All You Need To Know About Marriage The ingredients for a happy and blissful marriage Taught by Shaykh Muhammad Adeyinka Mendes
Saturday Nov 30th, 2013 11:00 am to 7:00 pm At the Madina Institute
Open to all!! - married and single-
*register here (http://tinyurl.com/MI-Marriage)
This course with renowned marriage expert Muhammad Mendes will provide attendees with the ingredients for a healthy and blissful marriage through both examining sacred text related to marriage as well as providing practical guidance and advice on attaining and maintaining a strong, healthy and fulfilling marriage.
The course will include detail discussions of the following:
*Discovering the lost art of listening
*Understanding yourself (and your spouse) through the Four Temperaments (as used in Islamic Medicine and American phycology)
*Analysis of those things that make or break a healthy marriage
*The importance of romance and how to sustain it
*Commentary of the hadith of Umm Zar (the 11 women and their husbands)
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR Muhammad-AbdulHaqq Adeyinka (pronounced: ah-deh-yin-ka) Mendes was born in the United States and raised in both the US and in Nigeria. At the age of 17, he embraced Islam, the Religion of Love and Way of the Prophets, after a life changing journey to Israel. While at Morehouse College and later at the Ohio State University, he pursued a BA in Arabic and began studying the classical sciences of Islam with scholars from various countries around the United States. Upon graduation, he traveled to the Middle East and West Africa to sit at the feet of a number of notable scholars who further trained him in the major Islamic sciences of Qur'anic Recitation, Prophetic Narrations, Classical Arabic, Theology, Jurisprudence, and Purification of the Soul. Among the scholars he was blessed to learn from were Shaykh Fareed Azuz al-Jaza'iri in Syria, Shaykh Murabit al-Hajj in Mauritania, and Shaykh Ibrahim Makana in Nigeria.
After returning to the United States, he established the Annual Rawdah (www.therawdah.org), a grassroots educational initiative, continued his studies with various scholars and has focused on translating and teaching rare Arabic manuscripts concerning theology, jurisprudence, ethics, spirituality, metaphysics, and the upliftment of the weak and oppressed authored by some of West Africa's greatest spiritual and intellectual giants.
He and his family reside in Atlanta, Georgia, where he serves as Imam and Executive Director at Madina Institute in the city of Lilburn, where he teaches a methodology of Islam that is rooted in the classical tradition, tolerant of human diversity, socio-politically relevant, and empowering to women. He is also the head Atlanta Instructor for the DC-based Fawakih Arabic Institute, and founding director of Sacred Service, an organization committed to the spiritual healing of humanity and a lived articulation of Islam rooted in the socio-cultural realities of indigenous Americans. Muhammad Mendes is co-founder of the youth mentorship initiative, Kombutsu Men Giving Birth To Men-Boys Rites of Passage Program, and continues his studies with various scholars in and outside of Atlanta, among them Shaykh Muhammad an-Ninowy, Shaykh Ahmad Zo Abdullah, Shaykh Bashir Niasse, and Shaykh Khalil Abdur-Rashid.