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8/24 to 8/25 (Online & in person, Philadelphia) Sat 9am start - Shahada 2024 - Jihad of the Soul: Intensive Weekend Retreat on Revolutionary Spirituality with Dr. Butch Ware


Saturday Aug 24 - Sunday Aug 25, 9am - 2:30pm each day, Online & in person Philadelphia

note: this course costs $111 (negotiable) for online access, and it appears in person attendance is free (according to the Instagram post). Usually expensive events are not included on the calendar, but this is being offered by Dr. Butch Ware, Green Party VP candidate and UC Santa Barbara Prof specializing in West Africa, Islamic Knowledge & Spirituality, African Diaspora + anti-Imperial and Genocide studies

Shahada 2024 - Jihad of the Soul - Intensive Weekend Retreat on Revolutionary Spirituality

What does it mean to be a seeker in times of struggle? In the past few years, scales have fallen from countless hearts, and many are perceiving with renewed clarity. The new-age spirituality movement has been unmasked; we are not going to “love and light” our way to liberation – it will take collective struggle. Christian and Jewish Zionists appear committed to accelerating the arrival of the End Times. ‘Muslim’ leaders and their sycophantic court clerics turn a blind eye to genocide, climate catastrophe, and naked tyranny throughout so-called ‘Muslim nations.’ Capitalists rush humanity towards environmental extinction, white supremacists are publicly embraced. Many hearts are as hard as stone- no, harder.

Shaykh Ahmadu Bamba, the West African mystic, scholar, and anti-colonial resistance leader developed a time honored methodology for softening hearts and preparing people for the fight against internal and external oppressors. He prioritized the struggle against the ego, the devil, the passions, and material attachments as the crucial first steps in liberation.

In Qur’anic Arabic these are the nafs, the shaytan, the hawa, and the dunya and their initial letters are an acronym meaning ‘We bear witness’ (na-sh-ha-du).

In this weekend retreat we will explore African Islamic teachings on how to successfully confront these enemies so that we can be more effective agents of collective revolutionary spirituality.

Join Dr. Bilal Ware for the completely new 2024 edition of this spiritual intensive focused on overcoming the four principal inner enemies. This course is designed to equip the student with a working and practical knowledge of how to connect spirituality and social justice in organic emancipatory fashion.

Each session will feature two hours of lecture with thirty minutes of interactive Q&A with Dr. Ware. All sessions will be hybrid in-person/online events with live participants at the host location in Philadelphia, PA.

You MUST include a valid email address when ordering to ensure that you are able to receive the course link. Recordings are available for 8-10 weeks after course ends so if you miss a session, no worries.

Course Schedule: Saturday August 24th, 9-11:30 AM Eastern Time / Saturday August 24th, 12-2:30 PM Eastern Time / Sunday August 25th, 9:11:30 AM Eastern Time / Sunday August 25th, 12-2:30 PM Eastern Time

Tickets: Shahada 2024 - Jihad of the Soul - Intensive Weekend Retreat on Revolu – The Ink of The Scholars (the-ink-of-the-scholars.myshopify.com)

Instagram post (view for info on how to negotiate price - no one turned away for inability to pay registration fee): Instagram video by Butch Ware • Aug 21, 2024 at 10:14 AM