Our Alim Program is a six-year, post-secondary program designed to train our students into the classical Islamic sciences. The course is based on a traditional curriculum of study, covering a wide array of subjects such as:

• Arabic Grammar (Syntax and Morphology)

• Arabic Literature (Speech, Composition, and Rhetoric)

• Logic (Mantiq)

• Islamic Theology (‘Aqidah)

• Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh)

• Fiqh (Jurisprudence)

• ‘Ulum Al-Hadith (Sciences of Hadith Interpretation)

• Hadith (Prophetic Traditions)

• Usul al-Tafsir (Principles of Exegesis)

• Tafsir al-Qur’an (Exegesis)

• Sirah (Prophetic Biography)

Below is the brief description of our Alim program from first year to final Year.

ALIM YEAR 1

Islamic Theology: AQIDAH

Exegesis of the Quran: TARJUMAH AL QUR’AN

Tajweed: EASY TAJWEED

Jurisprudence: AL FIQH AL MUYASSAR

Arabic Grammar: TASHIL AL NAHW

Arabic Morphology: MIN KUNUZ AL SARF

Arabic Primer: QASAS AL NABIYYIN I/QASAS AL ARABIYY HALF I

Arabic Reader: DURUS AL LUGHAH

ALIM YEAR 2

Exegesis: SAFWAT AL TAFSIR

Arabic Grammar: NAHAW AL WADIHAH

Jurisprudence: MUKHTASAR AL QUDURI

Arabic Reader: AL QASAS AL ARABIYYAH P1 &2

Arabic Textbook: AL-ARABIYAH LI AL NASHI’IN 4

Hadith: MISHKAT AL ATHAR

 

ALIM YEAR 3

Abridged version of Tafsir Ibn Kathir (exegesis of the Quran): MUKHTASAR IBN KATHIR

The Principles of the Jurisprudence: AL MAWJAZ (USUL AL FIQH)

Jurisprudence: BIDAYAH AL MUJTAHID

Jurisprudence: HIDAYAH I

Arabic Text: AL ARABIYAH LI AL NASHI’IN 6

Arabic Rhetoric: AL BALAGHAH AL WADIHAH 

Arabic Eloquence: DURUS AL BALAGAH

Logic: SHARAH TAHZEEB 

ALIM YEAR 4

Islamic Theology: SHARAH AL-AQA’ID

Exegesis of the Qur'an: AL-TIBYAN

Qur'anic Science: TAFSIR AL NASAFI

The Principles of the Jurisprudence: NOOR AL ANWAR 

Inheritance: SIRAJI

Jurisprudence: HIDAYAH II

Hadith: MUQADDAMAH MISHKAT

Principle of Hadith: QAWA’ID FI ULUM AL HADITH

Biography of the Holy Prophet: FIQH AL SIRAH

Arabic Literature: MUKHTARAT

ALIM YEAR 5

Exegesis: JALALAYN  HALF I

Hadith MISHKAT AL MASABIH II

Hadith: MISHKAT AL MASABIH III

Hadith: MISHKAT I

Jurisprudence: HIDAYAH IV

Jurisprudence: HIDAYAH III

ALIM YEAR 6

Hadith: TIRMIZI I &II

Hadith: BUKHARI I & II

Hadith: MUSLIM I & II

Hadith: SUNAN ABU DAWUD

Hadith: SUNAN NASA’I

Hadith: IBN MAJAH

Hadith: MAWATTAYN

Hadith: SHMA’IL