As salaamu alaikum,

We pray this email reaches you all having had a blessed ramadhan and wonderful eid.

We are delighted to announce we will be continuing with the Book of Numbers class with Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa.

The next class will inshallah take place on Friday 23rd October 2009 at 7.30pm, at the University of Central Lancashire, in the same room* as the previous classes. (Room 135)

We at Unity Foundation look forward to seeing you all on 23rd October 2009.

At the next class we will advise you of the future dates for the monthly classes which will inshallah continue up to July 2010.

If you have any queries about the classes then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Inshallah see you all at the next class.

Please do remember us in your duas.

Admin Team,
Unity Foundation
07895 893 048

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* Directions to Harrington building (Uclan) (ROOM 135) are as follows:

Enter the main front doors and walk towards the lift to the left of
reception (which will be closed). Take the lift to the first floor. On
leaving the lift, turn left and follow the corridor around until you
reach room 135 which will be to your left.

The 'Book of Numbers – Holding Fast to the Firm Reality'

Admonitions

The first lesson (February 20th) set the context for the course, and
endeavored to nurture and create an environment, which arouses
heedless hearts and invigorates the resolve of the slothful. The
author aimed to speak directly into the heart of the student in order
to address the direct causes of spiritual inactivity in order to make
ears attentive to the light of prophecy that forms the essential
content of this text.

Religious Counsel

The principal counsel of the ancients and the modern alike is that of
taqwa, God conscious behaviour. The first lesson will also explore the concept of taqwa as understood by classical Islamic scholarship,
commenting on the ten Qur’anic God-conscious archetypes.

Lesson Two: The Book of One’s

The lesson will elucidate four ones:

1. Taqwa, God-conscious behaviour
2. The Nature and Importance of the Heart
3. The Stomach and the Repugnance of Satiation

The Pre-eminence of Knowledge

Lesson Three: The Book of Two’s

The lesson will elucidate three two’s:

1. Health and Spare time
2. Worldly Abstinence and from what Man possesses
3. Miserliness and Bad Character

Lesson Four: The Book of Three’s

The lesson will elucidate three threes:

1. The Three Qualities
2. The Three Signs of a Hypocrite
3. The Three Mortal Sins

Lesson Five: The Book of Four’s

The lesson will elucidate three fours:

1. The Four Decrees
2. The Four Prophetic Representatives
3. The Four Words: al-Baqiyat al-Salihat

Lesson Six: The Book of Five’s

The lesson will elucidate three fives:

1. The Five Pillars
2. The Five Prayers
3. The Five Questions

Lesson Seven: The Book of Six’s

The lesson will elucidate three sixes:

1. The Six Articles of Faith
2. The Six Rights of a Muslim
3. The Six Archetypal Rights

Lesson Eight: The Book of Seven’s

The lesson will elucidate one seven:

1. The Seven Archetypes under the Divine Shade

Lesson Nine: The Book of Eight’s

The lesson will elucidate three eights:

1. The Eight Gateways of Paradise
2. The Eight Angelic Guards
3. The Eight Companions of the Cave

Lesson Ten: The Book of Nine’s

The lesson will elucidate one nine:

1. The Nine Causes and their Nine Effects

Lesson Eleven: The Book of Ten’s

The lesson will elucidate two tens:

1. The Ten Traits of Perdition
2. The Ten Traits of Salvation

Lesson Twelve: The Epilogue

The final lesson and culmination of the course will briefly look at
the following three topics:

1. Bestowal
2. Supplication
3. Prayers upon the Prophet