With Dr Shaykh Safaruk & Mufti Moinul | 10 Weeks | Onsite & Online | Starts 27th January 2024

A Course By The Ummatica Department Of The Quran Institute

The Ummatica Department plays a pivotal role in the overall vision of the Quran Institute. It bridges the gap between Islamic Studies and the Occidentology departments by addressing how Islam deals with modernity i.e immense real changes in states, societies, families and in s science and technology.

The Ummatica Department is being lead by Dr Safaruk, an established academic within numerous fields of the Islamic sciences, ranging from Political Philosophy and a theology. A full curriculum will be released in the near future on our diploma page https://www.ummatica-diploma.com

Ummatica cross examines revival with a positive and outward looking framework, to procure a solely Islamic solution for humanity. Our aim is to explore contemporary discourses on how the concept of Ummah and how traditional sources discuss the re-positioning of the Ummah as a leading light of justice peace for humanity.

Our modular approach that constitutes the Ummatica Diploma is there to facilitate thinkers to develop solutions for humanity from an Islamic philosophical basis, transitioning from a problem based mentality that often spirals within narratives that limit us to apolitical spiritual introspection void of any far reaching vision and activism.

Course Information

Over the centuries there have been many collections of hadith compiled with the intention of reminding the Muslims the ahkam of Allah so as to apply them in their lives. The most famous, that many have read and benefitted from, is the Forty Hadith compiled by Imam Nawawi. But today the most neglected of the commands of Allah is the command to rule by what Allah has revealed to His Prophet (pbuh). This course is composed of a brief compilation of hadith related to ruling. It is a small selection but it is hoped that it serves to illustrate how central to Islam was its ruling system, and the manner of the just ruler as opposed to the characteristics of the evil one, and the nature of the application of the rule, the role of the Ummah in accounting those in authority, and the painful consequences if this is neglected. - Abu Luqman Fathullah (Compiler of book)

Meet Your Instructors

Dr Shaykh Safaruk
Instructor

Ustadh Ibrahim
Course Coordinator

Mufti Moinul Abu Hamza
Instructor

Instructor Information

Mufti Monul Abu Hamza

Mufti Moinul started his journey in Egypt in Hifz and Qira'ah privately with Shaykh Khaled from Al-Azhar and then he passed his exams in Qira'ah and Hifz at Ma'had Ma'sarawi with high grade. He also studied Arabic Grammar, Morphology and Rhetoric at Dar Al-Arabiyyah Egypt with Shaykh Ahmed Aljendy. Upon his return, he was awarded his Alimiyyah Qualification under the tutelage of Sheikh Akram Nadwi at the Al-Salaam Institute, London which is authorised by Dar Al-Uloom Nadwatul-Ulama, Lucknow, India. He then graduated in his Takhassul fil Ifta at Darul Iftaa Birmingham under the tutelage of Mufti Tosir. Mufti Moinul then travelled again and attained Ijazaat from the following shuyoukh in Al-Maghrib from the city of Rabat and Fez and then Ijazaat from scholars from Makkah Al-Mukarramah and Madinah Al-Munawwarah.

Shaykh Safaruk Z Chowdhury
Ph.D. in Islamic Studies. Area of study: Sufism, SOAS, London, UK. M.A. Islamic (distinction). SOAS, London, UK. B.A. Philosophy. Kings College London, London, UK. A.K.C. Associate of Kings College. Christian Theology. Kings College London, London, UK. Diplo. Arabic, Ministry of Education, Cairo, Egypt. Accrediting body: Wizarat al-Ta’lim.

Ustadh Ibrahim Haider

Ustadh Ibrahim works in Business Development and Strategy with a BSc Honors in Actuarial Science. Currently working towards his Alimiyyah, he is a keen student of the Islamic Sciences, Islamic Revivalist thought and Tazkiyyah, with the conviction that they are integral in bringing about solutions for the Ummah. He is involved in youth projects, runs his local madrasah and is a passionate teacher of the Islamic Sciences and Critical Thinking at the Quran Academy and Global Madrasah.

Progression Potential

This course is composed of a brief compilation of hadith related to ruling. It is a small selection but it is hoped that it serves to illustrate how central to Islam was its ruling system, and the manner of the just ruler as opposed to the characteristics of the evil one, and the nature of the application of the rule, the role of the Ummah in accounting those in authority, and the painful consequences if this is neglected. - Abu Luqman Fathullah (Compiler of book)

Enrol To This Ummatica Module

Orientation Year 1 | The Family Program | 2023 March | FP02

Learn, heal and grow.

Almost 10yrs ago, Moinul & Nasima left their careers and migrated to Egypt in search of full time studies in Arabic and Islamic knowledge. Their son Hamza travelled with them from Cairo to Madinah, Makkah to Fez & Rabat in Morocco in search of knowledge.

Explore the disciplines of Islam while benefitting from mentorship, companionship and a real sense of community. Build a powerful mindset that will help you build emotional maturity in a new vision for you and your loved ones. Seeking knowledge shouldn’t divide families, it should unite them. This is why family is at the centre of the educational experience at the Quran Institute.

Are you being held back? Lack of willpower and negative relationships have shackled us. It cannot be emphasised enough how much our friends, family and community limit our horizons and prevent us uncovering our God given potential. This course will teach you how to uncover positivity though thankfulness and forbearance mindsets to become a positive influence to yourself and others. Eventually, you will build a growth mindset that will leave you never looking back as you venture forward.

Bridge Course: Arabic Citadel Intensive AC01

Curriculum Content

We will be teaching grammatical breakdown (i’raab) of Arabic sentences. This begins with knowing the letters (حروف), which make three types of words (كلمة), which makes four types of constructions (تركيب) which leads to two types of sentences (جملة) which are either verbal (فعلية) or nominal (اسمية).

Curriculum Method

This will be done by limiting the learning remit to reading and not writing, speaking and listening skills. These can be built on top of reading skills and less of a priority where understanding the Quran is concerned. We will focus on the “80/20” rule which is concepts and items for memorisation that are more frequent than others. We have carefully selected the most common words and concepts to cover the most amount of ground within the limited scope of our intensive course.

Course Outcomes

Over the duration of this course you will attain the ability to:

i- break down prepositional sentences and full sentences with knowledge of complaint, partially complain and non-complaint nouns

ii- navigate through dictionaries to find meanings behind nouns and adjectives.

iii- have a basic level of grammatical parsing (i’raab) so as to understand sentence structure and meaning

iv- translate 50-70 of a randomly selected page of the Quran at a basic grammatical level

v- familiarity with underlying theories of (any) language so as to experience the sense and feeling of a text i.e literary appreciation

vi- differentiate subcategories of nouns such as attached and detached pronouns and how they differ from verbs and prepositions

vii- basic ability to conjugate common verbs and extract base letters (triconsonantal/semitic roots)

Lesson Structure

The lesson structure will be given to students a week at a time as we are assessing progress in real time so as to accommodate the pace of all students as the course progresses.

Ummatica Diploma Program | 2023 February | ND01

For those seeking certification, you can continue after the Family Program to our Diploma year to complete our 2yr Arabic and Islamic Sciences diploma certification. Not all muslims who learn self mastery and relationship skills need to be students of knowledge, however it is our belief that all students of knowledge and activists need self mastery and relationship skills. This is because family is the foundation of Muslim leadership in activism and scholarship. Here is the proposed content to be covered for Year 2 with some modifications pending. Fees for the second year will be announced near January 2023.

This is our proposed curriculum and yet to be confirmed:

• Philosophy of Science & Religion (Islam & Evolution) - Dr Shoaib A. Malik

•Primer in Usul: Al-Waraqaat - Shaykh Dr Safarruk

•Contextual Tafsīr Studies: The Hundred of Al-Baqarah - Mufti Moinul

•Primer to the Aqidah: Key Concepts & Themes In The Islamic World View & Iman - Dr Ali Harfouch

•Arabic Renaissance Literature Program - Muftiya Nasima

• Fiqh of Fasting & Prayer - Muftiya Nasima

•Hadith Nomenclature: Nukhbatul-Fikar - Shaykh Dr Safarruk

•Darkness to Light Seerah Course - Mufti Moinul Abu Hamza

•Women's Personal Fiqh - Muftiya Nasima

•Dawa masterclass (Pre-Recorded) - Ustadh Abdullah Al-Andalusi

•Hadith An-Nawawi Studies (Pre-Recorded) - Shaykh Safarruk

•Safeguarding and mental health training - (TBA)

3yr Advanced Alimiyyah Program | 2024 September

TBA

This course is an essential handbook for EVERY muslim family who seek to take shelter from the harms of social media, consumerism and materialism that have eroded or sense of self and our ability to relate to others in a meaningful way. The two main stories covered are the Youth Of The Cave and the Owner of Two Gardens. The first story discusses the fitna (trials) of holding onto one's faith which is essential for many of us who face difficulties in school, university and in the workplace. So how does one hold onto one's Deen in difficult times? The second surah discusses the fitna of wealth and consumerism that has even warped the Islamic message to the extent that learning Islam has become in many ways, a consumer experience.

Your Instructor:

Mufti Moinul is a tafsir instructor at the The Quran Institute. He is a qualified as a Mufti (jurisconsult) from Darul Ilm UK and is now working as a pastoral counsellor for Al-Madad Outreach helping muslim couples. Before this, he was awarded his Alimiyyah Qualification under the tutelage of Sheikh Akram Nadwi at the Al-Salaam Institute which is authorised by Dar Al-Uloom Nadwatu Al-Ulama, Lucknow, India. He is currently rolling out several community projects from a Women’s Centre to a Mental Health listening line.

Minimum duration of module: 15 Weeks

This course the personal development course for those who want to discover their hidden potential and overcome personal traumas and anxieties and low confidence that stem from spiritual gaps that we all have growing up in this society. You will learn a growth mentality by learning how to navigate between toxic people and people who unknowingly hold us back. it will be a journey of self reflection and one's inner state so as to have a clearer self image to make change possible. Mufti Moinul will directly read through the arabic version of the small text 'Ayyuhal-Walad' or 'Letters to a disciple' and the commentaries on it.

Quotes from: ‘Letter to a Disciple’ by Al-Ghazali

“I observed mankind, and saw that everyone had an object of love and of infatuation which he loved and with which he was infatuated, some of what was loved accompanied him up to the sickness of death and some [even] up to the graveside. Then all went back and left him solitary and alone, and not one of them entered his grave with him. So I pondered and I said: the best of what one loves is what will enter one’s grave and be a friend to one in it. And I found [it to be] nothing but good deeds! So I took them as the object of my love, to be a light for me in my grave, and a friend to me in it and not leave me all alone.”

"Whenever you interact with people, deal with them as you would wish yourself to be dealt with with by them, for a worshipper's faith is incomplete until he wants for other people what he wants for himself.

If you read or study knowledge, your knowledge must improve heart and purge your ego—just as if you learned that your life would only only last another week, inevitably you would not spend it in learning about law, ethics, jurisprudence, scholastic theology and suchlike, because you would know that these sciences would be inadequate for you. Instead, you would occupy yourself with inspecting your heart, discerning the features of your personality, giving worldly attachments a wide berth, purging yourself of ugly traits, and you would occupy yourself in adoring God the Exalted, worshipping Him, and acquiring good qualities. And not a day or night passes for [any] worshipper without his death during it being a possibility!"

Minimum duration of module: 22 Weeks

FAQs

+ When and where will the course take place?

Running Saturdays from 4pm class online with Shaykh Safaruk and onsite and online with Mufti Moinul. For the 10th week in the final session it will be onsite with Shaykh Safaruk & Moinul. The event will take place at our venue in East London.

+ Are your courses segregated?

Yes, all our onsite classes are segregated. There is designated seating for brothers on one side and for sisters on the other. The rest we leave to Taqwa.

+ Course requirements

Minimum requirements are to have basic Arabic reading skills. Absorption levels of all students vary. We will have some workshops, tutorials and online drills and lessons mid week to help you stay on track. This course is there to take you from beginners to an intermediate level. The rest is down to what you make it.

+ Are there any assignments/ homework?

Yes, your teachers will be giving homework and assignments that are optional. This is in your benefit to have a better grasp of what is being taught.

1. There are potential changes to our study schedule due to announcements of lockdowns, and so we reserve the right to move the course completely online for student safety.

2. If onsite student attendance falls below five due to students choosing online attendance or due to absence, then we will also migrate the whole class fully online.

3. Once the course begins, the fees are spent towards the delivery costs and therefore, course fees are non-refundable.

4. If you are utilising the creche, you are still responsible for your child's additional needs from feeding to changing or any other special needs.