Taʿlīm o Tarbiyat Masjid Al-Siddique, Karachi
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Taʿlīm o Tarbiyat

In step with the demands of our time

A public curriculum in six stages, so that every Muslim can learn the essential knowledge of the faith and the masjid becomes a centre of teaching and formation.

Begin the curriculum Listen to the introduction

The Educational, Formative and Reform Movement Masjid Al-Siddique, Karachi

A pale green board reading “Taʿlīm o Tarbiyat” in Nastaliq script.
On the wall — Taʿlīm o Tarbiyat

The Aim

The establishment of the Dīn

That the faith becomes alive in practice.

The Method

01

Taʿlīm

teaching

02

Tarbiyat

formation

03

Daʿwat

invitation

04

Khidmat

service

The Curriculum

Each stage is the ground of the next. The order is not incidental.

Begin the curriculum

This curriculum is written on none of the boards. It is spoken only, in the recorded introduction — six stages, in the order they are given.

  1. 1 Belief First settle what it is you actually hold — the words, and what they mean. 4 View the board
  2. 2 Purification Ablution, the full washing, and the dry substitute — learned by hand, not from a book. Practical 1 View the board
  3. 3 The Call and the Iqāmah The words of the call to prayer and of the iqāmah — and what they say. 1 View the board
  4. 4 The Prayer From the opening takbīr to the closing salām — word by word, and movement by movement. Practical 1 View the board
  5. 5 The Twenty-Four Hours of the Prophet ﷺ From waking to sleeping — how the Prophet’s ﷺ day was actually spent. 2 View the board
  6. 6 The Daily Recitation The recitation the Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept to daily. 1 View the board

Aims and Objectives

Aims and Objectives

Three things

  • 1To acquaint Muslims with the knowledge of the faith that is indispensable
  • 2To establish an atmosphere of teaching and formation inside Muslim homes
  • 3To make the mosques centres of public teaching and formation

The Method

Three works

  • 1Preparing a curriculum for ordinary people, and convening it
  • 2Forming a team drawn from both the scholars and the modern-educated
  • 3Arranging courses on subjects that awaken a felt sense of the faith

On the wall

All boards
A board stating the aim, “the establishment of the Dīn”, alongside the four pillars of the method. Foundation The Aim and the Method One aim, four pillars: teaching, formation, invitation, service. A two-column board listing three objectives and the three works that deliver them. The plan Aims and Objectives Three things to achieve, and the three works by which they are achieved. A board carrying Iqbal’s poem beginning “Yā Rab! dil-e-muslim ko wo zinda tamannā de”. Poem The Anthem Iqbal’s poem “Duʿā”, from Bāng-e-Darā. A pale blue board bearing the Arabic supplication with its Urdu translation. Hadith The Supplication The supplication narrated from ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (may Allah be pleased with him). The Kalima Ṭayyiba on a board bordered with a green leafy vine. Belief The Kalima Ṭayyiba The testimony and its two halves — oneness, and messengership. A chart of the Arabic alphabet, each letter shown with its name. Foundation The Letters of Arabic Twenty-nine letters — the first rung of reading.

Anthem

Give the Muslim heart that living longing which warms the heart and sets the soul trembling.

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

Supplication

اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنِّىْ عَبْدُكَ

Musnad Aḥmad

Forming Individuals

Those who finish the curriculum become the ones who teach it. Around ten individuals have already been formed from among the students of the madrasa and jāmiʿa, and the same is under way among the students at Masjid Al-Siddique. The purpose is that this call reaches ordinary society, that an atmosphere forms around it, and that learning becomes easy.

May Allah use us all as much as possible for His faith, and may our lives be purposeful and of worth.

About the movement