Lighthouses in a Foggy World: The Prophet's Companion's Lives are Our Guides | Dr. Rania Awaad
Channel: Muslim Community Center - MCC East Bay
Date: 2023-11-09

- Complete talk: https://youtu.be/9Q7NPsdxOk0?si=0UNshtzJbIbQ-q05
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- MCC's Substance Use Family Support Group: https://mcceastbay.org/support-group
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- Dr. Ariana Abid's previous talk on "Addiction & Substance Use is in the Muslim Community": https://youtu.be/Zwm9KI0iSAg

Dr. Rania Awaad from Maristan and the Muslim Mental Health and Islamic Psychology Lab at Stanford Medicine, encourages our mosque and community leaders to put a community-first approach in dealing with real realities and challenges for Muslims in the West. 

Ustadha Rania gives practical spiritual insights about addressing struggles and addictions by community leaders in modern times and following the legacy of our past guides, Sahabaa who had challenges not far from the struggles we have today.

She spoke as part of a panel on Overcoming Addiction: An Islamic Approach to Recovery. Watch the program: https://youtu.be/9Q7NPsdxOk0

This webinar is sponsored by Maristan, Muslim Mental Health Lab and Islamic Psychology at Stanford, Tayba Foundation and MCC East Bay

This video was delivered via the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on October 23, 2021.

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Ustadha Rania Awaad
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 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 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 the 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 program.

Learn more about Dr. Rania and her work at http://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/research/MuslimMHLab.html

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