Circles of S.U.H.B.A.H.

The Curriculum

The Majlis Learning Modules

1) Tazkiah:

Preparation: choose a single text, prepare a lesson on around 5 pages a week. 

• Purification of the Heart by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf,

• Agenda to Change our Condition by Imam Zaid Shakir and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

• Joy Jots by Anse Tamara Gray

2) Seerah/Shamail: 

Preparation: choose a single text, prepare a lesson on around 5 pages a week.

• Sultan of Hearts: Prophet Muhammad by Resit Haylamaz

• Muhammad: His Life based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings

• Al-Shamail al-Muhammadiyyah - Notes by Abdul Aziz Suraqah and Mohammad Aslam

  • Click here to watch the YouTube playlist on this article presented by Shaykh Jamaal Diwan.

• A Compendium of the Sources of the Prophetic Narrative by Samira al-Zayid

 3) The Majlis 2021 Reader - Organized by Author

Preparation: Start with the Articles numbered in order from 1-5, then choose articles from the rest according to your group’s preferences. Prepare the lesson on 5-7 pages a week.

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah: 

1. Mercy the Stamp of Creation

2. Living Islam with Purpose

3. One God Many Names

4. Islam and the Cultural Imperative

5. Innovation and Creativity in Islam

• Seek Knowledge in China 

• Turks, Moors, and Moriscos in Early America 

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf:

• Introduction to The Prayer of the Oppressed

• Who are the Disbelievers

Dr. Ingrid Mattson:

• Of Fences and Neighbors: An Islamic Perspective on Interfaith Engagement for Peace

• Consolation for Believers who Fear the Worst

Dr. Abdal Hakim Murad:

• Qur’anic Truth and the Meaning of ‘Dhimma’

Imam Zaid Shakir:

• Of Mountains and Molehills: One Night in Miami

• What I Believe

• The Human in the Qur’an

Ust. Zaynab Ansari:

• Blurred Lines: Women, “Celebrity” Shaykhs, and Spiritual Abuse

Dr. Mona Hassan:

• Poetic Memories of the Prophet’s Family: Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī’s Panegyrics for the ʿAbbasid Sultan-Caliph of Cairo al-Mustaʿīn

Dr. Abdullah Bin Hamid Ali:

• Is Congregational Dhikr a Bid’a?

Dr. Sherman Jackson:

• The Impact of Liberalism, Secularism & Atheism On The American Mosque

• Click here to watch the YouTube playlist on this article presented by Shaykh Jamaal Diwan. 

Dr. Rania Awaad:

• Coping with Pandemics: Psychological and Spiritual Lessons from Islamic History