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🚀🚀 Islamic Conference 2024: Finding Our Fitrah Again Restoring Ourselves & Society To Our Divinely-Intended Natures
📌 Conference Blurb (warning: long read, feel free to skip 😅)
”We have created all things in due measure.” (Quran 54:49)
In the Quran, Allah (swt) tells us that He has created all things upon a perfect measure, order and disposition. This remarkable phenomena is known as the fitrah, and almost all of creation - from the vast planets in the cosmos to the tiniest member of the animal kingdom - follow their natural fitraic state which allows them to function and co-exist in perfect harmony with one another, thereby maintaining balance within the created world. The only exception to this is, of course, the human being.
Unlike the rest of creation, by virtue of possessing a free will, we can choose our way of life. Living in accordance with our natural fitraic state aligns us with the created order, actualises our higher status as Allah's (swt) khulafah (representatives) on earth, and completes balance and harmony in the world. Working against this fitrah however, creates imbalances everywhere...
Diseases of all kinds begin to spread - not just physical, but also spiritual and societal.
Basic ethics start to erode, indecencies become normalised, and the family unit falls.
Aspects of our identity - from our status as finite beings created by Allah (swt) to our sexual orientations - become unclear.
Meaning and purpose become lost, often replaced with pursuits driven by vanity, ego and desire.
Injustice and oppression becomes rife, including that done to fellow human beings and that done to the natural world of Allah's (swt) creation.
Understanding the fitrah however, can offer us a way back to balance and harmony, on all levels of existence including the physical, psychological, spiritual, social, cultural, political and economic. There is a way in which we were created to live, both as individuals and societies, which gives us clear guidance on how to structure ourselves. This can serve as a pathway to healing ourselves, our communities, and ultimately the world.
📌 Speakers & Topics
Introductory Talk: Returning to the Fitrah
Speaker: Dr Samir Mahmoud
Family, Marriage & Love: Foundations to Flourish in the Dunya & Akhira
Speaker: Sh Mohamed Acharki (Melb)
Masculinity & Femininity: Reviving the Quranic Paradigm on Gender & Sexuality
Speaker: Ust Sahar Dandan
A Modern Crisis of Meaning: Rethinking Our Careers, Hobbies & Extracurricular
Speaker: Sh Haisam Farache
Justice as Balance: Prophetic Response to Global Injustices
Speaker: Sh Ahmed Abdo
Nations Like Yourselves: Listening to the Pleas of God's Creatures
Speaker: Sh Anthony Andrist
📌 Conference Details
Date: Sunday 30 June, 2024
Time: 10am to 5:30pm
Venue: Bryan Brown Theatre & Function Centre, Bankstown
Standard Ticket: $20
Early Bird Ticket: $10 (only 50 tickets available)
Morning Tea & Lunch Provided
📌 Register at www.mya.org.au/fofa
Proudly sponsored by Penny Appeal Australia
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Bryan Brown Theatre and Function Centre, 80 Rickard Road,Sydney,NSW,Australia, Bankstown
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