A workshop exploring the meaning of life, the importance of spiritual, physical and mental health, taking control of our emotions, the importance of relationships and how to improve and strengthen them, and mitigating the ill effects of our environment while contributing to its health.

• Module 1: The entrance to the Dimensions of a Healthy Meaningful Lifestyle
• Module 2: Ruhani (Spiritual) Health

About the Instructor:

Shaykh Hashim Ahmad is an American Islamic scholar and teacher holding a degree from Jami’ah Ummul Qura, Makkah Al Mukarramah, with a specialization in the Sciences of Quran and  Hadith, and an MA in Islamic culture from the  University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan, as well as Ijaazaat from many traditional scholars whom he studied with. He was deputed in 1985 by Shaykh Abdul Aziz Bin Baz Former Chief  Mufti, Saudi Arabia, as a teacher to Jamiatul  Uloom Al Islamiyyah, Binnori Town, Karachi,  and other premier Islamic Institutions. In 1997 he formed a company known as Al Khair Creative Quality Ware, providing “Beneficial  products aligned with a healthy, meaningful  lifestyle”. Along with his associates they worked on developing a business based on  Islamic and professional excellence that  eventually evolved into an entire Islamic  business system known as “The Ubudiyyah  Business Model”. UBM Trust was formed,  engaging in R&D, facilitation and promotion of  the model. Hashim now heads the UBM Trust  apart from lecturing and presenting at diverse  venues on Islamic related topics, and offering  consultancy to individuals and institutions.

Pre-Islam Hashim was a professional musician from Hollywood, Los Angeles California, where he spent his youth during the 1960's in pursuit of his musical career, coupled with a passion for a natural healthy lifestyle inspired from early childhood by his  mother an accomplished nutritionist & certified organic gardener. He left America in 1970 in pursuit of the original  true path of spiritual development and way to the Creator. After extensive travel and search he accepted Islam in Ethiopia 1971, then on to Yemen and eventually Makkah Al Mukarramah.