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Gain insights to some of the classical works of Muslim scholars in the medieval period, and its significance for the modern day world. Experience the interplay between literature, and the arts, during which a reading of a classical text will be followed by artistic responses of various traditional instruments from the Muslim and non-Muslim world.

Click here to the FB Event page, and here for the Festivals’ main website.

We’ll be looking into the various ways of how the Ummah raise money for its welfare and benefit. From zakat, to entrepreneurship. From traditions of the Salaf, to crowd funding across the world.

You’re welcome to have your dinner at the venue prior to the event. One way to support venue sponsors Talent Lounge for them helping us out to make this happen. 🙂

Click here for Hakim Archuletta’s complete biography.

Garden of Bliss/Al-Wariseen is at 8, Jalan Setiawangsa 13, Taman Setiawangsa, Kuala Lumpur. Click here for map.

An interactive workshop looking at the concept in traditional Islamic medicine of The Four Elements and how it relates to wellness, energy healing, nutrition, homeopathy, and stress release today. This video by Hafsa’s teacher, Hakim Archuletta – Personality Corresponding to the Elements, gives you a preview of what you’ll be learning. Click here to watch.

Workshop: Intro to ‘Hikma’, Islamic Wisdom Healing
with Hafsa Hassan & Iman Salam
Kampung Warisan, Jalan Jelatek
7.30pm Saturday 24 May 2014
Maghrib together, and begin right after.
RM80 (RM50 deposit + RM30 workshop fees)
Registration is closed.

Hafsa Hassan has been a student and practitioner of Hikma healing for more than a decade and runs a private holistic therapy practice. Previously based in the UK, now thankfully for us, KL is her home. Iman Salam is a nutrition consultant, from the US, about to start her practise in KL. Frankly these two have loads to offer that is new to us (although it shouldn’t be). The session will be hosted by Yasmin Rasyid of Eco Knights. Come check it out!

Some people buy fair-trade products, because it is cool or a trend, and not based on ethical reasons. Likewise some Muslims promote better relations with non-Muslims for various reasons, but unfortunately not due to it being a Prophetic character and tradition. Be it in respecting others or another matter, the character of good Muslims ought to depend on them being so, because they are Muslims and not because they happen to be Muslims.

This evening will be looking at closely what Muslims (and others perhaps) inherited from the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), on inter-religious relations.

Adab Respecting Non-Muslims: A Prophetic Inheritance
A session with Habib Muhammad Abdullah Alaydrus
8.30pm – 10pm Thursday 22 May 2014
Cafe Lapis – click here for map (next to Burger King Wangsa Maju)
*Lapis will close their kitchen at 8pm.

Habib Muhammad sits on the fatwa council of Tarim, which says a lot about his fiqh knowledge. That said, spending time with him, he’s more of a tasawwuf man. He’s also head of Da’wa department of the seminary Dar al-Mustafa in Tareem, Hadhramout. He also conducts courses in South Africa, Japan and recently Germany.

Abdul-Jalal Ziat of Seekers Guidance, and Muhammad Iqbal Zain of Darul Muhibbin and student of Centre for Advance Studies in Islam, Science and Civilization will be the translator for the evening. Amin Rahman of Young Muslims Project will be the MC and moderator.

8.15pm – 9.45pm Wednesday 14 May at Talent Lounge, Menara Mustapha Kamal, Damansara Perdana http://bit.ly/talentloungemap

Ibn Khaldun was a master of how to think clearly and criticaly about history and society. He explained how historians made errors when they wrote about societies of the past and suggested how these errors can be corrected. For example, the seerah or life history of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) suggests that 600 to 900 men of the Jewish tribe, the Bani Quraydha, were executed with the approval of the Prophet. Could this even have really happened the way it was reported? Using Ibn Khaldun’s approach to history we examine this and other controversial questions. In his own study of history, Ibn Khaldun wrote about how corruption, dishonesty and the lack of unity or cohesion were responsible for the decline of states.

– Syed Farid Alatas

Farid Alatas, a Malaysian national, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also headed the Department of Malay Studies at NUS from 2007 to 2013. He lectured at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies prior to joining NUS. His areas of interest are historical sociology, the sociology of social science, the sociology of religion, and intra- and inter-religious dialogue. Among his books are Alternative Discourse in Asian Social Science: Responses to Eurocentrism (Sage, 2006), and two recent books on Ibn KhaldÉn: Ibn Khaldun (Oxford University Press, 2013 and Applying Ibn KhaldÉn (Routledge, 2014).