WATCH FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsRXM7d0mU8
Directed by Mustafa Gouverneur
‘POLISHING THE HEART The Ghazali Children's Project Worldwide’ - a 33 Minute Feature Documentary on the Ghazali Children’s Project and Muslim children’s education. (HD March 2020 filmed in multipe locations around the world)
The Ghazali Children's Project seeks to educate children spiritually & transform their character. “It will change the way we teach our children.” - Hamza Yusuf
Featuring interviews with many teachers, parents and scholars including Sh. Hamza Yusuf, Prof. Ingrid Mattson, Sh. Abdal Hakim Murad, Dr. Tamara Gray, Prof. Mustafa Abu Sway, Sh. Yahya Rhodus, Baraka Blue and many more.
"A little inspiration during these difficult times. After a decade of work with a dedicated team of scholars, we see here the project in action worldwide and hear from teachers, parents and children about its transformative impact."
The Ghazali Children's Project (https://ghazalichildren.org/) seeks to educate children spiritually & transform their characters by showing how the outer aspects of Islam can, through their inner spiritually transformative meanings, change every situation into one that strengthens their innate human nobility of character.
The Project aims to help support entire communities of Muslim parents, teachers, and children in realizing how to live by and embody the noble Prophetic character through self-observation and correction. The series aims to provide authentic, quality guidance through Ghazali’s systematic approach for developing virtuous character.
"This work can help our Muslim children have a more humane and universal understanding of the ethics and teachings of Islam through Imam al-Ghazali. I believe the work is highly relevant and very likely life-altering for those who will be exposed to it early." -Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
The project’s aim is to establish from the start of the child’s life, reflexive habits such as humility, patience, love, altruism, gentleness, forbearance, and respect for other faiths while providing children with real and effective tools to address such failings as selfishness, backbiting, arguing, laziness, envy, bragging, hypocrisy, greed, wasting time and pride.
Al-Ghazali’s teachings address the whole person. For example, in his book on the Mysteries of Fasting, regarding the purification of both the outward and the inward, he wrote that one should know with certitude that the purification of the Heart comes through ridding the soul of its vices and reforming it with virtue, and that a person who stops at outward purification alone is like someone who wants to invite a king to his home, then busies himself with decorating its front door, while leaving the inside full of rubbish and debris.
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