Tajweed 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 the rules of correct recitation: articulation points (makharij), letter qualities (sifaat), nasalisation (ghunna), lengthening (madd) and stopping (waqf).

It suits anyone who reads the Quran and wants to read it as it was transmitted. Students should have basic reading ability; the course corrects and rebuilds from there before starting. The outcome to aim at is recitation that applies the rules automatically rather than reciting from memory of how a teacher sounded. 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. Rules are demonstrated and drilled live, which is why tajweed over recorded videos rarely sticks.

What does this course cover?

Tajweed covers the rules of correct recitation: articulation points (makharij), letter qualities (sifaat), nasalisation (ghunna), lengthening (madd) and stopping (waqf).

The aim is specific rather than general: recitation that applies the rules automatically rather than reciting from memory of how a teacher sounded. That is the standard a student is measured against, not hours attended or pages turned.

Rules are demonstrated and drilled live, which is why tajweed over recorded videos rarely sticks.

Who is this course for?

This course suits anyone who reads the Quran and wants to read it as it was transmitted.

Before starting, a student needs basic reading ability; the course corrects and rebuilds from there. 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.

Placing a student correctly

A short conversation and a trial class settle it. The teacher asks the student to demonstrate rather than describe, because describing your own level is genuinely difficult and most people get it wrong in one direction or the other.

Where a student needs to go back a stage, that is said plainly and with a reason attached. It is not a judgement on the student; gaps usually come from how they were taught rather than from ability.

The upside of correct placement is that progress becomes visible quickly, which is what keeps a student studying.

What happens between classes

Every session ends by setting specific practice, not a vague instruction to revise. Specific means a named passage, a defined table, or a page to parse.

Adults with demanding jobs often do better than teenagers with more free time, purely because they protect a small daily slot instead of relying on motivation. The habit matters more than the hour it sits in.

Where practice is not happening, that shows up in the next class, and the honest response is to adjust the plan rather than pretend the material was covered.

Can adults start from the beginning?

Yes, and a large share of students here are adults starting over. Many read the Quran as children, stopped for two decades, and return wanting to understand rather than only recite.

Adults learn differently from children rather than worse. They grasp grammatical structure faster because they already understand how language works, and they memorise more slowly. Playing to the first while planning around the second is what an experienced teacher adjusts for.

The genuine obstacle is embarrassment, not ability. A one-to-one class removes the audience entirely, which is why adult beginners often start there and move to a group later.

Can sisters study these courses?

Yes. Sisters study the same curriculum one-to-one from home, at whatever pace their week allows, through the six-year course.

The two barriers sisters most often report are travel and mixed classes. Online one-to-one removes both, which is why the format has changed access to classical study more for women than for anyone else.

Scheduling is arranged around household and work commitments rather than fixed institutional hours, and it moves when those commitments move.

Is online teaching as good as in person?

For one-to-one instruction, the honest answer is that the difference is small and sometimes runs the other way. What matters pedagogically is a teacher hearing the student and correcting them immediately, and a video call carries that intact.

What online cannot replace is the atmosphere of a full-time institution: the company of other students, the discipline of a daily schedule, and the incidental learning that happens outside class. For a student who can attend one properly, that is a genuine advantage.

Most families reading this cannot. The realistic comparison is not online against a darul uloom, it is online against a weekly local class taught in a language the child does not follow.

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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