A year, and nothing to show
Most adults study Arabic for a year and cannot say what changed. Here, every step ends with something you can do, out loud, in front of your teacher, and you always know exactly where you stand.
Book your free level checkOne to one with Zubair, free. He places you on the exact lesson — and you have already had your first.It was not because you are slow.
It was the room. Here the room is a teacher who is a scholar and a friend, a small group on the same lesson as you, and one account that keeps every piece of your Arabic in one place.
Nobody listened to you read.
So the endings you were getting wrong stayed wrong, week after week, and nobody said so.
Zubair does. Every lesson, out loud, and he stops for the ending you got wrong.
Nothing told you where you were.
A year in, you could not name the lesson you were on, or the one you were going to.
Your account lights the exact lesson you are on, what you can do now, and what comes next.
The verbs arrived, and you stopped.
Book 2’s verb block is where self-teachers quit. It is where a group and a teacher are the difference.
A group beside you, a teacher who has carried people through Book 2 before, and a homework card each week so nothing slips.
A scholar at the front of the room, and a platform built for this school alone.
— both, every week
Meet Zubair. He will hear you read.
Seven years of an ʿĀlimiyyah programme in the UK, up to Mishkāt, finished in India. Ḥifẓ alongside it. Now reading Islamic Law at Taif University in Saudi Arabia, and teaching Arabic to adults online in between.
Twenty-six, British Indian, and the kind of teacher who brings humour and good energy into a room without ever letting the work go soft. People who learn with him call him encouraging and easy to talk to, and say it is the positivity, and the way he explains things simply, that keeps them coming back. What he cares about most is sincerity — doing the thing properly, for the right reason — and the long plan is an affordable Arabic academy that helps ordinary Muslims understand the Qurʾān, the khuṭbah and the books in Arabic. This school is its first room.
“Arabic, in a practical, accessible and engaging way.”
his own words
- Islamic Law · Taif University
- ʿĀlimiyyah, seven years, UK and India
- English · Arabic · Urdu · Gujarati
- Durūs al-Lughah, Books 1–3, with his own handouts
Sixty minutes, the same six moves, every time.
From your second session you already know the shape of the room. Two of these a week, live, with people on the same lesson as you.
Homework back
Homework · Lesson 12with his voice on itذَهَبَ الطُّلَّابُ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ
New pattern
ذَهَبَpastيَذْهَبُpresentone new shape a lessonDrill
until it is boringذَهَبَذَهَبَاذَهَبُوا4 min · from memoryRead-aloud
every ending, out loudقَرَأَ الطَّالِبُ الْكِتَابَ
he stops hereOne parse, out loud
your turn at the boardالْمَسْجِدِ
majrūrkasrahafter إِلَىAssignment
Homework · due Thuseven minutes a day is enoughVowel the six sentences on the sheet, and record yourself reading two of them.
Then Thursday
twice a week, that is allMoTu60 minWeTh60 minFrSaSuSame room, same six moves.
- Parse any unseen āyah, word by word
- Read unvowelled classical text aloud, at pace
- Follow a khuṭbah with the grammar in your ear
- About 2,900 words, held as roots
Two hours a week with your group, and you start wherever your level check places you.
Two evenings a week, and everything around them.
The two evenings are fixed for your group. Everything else lives in your account, whenever you open it.
One monthly fee, £80, covers all of it, and your level check is free.
- Two live hours a week with your group, in the browser
- Homework marked by Zubair — photo, voice or typed
- Class recordings, transcripts and recaps, if you agree
- Your ladder, lit to your lesson
- Practice that goes back over your lessons
- One thread with your teacher
- Your term in your calendar
- His own handouts, where a lesson has one
- A Friday note on your week
all of this is in the fee
- Tap-to-answer practice questionssoon
The questions people ask before they book.
Will I be speaking Arabic?
You will speak in every session — reading aloud, parsing aloud, answering him. Conversation and dialect are not the goal here; reading and understanding are, and we say so rather than sell you both.
How long does it really take?
About thirty months at two hours a week. The ladder on this page shows the months step by step, so nobody has to guess, and Book 2’s verbs are the better part of a year — that is where most people quit alone, and where a group is the difference.
What if I miss a lesson?
If you have agreed to recording, the class waits privately in your account to listen back to. Do the homework, ask him anything in your thread, and you can catch up.
Do I need to read Arabic already?
Slowly is fine. If you cannot read yet, Reading & Tajwīd comes first, and your free level check tells you which — it is the one door for all three courses.
What will I be able to do at the end?
Parse an unseen āyah, read unvowelled classical text aloud at pace, and follow a khuṭbah with the grammar in your ear. Not order lunch in Cairo; that is a different course, and an honest one would say so.
Is it just the Madina books?
The books are the spine. The rest is his: his handouts, the Qurʾān example after every rule, and what he says when you get it wrong.
Is there an app?
Your account is the app: in the browser, on your phone, nothing to install. Homework, recordings, messages, your ladder, your calendar and practice — built by us, for this school alone.
He teaches listening and speaking in every session. They are simply not on the ladder, and not on your report.
One account holds everything we hand you.
Your ladder, homework, recordings, messages, calendar and practice — on one page, on your phone.
Your ladder lit to where you are. Homework as a card, answered by photo, voice or typed Arabic, returned with his voice. Your classes recorded privately, if you agree. One thread with your teacher, any day of the week. Your term in your calendar.
Built by us, for this school alone — not stitched together from other people’s apps. Your data is yours: ask for a copy or close the account from the same page, whenever you like.
ذَهَبَ طُلَّابُ الْمَدْرَسَةِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْكَبِيرِ
“Tanwīn on the muḍāf again. It is on your list now, and it will keep coming back until it stops being yours.”
- 1A
- 1B
- 2A
- 2B
- 3A
- 3B
this is the real thing, drawn
…and the recordings, practice, your calendar, the Friday note, his handouts — all in here
Your level check is free, private, and one to one.
Time alone with Zubair, face to face, before you join a group: you read, he listens, and by the end you know the exact lesson you start on.
- 1You read aloud
- 2Label two sentences together
- 3An unvowelled passage
- 4Vowel a line yourself
- 5Your goal and your evenings
One monthly fee for Understanding Arabic: two live hours a week, his handouts, your homework and its marking, and everything in your account. The companion courses are priced on the call.
Two companion courses, each its own group: Reading & Tajwīd · Ḥifẓ & Revision