Quran with Tarjama and Tafseer is taught one-to-one online by Shaykh Hafiz Muddassir, a graduate of Tanzeem ul Madaris Ahl-e-Sunnat (Pakistan) with more than ten years teaching these books. The course covers word-by-word translation (tarjama) of the Quranic text alongside classical commentary (tafseer), moving surah by surah at the student’s pace.

It suits adults and older teenagers who can already read the Quran and now want to understand it. Students should have fluent Nazra reading; Arabic grammar is helpful but not required, as the relevant grammar is explained as it appears before starting. The outcome to aim at is reading a passage and knowing what it says, how its words work, and what the classical commentators drew from it. Classes run live in English, Urdu, Hindi or Arabic, scheduled around the student’s own timezone, with the pace set by the student rather than a class average. Fees are quoted per student rather than published, because the honest figure depends on the level and how many classes a week. Taught from the Urdu tafseer tradition but delivered in English where the student needs it, which is the combination diaspora students usually cannot find.

What does this course cover?

Quran with Tarjama and Tafseer covers word-by-word translation (tarjama) of the Quranic text alongside classical commentary (tafseer), moving surah by surah at the student’s pace.

The aim is specific rather than general: reading a passage and knowing what it says, how its words work, and what the classical commentators drew from it. That is the standard a student is measured against, not hours attended or pages turned.

Taught from the Urdu tafseer tradition but delivered in English where the student needs it, which is the combination diaspora students usually cannot find.

Who is this course for?

This course suits adults and older teenagers who can already read the Quran and now want to understand it.

Before starting, a student needs fluent Nazra reading; Arabic grammar is helpful but not required, as the relevant grammar is explained as it appears. Where that is uncertain, the first conversation establishes it rather than assuming, because starting at the wrong level is the most reliable way to waste a term.

Students join at every age. What matters is the actual level, which is assessed rather than taken on trust.

Class formats

Classes run in two formats. One-to-one sessions are built around a single student’s level and goals. Small group classes bring together students at a similar stage, commonly siblings, cousins or friends who want to study together.

Group sizes are kept small deliberately. The value of live teaching is the teacher hearing each student read and correcting them, and that disappears once a class is large enough for someone to stay silent through it.

Nothing is pre-recorded in either format. Recorded lectures remove the correction loop, which is the part that actually teaches.

The language problem nobody solves

Parents in the West describe the same situation repeatedly. The child attends a local madrasa, recites well, and understands very little of what is explained, because the explanation arrives in a language they use for family conversation and not for abstract reasoning.

This is not a motivation problem. Asking a British-born fifteen-year-old to learn Arabic morphology through Urdu is asking them to learn two things at once, with the harder one invisible.

English-medium classical study exists precisely for that student.

How long does it take?

There is no fixed number of weeks, and any teacher quoting one without meeting the student is guessing. Pace depends on prior knowledge, how many classes a week, and how much practice happens between them.

Two or three classes a week with consistent practice moves faster than five classes with none. Consistency beats intensity across every course on this site.

After a few classes the teacher can give a realistic estimate for that particular student, which is worth more than an average.

About the teacher

The classical qualification here is a Dars e Nizami graduation from Tanzeem ul Madaris Ahl-e-Sunnat (Pakistan), the Ahl-e-Sunnat board that works with more than eighteen thousand affiliated madaris across Pakistan. Alongside it sit an MA in English, an MA in English Linguistics and an MPhil in English.

Teaching experience runs to more than ten years across these books, with students at every level from a child’s first Qaida lesson to advanced classical texts.

Classes are taught in English, Urdu, Hindi and Arabic, one-to-one or in small groups.

How does scheduling work across timezones?

Classes are arranged around the student’s local clock. Teaching hours stretch across the day precisely so that a student in California, London or Melbourne is not forced into an unusable slot.

In practice this means after-school classes for children, and evening or early-morning sessions for working adults. British and European students have the easiest overlap; American and Canadian students are taught in their evenings, which fall in the teacher’s early morning.

This page sets out the workable windows by region.

What do classes cost?

Fees are quoted for each student rather than published as a price list, because the honest figure depends on the course, how many classes a week and the level involved. A child taking two Qaida sessions weekly and an adult reading advanced Arabic texts are not the same commitment.

For general context rather than as a quotation: Across online Islamic academies generally, tuition is priced either per class hour or as a monthly block of two to five classes a week, and one-to-one teaching costs more than group classes because the hour belongs to one student. Local currency, timezone and class length all shift the picture, which is why a real number needs the real details.

Message the student’s age, level and how often you would like to study, and you will get a straight answer for that situation. This page covers the question in more detail.

How do you start?

The first step is a conversation, not a payment. Send a message describing the student, their level and what you want them to reach, and you will get an assessment of where they should actually begin.

A trial class follows if it makes sense. It exists so the student and teacher can meet, so the level can be checked properly rather than assumed, and so the family can judge the teaching style before committing.

If a different course would serve the student better, you will be told that. This page explains what happens in a trial.

Online versus local classes

Local classes have real strengths: community, routine, and a teacher the family can meet. Where a good local option exists in a language the student follows, it deserves serious consideration.

The common problems are group size and medium. A class of twenty means a struggling student can go unnoticed for months, and instruction in Urdu leaves English-thinking children translating before they can learn.

This page works through the comparison honestly, including when local study is the better choice.

Measuring progress

The test is always performance rather than exposure. A student who has sat through a book and cannot read a line of it unaided has not covered it, whatever the register says.

Short checks happen every session, because revision is the first thing in every class. Larger checks happen when a text is finished, by asking the student to explain rather than recite.

This page explains what parents are told and when.

What do you need to get started?

A device with a camera and microphone, a stable connection, and somewhere quiet enough to hear and be heard. That is genuinely the whole list.

Classes run on whatever video platform the family already uses, so nothing extra is installed. Books are arranged in the first class: many classical texts are freely available as PDFs, and a scanned page shared on screen works fine for most purposes.

Headphones help more than anything else on this list, particularly for Tajweed and memorisation work where the teacher needs to hear precise sounds.

Ramadan and holidays

Schedules are adjusted for Ramadan, Eid and school holidays. Students often want more Quran time during Ramadan and less of everything else, and the plan flexes for that.

Long summer holidays are a good moment to intensify, particularly for memorisation, where a temporary increase in frequency compounds.

Pausing is always an option, and nothing is charged for classes that do not happen.

The sequence

Each stage assumes the previous one is solid, which is why placement matters more in this curriculum than in most subjects. A gap three years back surfaces as confusion three years later.

The order is not arbitrary or traditional for its own sake: it follows what each text actually requires its reader to already know.

This page explains the syllabus this site follows.

Growing up Muslim outside a Muslim country

Second-generation students occupy an awkward position: fluent in the language of their country, partly fluent in their parents’ language, and rarely literate in either at the level classical study demands.

That is not a deficiency in the student. It is a mismatch between how the tradition is transmitted and where these families now live, and it is solvable by changing the medium rather than the content.

This page addresses this directly.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to know Urdu to take this course?

No. Classes are taught in English, Urdu, Hindi or Arabic, and you choose. Teaching the classical material through English is the reason many students abroad come here in the first place.

What if the student is at a different level than expected?

The starting point is assessed in the first conversation and confirmed in a trial class. If the student needs to begin earlier in the sequence, you will be told that plainly.

Are classes recorded?

No. Classes are live, whether one-to-one or in a small group. The value is a teacher correcting the student in the moment, which a recording cannot do.

How many classes a week are needed?

Commonly two to five for language and memorisation work, fewer for adults reading a single text. What matters more is consistency between classes.

Can classes pause for exams or travel?

Yes. The schedule is adjusted by message rather than through a booking system with penalty windows.

Last reviewed 29 July 2026 by Shaykh Hafiz Muddassir.

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