Virtual Youth Summer Series
The Way of the Mercy Warrior: Developing the Foundation for a Life of Service and Leadership
In a time of pandemic and protest against systemic anti-black racism, our faith and spirituality call us to be a means for mercy, compassion and justice in the world. What are the stories and prayers that guide us as week to heal ourselves and aid in repairing the old? What spiritual resources do we need to take up the Prophetic call to lead and serve? Join us for this special program of four weekly sessions, as we explore Islam’s most emblematic quality: mercy.
Over four sessions we will explore the following themes:
- The Call to Serve and to Lead: A Prophetic Instruction
- Mercy at the Beginning, Mercy at the End: A Deep Dive into selected Hadith of Mercy
- Gratitude: An Act of Hope and Resistance
- The Call to Justice in the Prophet’s Last Sermon
All sessions will be no more than 90 minutes and will aim to be interactive and engage participants to actively discuss ideas, tell stories and find relevance in their own lives. This is meant to be an exploration we take on together, guided by our guest speaker, Abdul-Rehman Malik. We will all learn from each other.
Details
The sessions are scheduled for Thursdays from 4pm to 5:15pm PT.
- (July 16th) The Call to Serve and to Lead: A Prophetic Instruction
- (July 23rd) Mercy at the Beginning, Mercy at the End: A Deep Dive into selected Hadith of Mercy
- (July 30th) Gratitude: An Act of Hope and Resistance
- (August 6th) The Call to Justice in the Prophet’s Last Sermon
If you’d like to participate interactively in the sessions, please register below, and we fill send further participation instructions before each session. The sessions will also be streamed live for anyone to watch.
Our Featured Speaker
Our guest speaker, Abdul-Rehman Malik, is an award-winning journalist, educator and cultural organizer. In June 2019 he was appointed Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School. He also serves as the Program Coordinator at Yale University’s Council on Middle East Studies, and is responsible for developing curricula and partnerships with public schools to promote better cultural, language, and religious literacy about the Middle East to educators and students alike.
Abdul-Rehman also serves as Director of the Muslim Leadership Lab, an innovative student leadership program being incubated at the Dwight Hall Center of Social Justice at Yale. He remains programs manager for the Radical Middle Way, which offers powerful, faith-inspired guidance and tools to enable change, combat exclusion and violence, and promote social justice for all. His work has spanned the United States, UK, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sudan, Mali, Morocco, Singapore, Canada, and Malaysia.
Abdul-Rehman is a frequent journalist for BBC Radio, offering contemporary perspectives on contemporary spirituality. Until 2018 regularly presented the popular Pause for Thought segment on Radio 2 and Something Understood on Radio 4.