Dear Beloved Son - A weekend residential on Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali’s compilation of advice

Dear Beloved Son

A weekend residential on Imam Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali’s compilation of advice. 

4-6 April 2008 - Comrie Croft, Crieff, Perthshire. 

Teachers:

Shaikh Ahmed Sa’ad

Dr Kamal Helbawy

£25 (students £20) 

Brothers and Sisters welcome. 

Organised in partnership by:

The Scottish-Islamic Foundation

Federation of Student Islamic Societies

Muslim Association of Britain

UK Islamic Mission    

For more information or to reserve a place, please visit:  http://scottishislamic.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/dear-beloved-son/    

About Dear Beloved Son DBS comprises 24 short pieces of advice from Imam Ghazali to one of his distinguished students. It touches on all aspects of life, from material wealth and the love of this life, to Islamic etiquette and acquiring knowledge. Imam al-Ghazali illustrates his ideas throughout with relevant quotations from the Qur’an and Hadith, as well as poetry, logical examples, and clear analogies which demonstrate the need to cleanse ourselves of bad manners so that we can develop good characteristics. A powerful reminder of the importance of constantly identifying ourselves with the next life    

About the teachers

Shaikh Ahmed Sa’ad is the imam of North London Mosque. He committed to memory the entire Qur’an at the age of 10. Having joined the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Egypt at the age of 12, where he spent 17 years acquiring traditional Islamic sciences, he graduated whilst also gaining the distinct honour of being awarded the certificate for being the best student at Al-Azhar University for two consecutive years. He has also studied ‘Religious Pluralism and Public Life’ at the University of California, Santa Barbara.    

Dr Kamal Helbawy is translator of ‘Dear Beloved Son’. Originally from Egypt, is a prominent scholar and consultant on Muslim affairs. He has held several academic positions around the world. Dr Helbawy is the former chairman and founding member of the Muslim Association of Britain; a founding member of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY); former trustee of the Islamic Foundation (Leicester) and currently chairman of the Global Civilisations Study Centre (GCSC) and the Centre for the Study of Terrorism respectively.