“I used to think that the humiliation the Muslim community suffers today came from a lack of knowledge. It turns out its cause is not a lack of knowledge but a lack of practice.” So said OUR MASTER, MAHMUD EFENDI (may Allah sanctify his secret), and there are many educational institutions that prove him right. In the formal and informal Islamic institutions and madrasas we have visited around the world, debates over the curriculum go on, yet madrasas that treat acting upon what one has learned as the most important part of the curriculum are almost nonexistent.
Competing to be the best imitators and followers of the Western education system, and boasting of it, they dazzle their students with a mirage of titles such as doctorate and professorship. We failed to see that this mindset only serves the enemies of Islam, and, Arab and non-Arab alike, we lost our respect for our sacred values, our heritage, our past, our Book, our teachers, our places of worship, and our Lord. It is a bitter truth that we have no right to expect others to honor the values we ourselves do not respect.
With this understanding and outlook, as in ancient times, our madrasas regard knowledge, practice, and sincerity as one whole. Convinced that whoever has no night has no day, we strive to raise a generation that will revive every sunnah of the Messenger of Allah. Our students who learn the Islamic sciences are continually encouraged by our teachers, who have a Sufi temperament and a firm commitment to practice, and so they too come to take joy in acting upon what they learn.
Our course of study consists of 1 year of the Qur’an and fundamentals of Islamic knowledge, 4 years of Arabic and the Islamic sciences, 1 year of spiritual maturation, and then 4 years of specialization for those who qualify.
We would also like to stress that:
– Studying and teaching are the right of those who do this work at the cost of their very lives.
– A teacher’s first duty is to build sound character in his students.
– Islamic education must be given together with the milk of courtesy.
CURRICULUM
1- PREPARATORY PERIOD
-ALIF-BA
-QUR’AN
-KARABAS TAJWID
-TREATISE ON FAITH AND ISLAM (IMAN-ISLAM RISALESI)
-TA’LIM AL-MUTA’ALLIM
-INTRODUCTION TO ARABIC WRITING 1
2- EMSILE PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-KARABAS TAJWID
-OMER NASUHI ILMIHAL (CATECHISM OF ISLAM)
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-EMSILE
-BINA
-AVAMIL
-TASRIF (MORPHOLOGY)
-TERKIP (SYNTAX)
-CONVERSATION SERIES FOR MADRASAS 1
-INTRODUCTION TO ARABIC WRITING 2
-OTTOMAN TURKISH
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
3- TUHFE PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-OMER NASUHI ILMIHAL (CATECHISM OF ISLAM)
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-MAKSUD
-TUHFAT AS-SANIYYA
-TASRIF (MORPHOLOGY)
-TERKIP (SYNTAX)
-CONVERSATION SERIES FOR MADRASAS 2
-OTTOMAN TURKISH WRITING NOTEBOOK
-OTTOMAN TURKISH
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
4- IZHAR PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-SIRAJ AL-MUTTAQIN
-COMMENTARY ON AL-AMALI
-AL-QUDURI
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-IZHAR
-MURIP
-QISAS AL-ANBIYA (STORIES OF THE PROPHETS)
-OTTOMAN TURKISH
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
5- KAFIYE PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-TAFSIR AL-JALALAYN
-COMMENTARY ON AL-AMALI
-AL-QUDURI
-KAFIYE
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-CONVERSATION SERIES FOR MADRASAS 3
-RULES OF ORTHOGRAPHY (KAVAID-I IMLA)
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
6- RATIONAL SCIENCES (ULUM-I AQLIYYA) PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-AL-MUWATTA
-HADITH TERMINOLOGY (BIRGIVI)
-AL-QUDURI
-SIRAH (PROPHETIC BIOGRAPHY)
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-KAWA’ID AL-I’RAB
-LOGIC
-MUNAZARA (DIALECTICS)
-WAD’
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
7- MULLA JAMI PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-AL-NASAFI
-AL-MUWATTA
-AL-QUDURI
-HISTORY OF THE RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-MULLA JAMI
-ALAQA
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
8- TALKHIS PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-AL-NASAFI
-PRINCIPLES OF TAFSIR (KAWA’ID ASASIYYA)
-AL-MUWATTA
-HANAFI HADITH METHODOLOGY (MIRQAT)
-MULTAQA AL-ABHUR
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-TALKHIS
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
9- USUL PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-AL-BAYDAWI
-AL-MUWATTA
-TAMHID (ISLAMIC THEOLOGY)
-AL-HIDAYA
-LEGAL MAXIMS (KAWA’ID-I FIQHIYYA)
-AL-MANAR
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
10- SHARH AL-AQA’ID PERIOD
-QUR’AN
-AL-BAYDAWI
-HADITH TERMINOLOGY (ABDULLAH SIRAJUDDIN)
-SHARH AL-AQA’ID
-REFUTATION OF WAHHABISM (AD-DIFA’ WA’R-RUDUD)
-REFUTATION OF ATHEISTS AND DEISTS
-AL-HIDAYA
-SIRAJIYYA (ISLAMIC INHERITANCE LAW)
-CONTEMPORARY FIQH
-PRINCIPLES OF IFTA (AL-MUJADDIDI)
-MEKTUBAT (LETTERS)
-RISALE-I KUTSIYYE
-HADITH MEMORIZATION
For detailed information about our madrasas, please contact us.
