A one day masterclass

Allah has given you power. This is how to use it responsibly.

The Trust

Prophetic Leadership for Every Muslim

With Shaykh Dr. Suleiman Hani

Houston · Sep 30 Dallas · Oct 8 10am to 8pm

The Trust: Prophetic Leadership for Every Muslim

Houston · Saturday, September 30· Dallas · October 8· 10am to 8pm· One day. One amanah.· Houston · Saturday, September 30· Dallas · October 8· 10am to 8pm· One day. One amanah.·

“If I ruled the world,

I’d end wars, fight poverty, and fix the mess our leaders created.”

All of us are weary with the state of the world.

Many of us vote. We boycott. We raise awareness, we give sadaqah, we pour our hearts out in du’a. And still the news arrives every morning heavier than it did the day before.

So we tell ourselves the same quiet sentence: if only I had the power. If only the decision sat with me.

We vote

Every cycle. And the ballot never quite reaches the thing that is broken.

We boycott

We read labels and change habits, and we are right to. It is still not leadership.

We give

Sadaqah goes out. It treats the wound. It does not decide who gets wounded.

We make du’a

The most powerful thing we own. And du’a was never meant to replace responsibility.

Here is what that sentence hides

You already have power. Over a household. A classroom. A payroll. A group chat. A younger sibling who copies how you speak when you are angry.

Our tradition does not call that influence, or a platform, or a personal brand. It calls it amanah. A trust. Something placed in your hands that you will be asked about.

The question was never whether you have power. It is whether you can be trusted with it.

What we cover

Five sessions. One day. A working model of prophetic authority.

Not a lecture on politics. A day on how the Prophet ﷺ carried responsibility, and how that translates to the authority you already hold.

Your day,
session by session

The weight of the amanah

Why the Qur’an frames authority as a burden before it frames it as an honour, and why the Companions who were best qualified to lead were the most afraid to ask for it.

How the Prophet ﷺ actually led

Consultation before decision. Delegation to people better than him at a task. Correction in private, praise in public. The mechanics, drawn from the seerah.

Character before competence

Skill makes you useful. Adab makes you safe to follow. The habits of restraint that decide whether power in your hands heals or harms.

Justice at small scale

Settling a dispute you are inside of. Holding someone accountable without humiliating them. What you owe the person who has no leverage over you at all.

Succession and legacy

Raising people who will outgrow you, and building something that keeps working after you are no longer the one holding it together.

Who this is for

If anyone answers to you, this day is for you.

Parents

Raising children inside a culture that is louder than you are.

Managers

Anyone whose decisions land on someone else’s income or workload.

Boards and MSA leads

Volunteers holding a community together on evenings and weekends.

Teachers and youth workers

People whose tone becomes a young person’s idea of what Islam sounds like.

Students

Preparing to carry something bigger than themselves, sooner than they expect.

Anyone told “you’re in charge”

And who felt their stomach drop instead of their chest swell.

Your instructor

Shaykh Dr. Suleiman Hani

Shaykh Dr. Suleiman Hani teaches with AlMaghrib Institute and serves as its Dean of Academic Affairs. He has studied in both traditional and academic settings and holds graduate degrees in Islamic Sudies (Jordan), philosophy and religions (Harvard), and leadership (NYU).

He lectures internationally on faith, doubt, and moral responsibility at individual and organizational levels, and writes for an audience that wants substance rather than slogans. This masterclass is part of the training he's conducted with countless organizations and individuals around the world.

Director of Academic Affairs Theology and comparative religion International lecturer

Two cities. One day each.

Doors at 10am, closing at 8pm. Pick your city and hold your seat.

Texas

Houston

Date: Saturday, September 30
Time: 10am to 8pm
Venue: Announced soon