Revival Retreat 2025
This retreat brings together Nur Sa’aadah’s primary objectives: The pursuit of knowledge, spiritual devotion, and community engagement.
Reviving the Islamic sciences
The Revival Retreat is a unique opportunity for seekers on the path of sacred knowledge. This retreat brings together Nur Sa’aadah’s primary objectives: the pursuit of knowledge, spiritual devotion, and community engagement.
This year, Book II — On Belief — from Imam al-Ghazali’s Ihya ʿUlum al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences) will be studied through immersive lectures and interactive sessions led by our dear teachers Sh. Yahya Rhodus (US), Sh. Musab Penfound (Yemen) and Sh. Yasser Qureshy (Turkey). There will also be guest teachers attending.
Alongside lectures, the daily schedule will include congregational prayers and gatherings of remembrance. Students will have the opportunity to benefit directly from our teachers through reflective and interactive sessions. This will all take place in an idyllic space surrounded by forest land and water.
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Reviving the heart
It is hoped that this combination of sacred knowledge, devotional acts, companionship and a serene natural environment will benefit the heart, bringing about openings, purification and ascension.
Students will be served breakfast, lunch and dinner at the communal hall where attendees will eat together. Food served will be wholesome and nourishing, intended to compliment the devotional works students will be engaging in throughout the day and night.
This Retreat is aimed at adults over the age of 18, however, if you are a family or have children and you would like to attend, please register below and we will do our utmost to accommodate you.
Upon Allah we rely and it is by His will we intend and set out on the above.
Overview
17th – 21st October, 2025
Check-In: From 5:00 PM on Friday, 17th October
Check-Out: By 12:00 PM on Tuesday, 21st October
Please note that check-in and check-out times are subject to minor adjustments. Final timings will be confirmed closer to the retreat, in sha Allah.
The retreat will take place in the Daventry Countryside, Northamptonshire, UK. Further details will be shared upon confirmation of your place, post registration.
£425 per person
Please note that limited financial assistance is available. If you would like to be considered for support, kindly indicate this in the “Additional Information” section of the form.
Accommodation will be provided at a modern 4-star hotel. Most attendees will be allocated a single bed in a shared twin room with an en-suite bathroom. A small number of triple rooms will also be used, but these will be limited.
If capacity is reached, we may offer additional spaces using z-beds or sofa beds. If this applies to your booking, we will inform you before confirming your place.
A limited number of shared rooms for couples may also be available. If you are attending as a couple and would like to request this option, please indicate it in the registration form. Final allocations will be confirmed once your place at the retreat has been secured.
Revival Retreat Teachers
Shaykh Yahya Rhodus
Shaykh Yahya Rhodus is the Founding Director of Al-Maqasid, an Islamic seminary whose vision is to facilitate the realisation of Islam, Iman and Ihsan through immersion in the Prophetic Inheritance. His journey began at the traditional school of Murabit al-Hajj in the desert of Mauritania shortly after his conversion. His path of learning then led him to the acclaimed school Dar al-Mustafa in Tarim, where he received instruction from the renowned scholar and spiritual guide Habib Umar Bin Hafiz.
Shaykh Musab Penfound
Shaykh Mus’ab Penfound was born and raised in Manchester, England. After a two year journey, he entered Islam at the age of eighteen. He has received formal training through a classical syllabus based upon the formal Islamic sciences combined with the disciplines of inward purification. He has received scholastic permission and licences (ijazah) from leading traditional scholars and specialises Sacred law, the Sciences of Inward Purification and the biographical texts of the early pious Muslims and scholars.
Shaykh Yasser Qureshy
Shaykh Yasser Qureshy has spent almost two decades studying the Islamic intellectual tradition, primarily in Damascus and Istanbul. Presently, he is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, where he also convenes the MPhil in Islamic Philosophical Theology, and teaches papers across all three years of the undergraduate Tripos. For the past decade, he has taught at The Ribat Institute, where he is also part of the senior management team.
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