 years and older. Cost is $25 per child per day. We only have 24 spots open at this time, those interested are encouraged to register their children early. Registration and payment for childcare must be received with your payment for the program by March 11 in order to ensure a spot for your child. Price includes activities for daily sessions, all meals, snacks, crafts and games with a trained Childcare Professional. Local mothers will be asked to donate toys and games for the childcare room. Mothers may choose to listen to the evening sessions on the speakers while watching their children in the childcare room. The Childcare staff will not be supervising the children or feeding the children during meal times. Mothers may not come in and out of fiqh, Birr and childrearing sessions as it will be disruptive and disrespectful. TEACHER BIOS Hakima Karima Burns Karima Burns, MH, ND has a Doctorate in Naturopathy and a Masters in Herbal Healing. She has studied natural healing for 12 years, published a natural healing newsletter for 4 years, and writes extensively on natural healing and herbs. Hakima Karima became interested in natural healing after ending her personal lifelong struggle with asthma, allergies, chronic ear infections, depression, hypoglycemia, fatigue and panic attacks with herbs and natural therapies. She also runs an herbal consulting clinic and school. Additionally, she offers courses online to students in 10 different countries around the globe. She has been a healer since 1993, and a teacher since 1986. The owner of the Herb'n Muslim, she is also the editor, writer, teacher, herbalist and naturopath of the Herb'n Muslim and Islamic Healing Course Online site. In addition she has been offering consultation services online and in person since 1996 and has been teaching and writing about natural living and healing since 1993. The Hakima, a mother of three, has lived half of her life in the Midwest (Iowa) and the other half of her life in the Middle East (Egypt and Saudi Arabia). Umm Hassan (Saliha Shakir) Umm Hassan converted to Islam in 1977 while serving in the US Air Force. She graduated with honors from Rutgers University with a B.A in Urban Geography and a minor in Elementary Education. She owned a clothing design company called Shakira Designs and patented a practical Muslim womens’ clothing style known as Pancoti. When she closed the business, she traveled with her husband, Imam Zaid Shakir, to Damascus to study at the Institute for international students in Jami’at Abu Noor. She continued to deepen her study from 1994 -2001 in Morocco, Egypt and Syria by studying privately with renowned Muslim female scholars. Her topics of study have included Tajwid, Arabic and fiqh. Since returning to the U.S. she has been an active advocate for Muslim Student Associations, national and women’s organizations. She tirelessly serves the Muslim community as a consultant, public speaker, net worker and rights advocate. Umm Hassan currently serves as the president of the Islamic Media Association, founded in 2003 to protect property rights of Islamic media artists of the USA and Canada. Ustadhah Umm Huzayfah Umm Huzayfah was raised in Great Britain where she attended Jama’at ul-Iman, a madrasa in Bradford, England for 5 years. There, she completed the ‘Alimah course of study covering many of the Islamic sciences which she studied exclusively with female scholars. Her teachers in Hanafi Fiqh were Ustadhah Shazia Abba and Ustadhah Hawa Abba. After graduating, she continued to teach Tajwid, Arabic and Hadith at the madrasa. Umm Huzayfah, a mother of two, teaches private classes and at the children’s school affiliated with Islamic Society of Santa Barbara, CA where her husband, Mufti Abdur-Rahman bin Yusuf currently serves as Imam. Ustadhah Saira AbuBakr Saira has received a B.S. in Biology and a M.S. in Genetic Counseling and Human Genetics. She was a genetic counselor for five years and worked in clinical research for one year. She has studied Fiqh, Arabic, and Tajwid in Hayward, CA since 1997 with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Khatri ould Bauba, Sidi Rami Nsour, and intensively with Shaykh Salek ibn Siddina. In 2000 she attended an 8 month Arabic intensive at the Fajr and Diwan centers in Cairo, Egypt to study Grammar and Rhetoric. Her knowledge of Arabic has allowed her to delve into a deeper study of the original texts. She has been teaching Maliki fiqh texts privately in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2002 and recently began teaching the Prohibitions of the Tongue, a text of ihsan by Shaykh Muhammad Mawlud in 2004. Ustadhah Fadwa Silmi Fadwa Silmi received her B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of California in Berkeley in 1997. After teaching in a private elementary school for five years, she returned to academia and received a Master's Degree in Elementary Education from San Francisco State University. Fadwa has studied Fiqh and Arabic in Hayward since 1997. She has completed basic and intermediate Maliki Fiqh texts in Arabic and English with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Khatri ould Bauba, Sidi Rami Nsour, and Shaykh Salek ibn Siddina. She studied Arabic at UC Berkeley for three years, and continued her studies with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf for two years. She currently serves as the Program Director for the children's Quran school at the Zaytuna Institute in Hayward, CA where her husband, Sidi Muhammad Nabil Afifi, also teaches. At present, Fadwa teaches both fiqh and Arabic privately. Ustadhah Rania Awaad Raised in the U.S., Rania began her formal traditional education at the age of 14 when her parents permitted her to travel to Damascus, Syria to study various branches of the Islamic sciences. In 1999 she received an ijaza to teach the recitation of Hafs and in 2004 received ijaza in the recitation of Warsh from the eminent Syrian scholar, Shaykh Abu Hassan al-Kurdi. Throughout her trips to and from Damascus, she completed elementary and intermediate Shafi’i texts with several renowned female scholars including Ustadhah Hanaa ‘Abdeen, one of the foremost students of the late Shaykh Abdul Karim ar-Rifai’. She later furthered her Shafi’i studies with Shaykh Abdullah al-Kadi, Imam Zaid Shakir, Sidi Musa Furber and is currently studying advanced Shafi’i texts with Shaykh Abdullah Adhami and Ustadh Amr Khalifa. Most recently she has received ijaza to teach Maliki fiqh from Shaykh Salek ibn Siddina at the Zaytuna Institute in Hayward, CA. Rania graduated with honors from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Islamic Studies, a B.S. in Biological Anthropology and a minor in Environmental Studies. She is currently pursuing a medical degree intended to compliment her in depth study of female fiqh issues and is working on compiling a manual addressing female-related issues from both the Shafi’i fiqh and medical perspectives. She has been teaching both private and public Tajwid and fiqh classes in the Midwest since 1999. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Shaykh Hamza embraced Islam in 1977 in Santa Barbara, California, when he was still a teenager and set off almost immediately to study Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy, and spiritual psychology with masters in the Muslim world. He first studied for four years in the United Arab Emirates and then moved to Medina, followed by Algeria, Morocco, and then finally to a unique madrasa in the Saharan desert of West Africa to study with the remarkable scholar Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj. After ten-years of studies abroad, he returned to the United States and completed degrees in nursing at Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San Jose State University. In the early 1990's he began to teach classes in the San Francisco Bay Area and in 1996 he established Zaytuna Institute. Two years later the institute acquired a property in Hayward, California, where it is now based. Zaytuna Institute is committed to inspiring a traditional understanding and study of the core Islamic sciences. In addition to weekly classes, week-long and month-long educational programs, and annual conferences that addresses contemporary issues affecting the American people, Zaytuna Institute has published four small books and several major audio-tape sets of Shaykh Hamza's classes. As the executive director of the Zaytuna Institute, Shaykh Hamza travels frequently to major North American and European cities to teach and lecture to both Muslims and non-Muslim audiences. Shaykh Hamza currently resides in Northern California with his wife and five children. Imam Zaid Shakir Imam Zaid Shakir was born in Berkeley, California in 1956, the second of seven children. Most of his formative years were spent in public housing projects where he was able to experience a rich childhood. Upon completion of high school, he completed one year of college. However, his higher education was temporally halted due to a tragic death in his immediate family. He subsequently entered the US Air Force in 1976, where he resumed his university education, and accepted Islam in 1977. Upon completing his military service, he enrolled at American University, Washington, DC, where he obtained a BA in International Relations with honors in 1983. In 1986 he obtained an MA in Political Science from Rutgers University. After spending a year in Cairo, he became a lecturer in Political Science at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut, a position he held until 1994 when he bade farewell to academia and left for Syria to study Arabic and Islamic Sciences. Imam Zaid also studied the traditional sciences of Islam in Morocco. He served as the Imam of Masjid al-Islam in New Haven, Connecticut from 1988 until 1994. He has lectured extensively on Islam, Middle East Politics, and issues related to African Americas. He has written for numerous Islamic publications, and has appeared on national television for Lou Gosset, Jr.'s "The Story of a Pe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
