ICNYU Summer Workshop: Getting Ready for Ramadan Session #3 - Fiqh Of Fasting w/ Khalil Abdur Rashid

The topic of this Session is the Fiqh of Fasting. The Guest lecture is Shaykh Khalil Abdur Rashid (bio below)
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The month of Ramadan is only weeks away inshallah and the IC wants to help you be ready for it. Starting on June 15th, join us each Wednesday night as Imam Khalid Latif presents a different topic each through lecture and interactive exercises tailored to make sure you get the most out of your Ramadan inshallah. Topics will include, but not be limited to,:

-Intention: definement, alignment and taking action
-Making and Breaking Habits
-The Fiqh of Fasting
-Understanding Mercy, Compassion, Forgiveness and Your Emotions
-How to Build a Relationship with the Qur'an
-Effective Du'aa: being ready for the conversation
-Building a Relationship with Allah and His messenger, 'alayhis salaam
-Rights upon Yourself: Physically Benefitting from your Fasting

Shaykh Khalil Abdur-Rashid is a PhD student at Columbia University specializing in Islamic law. His area of research includes Islamic Law and Bioethics, Islamic Legal Ethics and Principles, and Islamic Law and Modernity. He holds an advanced Islamic license (ijaaza ilmiyyah) in Islamic Law and completed his Islamic seminary work in Istanbul, Turkey. He has published articles and translations of works covering topics of Islamic law and spirituality. He completed his master's work in Islamic Law at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey, and has taught Islamic law and its ancillary sciences for over 10 years in various educational settings. Khalil has also taught Arabic Language at Georgia State University and holds a bachelor's degree in social work. He has worked as a social worker investigating child abuse cases for the state of Georgia and worked as a consultant on issues related to Islamic family law and other topics. Currently, he serves as Imam at the Iqra Mosque in Brooklyn, and executive director of the Iqra Foundation, an education and social service organization affiliated with Iqra Mosque.

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Education

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• Ramadan Workshop Session 3
• Islam
• Quran
• Hadith
• ICNYU
• Khalil Abdur Rashid
• Khalid Latif
• Muslim
• Ramadan
• How to Fast
• Fasting
• Pillars of Islam
• Fiqh of Fasting

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This was a very helpful workshop. I learned a lot of things no one's ever told me about fasting.