Modern Muslim Parenting | Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2022-02-05

We learn insightful tips to incorporate faith-based approaches to raise conscious Muslim children from three therapists with the Bay Area office of the Khalil Center.

The Khalil Center is a social and spiritual community wellness center that is designed to address the widespread prevalence of social, psychological, familial, relational and spiritual issues. 

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This Friday Family Night discussion was on October 7, 2016 at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California.

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Ustadha Rania Awaad, MD, Clinical Director – Khalil Center, Bay Area, CA
Raised in the U.S., Ustadha Rania Awaad began her formal study of the traditional Islamic sciences when her parents permitted her to travel to Damascus, Syria at the age of 14. Her desire to continue studying the Deen resulted in multiple trips back to Damascus, interspersed between her high school, college and medical studies. She was honored to receive Ijaazah (authorization to teach) several branches of the Shari’ah sciences at the hands of many renowned scholars, including many female scholars. She has received Ijaazah to teach Tajwid in both the Hafs and Warsh recitations from the late eminent Syrian scholar, Shaykh Abu Hassan al-Kurdi. In addition to completing several advanced texts of the Shafi’i madhhab, she is licensed to teach texts of Maliki fiqh, Adab and Ihsan. Currently, Ustadha Rania teaches online and local classes for The Rahmah Foundation, Rabata, and is on faculty of Zaytuna College where she teaches courses in Shafi’i fiqh, women’s issues in fiqh, and has helped develop and co-direct the Tajweed and Hifz progam.

Ustadha Rania also a medical doctor with a specialty in Psychiatry. She completed her Psychiatric residency and fellowship training at Stanford University where she is currently on the faculty as a Clinical Instructor in the Stanford Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences department. Her medical interests include addressing mental health care concerns in the Muslim community- particularly that of Muslim women and girls. Other on-going endeavors include the compilation of manuscripts addressing female-related mental health and medical issues from a fiqh-oriented perspective. She currently serves as the Director of the Rahmah Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching Muslim women and girls traditional Islamic knowledge. In this capacity she also heads the Murbbiyah Mentoring Program which trains young women how to teach and mentor Muslim girls and teens. Ustadha Rania is both a wife and a mother; she has been counseling and teaching women classes on Tajwid, Shafi’i Fiqh, Ihsan, marriage and raising children since 1999. 

More Dr. Rania: http://mcceastbay.org/rania

Heba El-Haddad has received her undergraduate degree from UC Irvine in Psychology of Social Science, later earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology with California Southern University. Heba is an affiliate of the Stanford Muslim Mental Health Lab which focuses on providing resources for clinicians, researchers and community leaders working with the Muslim population. Believing that prevention is superior to intervention, she has worked on promoting awareness on a wide spectrum of topics through seminars, workshops, and lectures through her previous role as a mental health instructor at Kaiser Permanente and currently, as a Khalil Center practitioner serving Zaytuna College students. Heba is a part of a group of clinicians and scholars who contributed to publishing the new text on the TIIP model (Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy) titled "Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care" for Muslim practitioners nationwide.

– More Sr. Heba El Haddad: http://mcceastbay.org/heba

Jabir Tarin is a Bay Area native, a Masters of Arts candidate in Marriage and Family therapy. Prior to his graduate education, Jabir graduated with a Bachelors degree in Psychology from California State University East Bay in 2014. Additionally, Jabir is a student of Islamic theology and serves as a Khatib intermittently. Jabir is interested in spiritually integrated therapy and serving his community. Jabir Tarin currently resides in Hayward.

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