Belief (Iman) | Al Ghazali for Children (Session 6)
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 19/03/2022

Author Aisha Gray Henry, the charismatic founder of the Ghazali's Children Project, uses the timeless sage teachings of Imam Al Ghazali to talk about the beauty of Iman (faith or belief).

Sr. Aisha recommends parents and children read parent and children respective section in this flipbook: https://ghazalichildren.org/things-to-do/test-flip-book/

She also recommended watching these two sessions with Shaykh Sajjad:

- https://youtu.be/wv9Dgq5QZWc
- https://youtu.be/J0dj2tpMfAE

In this live session, Sister Aisha interacts with children ages six to nine.

- Watch the six-part Al-Ghazali for Kids series: http://mcceastbay.org/alghazali
- More Sister Virginia Gray Henry: http://mcceastbay.org/aisha
- More Islamic parenting workshops: http://mcceastbay.org/parenting
- More sessions for young Muslim children: http://mcceastbay.org/children

This virtual session was delivered via the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on December 2, 2020.

Sponsored by Fons Vitae and MCC in Fall 2020, Sister Aisha presented over six live virtual sessions:

- The Basic Foundational Principles: https://youtu.be/t2OYy6L27Sk
- Purification and Prayer: https://youtu.be/-S-sY_rxW_g
- Fasting and Zakat: https://youtu.be/zXOcl_2R0V8
- Fasting (Sawm) & Charity (Zakat): https://youtu.be/k76HWuVE2As
- Pilgrimage (Hajj): https://youtu.be/JT3X_NlFWJ8
- Belief (Iman): https://youtu.be/9fkSs-_dmfc

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf says about "Al-Ghazali: The Book of Knowledge for Children": "This work can help our Muslim children have a more humane and universal understanding of the ethics and teachings of Islam through Imam al-Ghazali. I believe the work is highly relevant and very likely life-altering for those who will be exposed to it early.”

Purchase at: https://fonsvitae.com/product/al-ghazali-book-knowledge-children/

About the Series Facilitator:
Aisha Gray Henry is the Founder and Director of the charitable foundation and publishing company Fons Vitae, which is currently engaged in bringing out Ghazali’s Ihya in English for parents and teachers as well as adapting it to accommodate children’s workbooks, school curricula, and an instructional DVD. 

"The Book of Knowledge" and "The Principles of the Creed" educational sets are available and in use internationally with "Purity and Prayer" nearing completion. Included is a children’s interactive website http://GhazaliChildren.org, a pilot school project and prison program. The series has been translated into Urdu, Arabic, and Malay. 

The Fons Vitae Ghazali Project has been launched with great acclaim in Morocco, Canada, Indonesia, England, and the USA so far.

About the Ghazali Project
One of the most important projects of our time for children and families is the Ghazali Children’s Project published by Fons Vitae in collaboration with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.

One of the key components of the project that is included in the tour will be the launch of the Al Ghazali for Children project championed by publishers Fons Vitae (USA).

The Ghazali Project is an adaptation of Imam Ghazali’s Ihya for children in story form, published as a series of books with an interactive website. It aims to support Muslim parents, teachers, and children in realizing how to live by and embody the noble Prophetic character through self-observation and self-correction.

The series aims to provide authentic, quality guidance through Ghazali’s systematic approach for developing virtuous character. He provides the entire family with a clear and simple map for living correctly – according to one’s fitrah, one’s innate, pure, true nature.

Learn more about this project at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv020hASS5U

Who is Al Ghazali?
An alchemist is a person who can create gold from base metals. It is a quest as old as legend. The truth is that alchemy exists, but not of base metals, but of the human heart.

Imam al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE) is probably one of the greatest alchemists of all time. And in an epoch where the human condition is in its direst straits, never more has there been a need for the chemistry of Imam al-Ghazali.

A theologian, jurist, philosopher, mystic and polymath, Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali is not only ranked amongst Islam’s finest scholars, but is one of mankind’s finest students of the human condition. Known as Algazel to the medieval world, he was born in Tus, the Khorasan province of ancient Persia.

When he had the academic world at his feet in his early thirties, he spurned fame and fortune to go into a mode of self-denial and spiritual seclusion that lasted for many years.

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