The Book of Numbers With Shaykh Ibrahim Osi Efa

[unityfoundation1]

As-salamu alaykum,


We pray this email reaches you in a state of well being.

The next Book of Numbers class with Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa, will insha'Allah take place on Wednesday 9th December 2009 at 7.30pm (at the usual venue). This class will replace the December 18th class in your schedule. This date change is a one off insha'Allah - we really do hope that this does not cause you too much inconvenience!

Venue:

The University of Central Lancashire, Harrington Building (Room 135)

At the next class we will advise you of forthcoming dates for the Book of Numbers classes.

If you have any queries about the classes then please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to seeing you all next week insha'Allah.

Please remember us in your duas.

Admin Team,
Unity Foundation
07895 893 048

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* Directions to Harrington building (Uclan) (ROOM 135) are as follows:

Enter the main front doors (or the security entrance)and walk towards the lift to the left of reception. Take the lift to the first floor and on leaving the lift, turn left and follow the corridor around until you reach room 135 which will be to your left.


The 'Book of Numbers - Holding Fast to the Firm Reality'


Admonitions

The first lesson (February 20th) set the context for the course, and endeavored to nurture and create an environment, which arouses heedless hearts and invigorates the resolve of the slothful. The
author aimed to speak directly into the heart of the student in order to address the direct causes of spiritual inactivity in order to make ears attentive to the light of prophecy that forms the essential content of this text.

Religious Counsel

The principal counsel of the ancients and the modern alike is that of taqwa, God conscious behaviour. The first lesson will also explore the concept of taqwa as understood by classical Islamic scholarship,commenting on the ten Qur'anic God-conscious archetypes.

Lesson Two: The Book of One's

The lesson will elucidate four ones:

1. Taqwa, God-conscious behaviour
2. The Nature and Importance of the Heart
3. The Stomach and the Repugnance of Satiation

The Pre-eminence of Knowledge

Lesson Three: The Book of Two's

The lesson will elucidate three two's:

1. Health and Spare time
2. Worldly Abstinence and from what Man possesses
3. Miserliness and Bad Character

Lesson Four: The Book of Three's

The lesson will elucidate three threes:

1. The Three Qualities
2. The Three Signs of a Hypocrite
3. The Three Mortal Sins

Lesson Five: The Book of Four's

The lesson will elucidate three fours:

1. The Four Decrees
2. The Four Prophetic Representatives
3. The Four Words: al-Baqiyat al-Salihat

Lesson Six: The Book of Five's

The lesson will elucidate three fives:

1. The Five Pillars
2. The Five Prayers
3. The Five Questions

Lesson Seven: The Book of Six's

The lesson will elucidate three sixes:

1. The Six Articles of Faith
2. The Six Rights of a Muslim
3. The Six Archetypal Rights

Lesson Eight: The Book of Seven's

The lesson will elucidate one seven:

1. The Seven Archetypes under the Divine Shade

Lesson Nine: The Book of Eight's

The lesson will elucidate three eights:

1. The Eight Gateways of Paradise
2. The Eight Angelic Guards
3. The Eight Companions of the Cave

Lesson Ten: The Book of Nine's

The lesson will elucidate one nine:

1. The Nine Causes and their Nine Effects

Lesson Eleven: The Book of Ten's

The lesson will elucidate two tens:

1. The Ten Traits of Perdition
2. The Ten Traits of Salvation

Lesson Twelve: The Epilogue

The final lesson and culmination of the course will briefly look at the following three topics:

1. Bestowal
2. Supplication
3. Prayers upon the Prophet

[Saalik]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu


Brother we would better appreciate if you could also participate on the forum instead of just advertising for the Unity Foundation. If you could also change your forum display name to a more convenient and personal one that will make more sense in the sense that we are addressing an individual and not the Unity Foundation


Thanks.

[Saalik]

Dec 3, 2009 22:31:01 GMT unityfoundation1 said:

As-salamu alaykum,


The final lesson and culmination of the course will briefly look at the following three topics:

1. Bestowal
2. Supplication
3. Prayers upon the Prophet

Wa'alaykum 'Assalam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu


Brother, have you been able to know of what will constitute the above quoted topics, especially Supplication and Prayers upon the Prophet ( Salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam ).

I asked you same on Oct 4, 2009 and you replied thus, "Maybe you can attend the classes and ask the respected shaykh himself". Since I don't live in UK and that as a representative of the Unity Foundation you may have probably attended at least one lecture you are in a better position to help us to get a proper information.