Community Leadership Program

Course Objective:

To equip students with the knowledge and training a person requires when becoming a Muslim community leader:

Learning Outcome:
Upon completing this course students will be able to perform the duties of an imam with confidence anywhere in North America

 

Lesson Plan:

Lesson 1
  • Introduction
  • Essential traits of a community leader
  • The roles and responsibilities of a community imam

Lesson 2
  • Leading congregational prayers
  • The fiqh of the Jumuʿah prayer
  • The fiqh of the ʿĪd prayer

Lesson 3
  • Practically delivering the Friday sermon
    (khuṭbah) and the ʿĪd sermons

Lesson 4
  • Speech delivery training

Lesson 5
  • Speech Demonstrations and Assessment

Lesson 6
  • The fiqh of funerals

Lesson 7
  • Practical training of a funeral

Lesson 8
  • Mid-Exam

Lesson 9
  • Fiqh of fasting (ṣawm)

Lesson 10
  • Fiqh of iʿtikāf
  • Fiqh of tarāwīḥ

Lesson 11
  • Fiqh of sadaqat al-fitr p. 298
  • Fiqh of zakāh

Lesson 12
  • Final Exam

Course Objective:

To educate students on the essential Islamic rulings of marriage, divorce and counselling.

Lesson Plan:

Lesson 1
  • Becoming a registered Marriage Officer in Ontario
  • Marriage

Lesson 2
  • Marrying Non-Muslims
  • Never married and Previously Married Women
  • Guardian
  • Suitability

Lesson 3
  • Mahr

Lesson 4
  • Miscellaneous Issues

Lesson 5
  • Mid- Exam

Lesson 6
  • Divorce

Lesson 7
  • Implicit Divorce

Lesson 8
  • Conditional Divorce

Lesson 9
  • Delegating  Divorce
  • Retraction

Lesson 10
  • Counselling Training:

1.       Marital

2.       Religious

3.       Youth

Lesson 11
  • Final Exam