Virtual Istighfar and tawbah Series
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Get Ramadan-ready in this 6-part online program, taught by ALIM's respected scholars, Sheikh Ali Sulaiman Ali, Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans and Ustadha Zaynab Ansari. By registering, you will get access to two recorded sessions from each scholar that you can complete on your own time! In this self-paced course, you will learn how to implement the practice and learn the power of tawbah and isighfar in our own life. Below, you can find the course schedule, topics that will be covered, and information about instructors.
Sessions and topics
Session 1 |
Ustadh Ubaydullah: The Differences Between Tawbah and Istighfar |
Session 2 |
Ustadh Ubaydullah: Types of Tawbah and Istighfar |
Session 3 |
Sheikh Ali: The Best Du'a and Istighfar |
Session 4 |
Shiekh Ali: Tawbah and Istighfar in the Qur'an and Sunnah |
Session 5 |
Ustadha Zaynab: Tawbah in Ramadan |
Session 6 |
Ustadha Zaynab: Stories of the Penitent |
Program Instructors
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Dr. Ali Sulaiman Ali was born in Ghana where he spent his childhood studying with various Muslim scholars. He then moved on to Saudi Arabia where he enrolled in Medina’s Islamic University. His curriculum included all the traditional Islamic sciences and in 1979 he graduated with a degree in both Islamic Studies and Arabic. Dr. Ali pursued further scholarship at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic Studies. Dr. Ali’s dissertation on Tafsir bil Ma’thurdealing with the question of Hujja (the question of authority of or binding proof) was a seminal study in an important field. Dr. Ali is a co-founder, Core Scholar, and member of the Board of Trustees of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), an academic institution where scholars, professionals, activists, artists, writers, and community leaders come together to develop strategies for the future of Islam in the modern world.
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Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans is ALIM’s first Scholar-in-Residence. He converted to Islam while in high school. Upon conversion, Ustadh Ubaydullah began studying some of the foundational books of Islam under the private tutelage of local scholars while simultaneously pursuing a degree in journalism from Columbia. Since then he has studied at Chicagoland’s Institute of Islamic Education (IIE), in Tarim, Yemen, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, where he is the first African-American to graduate from its Shari’a program. As the ALIM Scholar-in-Residence, Ustadh Ubaydullah is a core instructor at the ALIM Summer Program. He teaches History of Islamic Law, Shama'il, and Aphorisims of Ibn Ata'illah along with other courses.
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Ustadha Zaynab Ansari spent a decade studying Farsi, Arabic, and traditional Islam, sitting with male and female scholars in seminaries in the Middle East, including traditional scholars in Damascus in the 1990s. Upon her return to the United States, she earned degrees in history and Middle Eastern Studies from Georgia State University. Since 2014, Zaynab Ansari has served as a scholar-in-residence for Tayseer Foundation, offering enrichment courses and halaqahs to women and youth in the Muslim Community of Knoxville, and working on interfaith dialogue. She is currently an instructor and board member at Tayseer Seminary, which features a one-year intensive in Islamic Studies, drawing students from Tennessee and all regions of the United States. She is part of the teaching faculty of the Ribaat Program, an online Islamic Studies curriculum led by Anse Tamara Gray, a leading woman scholar of traditional Islam.
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