The Daily Quranic Word: Mon 27 & Tues 28 June with Taimoor Khan & Dr. Shankar Nair (via Skype) on the Art of Interpreting the Quran

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ramazan Karim Open/Walk-in Programmes (No charges) - June 2016

(For other programmes go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/952960894823094/) 

THE DAILY QURANIC WORD 

Mon 27 June & Tue 28 June 

with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz & Dr. Shankar Nair (via Skype)

Monday 27 June at 6:00 pm (with iftar)
Reading from The Book of Certainty: The Sufi Doctrine of Faith, Vision and Gnosis by Abu Bakr Siraj ud Din - Martin Lings with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz 

Tuesday 28 June at 6:00 pm (with iftar)

The Art of Interpreting the Qur'an, tafsir
Dr. Shankar Nair
via Skype from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (US)

Structure: “I would want to present an overview of the different historical, classical approaches to Qur'an interpretation (grammatical approaches, hadith approaches, theological/philosophical approaches, Sufi approaches, etc.) with the goal of encouraging the audience to reflect more deeply upon their own relationship with the Qur'an as they spend so much time with the text during this holy month. The idea that each verse can have different levels of meaning would, of course, be central here.” Dr. Nair

Dr. Shankar Nair is currently Assistant Professor (Scripture, Interpretation and Practice; History of Religions) at the University of Virginia (US). With a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Harvard University, Dr. Shankar Nair’s general field of interest is the religious and intellectual history of the Indian subcontinent, particularly as it relates to broader traditions of Sufism and Islamic philosophy, Qur'anic exegesis, and Hindu philosophy and theology (especially Advaita Vedanta and other forms of Hindu non-dualism).

Venue: 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II, LAHORE; Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com; Cell: 0300 8493170

Is Religion Rational? Thur 23rd, Fri 24th & Sat 25th June 9:00 pm - Junaid Alam

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ramazan Karim Open/Walk-in Programmes - June 2016

(For other programmes go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/952960894823094/)

Falsafa Ashnai

3-Day Series

(Walk in-open programme - No charges)

"Religion and rationality are commonly thought as mutually exclusive. 

Science usually treated as the benchmark for rational knowledge and religion nothing more than dogma. 

We will try to get to the root of this myth."

Is Religion Rational? 

Thursday 23rd, Friday 24th & Saturday 25th June

9:00 pm

Day 1: Thursday 23rd June- Religion and Knowledge: Religious experience and theistic arguments
Day 2: Friday 24th June  - Religion and Science: are the two paradigms as mutually exclusive as they seem?
Day 3: Saturday 25th June - Religion and Morality: theoretical insight of religion on goodness and the practical efficacy of religion as moral motivation.

Junaid Alam, a physicist, is a humble student of Science and Philosophy.

June 16, 17 & 19: 9:00 pm: Do you think about what you are saying? 3 Common Mistakes in Thinking - Danish Bashir

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ramazan Karim Open/Walk-in Programmes - June 2016

(For other programmes go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/952960894823094/)

 فلسفہ آشنأی

عام فکری مغالطے : ۳ دن نشست 

 3 Common Mistakes in Thinking 

with Danish Bashir

Thursday, Friday & Sunday, June 16th, 17th & Sunday 19th

9:00 pm

In general public discussions we make lots of common mistakes within our thinking patterns. Most of them are those ideas which we do not believe but we express them because of different reasons.

In these three days, we will discuss three such common mistakes.

1.     What does it mean to say ‘morality is relative’ within person to person? 

Or Art is determined by the Artist. There is no rule for an artist upon which we should bound art.

2.     What does it mean to say everyone has their own version of Truth, or there is no universal truth? 

What is the difference between truth and a relative version of truth.

3.     What is epistemological common sense? 

Or what does it mean epistemologically when we say it is ‘common sense yaar!’

  

 (REGISTER  your name, cell number & email address on hast.o.neest@gmail.com)

(Danish is a philosophy graduate of FC College, and teaches Sacred Geometry at Hast o Neest)

Venue: Hast o Neest, 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, 

Canal Park, Gulberg II, Lahore

رمضان جون ۹ ، ۱۰ ، ۱۱ فلسفہ آشنأی : ۳ دن درس علمِ الہی Ramazan June Islamic Philosophy

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ramazan Karim Open/Walk-in Programmes - June 2016

(For other programmes go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/952960894823094/)

 فلسفہ آشنأی : ۳ دن درس
علمِ الہی - God's Knowledge

  بو علی سینا ، ملا صدرا و متکلمین

استاد: حامدرضافاضل 

Hamid Reza Fazil

ہدف

  فلسفہ اسلامی آشناي

دورانیہ: 3  دن درس 

جمعرات ، جمع، ھفتہ
رمضان جون ۹ ، ۱۰ ، ۱۱
۹:۰۰ بجے شب

A 3-Day Intensive Introductory Lesson

on the Nature of Divine Knowledge or God's Knowledge in Islamic Philosophy.

رجسٹری کے لیے  نام، ای میل و سیل نمبر  بذریعہ ای میل ارسال  کریں

hast.o.neest@gmail.com/0300 8493170

3-Day Hadya: Rs.500/- 

Mon 6 June: 7:00 pm: Book Reading/Discussion: "Signs on the Horizons" by Michael Sugich - with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz

Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

MONDAYS
Open Book Reading & Discussion:

(1) BOOK: Signs on the Horizons: Meetings with Men of Knowledge and Illumination
by Michael Sugich

(2) BOOK: Ain ul Faqr by Hazrat Sultan Bahu r.a.

with Taimoor Khan Mumtaz

Mondays, 6 June 2016
7:00 pm

Michael Sugich is an American author initiated into a traditional Sufi order in 1972. Since that time he has studied Sufi doctrine and practice with spiritual masters across the Arab and Islamic world. He lived for 23 years in the precincts of the sacred city of Makkah Al Mukaramah where he kept company with many men of knowledge and illumination.

Sultan Bahu Sarwari Qadri (1630-1691, Jhang) a mystic, poet and scholar wrote more than forty books, mostly in Farsi, and largely dealing with aspects of Islam and Islamic mysticism. However, it is his Punjabi poetry which has popular appeal. He sought spiritual guidance from Hazrat Shah Habib Gilani r.a. whose shrine is found in the village of Baghdad Sharif, near Mian Channu to this day.

Around 1668 Sultan Bahu moved to Delhi for further training under the guidance of Syed Abdul Rehman Jilani Dehlvi Qadri and thereafter returned to Punjab where he spent the rest of his life.

3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II, Lahore.
Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/0321213 0346

June Saturdays: Enter the World of Tales with Rabia Sultan & Kausar Ali

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ramazan Karim Open/Walk-in Programmes - June 2016

(For other programmes go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/952960894823094/) 

Open invitation to enter the world of wisdom, open a book of classical tales from the tradition of Sufi Masters and more...

The World of Tales

A gathering of reading and commentary for adults and children!

Quran Stories

Hikayat -e- Rumi

Hikayat e Saadi

Hikayat e Attar

Bostan e Saadi

Saturdays of June, 11th, 18th & 25th

with 

Kausar Ali & Rabia Sultan

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Venue: Hastoneest, 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, 

Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II, Lahore - Cell: 0300 8493170

Sundays of June: 1:00 pm:Traditional Congregation for Sending Salutations بزمِ درود و سلام

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ramazan Karim Open/Walk-in Programmes - June 2016

(For other programmes go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/952960894823094/) 

بزمِ درود و سلام
An open invitation to a
 Traditional Congregation for Sending Salutations 
upon an-Nabi s.a.w.

Sundays
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Sunday, 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th June 2016

with readings from select texts
with Syed Fahad Ali Kazmi Zanjani

Syed Fahad Ali Kazmi Zanjani is a lecturer at Punjab University, and belongs to a family where traditional values, scholarship, and the metaphysical pathway has always been the norm. He is from the family of Syed Miran Hussain Zanjani r.a., the Patron Saint of Lahore before Syed Ali Hajvery r.a. Data Sahib.

Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com/0300 849 3170

Saturday 18 June: Doctrinal Sitting - Dars Diwan e Farid by Dr. Shahzad Qaiser

Hast o Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts LAHORE

Doctrinal Sitting
Dars Diwan e Farid
(Hazrat Khwaja Ghulam Farid r.a. of Mithankot)
by Dr. Shahzad Qaiser

Saturday 18th June,
6:00 pm till Iftar



Venue: Hastoneest, 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Canal Park, Shariff Colony, Gulberg II, Lahore.

Queries: 0300 849 3170

June Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays: The Daily Quranic Word - with Iftar - with Scholars of Law & Metaphysical Tradition

Hast o Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ramazan Karim Open/Walk-in Programmes - June 2016

(For other programmes go to: https://www.facebook.com/events/952960894823094/) 

THE DAILY QURANIC WORD 

11 sessions with Iftar

5:45 pm till Iftar

Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays

June 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 26th, 27th, & 28th 

- with Syed Uzair Abdullah Qadri & Hamid Raza Fazil. 

Note: Registrations of Name, Email Address are preferred in order to share reading material, audio/video souces related to the ayat, surah and more. So register on hast.o.neest@gmail.com/03008260919.

Structure:  The sittings will focus on Surah al-Fateha and the first 5 Ayat of Surah al-Baqara, and then proceed to selective word, ayat, surah readings which may be suggested by the participants. 

The Opening or Sūrat al-Fātiḥah is the first Suran of the Quran with seven verses repeated by millions of Muslims daily in Islamic prayer ‘salat’ -  Sab'a al Mathani The Seven oft-repeated verses; also known as Umm Al-Kitab ("the Mother of the Book"), Al-Quran ("the Mother of the Quran"), Al-Shifa' ("the Cure"); Al-Ruqyah ("remedy" or "spiritual cure") and al-Qasas, "The Foundation". The Cow or Sūrah al-Baqarah  is the second and longest Surah of the Quran.

About the host scholars: 

With a post-graduate degree from Punjab University, Syed Uzair Abdullah Qadri belongs to a family connected to the Qadiriyya Sufi Order and known for its scholarly traditions. Syed Uzair has a special interest in Kalam, Quranic Exegesis, the Science of Hadith, Arabic Language & Poetry.

Ustad Hamid Raza Fazil teaches Arabic and Islamic Philosophy at Hastoneest. His interests are in Quranic Exegesis, Philosophy and Sufism/Marifat.

Venue: 3, Iftikhar Ahmed Malik Road, Shariff Colony, Canal Park, Gulberg II, LAHORE; Queries: hast.o.neest@gmail.com; Cell: 0300 8493170