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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE


In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

DISCOVER YOURSELF
www.discoveryourself.info


3-DAY WORKSHOP SCHEDULE


OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2009

SRI LANKA
DATES : 16,17 & 18 OCTOBER 2009
(FRIDAY,SATURDAY SUNDAY)
TIMINGS: 9.00 AM TO 5.30 PM

ORGANISED BY: First Global Knowledge Centre,
No. 4, I st floor – Collingwood Place, Wellawatte.
Tel : 011 73950 90 – 3 , COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.

For Registration Contact :
1. Arishda Hossen :0772960481
Email: arishda@firstglobal-group.com
2. Mr Mohd Jaleel : 0774442711
Email: jaleel@pioneer-publications.com

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QATAR
Dates: 29, 30 & 31st October 2009
(Thursday, Friday & Saturday) -

BHARAIN
5, 6, & 7 November 2009
(Thursday, Friday & Saturday)

KUWAIT
12th, 13th & 14th November
(Thursday, Friday & Saturday)

CONTACT FOR DETAILS:
Organisors: First Global Knowledge Centre, Doha, Qatar
Contact Person - Mumtaz Saleem - 00974 5880126
Email: mumtaz.salim@gmail.com
M. Hazim Hamza
Tel Off: + 974 4400295
CELL: + 974- 5839051
Email:Hazim Hamza hazim.hamza@gmail.com

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PURIFICATION OF SELF

"He Indeed Shall Be Successful Who Purifies Himself" (87:14)

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THE WORKSHOP

In the first day of the workshop your anger disappears and you enter into a state of peace and tranquility. You feel free and light and your view of life, people around you and the world transforms.

The next day you get rid off the burden of the past and the constrains the past imposes on your view of life. You get access to live in the present and create a new future. You have the power, freedom and self-expression to take any challenge that life throws at you and life is no longer a burden. Your view of life alters. You create a new you, surrendering to the will of Allah and choosing to be His representative. You purify your heart and truly get connected with Almighty Allah.

Third day you witness a whole new world around you by demolitioning (fana) your ego. You see life as simple with Truth prevailing and Falsehood perishing. You experience, love, joy, peace, happiness, contentment and bliss, a gift Allah has given you to experience and share with others.

Unless there is individual transformation
there will be no Universal Transformation.
Now we need a revolution, not for changing others, but to change ourselves

The spiritual weapon of self-purification, intangible as it seems, is the most potent means of revolutionizing one¡¦s environment and loosening external shackles. It works subtly and invisibly; it is an intense process though it might often seem a weary and long-drawn one. It is the straightest way to liberation. The surest and quickest and no effort can be too great for it. What it requires is faith.



BENEFITS:

* GAIN CONFIDENCE
* GAIN COURAGE
* CONTORL ANGER
* OVERCOME FEAR
* OVERCOME STRESS
* OVERCOME INHIBITIONS
* LEAD A SUCCESSFUL LIFE
* KNOW WHO YOU ARE?
* KNOW THE PURPOSE OF LIFE?
* KNOW YOUR POSITION ON EARTH?
* CREATE A NEW FUTURE
* DEVELOP GOOD INTER PERSONAL SKILLS
* CREATING STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF AND YOUR CREATOR.


There is difference between knowing intellectually and experiencing.
Experience is being present, without definition, expectations or judgment,
with one¡¦s perceptions.
Here is an opportunity of a lifetime 4 U !!!

please see the interview telecast by ITV, South Africa
on Sunday 16th November 2008
On Discover Yourself" workshop
Purification of Soul.
Here are the links for the youtube video
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLQptewnCIA
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYv9ge9Jaw
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XgnJGMfKCo
Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2zGikg3l0



I have traveled to many countries, attending seminars by world renown scholars such as Earl Nightingale, Dennis Weatley, Wyne Dyer and Deepak Chopra, amongst others. All these great personalities passed on information and their personal experiences. I always felt that there was a need to write a course for Muslims, based on Qur¡¦aan and Sunnah. Sadathullah Khan has done it. We have discovered talent that has the ability and method to transform people. My advice to all my brothers and sisters is to take this opportunity to learn the concept of La illaha illallah, the meaning of abundance and the meaning of unlimited possibilities.
Ismail A Kalla
Islamic Council of South Africa.

I was deeply impressed by Mr Sadathullah¡¦s powerful presentation skills. His unwavering commitment to social revolution through transformation of individuals has touched the hearts of every participant in the workshop held in Dubai. It was a very edifying experience. As hours went by, he began to grow in me. Not only as a trainer, but also as an individual with a passion for making a positive difference to human lives. I have read somewhere that passion is love and anger combined. His moral indignation and anger at the near-total negation of positive re-enforcement in the lives of our Ummah and his profound love for them moved me deeply. Mr Sadath¡¦s grassroots level approach to training will do our Ummah a world of good in the long run and be instrumental in creating a massive tsunami effect in the Muslim society. Perhaps the lessons I took from the workshop are totally different from the lessons most others took. The three-day workshop has had a powerful chastening impact on me as a person and specifically as a Muslim trainer who deeply shares his vision of community transformation starting at the grassroots level.
Dr. KUNHAMMAD
Trainer, Dubai

I liked the workshop very much. It is unique and the best way of doing Islah and dawah. It is an easy solution to all the problems in the families. In life how oneself can do Islah? The remedy for this is in the workshop. Since the workshop has lot of merits, common man should attend it as well as learned persons, especially this will be very helpful for women. It has to be conducted in every city. I cannot express the merits of the workshop, only you will know when you attend it.
MO ULVI KALEEMUDDIN, Bangalore.

** Total transformation in my life! Past sixteen years I have been searching for what I have found today! Every word spoken was powerful; it opened my heart, mind and soul and affected me deeply forever. I will never be theame person again. Past 16 years, my life has been total disaster, divorce, and physically abused, violence. Single mother of two, every problem at work, home, health and finance etc... Realized today I was a "drama Queen" creating my own misery being depressed, sad, negative every day of my life But I was searching for answers, for help, to get out of this and today Allah (swt) has accepted that Dua. I am eternally grateful to Allah and shaikh for transforming my life. I have never felt lighter, happier or more hopeful than at this point! I have found the real, true me. A dynamic, motivating and inspiring workshop. Allah (swt) has truly blessed with a gift of inspiring others. Thank you very much! My duas are with you

** All praise be to Allah Tala for creating, guiding and assisting khan to do this lofty work. I am writing these few words to thank you for a life- altering experience, for the insight into understanding myself, for giving me the keys to unlock my own joy happiness and confidence. I was "STUCK" for 20 years of my life! I have enjoyed this workshop 1000%. I felt all the time that you were addressing me. I intended to continue to make all the inner changes Inshah Allah, Jazakallah-u-khairan. May Allah Tala bless you with good health, a long life and guidance to continue this lofty work. You are doing it excellently. Shukran.

** The workshop is mind blowing connection between psychology and Islam. It is really a wonderful, insight oriented different workshop. The style and coaching was impressive.

** Par-Excellence. The entire Ummah needs to participate in this workshop. You are at the right time in this chapter of Islam.

** I have done numerous workshops and I have attended numerous talks by motivational speakers, what I enjoyed about this workshop was bringing in the Islamic perspective into things. I also enjoyed the humour used and I felt the last day of the course was absolutely fantastic

A brief profile - A.W. Sadathullah Khan
Janab A W Sadathullah Khan hails from the leading I T hub of the world and culturally rich city of Bangalore, India. A mechanical engineer by profession and a gold medallist from Bangalore University. After having worked in HAL, I.T.I and in Saudi Arabia, he returned to India to set up an export oriented Industry. He gave up his business and at present he has dedicated his life to serving humanity. He is also a journalist, publisher and the editor of the renowned English monthly, Islamic Voice, since January 1987. He is the founding member of the PEACE FOR YOU International Foundation and He spent many years in designing a unique course, ¡§Discover Yourself¡¨, based on Qur¡¦an and Sunnah.
In the past six years he has conducted more than 145 three-day workshops in all major cities of India and abroad, which has transformed the lives of thousands of participants who have attended his workshop.


Workshop Designed and Conducted by:
A.W. Sadathullah Khan B.Sc, B.E (Mech), Editor, Islamic Voice,

PEACE FOR YOU
International Foundation
Committed to make a difference
# 3/1, Palmgrove Road, Victoria Layout, Bangalore-560047, India,
Tel: 0091 80-41126165 /+91 98451 58996

awskhan@gmail.com / editor@islamicvoice.com

For more details please visit

www.discoveryourself.info
www.islamicvoice.com

Erasing Past Conditioning in Karachi
The 3-Day Discover Yourself Workshop conducted by A.W. Sadathullah Khan on August 14, 15 and 16, 2009 at Baharia University, Karachi was a tremendous success. Here, participants share their experiences after the Workshop.


Dr. SARAOSH HAMID: I had attended number of workshops in Pakistan as well as in USA, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Singapore related to self-discovery, mind sciences etc. However the Workshop in Karachi on 14, 15 & 16th August 2009 at Bahria University Auditorium by Mr. Sadathullah Khan was a great experience. It was an excellent programme, very well designed and delivered by Khan sahib. I wish we can have more sessions in Pakistan, so more of us can be benefited with this wonderful program. It's a great 3 day investment / gift, one can give himself / herself or to love ones.

FAROOQ: I had a fight with my mother who forced me to attend this workshop because I had better things to do. I never knew in the end I would be writing that this workshop is amazing. My friends started laughing when they heard that I was 'Discovering myself'. I was embarrassed. But now I am proud that I attended this workshop. As soon as I went home after attending the first day I realised how negatively we think and react. But now things are different. I will make a difference.

FARZANA: I was oscillating between being bitter and trying to be happy. Trying to follow the way of Islam is not easy, especially not for young people. I have to listen to people's criticism that I am wasting my youth by not wearing the latest fashion and covering my head. Also, not having any children after six years of marriage had made me bitter. At one time I was on the verge of suicide, except that it is Haram!! During the workshop I realised that my main problem is that I worry too much about how people 'see me'. The workshop has allowed me to remove the shell of other people's ideas and opinions and their expectations of me. It's as if, a beautiful butterfly has emerged from a cocoon after being imprisoned for 30 years. I am free, I am alive. And I love myself and because I love myself, I love Allah's creations. Jazakallah!

SAJIDA: Before coming to the workshop I was in the right and wrong world of physical consciousness and after the workshop I am raising to the spiritual consciousness and I feel improved. I brought my son here. I am glad I did. I have a better relationship with him now. This workshop gave me an opportunity to tell him for the first time in his 18 years of age that I love him and I cannot live without him. My attitude towards life has surely become positive.

SHAHWAR: My life was full of aggression and frustration. I used to get nervous and whenever I came on stage, my tongue start shivering but after this workshop My life is totally changed ' I want to salute Mr Khan sab' Thanks for changing my life, giving me confidence and showing me the correct path of life. I can now easily choose between wrong and right. “Allah bless you”.

HASEEB: The workshop was excellent, useful, blend of modern scientific orientation and religious thoughts. The presentations were simple yet heart probing, affecting the heart and soul of the individuals. If even 25% of the presented material is retained and practised, it could transform the personalities as better Muslims. This workshop has been very useful in discovering ourselves for inner cleansing as better practical human beings. The presentation of the workshop was of international standard, following timely schedules. The presenter and the organisers deserve congratulations for arranging such a useful workshop.

SALEHA: I was a refresher, this time many different aspects came into existence. Still I need to workout on my attitude towards life. This time ladies were sitting at the top, right at the back, felt sleepy at times. Both sexes should be given the opportunity to sit in the front.

AFIA: Honestly, this was the most beautiful gift anyone can ever give to me. I was very arrogant, aggressive and my behaviour towards my elders was harsh. I used to reply back. But since the past two days, if anyone scolds me, I keep my mouth shut. If any one makes fun of me, I just smile back. I have learnt the purpose of my life and how to treat others. I am really looking for the next workshop to come so that I can bring my parents along and see a big change in them. This workshop should be held every month, so that everyone can take advantage of it and know the purpose of their life.

AFREEN: This workshop was amazing. It had been a wonderful experience. I have learned how to stay alert by being conscious all the time. I learnt not to blame and judge others but change your own self. The techniques of controlling the anger were superb. Leaving the past behind and living in the present to make a better future concept changed my life. The family which I thought does not care for me now feels that I am everything for them. Relating the topics with examples of our daily life was very useful. Thank you so much for providing me with a platform which changed my life.

FAHAD: I thought that I was a perfect man before attending the workshop. When I went back after the first day the family were very keen to share about my experience. The feedback I got from them was much unexpected and then I realised that I was living in a shell of false world and I have to come out to the world of reality. I feel that this workshop is the best opportunity to change oneself and make the life acceptable for everyone in all circumstances. The problems highlighted in myself are ego, anger and arrogance which I have to give up and take on being generous, kind, just, loving and forgiving. I pray to Almighty Allah to help me in keeping these qualities.

SHABNAM: I was very depressed, frustrated and suffocating. I was confused about my past, apprehensive, restless for the present and worried about future. This workshop cleared of my confusion, ambiguity and it showed me my hidden fears. My family members feel I look calm and I wish to again participate in the next workshop.

NAILA PARACHA: The workshop had an empowering effect on me, it made me realise I am my own painter, the picture I want I can have that whatever I want to be, I can and not be a painting what others have painted for me, or what I believe, I should be. I now take charge of myself, my beliefs and erase out the past conditioning which was negative. I have changed the word 'I CAN'T to I CAN'. This is now, my thoughts, I will now be in the present and be conscious, so that I can energise my life and lead a happy peaceful life, and work at making those around me more happy, loving, and empowering the society, whatever good I can do, I am willing.