KL Suhba 2026

From Fragmentation to Whole
Healing the Self, Restoring the Sacred: Pathways to Human and Environmental Wellbeing

Contemporary humanity faces converging crises - spiritual and mental illness, environmental degradation, the dissolution of family and communal bonds, and a deepening alienation on every front. The Islamic spiritual tradition does not treat these as discrete technical problems. They are the symptoms of a single rupture: the modern desacralization of the human being, of creation, and of the relationships that bind them.

This knowledge retreat suhba traces the tradition’s diagnosis and its cure - the soundness of the qalb as the hinge on which the wellbeing of self, society, and creation turns; the recovery of sacred time, sacred space, and sacred relationship; and the turāth engaged not as historical archive but as a living guide for navigating turbulent times.

Day 1: Opening the Heart
Beginning where the cure must begin in the expansion of the heart and the cultivation of ethical character

8:00am Registration Opens

9:00am - 9:30am Opening Naṣīḥa
Shaykh Muhammad al-Jilani

9:30am - 10:30am Tafsīr of Sūrat al-Inshirāḥ - Did We Not Open Your Chest?
Shaykh Sjaad Hussain
The Qur’an’s own framing of inner expansion (sharh al-sadr) as the foundation of every cure for the fragmented self.

10:40am - 11:40am Re-ordering the Heart and Wealth in a Disordered World
Ustadh Ashraf Gomma Ali
Fragmentation in modern life reflects a disordered heart; wealth becomes one of the primary arenas where this disorder appears, and where wholeness can be restored through realignment of reliance and purpose.

11:40am - 12:40pm Lunch
12.40pm - 2.30 pm Ṣolāt al-Jumʿah | Ladies’ Program with Shanti, Nazihah, Lana Mohammad

2:45pm - 3:50 pm The Pursuit of Ethics & Happiness
Shaykh Amin Kholwadia
Classical Islamic ethics as a vision of human flourishing rooted in fiṭra and oriented toward God.

4:00pm - 5:15 pm Contemporary Ethical Dilemmas - Practical Application & Case Studies
Shaykh Amin Kholwadia
Bringing the tradition’s ethical resources into living conversation with the dilemmas of the present.

5:15 pm ʿAṣr Prayer & Afternoon Tea

Close of Day One

Day 2: Diagnosis & Healing 
Reading the present through the tradition’s diagnostic lens and recovering the resources of the living turāth as a path of re-integration

8:30am Registration Opens

9:30am - 10:45am Navigating Challenging Times -  Session 1
Shaykh Ahmed Saad
A scholarly diagnosis of the present moment in the light of prophetic guidance.

10:50am - 12:15pm Map for the Future - Session 2
Shaykh Ahmed Saad
Charting a course that draws on the deepest resources of revelation and tradition.

12:15pm - 1:15pm West African Sufi ʿUlamāʾ and Their Contribution to Knowledge Dissemination & Character Formation
Shaykh Abdallahi Bilal Mohammad
A living chain of transmission and tarbiya as a model of communal formation.

1:15pm - 2:30pm Lunch & Ẓuhr Prayer

2:30pm - 3:45pm Healing the Fragmented Self - Session 1: The Heart at the Nexus (Qalb, Amāna, Fiṭra)
Shaykh Walead Mosaad
This session establishes the Islamic anthropology of the human as bearer of the divine trust, constitutively oriented toward God, with the heart as the integrative organ of spiritual perception. The soundness of the qalb is the hinge on which the wellbeing of self, society, and creation turns.

3:45pm - 5:00pm Healing the Fragmented Self - Session 2: Four Masters on Modernity, Technology, and the Sacred Cosmos
Shaykh Walead Mosaad
Reading al-Ghazālī, ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, Ibn ʿArabī, and Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh al-Iskandarī as living interlocutors with the contemporary crisis. The session diagnoses how the digital condition severs tawakkul, sacred time (waqt), and lived community — and traces a path of re- integration through dhikr, the rights of creation (ḥuqūq al-‘abaad), and the recovery of sacred space.

5:00 pm ʿAṣr Prayer

5:15pm - 6:30pm Tasawwuf in the Malay World
Dr Khalif Muammar (RZS CASIS)
A regional inheritance of the Sufi tradition as a living resource for human and communal formation.

6:30pm - 7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Maghrib Prayer

7:45pm - 8:30pm Wird, Ṣuḥba & Naṣīḥa
Shaykh Muhammad al-Jilani
The lived practice of dhikr and ṣuḥba as the counter-technology to the attention economy — the qalb returned to its proper orientation

Close of Day Two

*Please note that the schedule remains subject to change. We ask for your kind understanding should adjustments become necessary; the organizers cannot assume responsibility for any inconvenience caused.