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LXCL:Free for all 4 sessions: October 1st, 15, 29 &amp; November 12

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LXCL:Price is for all 4 sessions: October 1st, 15, 29 &amp; November 12

Adult

BADĪL Critical Thought Series A space to think deeply, live intentionally, and resist unconsciously inherited norms.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0px;"> Our first Masterclass, The Human Self: Reason, Virtue, and Fiṭrah, explores the forces that shape the self and the disciplines needed to respond consciously. Participants will examine the relationship between reason, desire, virtue, society, and creation.&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><li fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;">Module 1: The Thinking Self [June 4 to July 16]</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;">Module 2: The Disciplined Self [August 2 to September 10]</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;">Module 3: The Heart&nbsp; [October 1st to November 12]</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;">Module 4: The Social Self</li><li fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: inherit !important; font-weight: bold;">Module&nbsp;5: The Rooted Self</li></ul>Each module combines reflection, discussion, and moral inquiry to help participants better understand themselves, the world around them, and the values by which they want to live.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0px;"> Module 3: The Heart explores one of the most profound questions in the Islamic tradition: What is the role of the heart in human life? If Module 1
examined how we come to know truth through reason, and Module 2 explored the
body, desire, and self-discipline, Module 3 turns to the heart as the place
where knowledge becomes wisdom, discipline becomes virtue, and belief becomes
lived experience. Drawing from the Quran, Hadith, and the works of scholars such as Imām al-Ghazālī, students will explore the heart as the home of faith, virtue, and spiritual perception. Together, we will examine:
&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;margin-top:0in;
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 margin-bottom:0in" type="disc"><li fr-original-style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;">How moral character is developed and virtues such as courage, sincerity, patience and generosity are cultivated</li><li fr-original-style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;">Why knowing the right thing is often easier than doing it</li><li fr-original-style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;">The relationship between faith, spiritual experience, and personal transformation</li><li fr-original-style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: bold;">How revelation and the teachings of the Prophet ﷺ guide, heal, and strengthen the heart</li></ul> At the center of this module is a timeless question: What does it
mean to possess a living heart? By the end of
Module 3, students will gain a deeper understanding of how the Islamic
tradition views the heart as the meeting place of knowledge, faith, virtue, and
spiritual growth, and how cultivating the heart transforms not only what we
know, but who we become.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; margin-inline: 0px !important; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0px;"> Our Teachers:<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; margin-inline: 0px !important;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0px;"> Dr. Fariduddin Attar&nbsp;is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Fonds de recherche du Qu&eacute;bec &ndash; Soci&eacute;t&eacute; et culture (FRQSC) at the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, Carleton University. He earned his PhD from McGill University&rsquo;s Institute of Islamic Studies and taught Islamic creed (ʿaqīda) and introductory logic (manṭiq) for over seven years with the McGill Muslim Students&rsquo; Association.He began his classical Arabic training at McGill and later pursued advanced Arabic, theology, and Shāfiʿī jurisprudence in Indonesia. Dr. Attar taught Islam and philosophy at McGill, Concordia, and Carleton Universities, and will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto this fall.<p fr-original-style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; margin-inline: 0px !important;" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; color: rgb(93, 56, 14); width: 536.667px; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.25px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 248, 240); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; margin-inline: 0px !important; margin: 0px;"> Naznin Patel&nbsp;is a doctoral candidate in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University and a former fellow of both the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the FRQSC. She taught courses on Islam, methods in the study of religion, and religion and culture at McGill, and also lectured on Islam and the environment. Naznin studied Hanafī fiqh and ʿaqīda with scholars in Canada and the UK.

BADĪL Critical Thought Series A space to think deeply, live intentionally, and resist unconsciously inherited norms.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:536.667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> Our first Masterclass, The Human Self: Reason, Virtue, and Fiṭrah, explores the forces that shape the self and the disciplines needed to respond consciously. Participants will examine the relationship between reason, desire, virtue, society, and creation. <ul><li>Module 1: The Thinking Self [June 4 to July 16]</li><li>Module 2: The Disciplined Self [August 2 to September 10]</li><li>Module 3: The Heart  [October 1st to November 12]</li><li>Module 4: The Social Self</li><li>Module 5: The Rooted Self</li></ul>Each module combines reflection, discussion, and moral inquiry to help participants better understand themselves, the world around them, and the values by which they want to live.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:536.667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> Module 3: The Heart explores one of the most profound questions in the Islamic tradition: What is the role of the heart in human life? If Module 1
examined how we come to know truth through reason, and Module 2 explored the
body, desire, and self-discipline, Module 3 turns to the heart as the place
where knowledge becomes wisdom, discipline becomes virtue, and belief becomes
lived experience. Drawing from the Quran, Hadith, and the works of scholars such as Imām al-Ghazālī, students will explore the heart as the home of faith, virtue, and spiritual perception. Together, we will examine:
 <ul><li>How moral character is developed and virtues such as courage, sincerity, patience and generosity are cultivated</li><li>Why knowing the right thing is often easier than doing it</li><li>The relationship between faith, spiritual experience, and personal transformation</li><li>How revelation and the teachings of the Prophet ﷺ guide, heal, and strengthen the heart</li></ul> At the center of this module is a timeless question: What does it
mean to possess a living heart? By the end of
Module 3, students will gain a deeper understanding of how the Islamic
tradition views the heart as the meeting place of knowledge, faith, virtue, and
spiritual growth, and how cultivating the heart transforms not only what we
know, but who we become.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:536.667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> Our Teachers:<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:536.667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> Dr. Fariduddin Attar is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) at the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, Carleton University. He earned his PhD from McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies and taught Islamic creed (ʿaqīda) and introductory logic (manṭiq) for over seven years with the McGill Muslim Students’ Association.He began his classical Arabic training at McGill and later pursued advanced Arabic, theology, and Shāfiʿī jurisprudence in Indonesia. Dr. Attar taught Islam and philosophy at McGill, Concordia, and Carleton Universities, and will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto this fall.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;width:536.667px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.25px;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;margin-inline:0px !important;margin:0px;max-width:100%"> Naznin Patel is a doctoral candidate in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University and a former fellow of both the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the FRQSC. She taught courses on Islam, methods in the study of religion, and religion and culture at McGill, and also lectured on Islam and the environment. Naznin studied Hanafī fiqh and ʿaqīda with scholars in Canada and the UK.

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Masterclass: The Human Self — Module 3: The Heart

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