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    The Muslim Chaplaincy Program (MCP) is a program designed for people of the Muslim faith to help them become chaplains. However, it is open to anyone who chooses to participate. There are a great number of Muslims in southeast Michigan, but only few who are educated and trained in the practice of chaplaincy, a profession that involves extending spiritual care and counseling in institutional settings.

    Although there are many Muslim patients, staff and doctors in hospitals, healthcare agencies, hospices, and other extended care facilities, there are hardly any chaplains in these institutions. There is a crying need for Muslim chaplains to fill this void. The UMD-MCP program will prepare the participants to facilitate or accommodate the religious and spiritual needs of Muslims. It will not only prepare them for service to Muslims, but will also train them to provide spiritual care, and advice to others who may need them...Read more

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    Dr. Kenneth Harris, ext. 204

Struggle Between Reason and Revelation - Dr. Israr Ahmad
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Struggle Between Reason and Revelation in Islam
Dr. Israr Ahmad
This essay is excerpted from an article by Dr. Israr Ahmad. It was originally published in Urdu, in the October 1968 issue of “Mithaq.”  The struggle between 'aql and naql has been going on in Muslim history almost since the very beginning.  The fact is that “religion,” in its essence, is a form of naql, for it was first transmitted from God to the Angel of Revelation to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and then from the exalted personality of the Prophet to his Companions and subsequently from one generation of Muslims to the next till it reached us.  Thus, the foundation of religion is naql — and not 'aql.  However, it is obvious that religion is addressed to human beings! The fact of the matter is that human beings—even if all of them may not be “rational”—do indeed follow a small minority of people who are “rational.”  Consequently, it is not altogether wrong to call the human being as such a “rational animal.”  Read More...