Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – How to Set Up a Really Easy Islamic Essentials Course
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hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala so you didn't
mousseline while he was sorry. He abarca was seldom at the Sleeman
Kathira on Ilario Medina and So alhamdulillah May Allah subhanho
wa Taala bless you all for coming on here and I want to pray right
from now that Allah subhanaw taala accept all of us for the service
of his Deen. Really, the purpose of this is to just share with you
something that we've been doing for approximately the last 10
years and right, the reason that we actually started doing this was
because when I became the Imam of masjid, Koba in northeast London
here,
it was just thinking of different ideas of how you can get to
different segments of the community. And basically, I think
one of the most important things for us is that we need to raise up
the Muslim community, and the way to do that is to raise not just
the men, but the women and the children. Now, I think that
there's a lot of focus on men, I mean, there's sufficient focus
right on men, and, but there's not enough on on women, and there is I
think, you know, there is enough and children as well. SubhanAllah.
So, we want to share with you how this is done some of the success
stories, and just show you how easy it is, right? How easy it is,
anybody can inshallah do it, and
Inshallah, it won't be, you know, too complicated for you to do
this. So I'm just going to start with a PowerPoint, the way I want
this to happen is that inshallah I'm going to go through the, what
we cover how we cover it, who the target audiences, the various
different ways that you can do this class. And thereafter that
once we've done all of that, I'll show you the syllabus and
everything, and then after that, Inshallah, we will take questions,
right. So I'm expecting that we should be able to cover this in
about half an hour. But as I said, one of the reasons why we started
this off is because we found that the masjid was empty in the in the
mornings, there's a lot of housewives, there's a lot of
women, you know, who have have time basically, that they don't,
they're not doing actually much else in the daytime. All right,
they're not doing much else in the daytime. So we thought that let's
use the masjid invite those women over. And mashallah our first
batch we started off with, I can't remember the exact number. But
there were maybe between 15 to 20 students, and they range from the
ages of 17 to about 70. And that's not no exaggeration, we had
grandmother's right who joined in. Now, of course, with any course
what happens and you have to be ready for this is that you may
start off with a big number, you're always going to have
dropouts, that's just normal. I've seen across the board, dealing
with online classes, and in regular classes for over 20 years
I've been teaching, there's always going to be dropouts. So don't you
know, always start off with a large number. So eventually, by
the end of the year, you still have a decent number if you start
with a larger number. So alhamdulillah, the 17 to 70 rows,
those guys, it was it was this was designed, and I'll show you the
design, it was designed to be just a two year course. But these
people refused to leave after two years. And they kept saying can
you please add on some more? Can you please develop a next stage
for us the next day? Now, these people did not want to become
formal animals. This is not the purpose of this, right? Now, if
women want to study, right, they might be able to take a little
class here or there. But if they want to study anything serious,
regular, right? That is kind of wholesome than most of the time,
right? It is an early Marcos six, seven years of Ali Marcos, which
essentially takes a lot of effort, Arabic and some people are older,
they don't want to bother with that anymore. So what we want to
do is we want to make a course that's very easy, very convenient,
something that is really accessible and beneficial directly
without having to do too much. Because you know, people are
already doing so many other things. We just want to use this
for a particular purpose. So there was nothing in between after
people leave a mclubbe if they've been to one, like an Islamic
school or whatever. And then then the next thing was an Ali Marcos,
and that was too big of a jump. And not everybody needs to be an
Alima. And not, you know, not everybody's capable of being an
Alima. So that's why we thought we would do this. Those students that
first backup batch of students will always remember them, because
they ended up staying with us for seven years.
Right seven years, not all of them, they slowly did whittled
down to, you know, obviously, just several of the students from the
original 17 or 20, but seven years, and then after that we had
to return because I don't think we had space or whatever the case was
then we had other classes going as well. So that's a success. Even
Currently, we have a class that's on its I think third or fourth
year. People just don't want to leave once they get interested,
especially women, once they get interested in learning. And it's
really manageable because it's not too many hours in a week. You
know, they really want to stay. So let me start this presentation to
give you an idea. Right and then I will take questions in sha Allah
at
And so let me let me start with this. Yeah. Okay, wonderful. So
now let's, let's begin with this.
What we're going to cover right now is
the approach, we have the teaching methodology, which is probably one
of the most important things, probably even more than the
syllabus, to be honest, the core subjects, and
obviously, the aims of the curriculum, and the audience will
cover that as well. And then inshallah we can talk about some
other, you know, where to go after this course, we'll discuss that.
So let's begin with, I said that the whole point of this curriculum
is to get women, children and adult men, right, to essentially
learn the absolute basics, the most essential aspects, the
fundamentals of their religion, right over a very convenient, you
know, two year period.
And they get enough of a working class knowledge. So what happens
is that they feel much more confident as Muslims, right, it
improves their understanding on a range of topics like Islamic law,
Islamic belief, and most important is Islamic spirituality. The idea
of the whole course is to just give them like a holistic idea, a
holistic understanding of Islam, so that they know how to deal with
things. When when you know, when different things happen in their
life. Right, who is this course for? So this course is for
teenagers, adults, and
students, students, what I mean by students here is students of
university, right? I mean, everybody's a student once they
start sending, but this is like students of university can take
this course, adults, men and women, and of course, teenagers,
this has worked very, very well for us. What happened in many
mothers is that in mcnabb's in local mothers, as they teach them
until they're like 12 years old, or 13 years or maximum, and then
after that, they say that, okay, you have graduated, now you finish
the Quran you've graduated. Now, I think that that's very wrong. And
I think there should be classes, though, change from the normal
McTell classes, when students are, especially when they're 1314 15,
and 16. Because I think that's when they actually start becoming
independent, and start focusing on what they need to do in life. And
if then don't if they don't have have access to a teacher, a good
environment have a continuous study, right? A continuous study,
then their whole mindset. And I think that's why we're losing so
much of our children. Because when the time is there for them to
really develop their mindset, right? Yes, they've been studying
since they're six years old, five years old, all of that time. But
you see, they've not studied, while they were of a more mature
age, where they actually started understanding things for
themselves. They're not children anymore. And I think that's why we
call it the as we call it, the advanced class, right. So we gave
it a good name. We told the teachers to teach it differently.
There was less focus on memorization, it was more about
discussion, and then learning things and being able to just
vent, discuss, bring out their concerns. And that is the same
thing that we do. So that's why it's very important, the same
course can work for teenagers, the books are very carefully selected,
they've been tried and tested, you know, with over 13 year olds,
okay, especially with smart ones, and, you know, intermediate,
they've been tried and tested. So these books should work for them
as well. And they work for adults, they work for children, sorry,
they work for university students. So let us move on. This gives you
an idea of how long this course can be done for it's very, very
flexible. And you can basically change it to how you want to
write, you can adjust this, the way what we're doing is we're
sharing a vision, we're sharing our syllabus, we're sharing with
you what we have done, you can then go and adjust it, and we hope
to be actually
available for you, you know, available for you, if you want to
start this to consult on any matter. We actually just consulted
with somebody from Canada, just last week, right?
You know, people have different ideas of what a course should be.
So we are here to share what we think because it's really, really
worked. Okay, so now if you look at this working men and women,
right, so generally these people are working in the daytime, right?
So they're busy from nine to four, nine to five, or whatever the case
is, so they don't have time during that time. But many of them are
actually would be really available and very pleased. And you know, we
would really love it if they can do one day or two days in a week.
I think even one day works, right? Even that is better than nothing.
So if you are doing a one day class, we actually run one I think
it was four because when we started our morning one for women,
a lot of the working women they started saying that how can we
have gotten
thing you know, we're unable to attend because we work in the
daytime. So then what we did was that we did a cut down version of
it, right? For the evening, one day a week. And I think it was 2.5
to three hours, I can't remember exactly this was some years ago,
we don't want to have one currently running for the evening,
right? That's just because we haven't set it up. But 2.5 to
three hours, right, it's going to be slightly cut down syllabus, and
we'll explain that later. But it's one day a week, you can either do
it as an evening, or you can do it in a weekend. Right. So it's very
flexible, you can do it or you can actually run to, you know, you can
have one in the weekdays for those women who can only wait make it in
the weekdays, or for those adult men who can only make it there in
the weekdays, or in the weekend, Saturday morning works very well,
Sunday afternoon, Sunday, kind of mid mid morning, early afternoon
works as well, that's up to you, right? Again, we're saying we're
not imposing anything here. So
mashallah, after we started it, several other local places started
other places, other areas have started it, and it's going very,
very well. Now, for women, for women in the morning, those women
who aren't working, they've got children but mashallah their
children are going to school. So by nine o'clock, or 830, you know,
wherever you are, your children are in school. Now, what are you
going to do, I mean, you know, mashallah, you've got other
housework or whatever the case is, you're going to do that maybe
you've got another hobby, or whatever, whatever the case is,
all of that works. But now, if you want to dedicate this has worked
for us as a two day program, I think we may have even done three
days a week. But I think two days is very comfortable. And of
course, if you want, you can even do three days a week, right? You
can even do three days a week, the more you do, the more interaction
you will have, you could do three days for three hours each, or two
and a half hours each. Generally we like to do the time 930,
because that's enough time for them to have dropped their
children to school. And then and then and then x is now I guess, in
lockdown, you know, you could adjust that. So from
930 1030 1130 1230 to one o'clock, that's enough time three and a
half hours, maybe 130 On some days. But generally, if you want
to do two days, you need about three and a half to four hours for
you know, the ideal program. That's weekday mornings, ours
currently, which is the light of knowledge course you can go and
check it out, right on white thread institute.org.org That runs
two days a week on Friday, Thursday and Friday. And
mashallah, we have women who are working part time, and others who
join in, and we have people from around the world that join in. Now
you can do this locally. And we want as many of these courses as
possible to be run locally. The post mucked up course, as I
explained is 1.5 hours. So you start that generally around 530,
right, or even six o'clock, to about 530 we thought was
comfortable. Because by that time, the the, the the children that the
teenagers could have come back from school from after school
clubs, and whatever the case is. So it's about 530, they've been
able to freshen up. This works. I think here ideally, it's about
three days a week, you could push it to five days a week, one and a
half hours only. Right. And so that works as well. That's for
postmaster children. You've got the women and you've got the
working men and women weekend or, or daytime 2.5 to three hours,
maybe one day or maybe two days a week. Okay. Now, the next thing is
that what is our teaching approach, and this is the most
important, right? This is where you need to really focus of how
you need to teach this. For example, we had the
contact from somebody who wanted to start a course they knew we
were doing one. So they asked, they were like, how many exams? Do
you have to do? You know, how strict do you have to be? What are
the gradings? And all of that? So I look, stop that right? That is
not what this course is about? Yes, we will have exams, but the
purpose of the exam and the test is to just get the students to
consolidate their knowledge. Remember, if you're using if we're
focusing on the adults here, right, let's let's talk about this
for adults, like men and women, right? Whether you're doing this
in the morning, or whether you're doing this as a shorter class in
the evening or the weekend, right? Of course, if you're doing it even
for I think teenagers is kind of the same thing for university
students is the same thing. You don't want this to be seen, like
some strict university class, or some very strict children's
classes that, you know, there's that, you know, there's a big
focus on. I mean, of course, we want to encourage passing and
exams and all that kind of stuff, but we don't want it that we're
dropping people behind and so on. What we generally do that if
somebody is not, you know, if somebody is not attended because
they become busy or whatever, we talk to them we speak to and say
like, is it really worth you going? Do you want to come back
and do the first year again? You know, I think it's kind of based
on that. So in terms of the knowledge the epistemology here is
based on traditional books authored by well known scholars,
which will share that with you. But again, they're not fixed, you
can actually change those books, right? You can change those books,
replace those books.
and so on to explain. For example, our methodology of teaching is
that if we take the book provisions for the seekers, right
provisions for the seekers is essentially a short Hadith
collection of about 260 Plus narrations. So what happens is
that there's a Hadith of the Prophet alayhi salam, there's a
translation, and then there's a little commentary. Okay? There's a
little commentary.
Now, what happens is
we our purpose, our whole proposal here is that the teachers teach
this in a way, right? In a way that accommodates discussion, that
is the most important point here. Okay, that's the most important
point. So when we take this hadith, we read the one Hadith, we
translate it, then we get the students, the class participants
to discuss it, whether that's teens or whether that's adults.
Okay, let's discuss this hadith. What do you think about it? How
does it resonate with you? Can you think of any issue in your life,
how this is relevant? how this impacts it? And mashallah, you
know, maybe the students in the beginning are not very open about
it, you know, they have to feel comfortable, but the teacher's job
is to make them feel comfortable, to make it very accommodating. So,
you know, the, we let the students say what they want, that's very
important, because people come with a lot of baggage, people have
a lot of concerns, they have a lot of demons, they have a lot of, you
know, they have a lot of issues, they want somewhere that label to
voice them. Now, eventually, some people just do it on Facebook, and
they just, it just goes all wrong. This is we want to create this as
a safe environment with a teacher at the helm. Right, letting them
speak, then what we do is that the teacher's job is then to basically
help each person you know, however, many people give a
feedback to steer that discussion, to essentially guide in that
discussion, to correct any misunderstandings to correct any
deviancy is to correct any extreme opinions, or any
misunderstandings, misconceptions, and they keep it on board, then we
read the commentary in the book, and that just resonates. And
mashallah, you know, that's how it works. That's very important.
That's why the teacher if you look at the role of teacher, the
teacher should be mature, right? sensitive, and empathic. That's
very important, we do a, you know, we have an interview with our
teachers, we,
we make sure that they're kind of the right people to teach this.
Now, initially, we used to always think that the older the teacher
is the better. Now, in some cases, that is the case, because they've
got more maturity, they've got more experience, if they're
married, then it's good. Because many of the times, what you'll
find is that when you do the class for women and men, they're most
likely going to be working, you know, working people who are
married with children. Now, if a teacher doesn't have children,
sometimes they can't resonate, right? They can't relate. So we
thought that case, but we've also had it Subhanallah, where a
younger teacher who's I don't even think she was married, or that
she's married at the time, right, did much better for that
particular subject. She was, I think, teaching Sierra, for
example. The other thing that we do is that we actually now this
might sound really strange to some of you, right? We actually involve
the students when we have to get a new teacher. So what we'll do is
we'll actually, if we've got an opening, we'll get, you know,
maybe two, three, you know, 1015 applications, we get a lot of
applications, so we will check them and then we'll narrow it down
to maybe three or four. Right? Now, we'll invite those three and
four to prepare a lesson on that subject and deliver it to that
class, then what we do is we get a feedback from the students. What
did you think these are adults, they're all here to study. They're
all here to make it work. There's nothing sinister going on here.
All right. So they want the best. So that's why we generally take
their feedback as well. And then we make a decision decision as to
which teacher did the best. So we actually get this teach students
involved. And subhanAllah, it works very well, when students
think and know that they're involved. It really makes them
feel a greater belonging. Right. So
the one important thing about the teacher is that when you, you
know, not every one of our subjects, can you have a big
discussion, like the jury, there's no discussion in the jury. That's
a very straightforward mentoring, you know, instruction and teaching
training, there's no, there's no discussion in that. Of course, if
somebody's got a question they can ask, but there's no discussion in
Sera, it's both you get a bit of discussion events that you're
going to read, right? We want to read it critically. And I'll show
you the books that we use as well, right for that kind of a critical
assessment.
In fic, we're studying the fifth of course, there's going to be
questions like Okay, what about this? What about that, the book
you use, you know, caters for that as well. So, that is how we want
the teachers. Now, if it's very possible that if you've got a
group of men or women, right, you it's very possible to start a
discussion that you could end
Not with like a one hour discussion just wastes all the
time. Right. So what we're, what we say is that the teacher should
actually not allow that to happen either. This is not just the
discussion plus, you do have to try to cover the books, because
the purpose is that they learn something new. So there is a new
information, but they just discuss relevant points. So that is very
important for the teacher. Now, if you're talking about, you know,
we've discussed with it, it's, you know, we don't want it to be a one
directional, it's mostly discursive. Right? Students
should, and we want to make it the student should actually feel
comfortable to open up about the issues, we don't want it to be one
way where you go in and you give a buy on, or you give like one way,
and then you just leave the class is not, that's not the class. So
don't get any teachers who cannot discuss and don't get anybody who
does too much discussion, and will basically just let it get out of
hand, because you do have to keep it at hand, right? You don't want
the students to dominate the teacher, assessment wise, avoid
giving too much homework, we've realized that people don't have
the time adults who are working, they don't have the time for
homework, we did have some teachers who used to give a lot of
homework. And you know, some of the students did not, you know,
did not like it, they didn't like that at all. And then on the other
hand, we actually have also some students saying, we don't get any
homework, We'd like some homework. So what we've come to terms of
here is that as a default, don't give too much homework is or maybe
you can give a few tasks like some short 1015 minute tasks, try to
make it self contained in the class. As I said, You're not
making them early mass, you're what you're doing is you're just
trying to help them develop a framework, a vision, a paradigm
and Islamic paradigm, so that they can start thinking according to
the Quran, and Sunnah. That's really what it is, according to
the spirituality, they are Muslims at heart, that's what we want them
to be. Because until now, they when they came into the class,
they come in as cultural people, cultural people, secular people,
with not much understanding of Islam. So when they actually start
studying from the classic, you know, from some of the texts that
we have, that's when they start mashallah getting an understanding
of what their mindset should be. All right. So exams are set for
consolidation of learning, but not really for major academic
purposes. All right, we're not going to shame. You know, people
in this, right?
If there are additional key students, the teacher can ask, and
if they want to be set, you can set them additional tasks, that's
completely fine, but not as default. Now, let's move on.
I'm just going to quickly go through this. In Islamic, these
are the subjects so we have seven subjects. Okay, we have seven
subjects. There's eight optional subjects. But generally, we have
seven subjects. And again, this is what we found to be useless. The
first subject we have is Aqeedah Islamic beliefs, that's very, very
important. The main objectives, gain a more refined awareness of
Allah and then people come with all sorts of things. You know,
there's so many women who would come and they've got anxiety
issues, they've got, you know, issues with just family
infighting, jealousies and all of that kind of stuff. And people
have those issues, not just women, but men do as well. When they come
in and they start studying this mashallah that Aqeedah the love
for Allah grows the whole focus of what we should be you know, that
changes
develop evidence based conviction in Allah Most Chinese attributes
because you're studying from a classical texts, right? Learn
about His Messenger sallallahu alayhi salam in the afterlife,
correct your Aqeedah you know, if you've got some weird Akita from
cultural practices, all of that gets corrected here as well
explore the purpose of this life. The cortex we use is Akita Haha.
Alright. And then if they finish that, again, is very discursive.
If they finish that then they move on to alphacool Akbar of Imam Abu
Hanifa, which is a more advanced text, then we've got other books
as well, that they can move into. The second topic is the fic.
Alright, that's the jurisprudence that's your Messiah last Islamic
law.
So learn about daily Islamic practices, including purification,
prayer, fasting is the god hygiene marry, these are the core subjects
we teach, you know, they're going to have like a decent intermediate
level of understanding of the wudu goosal. And I forgot to add one
thing in here. One thing that we really focus on is the
menstruation when it comes to women, right? Or girls, we teach
them one whole module on menstruation. All right, and
again, we can share all of these resources. So that's not a
problem. Okay, so that menstruation is a big thing.
Zakat, of course, prayer, fasting, hudge, and marriage, right. Then,
of course, I think maybe some aspects of buying and selling just
some basic aspects. Remember, this is not to make some big arguments
here. Right? But just to get a working knowledge of your deen
they get to appreciate the rigor of the science of sacred law, they
then want to do that in their life. Explore the evidence is that
during ruins, I mean, in some cases, we provide evidences like,
for one of the classes that went on for quite a few years. They
wanted to understand why for example, being Hanafis why, you
know, they have to pray a certain way. What are the evidences, so
they actually cover a book on a subject called frequent Imam.
Right, which probably
I told the evidences. Now that's more advanced stuff that's not
going to be done in two years. That's only if they stay on.
Right. So a center Felicity is the book that we use. I'll show you
these books later. Right? Essentially, it's a beautiful
book, it's by Imam.
Imam shouldn't boulardii right, who's a classical who, who's a
scholar of Egypt a few 100 years ago. And it's been very ably
translated with some really good footnotes. And it's very
satisfying. Right? It's better than Dailymile how concerned
because study will have doesn't have adult mosyle in there. This
includes the adult mosyle as well. Right? Then there's a book on
thick of marriage and, and so on. So a center Felicity will actually
cover most of it, then it's actually there's also the there's
a booklet that we haven't mentioned here, which is on the
menstruation. Right for women. We're not going to teach men
demonstration okay, but we will teach the women that the Hadith
one key objectives is to understand the essence and reality
of the prophetic guidance, explore the wisdoms behind these
comprehensive words, contextualize this perfect balance in one's
life. Very important. As I said, that's what we do a lot of that
discussion. And we start off with provisions for the seekers, if
they finish that, because again, there's no like you must finish
it. Main thing is, you must benefit from it, you must
personalize it, you must contextualize it, we do finish
that there's lots of other books that I carry other solid heen
Arbaeen of Imam nawawi that will move forward. I mean, you can go
on for several years, and there'd be enough books for you to cover
in sha Allah. Right, then spirituality. This is, I think,
one of the most profound because it's so hands on, and it's really
so personal. All of the other stuff is related to ideology, and
thick, and when you call it Messiah, and so on, but in this
particular case, it is on us as a person, right? How to Avoid Sins
of the outer and inner self, how to adopt good character in
relationships with others, how do we deal with relationships? How do
I remove that anger in my heart that jealousy that I don't have
any empathy? Or maybe I have too much empathy? How do I balance
that in depth analysis of our relationship with Allah subhanaw
taala ourselves relationship with ourselves, know thyself,
essentially, and others, and Subhanallah these two books are
really good. The path to perfection, beginning of guidance,
we start from the second part of path to perfection first, then we
do the first part, then we do the beginning of guidance. Sometimes
we do it the other way around. And again, as I said, all of this is
fluid.
And it's not a you know, you can even adjust things, Islamic
history. This really contextualize is life right? And events and
incidents. So
we do some Syrah right, we read a book on Syrah, called Muhammad
Sallallahu. It was done by Martin Lynx. Now, this is one of the most
amazing books written in English, the language is powerful and
eloquent. Alright? However, may Allah bless him, but he had about
five or six, between five to 10 places in the book where he does
he quote, something which is considered an apparent opinion, a
bit questionable opinions, weaker opinions, and some problems like
that. So
the reason we still choose that book, it's a very powerful book,
but we read it critically. So what we teach our students in that is
that there's a lot of books out there, they may be presenting some
really good things have a lot of good content, but they could be
problematic, they could have problematic issues. So by doing
this, we're actually enabling them to understand how to critique as
well, they just don't take everything that they hear, because
remember, with the whole course, they're going to develop a certain
paradigm. And they become quite good. As they have that they
develop the Basilan insight, Allah, hey, that doesn't sound
right. So then if they're reading a book later on, they're able to
then go to a scholar and say, you know, I'm reading this,
you know, tell me Is this correct or not? So that's why Muhammad by
Martin is one of the really good books written on there. And we
read it critically, there's Sheikh Gibreel had done, it's online,
he's got a critique of the book, you download that we provide that
to a teacher and we say, use this to mark out the places, you know,
and tell us, you know, if you don't want to use that book,
that's fine. You can use Sheikh Idris candle with spherical
Mustafa that's in English as well, you can use another book, right?
Then after that we do the forehead lifts. Then we've also you know,
specifically for the women when they've got more time in the more
advanced class, you know, when they go if they go beyond two
years, all right.
Women of Medina is a really good book for women. And then of
course, there's lessons in Islamic history which kind of gives you an
understanding this, this, this again, is really good.
You know, some of the topics we do them as double classes, like maybe
the fifth class will be double class because there's more to
cover in the history class really just one class. So, you can you
know, you can adjust the more important classes now, def series,
another very important one, right, so
to intercede, we got well, how many subjects so far 12345 And
we're under six subject, the Tafseer is the teacher, there's no
book for this, the teacher prepares their own Tafseer, right,
looking at the tipsy rocks, because most of our teachers are
going to be our limbs or animals anyway, scholars, and really what
we cover is the last 20 Saurus. Because that's what people are
going to use in their prayer, then we cover sort of the scene, then
we cover Surah Mulk. Now, of course, if the class goes beyond
two years, then you can add sort of romance or walk as well, that
will have, you know, there's no end to this, at the end of the
day, the point of the series, the understanding and pondering the
words of Allah Most High reflection, right, it's not just
the translation, develop a closer connection with the Quran. So
people start appreciating the Quran, and thematic overview of
the selected service. So that you know, we have some discussion in
there as well,
that you read. Now, this is very different now that you read. If
you've got a class of 20 students, you're not going to have one
teacher teaching all 20 in classrooms, so what we do is we
split them up into about five to seven or eight students per class.
And this is a person to person they read, we teach them a bit of
law. So there's an overview of the basic rules of Tajweed, not the in
depth ones, right? Then implementations of the rule and
implemented implementation of the rules and practice and learning
the correct pronunciation. Generally, within the two years,
most of the sisters and brothers will be able to read decently, no
longer will they be reading in Punjabi in Gujarati in Bengali.
What I mean is that they won't read in like some really corrupt
messed up way, they generally get it, but this one needs practice,
this one needs her work, because you can't just do it in the class.
This one requires you to change your
you know, change the way you've been pronouncing for years, years
years. So that's why this one requires more effort afterwards.
But I'm not doing a teacher training here. I'm doing a course
overview. So I'm not going to go into that right now. But yeah, so
that's the dream. That was our 1234567. And then the optional one
is, we've not always done is we've done this, sometimes there's
generally not that much time to do Arabic language, but sometimes
they're interested in Arabic language. So you know, as I told
you, that when we've gone beyond two years, we make a you know, we
have a consultation with the students that would you like an
Arabic content in there. So if they do, then we teach them basic
Arabic. And the personal purpose of this basic Arabic is so that
maybe they can understand some Hadith, some Quran, and maybe they
can hold a bit of a conversation. So for this, we generally try to
get a native speaker of Arabic, right, a native speaker of Arabic
so that they, you know, can do this, right, they can teach this.
And so the purpose of this is not to learn grammar in detail, right,
as they would do in an online course, or Aldemar course. But
this is more just conversational. Just good quick bit of Arabic,
right. But this is not a proper Arabic in depth course. So that's
basically the subject. This is an optional one. As I said, we don't
do this all the time. These are some of the course books I was
talking about. Right? ascent to Felicity is the thick book, figure
lockbar is, is the Aqeedah book, the path direction is on
spirituality, as is the beginning of guidance by Imam Ghazali
frequent Imam that's only for advanced, but this is the
provision for the seekers. Right. We don't have the other pictures
here of Martin of Muhammad's and lorrison by Martin links, but you
can do a search online, you will find it right. And the other books
I want to share with you is, let me see. This is the history of the
forklifts that we generally use, it's from if you can see that it's
from Tura publishing, right. And a decent book for that subject
Marcia, like go through well and then this is kind of more
advanced. Not everybody gets to this level but this is like if
you've got several other you know, then this is the next thing up
which is lessons in Islamic history. I don't know if you're
seeing a mirror image or or if you can see a property Okay. La ilaha
illallah now, you know when if people while they're taking this
course and they want more courses to take
right then they can go to the yarn institute that's run by white
thread Institute as well. And that has mashallah many additional some
of those essentials in there we you would have covered within
your, your your two year program. You can call that to your program,
whatever you want. We call it light of knowledge program. But
you can call it you know, many people actually call it senator in
the US that this course is already available in places right and
they're using different subjects and different so they can they
call us senator and Senator and essentially means two years in
Arabic means two years, right? I don't like to call it that because
I know it's a two year course but we want people to stay on for
longer and do other things. Right? So that's why you don't have to
call us anything but essentially it's a Senate thing because for
those of you who know
What are some of the costs is, right? So while that while
students are doing this, this two year course, they can either go to
they can go to an institute, and they can take a lot of addition or
after they finish, they can they can use this as well. And,
right, so that's it, you know that that was what I was going to speak
about. Hopefully, you found that useful. And as I said, None of
this is fixed in stone. Right? The purpose of this lecture, this
seminar today is literally just to encourage you, right, that it's
very easy. And it's not that difficult logistical, logistic
wise,
before you start asking those questions, and you can now start
asking you a question using the Ask a Question facility here.
Don't put it in the chat box. If I asked you a question, or there's a
discussion, you can use the chat box, but otherwise, ask the
question using the Ask a Question box here. Alright. So.
Right. So in terms of,
you know, in order to make this viable in order to make people
committed, it's a good idea to make people pay for this course,
right? Now. You can charge whatever you want, whatever you're
going to pay your teachers, I personally believe that people can
pay for a whole year, they should be able to pay between 400 to 500
pounds, that's not too much money, I think. And what we do is that if
somebody cannot pay, then we've got either sponsors, or if person
is poor, and they can qualify for zakat, we can actually even help
them through the god funds, right? But it's up to you. Because you're
going to have to get teachers now if you've got a local masjid and
they want to do this for free, you can do that. But I really believe
that if you have some commitment from the students, even if it's
200 pound a year, 300 pounds, I think 450 to 500 is a good amount,
a decent amount, I think, right? And is that if they've got a
commitment, then they're not going to just drop it like, oh, you
know, I don't think I've paid for it, I better take the course I
think psychologically really helps shows their commitment. And that's
their feasibility. That's their contribution, feasibility. Right.
I know, there's some ideas out there that all of this should be
free. And you know, I personally believe that people should pay
something. But of course, if you want to make it free, and you want
to cover the teacher, and you want to pay the teachers, well, I think
you should pay the teacher as well. Right? You should pay the
teachers, well, you know, not peanuts, or five, seven pounds an
hour, you should, you should pay them a decent amount of money, so
that they will, you know, that will
allow them to really focus and get really into into the job in sha
Allah. So in terms of exams, right, as I said, the idea is to
do two tests a year, right? halfway through the year, and then
at the end of the year. And again, you know, the whole idea behind
the exam is just to get them to consolidate all the information.
Right. So that's about exams. As I said, once you've done two years,
and if there's still an interest, then you add. Now the other
challenge that I found was that sometimes, in order to make the
class viable, we needed at least eight students, okay? Because that
was enough, then to be able to secure a teacher and be able to
pay the teacher, we want to make the class self sufficient. Okay,
we want to make the class self sufficient, which means that we
don't have to seek a donation to run this class, the students
should be able to pay for it. Yeah, we could get donations to
pay for individual students, but we don't want to subsidize it. And
you know, at the same time,
so if you've got premises, you've got a masjid, you've got a
building, you've got a community center, as I said, you need those
few hours, try to find a time when other people are available. And
that space is empty, and then just started Subhanallah, we've got
Artemas, who are doing this from home for for youth for girls. So
they've got eight to 10 students that they're teaching from home.
And now with the COVID, there's a whole other opportunity which is
opened up, which is an online one. So that's why at white thread, our
course, which was called the light of knowledge course, was always on
site before there was no there was no online. But after the COVID, we
actually just before the COVID, we decided to open it up. So now
we've got actually students from America and from I don't know,
different countries as well, right, because they don't have the
chance locally. But what I'm encouraging right now is that you
do this locally, but the thing is that you won't be able to do it
locally, if you don't have the animals or animals to teach. You
don't want just some concerned individual, you know, Allah bless
them to be teaching that they don't, they don't really know
enough about you want to make sure that the people teaching know what
they're talking about. That's what makes this special. So don't just
get anybody to teach this, you know, that somebody needs to know
that they're doing they need to know their thick, they need to
know the Arcada at least to a standard decent standard. Alright,
so you just find the premise like that and you use it. As I said,
you can do it from home as well. And now you can even do it online.
Right? You can do it as nobody's stopping. You can do it online,
promoted online, have your students and teach them as I said,
Any of you, you're interested in asking us to help you were there,
I will. Inshallah, what we'll do once this is put up on zamzam.
academy.com A white thread, right, keep checking both places, we
actually put up the syllabus as well for you. Okay. And yeah, so
I'm going to start taking the questions now.
Right, in a diverse community, or one with sectarian differences,
including heavy anti Muslim influence, how can this be most
effective delivered without ending up in confrontation, or local
people wanting against you in to be honest, in some cases, you're
probably not going to be able to avoid that. Because there's, if
there's some Ultra radical Ultra, you know,
you know, really, really
touchy feely kind of attitude. And if you don't teach according to
them, if you're not, quote unquote, the scholars that they
want you to quote, there's going to be some of that, you're just
going to have to ignore that right? At the end of the day, what
you want to do is that if most of them are Hanafi, then you teach a
Hanafy text like the center Felicity, if they're mostly Shafi,
you're in South Africa, you in America or somewhere, there's
mostly Palestinians, and, you know, Jordanians, and Moses, Rafi
will will will give you a shot, we got a Shafi book we can suggest to
you. Alright, so you can adjust this. And you know, we're here for
consultation about that as well.
We're not there to teach them sectarian ideas. But at the same
time, we need to make them aware of deviant ideas out there. So
that will be one part of it. In fact, what I do is, because mostly
we've run this as teenager, and women classes, what I do is, every
few months, I go there, right? And basically we do questions, we take
question answers. All right. In fact, this year, I'm actually
going to be teaching like a 20 minutes session. You know, I'm
going to I'm going to try to add that and Inshallah, we hope that
in the near future, in a few months, we will, ourselves through
white thread or Terrafirma, yeah, sorry. Through some some Academy
and Rayyan, we will be offering this course for adults, like a one
on one day a week costs for adult working class adults, right. But
anyway, could could we provide a teacher training course? Yes. If
we get enough people together, we can actually have like, you know,
in terms of the vision of it, we can definitely share it. I've
already done half of that here. But we could we could definitely
do that in sha Allah, what level of knowledge as a teacher of
Aikido need to have sometimes students can ask quite technical
or complicated questions based on something they can come across
online. Yeah. So what you have to understand here is that
you need them to have decent understanding. They don't have to
be absolute masters, but they need to be such people who can say to
the class openly, and really, students really appreciated that.
I don't know the answer this, I'll find out.
Right? So, for example, just a few weeks ago, one of our teachers
sent me like a whole bunch of questions. So I responded, and
then she, she took them back. So it's fine. What is? So you know,
even if you can't find like advanced teachers in all of this,
as long as they've got access to somebody, then that would be
useful, right? Are there PowerPoints that we can use for
these courses? Nothing collected together, but maybe if more people
take this on board, Inshallah, we can actually develop a forum where
you can actually start sharing this, because I know some of our
teachers have created PowerPoints, right? So we can actually ask
them. So, yeah, stay in contact with us answers at zum, zum,
academy.com. Right. Answers at zum, zum. academy.com. Is, or
actually, yeah, answers at zum, zum, academy.com? I think we'll be
I'll give you the email, you can put it in the box. And you can
contact us, how would you split the subjects with the time
available? That's a good question. So I think what we have is that if
it's just a three hour class, right, so let's look at this.
If it's,
if it's the one day a week class for adults, or the weekend, right,
for three hours, I would say, then what you could do is you could
have some classes, 30 minutes, right, some of the shorter
classes, and some of them for 40 minutes.
Otherwise, what we do is that we cover some topics first, we finish
that off, and then we cover the other topics later on. All right.
So
I think that's something we'll include in the guidance.
Inshallah. Of course, when you've got three days a week or two days
a week for the women's class, that's two days a week, I believe
the each.
I believe that each of the sessions are between 30 to 40
minutes each. I think that's a comfortable way 40 minutes each
for each session. I think, if it's on, I think there's some sessions
though, which are one hour. Alright. If there just one
session, important session like this zero, something is just one
hour. So it's anywhere between 30 between 30 I would say 40 minutes
to an hour. Let's just say that right?
This seam, this course seems great for those that have an interest,
as it seems very involved. However, the vast majority of
public may not want to commit at this level unless ever learning
Spark, could you advise on the best, best text to light that
spark? As they say, in order to Zinnia banana May, what text
approach, you know, what I what I would suggest, what I found to be
useful, right? Is that you do this course, and then you send out
reports about it, you send out testimonials from it, right? The
students are going to be your best ambassadors, believe me, you know,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna play to you, for those who are staying on, I'm
going to play to you, right? I've got, I've managed to get three
testimonials in a very short like, since yesterday, we asked our
students, right, and some of these are older students that have been
with us for a while, and you learn from them what this is all about,
I think your students will be the best. They if they're enjoying
this, they're going to tell other people, they're going to tell
their friends and yeah, you need to take this course. Right. The
other thing is that you can do we've not done this, but you can
actually do a program for the community in which these students,
these adult, females, males, or youth, they present to the
community, they present to those in the community, the rest of
their families will will come when they see that wow, mashallah, you
know, these people are really good, right?
I think that helps a lot.
Right, it really helps a lot. So I think when you get the students
involved, they'll do a lot of the work for you. Now I know, I know,
it's not going to be 100%, where I would love it that every single
individual in the community goes through this course, that would
really help. But unfortunately, there's just people who think they
know it all, or they don't need to know it all or they're too old.
Now for that you need maybe the local imam in the mosque, right?
To give a talk about it. But then maybe the women aren't going to
listen to that, because, you know, maybe they're not involved, or
they don't get them involved, whatever. So I don't know how to
get 100%. But every little bit counts. That's why we thought why
are we doing this ourselves? You know, we can't cater for the whole
world. We don't have the resources. But let's now let other
people do it. So take it and run with it. Right.
Any books recommended for basic Arabic? Not No, I, there's a few
books that we've used. We can discuss that later. Because Arabic
is not one of our big points that I'm not going to spend time with
that right now. But we can discuss that later. Inshallah, how do you
teach a class which has a varied age range and knowledge? Yes. Now,
that's something I should have covered. Not just very age range.
But remember, they're all they are anywhere between 17 to 70. Right,
they're all adults, so you can treat them all as adults. But
you're gonna have to obviously show a bit more respect to that 17
year old, 70 year old, right? Not that you disrespect the 17 year
old, you're going to have to go into maturity, it's only when they
ask questions, or when they want to discuss, or some of the older
ones, maybe they find it difficult to memorize, you just have to be
able to be very adjustable, right? And accommodating for that. The
other thing is that you're going to get before when it was local,
we used to get people from generally one kind of theology,
ideology, or whatever. But now that it's open, mashallah, we've
got people from very different, you know, backgrounds, some people
come from a very, very liberal ideology, some people coming from
a very orthodox. Now, that's the job of the teacher to bring them
all together. And she has to know that he has to know that, that
look, there's going to be people are very dangerous. So I have to
take it easy. I can't go down hard, you know, and, and so on.
And it's just the tact, it's just the tech that you have to have.
Sometimes you may even need to have private conversations with
some of the students. Right, that look, you know, I'm sorry, I
couldn't cover it all. I'm sorry, I gave so much time to that
person, I believe that this issue of it, you know, you have to
manage it. It's a very interactive course. And you have to be
involved in it.
How do we how can we support train teachers, as I said, I'm willing
to do this, you know, with some of our teachers to give that teacher
training in the next, like, month or two. Right? And we can have,
you know, for the next three months, we could do this, as you
get your courses set up, right, in sha Allah, and how Yeah, the
sheikh Murthy is always in the spiritual session, what advice do
you have to allow students to appreciate and connect to occur
with how Elon came to the UK? It's up to you, right? You can add this
whatever you want at the end of the day, right? It's just that we
don't have a set curriculum that you must talk about this. And you
must talk about that, because the books include all of that. So
obviously, when they're studying something like the path to
perfection, they get involved with the teacher, you know, because we
always want it and we've told our teachers you must introduce this,
the scholars who are writing the books, right to the students,
because why are you reading their books without knowing who they are
when they lived? So that's one of the things that we are I like to
do it
Any book I teach, I always explain to them who they are. So I think
through that they get some understanding of that, right, of
who they are, and so on with an outline lesson, and then a lot of
that happens in the discussion. If they ask a question, then you get
an answer. Okay, look, here, look, there, would an outline lesson
plan be made available to help our teachers who will be teaching for
the first time, I'll see if somebody's you know, if one of our
teachers have got it, we can do that for you. But as I said, I
guess it'll help. But again, then you just adjust it to how you
want. So inshallah we can do that. I think what we're going to do is,
we will set up
a forum, we will set up a list for this, I think, if you've signed
up, right, if you've signed up to sorry, if you've registered for
this seminar, right officially through the website, we'll have
you're not we'll have your information. So what we'll do is,
you see a lot of these ideas are coming up to me now based on your
questions. So I think we need a resource center. So what we'll do
is once we set that up a page on the website, right, that people
can come and access, we will try to share that with you. But you
can also share us, you know, you can also contact us as well. Kinda
Are there any prerequisites for the course? For example, able to
do it Arabic? No, because it's not in Arabic. It's all the books in
English. So all the books are in English. Now, if you guys are
from Pakistan, and you want to do this in Urdu, that's fine. We'll
help you choose the books in Urdu. Right? If you want to do this in
Arabic, we can help you choose the books in Arabic.
If you want to do another language, we'll try to get some
resources for you. Okay, but we're focused on English because that's
our crowd, right? But yes, you don't need to be able to read just
for Quran you need to read Arabic, but you're not sorry, yes, you
only need to be able to read Arabic. But we have had I think
maybe students who don't never knew any Arabic at all. So forget
that. They didn't know how to read Arabic. So I think what we do for
them is that we have then a special teacher assigned for them.
Right? To do that. Is this course, suitable for new Muslims? Or do
they have to have a certain level of knowledge? I think we have had
new Muslims. I think it could work for new Muslims. When I say new
Muslims, maybe not like just completely converted yesterday. I
mean, it could work even for that. It might just create a bit of a
challenge for the teacher, but it could work, I think, is this
course suitable for? Okay, I think I've just answered that one. How
to deal with radical questions. It depends on the radical question.
Right? I can't answer that question. Right? Because it
depends on what that question is. And again, it depends on who's
asking it, it depends on what we've spoken about already.
There's not one way to do this. But for that, I would suggest that
it's fine. If you can put it up the controversial questions
course. Right, which is actually going on right now, that actually
teaches you how to deal with controversial questions. So if
that is something you're very concerned about, you need to
actually take that course. Alright. And it's starting soon.
Melissa, could you recommend to teach the course via PowerPoint
presentation, summarize the points mentioned in the book that I use
via PowerPoint? To be honest, that depends on the class, you're not
going to teach that read preparation through that, right?
But mashallah, we have some teachers, they use a lot of
PowerPoint, others don't use as much it's up to you. PowerPoints
definitely help in some cases, but because some books are based on
actual reading of the text, like Martin Martin links Marcel or
Islam, there is no need for a PowerPoint there. Right? Because
you're actually reading the book, unless you want to let somebody
wants to prepare and put up like, you know, the main features,
likewise, a sense of Felicity no point, because it's all in the
book, we're actually reading the book, this is not only the
Tafseer, you can do that in because the Tafseer is prepared by
the teacher. All right. And the history lessons as well, if
somebody doesn't want to use the book, and they want to prepare it,
that's fine. But otherwise, we're actually covering books. So each
student actually will buy their own books, or they'll get PDFs if
there's available, otherwise, they buy their own books. So it becomes
this and I think that's very good. Okay, it's very good that they buy
their own books, because you've got something you belong to. It's
not something you just heard in class. It's something you know, in
a bookstore in the future, if something happens, they can
actually pick up the book and say, Look, this is where I got this
from.
That's why I think using books is really good. Do you expect
students to do reading outside of class of the core textbooks? It's
useful, it's beneficial, but we as I said earlier, we do not give
them too much homework. Because these are busy people. Right? Now,
it depends, right? If it's, you know, it depends what they're
doing, if they want homework you can give them but we do encourage
that. The next lesson that we're going to read that they would have
read it so that they're prepared for it. Right. So I want you to
move this up. I've had a few questions. I understand the
breakdown of the of time based on needs. I was wondering what is the
total number of hours per week to complete within two years
regardless of how many days are broken up? I would say the idea
Only eight hours a week. Ideally, that would be a really, that's
really good. If you have more than that it's luxury, you can add
more, you can take it more slowly. You see, if you've got more time,
you can take it more slowly, you can have longer sessions where
there's more discussion, that's the benefit, right? Otherwise, you
might have to just rush it a bit more, right? Or you were may not
be able to finish the subjects, I would say, eight hours is really
good. If you've got nine hours, three hours a day, that's really
good. And minimum, I think, is at least three hours. So in that it's
going to be a lot more tighter. In the three hour course, that's once
a week, either weekend, a week or weekdays that that read is
separate, we can't teach that reading that for that we test
everybody, and then those who need it, most of the time all of them
need it. Sometimes they don't all, then we tell them that we can
organize for them. If they can organize locally, that's up to
them. Or we can find a teacher, and that will be a separate class
that they will teach with a particular teacher for the drill.
But in the three hours a week, you can't teach the drill. Otherwise,
you'll be late because we need at least half an hour for seven
students each. So you got 20 students in the class, that your
three hours are going to be taken up in touch with right or one and
a half hours. So that really is separate in that one. Just
remember that mostly, so what about if you have students who are
not following any forms of school? What are the options, then? Well,
you you
as long as they open and they want to come to the class, they'll be
happy to learn a school. Right? They'll be happy to go to school.
Yeah, if they're anti school, they probably won't even come to your
class. Right? Because they'll think you're probably a deviant.
Anyway, anybody who's dancing at hamdulillah most selfies now, like
a big amount of selfies now are fine with multiples.
They only have issues in Kedah know and other things. But most of
them from what I'm noticing now, they've calmed down quite a bit.
All right. But you I don't think it's an issue. Right? I don't
think it's an issue. As I said, they, they you teach them whatever
you're teaching them from 100. If they don't have a mother, teach
them the 100 school, at least they're sold out, etc, will be
valued according to a school. And if they've already studied all of
this, why they're going to come to your class anyway. So I don't
think you should worry too much. But if you do run into problem,
Inshallah, contact us. What's the minimum qualifications to be an
Islamic teacher? Well, I don't know about an Islamic teacher in
other places, but at least for this course, you need to have
studied, you know, at least you need to have an ijazah. Right? In
aqidah, in Hadith interfere, and in fic, right. That's what I think
you need, you need to have studied, at least to some
intermediate to advance depth with a T shirt. And they should have
said that, you know, we consider you to be good enough for this. Is
there a Maliki fic? Primer option? There is, but I'll have to find it
for you. I don't have I don't have it offhand. Here. I've got it
somewhere. And I can suggest that you just just email us Inshallah,
what is used for teaching Arabic? I said, I'm, that's a separate
part. We've used various different books in the past. I can't
remember the names right now. Okay, but inshallah we'll put them
up. I can't remember if it was the rooster Lotte Larrabee or
something else. And if any of you were in our class, and you know,
let us know. But
things have moved on. There's a lot more new books right now.
Because the last time we talked, it was several years ago, right,
maybe five years ago. So things are moved on. So I think we could
get new suggestions for that. But I'm not fully aware of that right
now. Can you share any insights as to your interview processes and
how you assess an applicant's future suitability, in terms of
how interactive they will be? We get them to teach a class. We get
them to teach a class and the teacher the asset, the students
help us decide, you know, sometimes,
otherwise, we just interviewed them. And I think that's a more
specific, I think, you know, maybe we can discuss that another time.
But you know, our vision, if you saw what our vision was, that gave
you an idea of what we're looking for. So now you need to try to
understand if this teacher, you need to give them the vision and
see how their reaction is. This is our vision you need to discuss
with the class, you need to accommodate them, you need to take
it easy. We had one teacher who was very, very strict, the
teacher, the adults who have some of them older than her were, like,
scared of her. Alright, but they enjoyed her teaching. So that's
why they're like, Okay, you know, but eventually I think you can't
have too strict teachers on this. This needs to be a very friendly
situation. Is there a Kitab Avila explains the 99 names? Yes,
there's quite a few. There's the mount as early as translation.
There's one that we've used before the name and the named one or
something like that. But they
don't I forget the name of the author. There's quite a few.
There's quite a few in English, but Rizal is is very famous. If I
start on my own, what would be the best way to go about it? What you
Okay, good question what I would suggest
is that you make a poster or a WhatsApp message and you send it
around to your local communities. So essentially, you would, if
you're a woman, you would basically say that, okay, this is
one for teenage girls, or this is for because we need a lot for
teenage girls as well, right? Well, this is for the local
community, right, it's going to take place at this place, if
there's a charge for it, it's going to be this much, and the
timing. So you set that up, and you let people contact you. And
once they've contacted you, you know, if you're going to need a
minimum amount, right, if you need a minimum amount of people, right,
so once you get that, then you actually just start, you get them
to get the books, you can get the books for them, and then you know,
get them to buy it from you order them directly. Give them to him
free if you want to. And then after that, you start teaching
them, structure is important. You just need structure. Okay, people
need to understand, one thing you don't want to do is you don't want
to keep delaying classes, canceling classes, you know, one
of the things that we try to do, okay, that's a good question,
actually. Right?
What we try to do is that if a teacher can't make it, we're
telling them, please let us know in advance, and the other teacher,
we get the other teacher to cover for them, which basically means
that they might teach double of their lesson because they're not
going to maybe be prepared for the other teachers lesson. So they'll
just teach double. And then maybe the next week, the other teacher
can teach double up that so you can do that. But one of the things
which is very important is that you cannot keep canceling classes.
Sometimes, okay, we might have an emergency where somebody's got
COVID or something, and there's nobody who can go in the other
bands got something else understandable. But generally,
what we try to do is that if we can have an agreement among the
teachers that, you know, sometimes we may need to step in from what
for one another. That way, your course will be successful when you
do that.
What texts I used for my side of marriage, there was a book that we
had core called this.
The book we use before was one of the tests he'll syllabus, he was
the eighth or ninth book, which was decent, then we also use
Beheshti Xaver translation, but now I guess the marriage book that
I've done, we haven't started using that yet. But I think that
includes most of the main mosyle as well. So you could use that
one, it's my you can put up a thing for that as well.
Does the Arcadis subject tackle modern day atheism? Not not not in
particular, this is not an advanced course. They're told that
they can go to you know the crisis and take the other courses. But
some if the students do ask a certain question, the teacher will
try to answer but it's not going to go into in depth discussions on
that. My family is making a Jamia for girls in Pakistan, we'd like
to do things differently from there currently, and normally
being done in jammies in Pakistan, we are trying to cater for both
students, we should study English and Arabic. People don't like
change. They're not very supportive of new things. How
should we tackle such issues? Actually, I was just in Pakistan,
there's quite a few madrasahs now that teach Arabic that teach
English as well, right? One of the Citaro, the beta Salaam is doing
very, very well. jamiat Rashid is doing English, and there's quite a
few other medicines that are actually now including English as
well. But if we can help you, we are more than willing because this
is a major sadaqa jariya. So contact us Inshallah, how do we
contact yourself for further help?
Ismail put answer answers up there, please. He's going to put
the email up here. How many teachers are required, say for the
three hour versus eight hour program? For the eight hour
program? I think it's good to have a variety of teachers, I think at
least three. For the eight hour one, at least three teachers.
Diversity is really good. Okay. Generally, one teacher, you know,
while they may be very, very good, but it's nice if they got variety.
Right? So I would say three teachers for the eight hour one.
And for the three hour one, one teacher could work in that one or
two teachers one and a half hours each or something like that.
Right? So yeah, I think for the longer courses, you need at least
three days, we even had four teachers. If not five, we even had
four teachers. How long should you spend on each subject over a week?
I was thinking of running three times a week for 1.5 hours each
day, then then just do two subjects each day. Right? And if
it's shorter subjects, then you can even do three subjects. So
half an hour each but otherwise, I think 45 minutes each with a yeah
would be good. This is amazing. Massage is like a How can you
access one to one guidance? As I said, I've got a number on on the
zamzam Academy answers page question answers page. You can
call me on that in the afternoons or evenings I can discuss with you
otherwise, you know that my email is there regarding fitness better
to stick to a lecture style teaching and students make their
own notes and more interactive and students lead if later Can you
suggest? I don't know I mean in thick How can you have a student
led that's just too complicated. I'm not sure if that works,
because this is more in depth stuff. Now in Syria, you could
probably have a student led where you tell them to prepare. Right
the next lesson, the book is there, they prepare that and then
they
You deliver it. So I think in in, in something like Syria, you could
probably do that in history lesson, you could do that. But in
fact, I would rather let the teacher do it.
Right now,
covering from the book, the benefit is that it's all there.
Right?
I guess the benefit of dictating it is that then they get to write
it, but then they make make mistakes. There. It's like a
classical text. They've got it. They're studying it, they can
reference it, they can make their own notes in it. I personally find
that better. I personally find that better. But instead, the way
of interaction is to have an open discussion. Let them ask
questions. Anytime. All right. That's the way you make it
interactive. I think we're done with all the questions. Right. So
I don't see any more. Any more questions here. So I'm just going
to now play for you. Some of
you know, just so you understand. Subhanallah how appreciative
people are about this, right? These are just some of our
students I'm going to play to you. Okay.
My name is Florian and I enrolled in the life of knowledge class,
back in September 2017. Masha Allah once that was complete,
some of us sisters continued with the course to complete some of our
books. And now mashallah, we've just started year four.
So right now we've got a year for for these people. The reason I
started this course, was because I wanted to fix the gaps in my
knowledge,
and learn something that would be beneficial for myself, in this
world and in the Hereafter, I realized life was very busy life
was very routine. And although I worked hard, I didn't think I was
preparing myself while saving anything for the hereafter.
I was very interested in doing the lock course because it covered
some topics and I had very basic understanding of and some that I
wanted to improve on, especially to do it.
We also covered Hadith, of sea, feet of menstruation, and Aqeedah
we were given the most wonderful, understanding teachers who have
made learning these topics, so beneficial for us. One of the
books that I will always hold dearly to my heart is the
beginning of guidance, because it made me understand the love and
mercy that Allah subhanaw taala has for His creation.
And this class has also given me a lot of contentment in my prayer,
and helped me to stay focused and be positive and drive out negative
thoughts that have an impact on well being. I feel very attached
to the whiteboard Institute. And I'm very grateful to move this up
and all my others are teaching us and recommend this course very
highly to anyone that can do it. I am a mother of three and I work
part time but mashallah I was able to fit this course in for the last
few years of my life I handed in
I think this sister I think if I'm right, she's actually a solicitor.
Right so a lawyer, and I think she she does.
So I'm not a lawyer, but I've had a handler I've benefited
tremendously thus far in this horse. The book without Daya is
one of my favorites now, I gained a great amount of spiritual
guidance from the classes of test gear, and hamdulillah it really
helped me improve my daily routines bringing things into
improving my daily Amal and learning the virtues that
connection and that you know that quiet with your soul. And just
learning the benefits of all those Amal and how to be more connected
closer to Allah subhanaw taala. bringing things into practice, I
have learned crucial aspects under the fifth of menstruation. I'd
opened up so much necessary knowledge and application, things
that were important things that I did not know that they were very
important to bring into practice.
Being book has helped me learn so many Hadith and understanding
their commentary was really helpful. And then Sierra is one of
my favorite classes, the stories and developing that love and
connection with Arizona lesson a lot and send them and there's a
sea of knowledge imparted in the tip seat and albida sections. We
have seen even the smallest of eyes and you know sort of Fatiha
when we started that it's it's it takes like a whole lesson to learn
just a small part
And it's it's just amazing Subhan Allah with the Quran holds and how
much we can learn from it. I had always been nervous into read
lessons in the past, and handler and hamdulillah in this course.
And finally, by the Grace of Allah in a place where I'm feeling well
immersed and nurtured and Ted read, and it is helping me develop
a stronger connection with the Quran, and more connection with
that matter, when I'm reciting, it's really helping me feel the
words and feel their meaning and recite from the heart and soul. If
that makes sense, and Hamdulillah, the scores really is filled with
Nora, with the light of knowledge. Allah blessed me with this
opportunity at a time when I was searching high and low for a
suitable setup that I could accommodate in my life with family
and other responsibilities. It came the day I found it, I started
crying because it was such a perfect opportunity it fits so
well.
It has been a beacon of hope, but hamdulillah and I've developed
wonderful connections with my beloved teachers, they are truly
my status like you feel that they are your, you know, their teachers
that are established, I feel that spiritual benefit and connection
from their virtual server. Even though it's virtual. Even though
we're in different time zones, I'm in the US. And I look forward to
even being in person someday meeting them someday.
And hamdulillah they've left such a profound impact on me. They're
like a part of my life. I'm always talking about my teachers and what
I've learned in my home, and I feel like this spiritual
gratification with every class I attend, like it nourishes my soul
and recharges me to keep improving furthering the, and imparting what
I learned into the therapy of my children. It really motivates me
in improving myself and, you know, passing that on to my children in
the best example as a role model in sha Allah, and Hamdulillah. May
Allah bless you all.
So this was one of our American students, her name is
Jyoti Qureshi. Right? But you can you can, you can just see that you
know what changed these courses, it's the dean, right, that's what
it is. And women have not been given an opportunity. In many
cases. This is an easy one. It's not an early Marcos, right. And
that's why we need many of these, and you will see the appreciation.
I mean, if we've got more people like this in the world, right, who
have appreciated, who've learned some things with developed to
enhance have become closer to Allah, you know, we can have a
better world. And really, that's what this is about. That's what
this is about, you can just see this appreciation. And this is the
last one I'm going to play for you. Right?
This is from one of our sisters, Fatima Her name is, right. So,
salaam, wanting kumara Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh. Home.
My name is Fatima and I am student of white trend Institute. I joined
the coastline of knowledge a few years ago, even though it says
it's only for two years, me and my classmates we have been hooked on
and we don't want to let go. So we keep asking this up. And,
you know, please give me give us some new books to study. So we're
still students, and we are still enjoying it. And we do not want to
let it go.
I have personally I have learned a lot.
And
it's not just learning. By reading textbooks. It's also learning
from the teachers that we're studying from, they become your
role models. And for me, my teachers became became my role
models. And
and the way that I was taught was not just by reading a textbook, it
was more about interactive discussions, and asking questions
and talking. And
just having a general discussion sometime.
My experience with the teachers is that all my teachers are very
approachable. They have been amazing. They, they always answer
your queries. And if they don't know something, they will admit it
and they will,
you know, go back, do their research and then come back and
they will answer us nevertheless, they will explain the concepts to
us. And, and
one last thing I would like to mention is that all the material
that I have learned, all the knowledge that I've gotten all the
books that I've read, they're amazing books, they're well
written, they're simple, they are very easy to understand, so much
so that some things that we think that we're not going to apply in
our daily life, actually, you know, what we, we do apply it and
I was fortunate enough to apply things that I never thought I
would while I was traveling with my husband and it's just you know,
if I didn't know those things, and I
Don't know where I would stand for example. And it's just
it's just been an amazing experience so far. And as far as I
know, me and my classmates, I think
we're gonna be on for even the next year. So, cutter Allah we
don't know what's going to be but
white thread has been a home away from home for us and
as students, we don't Yeah, we don't want to go anywhere from our
home. So handling that and hamdulillah Allah, Allah bada say
hello. And as Allah gave us the guidance that we needed, and
hamdulillah hamdulillah Zakon o Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
barakato. So Masha Allah, Allah bless it, there's two things. I
mean, you understand from here, what kind of teachers you want
teachers who can basically cater for all of those needs, you know,
who can be that approachable, that's what you need, and
inshallah you can do it, you can do it. And the second thing when
she said that, she went on a journey, mashallah the sister, her
husband, they do relief work. So what he did was that he took off
time from his work for I don't know how many months, it was
several months, and they went to several countries in Africa, with
money that they were collecting from different friends and family.
And he went with his wife, and stayed for quite a few months in
all of those countries, Tanzania and all these countries. And she's
basically saying that while she was there, a lot of the stuff that
she learns, right, which you probably won't have to play at
home, but when she was away, it came in use and
it's simple, it's just stuff that you know, any good Muslim should
know to be honest. So inshallah I think we've said enough here. I
mean, I was going to keep I was going to try to keep it short. But
I hope I didn't waste anybody's time here. I hope you've been
inspired to start this right as that we don't make anything out of
this except reward. And we just trying to get the whole Ummah to
be uplifted. So we're outsourcing this, like, do it yourself. And
we're here to help you. This is not even a franchise, you don't
even have to call it white thread. You don't have to call it radio
and you don't have to say some some Academy, call it what you
want. I would love that you call in light of knowledge, because I
think that's really, that's really relevant. And you give us some
credit Dwars that would be wonderful. But otherwise, we just
want you to do it. As that nothing is fixed in stone. We're here to
help you again, we ask Allah subhanaw taala to make this a
useful and
useful session seminar Allah bless miftah academy or Institute who
allowed us to try out this new seminar. So inshallah let's make a
quick dollar and then we will end it here Allahumma and the Salam wa
Minca Salam devaglia Then God with the Crown Allahumma salli wa salam
ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala Muhammad or vertical Selim
yeah that agenda economic economic economy of hamara himedia Martina
Judy will Karim Allah Ya Allah Have some mercy on us yeah Allah
guide us Oh ALLAH enrich us. Yeah, Allah empower us. Yeah, Allah
make us independent from all besides you, our Allah we want us
to be we want to be fully dependent on you and we want you
to assist us you are the best of our patrons. Oh Allah, this
session that we've had all of these people who've joined with
the great intentions and so on, or likes, all of us for the service
of God, allow us all to implement and work visa vie love for that
work, to raise the morale to raise the the academic level, to raise
the spiritual level, to raise the emotional level of the entire
Muslim Ummah so that we can be good contributors. Oh Allah allow
us to.
To establish these kinds of courses facilitated for us make it
easy for us. protects us from any pitfalls protects us from any
challenges and of Allah accept it from us or Allah accept it from
us. Allow us to inspire others as well. And Allah make this easy for
us. And Allah we ask you to send your abundant, abundant blessings
on our messenger Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa salam and
allow us to follow in his footsteps and to drink from his
hand on the Day of Judgment. Grant cisgendered and for those Subhan
Allah because Allah is merciful, Muslim or non Muslim or Hindu rely
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