A week-long live experience with Dr. Abdallah Rothman. Two live sessions, curated content between them, and a community that stays with you.
A week-long live experience with Dr. Abdallah Rothman. Two live sessions, curated content between them, and a community that stays with you.
2 live sessions · 1 week 2:00pm UK · 9:00am ET
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( Limited spots · Replay included )
Something in you already knows that you were not meant to do this alone.
The longing for real community. For connection that goes beneath the surface. For a space where the deepest parts of you can be held without judgment.
These are not small desires. They are, as the Islamic tradition understands it, part of how the heart heals.
In this week-long experience, Dr. Abdallah Rothman draws on twenty years of practice to explore one of the most overlooked truths of inner work: the nafs cannot fully know itself in isolation.
Real transformation unfolds in relationship, in the sincere companionship the tradition calls suhba.
This program is designed so you leave having felt something, not just heard something. Each element is drawn from the Shifaa Method, a framework rooted in Islamic psychology and developed over two decades of retreat and therapeutic practice.
Teaching on the nafs, and why self-directed inner work reaches a ceiling, and what the Islamic tradition offers beyond it.
Structured companion practice where you feel what it is to be witnessed, and to offer that presence to another.
A led self-reflection practice rooted in the tradition: not abstract, but specific, grounded, and integrative.
Breakout conversations and open dialogue with others who are genuinely turning inward, held in a guided container.
By the close of Session 2, you will have a felt sense of what deeper residential work looks like, and whether a retreat is calling you.
Why suhba is not a side benefit:
it is how healing works.
The nafs, as the tradition understands it, does not reveal itself in isolation. It conceals its own patterns from itself.
Real transformation requires sincere companionship: not therapy, not community in a generic sense, but honest, grounded relationship that functions as both mirror and support.
This is why this program is not a webinar. It is a week-long live experience: two 90-minute sessions with Dr. Abdallah, and curated videos and reflections in between to keep the conversation alive between you and the community.
“We chose this format deliberately. What you experience in Session 1 has a full week to settle before Session 2. You return changed, and the room receives you differently too.”
Founder & Director of Dar Al-Shifaa · Head of Islamic Psychology, Cambridge Muslim College · President, International Association of Islamic Psychology
Dr. Abdallah Rothman has spent more than twenty years building spaces where genuine community and sincere inner work become possible together.
He holds an MA and PhD in psychology, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and has developed the Shifaa Method: a holistic framework of healing that engages heart, mind, body, and spirit, rooted in the Islamic tradition.
His work begins and ends with a conviction that suhba, sincere companionship, is not incidental to healing. It is the condition under which real change becomes possible.
This community
already exists
Dar Al-Shifaa has a growing online community of people drawn to Islamic psychology, to depth, and to the kind of sincere connection most spaces don’t offer.
Whether or not you register for this program, you are welcome. Create a free membership and step into a space where this conversation is already happening.
If you do join the program, you’ll already know some of the people in the room.
(Free · Open to all)
$76
Standard $97
This program is paid because the container we’re building requires people who are genuinely ready to show up. If that’s you, we’d be honored to have you with us.
Every seat is held by someone who meant it, and that changes the quality of what becomes possible between you.
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© 2026 Dar al-Shifaa, a project of DAR Labs. All rights reserved.
© 2026 Dar al-Shifaa, a project of DAR Labs. All rights reserved.
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