Beginning Miniatures - 11th November

Hast-o-Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ibn Muqla Centre of Arts

BEGINNING MINIATURE PAINTING

Traditional Islamic Art conveys the spirituality and message of Islam through a timeless language of symbolism.

        Ibn Muqla Centre of Arts invites you to explore this language of symbols through the medium of Miniature painting.

Course Structure:
          We are offering an introductory three month course that includes the theoretical, historical and practical aspects of this art. The course authors include Professor Bashir Ahmed, Head of Department of Fine Arts at the National College of Arts and Taimoor Khan Mumtaz, a student of Dr. Martin Lings.

The course will be taught by a student of Bashir Ahmed sahib, Fyza Aamir, an NCA graduate with a degree in fine arts majoring in miniature painting.

           Course duration will be three months: Nov 2013 -Jan 2014.
           Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm

beginning Monday, 11th November 2013

REGISTER

Send in name, email address and cell number on 0300 847 1855/hast.o.neest@gmail.com

  Course Fee is Rs. 6000/- per month

Venue:

Hast-o-Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts 

31 G, Gulberg II, Lahore 

Queries: 0300 847 1855

Reading Imam Ghazali (r.a.) (Sunday Mornings)

Hast-o-Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts 

& SER - Society for Educational Research  

invites you to

Reading Imām Ghazālī (r.a.)

beginning Sunday, 3rd November 2013 

Join us every first Sunday of the month on a journey of inspiring readings 
 of Imam Ghazali (r.a.) with Shaykh Jahangir Mahmud

12:30 to 1:30 pm, followed by langar & Zuhr prayers

We will begin the journey with a brief introduction to the Imam and then continue with selectons from one of Imām Ghazālī’s final works, Bidayah al-Hidayah  - The Beginning of Guidance - which embodies a lifetime of learning, experience, and spirituality and can be taken as an introduction to his larger works. A highly motivational manual detailing the fundamentals of acquiring guidance through God-consciousness (taqwa). Imam Ghazali argues that just as there is an end to this noble objective there is also a beginning to it, which must be made firm for one to achieve success. 

Shaykh Jahangir Mahmud Sahib is an Islamic research scholar and educationist with an Ijazah (License) in Traditional Islamic Sciences, tasawwuf as well as a Bachelor's degree from Pakistan’s foremost colleges. 

Author of nearly twenty books, he has conducted over 10,000 trainings in Pakistan and abroad.

DOWNLOAD 

Imam Ghazali's books in English

Venue:
Hast-o-Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts
31 G, Gulberg II (Main Market), Lahore

Queries: 0300 847 1855

Lecture/Workshop: Effective Public Speaking

Hast-o-Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts
announces an interactive lecture/workshop on

Effective Public Speaking

by Naveed Riaz

Saturday, 2nd November 2013

Duration: 2 hours approximately

Timing: 3:00 to 5:00 pm

Language: English

The lecture will address how, during a speech or presentation, a speaker establishes a convincing presence  and  credibility, using effective body language, gestures, voice, eye contact, pace, movement etc. 

The lecture will be followed by a workshop involving attendees in exercises to learn public speaking well and convincingly.

Registration:

Send in name, email address, cell number on 0300 847 1855/hast.o.neest@gmail.com

Workshop Fee: Rs. 1000/- 
(Rs. 600/- for students)

Naveed Riaz Sahib teaches effective public speaking
 at LUMS and commercial organisations.

Certificates of participation will be awarded to registered participants.

Venue:
Hast-o-Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts
31 G, Gulberg II (Main Market), Lahore

Queries: 0300 847 1855

Project River Ravi - 3rd November

Hast-o-Neest

 Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

 invites you to join 

PROJECT RIVER RAVI - THE RIVER RAVI COMMISSION

RESPECTING THE RIVER - OWNING THE RIVER RAVI 

SERIES OF SEMINARS ON THE RIVER AND OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS IT

FIRST SESSION: 

INTRODUCING THE RIVER RAVI COMMISSION

SUNDAY, 3rd NOVEMBER, 6:30 pm

Ahmad Rafay Alam, environmental lawyer & activist 

The River Ravi Commission 

Chairman: Dr Kausar Abdullah Malik, Punjab Environment Protection Department 

Environment Protection Agency Director-General Maqsood Ahmed Lakh

Wasa Manging Director Dr Javed Iqbal 

Ahmed Rafay Alam, 

Punjab Advocate General Ashtar Ausaf Ali, 

Dr. Ijaz Ahmed, 

Vaqar Zakaria, 

Anjum Altaf, 

Ali Habib from WWF, 

Kamil Khan Mumtaz, 

Abida Ayub of IUCN, 

Objective: 

The objectives of the commission - especially constituted by the high court - is to protect the Ravi from further degradation to revert the environmental conditions of the river to its original state.

Current status of the River Ravi:

Various discharge lines entering the Ravi are polluting it to a level where survival of aquatic life has become impossible. 

The flow rate of the river has decreased considerably over a period of time whereas the contamination level has increased due to untreated municipal and industrial wastewater discharge. 

Though the commission is likely to confront budgetary issue but it was decided that a public interest case like cleaning of the Ravi would be dealt as a high priority case.

Queries: 0300 847 1855

Classical Music: Vocals Level 1

Hast-o-Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ibn Muqla Centre of Arts 

Classical Music: Vocals

Level 1

Ghulam Hussain Lali 

(Shagird Ustad Fateh Ali Khan - Patiala Gharana)

Thursdays (5 to 7 pm) and Sundays (3 to 5 pm)

October 2013 - January 2014

Starting Thursday 24th October 2013

Walk in registration.

Queries: 

0300 847 1855/hast.o.neest@gmail.com

Sunday Morning Darood e Ibrahimi

Hast-o-Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

invites everyone to join us Sunday mornings in

Sending Blessings Upon Our Beloved Prophet & His Progeny 

“Allah and his angels send blessings on the Prophet. 

O you who believe! Send blessings on him and salute him with all respect.” 

[Qur’an: Surah Al-Ahzab 33:56]

Recitation of Darood e Ibrahimi (& Langar)

  Sundays: 12:00 to 2:00 pm

Queries

0300 847 1855

Exhibition of Photographs

Hast-o-Neest

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

invites you to the opening of an exhibition of photographs

Bricks Tell the Story

Mubina Arif Yaqub

Islamic Architecture 

of Lahore, Multan & Uch

The opening of the exhibition will be accompanied by a 

slide presentation and talk by Ar. Taimoor Khan Mumtaz & Ar. Syed Muhammad Mehdi 

on Islamic Architecture

Saturday, 26th October 2013

6:30 pm

Hast-o-Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

31 G, Gulberg II, Lahore (Main Market)

The exhibition will remain open till 20th November 2013

Mubina Arif Yaqub graduated in Foundation in Arts from the John Cass College of Fine Arts in London. She has held various exhibitions of her work in water colors, and oils in Riyadh and in Pakistan. Her interest in photography was inspired by the northern areas of Pakistan.

Queries

0300 847 1855

Series of 2-Day Seminars on Foundations of Astrology

Hast-o-Neest

 Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

Ibn al Arabi Centre of Philosophy & Metaphysics

announces a series of seminars on the foundations of astrology

ASTROLOGY

THE DIVINE UNIVERSAL SCRIPT OF THE SKIES

November-December 2013

Dr. Tehnyat Majeed

While popular astrology has certainly contributed to relegating astrology to the realm of pseudo-science or worse still to frivolous fortune-telling and entertainment, it has nonetheless served as an initial portal into real astrology especially for those who are motivated by a desire to seek the truth in all knowledge. Anyone who then probes into the conceptual depths and profound practice of real astrology, will discover that there is immense logic and structure to this divine universal script of the skies.

These series of seminars on astrology deals with how the language of astrology may assist us in better negotiating everyday life through a more insightful understanding of our own selves and of our potential strengths and weaknesses in behavioural interactions.

Seminar 1: Introducing the Signs of the Zodiac - (1st Week November)

Seminar 2: The Planets & their Meanings - (4th Week November)

Seminar 3: The Houses of the Astrological Chart - (2nd Week December)

 Friday and Saturday: 5 pm to 8:30 pm

Hast-o-Neest 31 G, Gulberg II, Lahore

REGISTRATION

Kindly register by 31st October for the first seminar -

 Send in name, email address and contact number on 0300 847 1855/hast.o.neest@gmail.com 

or Register Online.

Seminar Fee: Rs. 4000/person

Certificates of participation will be awarded to registered participants.

Dr. Tehnyat Majeed holds a doctorate in Islamic Art and Archaeology from the University of Oxford. During her studies abroad, she was initiated into the art of astrological interpretation by a French astrologer and practitioner of the mystical tradition of the kabbalah. In addition, she received part of her formal training in astrology at the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London. She is currently Adjunct Faculty, History of Islamic Art, Museum Studies at Beaconhouse National University

Queries: 0300 847 1855/hast.o.neest@gmail.com

Sunday October 13th - Annual Bhandara & Dars - Dr. Shahzad Qaiser

Hast-o-Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

invites you to the Annual Bhandara in the tradition of 

Hazrat Baba Sufi Muhammad Tufayl r.a. 

Sunday, 13th October 2013

Dars by Dr. Shahzad Qaiser at 12:45 pm 

followed by langar at 2:00 pm





 Queries: 0300 847 1855/hast.o.neest@gmail.com

Why Astrology Matters - Sunday, 6th October

Hast-o-Neest 

Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts

invites you to a lecture

Why Astrology Matters

Dr. Tehnyat Majid

Sunday, 6 October 2013

6:30 pm

Hast-o-Neest Institute of Traditional Studies & Arts
31 G, Gulberg II, Lahore

WHY ASTROLOGY MATTERS

While popular astrology has certainly contributed to relegating astrology to the realm of pseudo-science or worse still to frivolous fortune-telling and entertainment, it has nonetheless served as an initial portal into real astrology especially for those who are motivated by a desire to seek the truth in all knowledge. Anyone who then probes into the conceptual depths and profound practice of real astrology, will discover that there is immense logic and structure to this divine universal script of the skies.

This talk deals with how the language of astrology may assist us in better negotiating everyday life through a more insightful understanding of our own selves and of our potential strengths and weaknesses in behavioural interactions.

A series of three workshops on Astrology is being conducted at Hast-o-Neest from October to November 2013 insha'llah.

Dr. Tehnyat Majeed holds a doctorate in Islamic Art and Archaeology from the University of Oxford. During her studies abroad, she was initiated into the art of astrological interpretation by a French astrologer and practitioner of the mystical tradition of the kabbalah. In addition, she received part of her formal training in astrology at the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London. She is currently Adjunct Faculty, History of Islamic Art, Museum Studies at Beaconhouse National University

Queries: 0300 847 1855/hast.o.neest@gmail.com