40 Hadith on Community Service and Activism
Dr. Mohannad Hakeem
Creating an algorithm for success and excellence in the worldly life and hopefully in the hereafter!
This book is a Muslim’s handbook to change the world. It provides the most relevant Hadiths that Muslims in the 21st century and beyond need to maximize their potential, serve their community, and leave a legacy.
Aided with a commentary and a list of actionable items for each hadith, these hadiths provide a framework that answers the most relevant questions for activists and community leaders:
The WHY (The spiritual element),
The WHAT (the social and political responsibility),
The HOW (The Fiqh and Adab guidelines),
The WHO (tips on building successful teams),
& The WHILE (self-care advice!)
For all those who have goals beyond their own selves and aspire to make an impact, guided by prophetic wisdom, this book is for you!
This collection contains glimpses of his prophetic guidance and wisdom for us to be able to draw both inspiration and instruction to guide our most passionate social work. Each hadith is supplemented with a commentary as well as actionable items that bring prophetic teachings to the lived world of the Muslim activist and community organizer.
"Ultimately, society does not change overnight, and the night is always replaced with a new day; the Muslim who strives to change the world should see every morning as a new opportunity and understand that every generation will die and be replaced by another. Gradual, structural, global change requires multi-generational sincerity, wisdom, strategy, knowledge, implementation, and perseverance, leaving the results to the One who knows all things." Suleiman Hani
Dr. Mohannad Hakeem is a research engineer, speaker, and activist from Lebanon who has studied traditionally under multiple scholars in the Muslim world for the past 20 years. He currently resides in Dearborn, Michigan, USA where he helped establish multiple community initiatives and organizations, with focus on youth empowerment and education. His classes, workshops, and Friday sermons draw inspiration from the Quran, Hadith, and Islamic history to give young Muslims an algorithm for success and excellence in the worldly life and hopefully in the afterlife.