Community Leader Training
- Level 2
- Duration: 1 Week
Course Objective
- Confidence in performing core Imām duties
- Practical training in prayers, sermons, funerals, and marriages
- Understanding of Islamic rulings on family matters
- Foundational counseling skills for community service
Overview
This course prepares students for practical service as community Imāms by combining essential fiqh knowledge with hands-on leadership and pastoral training. Students learn to lead congregational worship, deliver sermons, conduct funerals, officiate marriages, and address family and counseling matters within a Canadian context.
Course Curriculum
Duties of a Community Leader 101
Course Objective
- To equip students with the knowledge and training a person requires to become a community Imām
Learning Outcome
- Upon completing this course students will be able to perform the duties of an Imām with confidence anywhere in Canada
Pre-requisites
- Graduation from Level 1
Lesson Plan
| Lesson 1 |
• Introduction • Essential traits of a community leader • The roles and responsibilities of a community Imām |
| Lesson 2 |
• Leading congregational prayers • The Fiqh of the Jumuʿah Prayer p. 62 - 66 • The Fiqh of the ʿĪd Prayer p. 66 - 69 |
| Lesson 3 | • Practically delivering the Friday sermon (khuṭbah) and the ʿĪd sermons |
| Lesson 4 | • Speech delivery training |
| Lesson 5 | • Speech Demonstrations and Assessment |
| Lesson 6 | • The Fiqh of Funerals p. 74 - 81 |
| Lesson 7 | • Practical training of a funeral |
| Lesson 8 | • Mid-Exam |
| Lesson 9 | • Fiqh of Fasting |
| Lesson 10 |
• Fiqh of Iʿtikāf p. 113 – 115 • iqh of Tarāwīḥ |
| Lesson 11 |
• Fiqh of Sadaqat al-Fitr p. 298 • Fiqh of Zakāh |
| Lesson 12 | • Final Exam |
Duties of a Community Leader 110
Course Objective
- To educate students on the essential Islamic rulings of marriage, divorce and counselling.
Lesson Plan
| Lesson 1 |
• Becoming a registered Marriage Officer in Ontario • Marriage p. 375 – 378 |
| Lesson 2 |
• Marriage to Non-Muslim Women • Virgins and Previously Married Women • Guardian • Suitability p. 378 -384 |
| Lesson 3 | • Mahr p. 384 - 392 |
| Lesson 4 | • Miscellaneous Issus p. 392 – 400 |
| Lesson 5 | • Divorce p. 407 – 411 |
| Lesson 6 | • Implicit Divorce p. 412 - 416 |
| Lesson 7 | • Conditional Divorce p. 416 - 421 |
| Lesson 8 |
• Delegating Divorce • Retraction p. 421 – 427 |
| Lesson 9 |
• Counselling Training: 1. Marital 2. Religious 3. Youth |
| Lesson 10 | Final Exam |
$20
Details :
- Teacher: MLC Teachers
- Course Book: Mukhtasar al-Qudūrī by Imam Abu Husayn al-Qudūrī
- Completion Certification