Open Islamic Curriculum

In The Name of Allah; the Merciful, the Beneficent.

asSalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,


http://www.openislamiccurriculum.com/ 

Madaar aims to produce and develop free educational resources and curricula, covering all the worldly sciences from an Islamic framework. By connecting Muslim schools, parent groups and other Islamic Education institutions across the globe Madaar plans to create a pace whereby every can mutually share and benefit.

This is not a plea for money, rather a request for support from like minded individuals that wish to improve education for Muslims in the English medium. We recognize that we will likely start out with singular lesson plans and the like; however, our goal is direct the development of holistic and integrated curriculum. For that we need your time and effort.

You are invited to take part in sending in ideas, designing resources, writing learning plans and developing curricula; there is also the scope to help in other areas such as marketing, network management, website design, and of course in making du’a for this initiative’s success. 


http://www.openislamiccurriculum.com/

Humility in Action

KIU Scholarship

Application deadline - 5th January 2012

Course completion deadline - 6th Jan-20th Jan.

KIU is excited to offer a great opportunity for new students to apply for a full scholarship entitling the successful candidate to study the entire BA Islamic Studies degree without the need to pay for tuition fees. (Normally fees are $975 USD a semester). The student will enjoy the privilege of studying a well structured BA degree programme in Islamic Studies taught by some of the leading scholars and Western Educators. All this will be provided free of charge for the successful scholarship applicants. While the degree programme is open to everyone, KIU encourages only the dedicated and committed students to apply for the scholarship. The degree requires an average of 10-15 hours of committed time a week necessary to read through the materials, complete the online videos and assessments.

How to apply for the Full scholarship

To apply for the full scholarship the student will need to complete the following requirements.

1. Complete the KIU Scholarship application form in full

2. Complete the Manhaj As-saalikeen course and successfully pass the set exams

(You may also need to complete an interview)

The KIU selection committee will then work through all submitted applications and will determine suitable candidates to award a full scholarship.

Dua Coach

Here at Dua Coach, we are using the latest learning techniques to help you achieve your desired goals, you can use some of them or all of them to increase your learning pace. We use established techniques that you can find in many memory books, and throw in a couple of new ones which are tailored to the rhythmic quality of the Quran, we mix in technology too, and instead of eating the whole of the cake, using our algorithm which breaks down your lesson to word level, we will email you up to 3 times a day, a smaller slice of the cake that you find tasty and that you can digest easily. 

Highly recommended: http://www.duacoach.com

Du'a Series

اللهم أنت ربى لا إله إلا أنت خلقتنى وأنا عبدك ، وأنا على عهدك ووعدك ما استطعت أعوذ بك من شر ما صنعت أبوء لك بنعمتك على وأبوء بذنب فاغفر لى فاءنه لا يغفر الذنوبالا أنت

O Allah, You are my Rabb (Lord). There is no god worthy of worship exept You. You have created me and I am Your servant, and I stand by Your covenant and Your promise to the best of what I can. I seek refuge with You from the evil of what I have done. I confess before You of Your blessings on me, and I confess my sin. So, fogvie me, for no one else can forgive these sins except You. 

The Prophet said "The most superior way of asking for forgiveness from Allah is: 'Allahumma anta Rabbi la ilaha illa anta, Anta Khalaqtani wa ana abduka, wa ana 'ala ahdika wa wa'dika mastata'tu, A'udhu bika min Sharri ma sana'tu, abu'u Laka bini'matika 'alaiya, wa Abu Laka bidhanbi faghfirli innahu la yaghfiru adhdhunuba illa anta." The Prophet added. "If somebody recites it during the day with firm faith in it, and dies on the same day before the evening, he will be from the people of Paradise; and if somebody recites it at night with firm faith in it, and dies before the morning, he will be from the people of Paradise."

Sahih al Bukhari, Vol. 8, Book 75, Hadeeth 318.

Imam Ahmad

Aboo Daawood Sulaymaan ibn Ash’ath, the author of Sunan Abee Daawood, was a student of Imam Ahmad who related many issues from him, issues that are published today. He said, describing the Imam, “I have not seen anyone like Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal He never used to talk about the things that the people talk loosely about from the worldly affairs, but if some affair of knowledge was mentioned, he would talk.”

From a series of lectures given by Shaykh Saalih Aal ash-Shaykh, which has been translated and transcribed here.

Update: Abu Taubah

From: Abu Taubah
To: Everybody else

As-salaamu ‘alaykum,
Al-hamdulillahi Rabbil-aalameen and salaatuhu was-salaamu on the Prophet Muhammad. 

To Proceed:
During the last few days of the month of Ramadan of this past year, towards the end of August 2011, I was arrested by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and eventually charged with, “Constructive Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.”

... 

I need you all to be my heroes. Do not let the Prosecution turn a simple gun charge into the Terrorist case of the Decade. Do not let Islamic terminology be defined by those who have a pre-conceived dogmatic opinion about it.

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The letter is long.  See full letter here.