Ramadhaan - From Dawn till Dawn

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Ramadhaan: From Dawn till Dawn - LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE!
A Single Weekend Course taught entirely by Shaykh Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq

Dates: Saturday 8th & Sunday 9th August 2009

Course Timings:

Saturday 8th August 2009: Registration: 9am - Start 9:30am till 6:30pm
Sunday 9th August 2009: Start: 9:30am till 5:30pm

Venue:
Al Azhar Academy
235a Romford Road
Forrest Gate
London E7 9HL

Tutor:

Shaykh Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq

Fee: 50 GBP (20 % discount for students with registered proof)

Other Notes: Due to limited seating available, we advise that you register early. Food will be provided. Please arrange your own overnight accommodation.

Course Description & Objectives:

Ramadhaan is the greatest and most blessed month of the year, but a genuine appreciation of its auspicious nature and the ability to derive maximum benefit therefrom requires an awareness of its virtues and values, and an acquaintance with its true nature and spirit.

This intensive course intends to enlighten the students on the history, virtues, laws and recommendations of various aspects of the holy month; along with practical advice to help realise its ideals and objectives, and hopefully emulate the Ramadhaan of the Prophet , his companions , and the learned and pious of this ummah.

What You'll Need

On the first day of the course, you will be provided with a folder containing the course program and contents, related materials and standard course documents. This will be yours to keep for future reference and with each course you attend, you will be provided with a similar folder, building up a reference library.

You will need basic stationary, i.e. notebook, pen. We will have stationary to purchase, so no need to panic should your pens run dry! We will not be able to provide power points for laptops or other electrical appliances.

Those who successfully register will be given access to a password protected area of our website wherein they will find details relevant to their particular course such as the latest updates, downloads, preparation details and other relevant information.

Please note Brothers tickets for our last course sold out two weeks prior to the course so we advise that you register early to avoid disappointment.

ENROL

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Watch the course video trailer now at:
http://www.akacademy.eu/library/video/36



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[- IqRa -]

One thing I don't understand is why do these people ask for so much money? The knowledge isn't theirs...

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One thing I don't understand is why do these people ask for so much money? The knowledge isn't theirs...

I'm not sure about this particular institute

but for Al-Kauthar

Q. Why do you charge money for teaching Islam? Why do you need to charge so much?

A. The default without doubt is that Islamic knowledge is to be provided free. This is because no one owns this knowledge except Allah.

However it is permissible to charge for the value added services that goes along with knowledge, such as the book in which the knowledge is printed, or the cassette in which the talk is recorded and the service and effort that went into its production. It is for this reason why we find the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam who had forbidden a person from taking money for teaching the Quran, permitting his companions to take money for performing ruqyaa (quranic healing with recitation) on others. This was in order to teach us that the money was for the service provided and effort expended in delivery, not for the knowledge itself.

It is in the same way, that we intend that we are not charging for the knowledge itself, rather for the value added services that come along with it - such as the cost of maintaining the workers who run a world class institute that promises to have thousands of students, the cost of the professional venues, our IT infrastructure and IT personnel who manage it, travel and boarding costs for our instructors, marketing and publishing costs etc.. Charging for the courses allows us to be professional, not fund raise to maintain our costs, ensures that we have a longer lasting viable future, allows us to concentrate on teaching and improving our institute to become a world leader and pioneer in modern methods of delivering classical Islamic education.

Appart from this, one of the problems with living in such a materialistic society is that we only tend to pay attention to that which we have a financial commitment to. How many lectures and halaqas do you know of where people attended initially and then lost their interest because they had no commitment and so became care free? Also how many Islamic teachers that you know of who can't afford the time to teach or benefit the people to their full extent because they are busy working trying to make a living? Wouldn't it be better if they were provided a livelihood in a profession that entailed teaching the people so that the people benefitted?

Similarly, living in western countries, without the presence of a baytul-maal (Treasury) nor an Islamic government to provide funds for these lectures, it falls upon the people themselves to invest in their future and the future of their progeny and pay for courses like these.

AlKauthar is a non-profit venture so we aim to direct all profits back into beneficial community projects. The fee for our courses are optimized to be in tune with the costs of running the lectures and administration of the institute along with providing funds to expand and run other Islamic ventures.

In addition to all of this, we will never turn any student away due to financial reasons. It is because of this that we have trained our officers to work with our students and agree to a fee payment plan to help them pay for the courses. Please email accounts@alkauthar.org if you want any help working out a payment plan.

and you will get a similar answer for Almaghrib too