Tea and a Talk

Weekly Halaqa

What: Tea and a Talk: Halaqa on contemporary relevance of Imam Nawawi's 40 hadith

Where: Medina Center. 11600 Falls Road, Potomac MD 20854

When: Fridays, between Maghrib and Isha (7:30 and 10:00 PM)

Who: Everyone welcome

Why: To link text with context and find relevance in revelation

Highlights of 9/9/2011

Einshallah, we will continue with our study of Imam Nawawi's 40 hadith and will cover hadith's 2, 3, 8, and 22 this week. The goal is to cover the following themes:

1. Simplicity and universality - the foundations of Islam

2. Lowering ones expectations of others, raising ones expectations of themselves - the essence of conflict resolution

3. Facilitating new Muslims into Islam with a minimalist rather than maximalist approach

4. Understanding violence and war at the time of the Prophet and today

Highlights of 9/16/2011

Will will cover cover hadiths 4, 14 and 17. The theme for that halaqa will be on various articulations of 'rights' in Islam.

1. Human rights - the rights of the accused, and the right of freedom of religion. Does Islam allow for a conscious rejection of it's followers, or meet apostasy with capital punishment?

2. Fetal rights - what consequences do Prophetic teachings and Quranic articulations of embryology have on rulings for abortion, contraception and stem-cell research?

3. Animal rights - what Qur'anic and Prophetic teachings shed light on the rights of animals. Do animals have feelings? Do they have a conscious? The Prophet's relationship with animals.

Dr. Kiarash Jahed will conduct these Halaqa. He is a resident physician from the University of Louisville in Kentucky and is staying in the Maryland area for a few months. He has been overseas and multiple places in America for traditional and contemporary Islamic Studies. He is regular khateeb and often travels to lecture for ICNA, MYNA and other organizations. He is finishing his hifz for the Qur'an and will be the Imam for Tarawih during Ramadan.