Arabic Citadel

Immerse Yourself In The Arabic Citadel | Decode Your Worship

This course includes:

Family friendly place to learn Arabic for the first time with both Online & Onsite access

Recorded Access for all students and professionals with bus schedules

Onsite and Online Drills with multiple teachers

See the 'bigger picture' by grasping the source code of what makes the Arabic language

Couples and family friendly environment with community library, vintage teas and coffee to keep you focused and stimulated

Children's creche (Age 2+) included to support young families

Start Your Journey

Travel Through The Arabic Language Citadel with Mufti Moinul as your guide | Onsite & Online | Starts January 31st 2026

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Enter The Arabic Citadel

An Intensive Course delivered by Mufti Moinul Abu Hamza & his Arabic Citadel Team, running Saturdays from 4 pm-6 pm class and then weekday evening Arabic Trench tutorials.

Arabic through the Quran
Arabic is a human language, and like any language, you have to feel its impact to appreciate it. The Quran Institute launches a new course with the Quran as the basis for your learning from day one. Lessons will be held at The Quran Institute in East London.

Why an intensive?
Sometimes courses drag on too long, like a film or a novel that takes so long getting to the main plot that we lose motivation quickly if we don’t fast forward sometimes. So intensives are meant to get you a feel for the language first.

How hard is it?
We've decided to offer an intensive version of our Arabic Renaissance course. It’s a no-nonsense approach to learning the fundamentals of reading Arabic that we've taught for over four years.

How does the program run?
The first 1.5 hours will be the "Dars Element," followed by 30 minutes of collective drills. Then a 1-hour "Trench Session" during the week, consisting of tutorials to consolidate the concepts covered in the Dars.

How confident are you about the results?
We teach Arabic to children at the madrasah, and if they can understand it, so can you! Muftiya Nasima loves morphology, and Mufti Moinul is passionate about grammar. Together, they offer a journey through the Arabic Citadel that will help any student become more confident in learning Arabic. This course is about attaining that all-needed overview, the opportunity to peer over the mountain peak, so one can have the means to go on.

What kind of documentation?

You will receive handouts, class slides, and access to 50 hours of video tutorials.

Do I get support?
Muftiya Nasima and Mufti Moinul will run the "Trench Tutorials" with brothers and sisters onsite to get one-to-one attention, and there will also be one tutorial a week for brothers and sisters online.

Start Your Journey

Onsite & Online & Recorded | Starts 31/01/2026

Arabic Citadel Curriculum

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.

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?

An Intensive Course delivered by Mufti Moinul Abu Hamza & his Arabic Citadel Team, running Saturdays from 4 pm-6 pm class and then weekday evening Arabic Trench tutorials.

+ 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.

This is in your benefit to have a better grasp of what is being taught.

+ Will there be any time for Q&A with Mufti Moinul & Muftiya Nasima?

Starting on 12th November (depending on minimum student intake) on Saturdays 1.30pm at the Quran Institute in East London.

+ Absences and unforeseen circumstances

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.

Contact

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