Running now · Foundations
A one-year course giving you a structured grounding in the knowledge every Muslim needs. Over four terms you learn how to worship correctly, study the life of the Prophet ﷺ, work on manners and character, and understand what you believe and why.
Why it runs in this order
Most people collect Islamic knowledge in whatever order it reaches them. A lecture here, a question answered there, a course on one subject and nothing either side of it.
This runs in order instead. You start with purification, prayer and the etiquette of seeking knowledge, because that is what you use on day one. Then the major acts of worship, then the Seerah, then the foundations of creed. By the end of the year you can practise your religion with more knowledge behind it, and you know how to carry on learning without us.
What you’ll study
One 90-minute class a week, Thursdays 7:00 to 8:30pm. The next group starts on Thursday 22 October 2026 and runs nine sessions to 17 December, at our centre, 11/9 Dawson St, Coburg North. The group is for brothers. There's no class for sisters at the moment.
You start with what you use every day in your own worship, and at the same time learn how knowledge is meant to be sought.
The rulings of purification. Water, impurities, wuḍūʾ, ghusl, tayammum and the practical matters that come up constantly.
A structured study of prayer. Its rulings, and how to perform it correctly.
How knowledge should be sought, before you go seeking it. Sincerity, respect for knowledge and the people who carry it, patience, discipline, revision, who you sit with, how to ask a question properly, and guarding your time.
The manners that shape an ordinary day. Greetings, how you deal with people, privacy, gatherings, eating and drinking, speech, clothing, and your parents.
The rest of prayer, for a complete picture of its rulings.
What is obligatory, what invalidates a fast, and the other matters attached to it.
The life of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Not only what happened, but coming to know him, his guidance, and what his life teaches.
Who has to pay it, what wealth it falls on, who may receive it, and the principles you need to get it right.
His character, his struggles, his leadership and his guidance, and what to take from them into your own life.
The rulings and the rites of Ḥajj and ʿUmrah, in a structure you can follow.
Ibn Qudāmah’s Lumʿat al-Iʿtiqād. Belief concerning Allah, His names and attributes, the Qur’an, divine decree, Īmān, the hereafter and the Messenger ﷺ. You also cover Īmān as belief, speech and action, and how it rises with obedience and falls with disobedience.
By the end of the year
Purification, prayer, fasting, zakāh and Ḥajj, understood as a structure rather than five separate things you half know.
An introduction to the foundations of belief, and the vocabulary to say what you hold and why.
A real understanding of his life and guidance, not a timeline of dates.
The adab of ordinary life, which is the part people notice first.
How to carry on seeking knowledge after the course ends, which is the whole point of the first term.
Who it’s for
This is for adults who want to put their Islamic knowledge in an order that makes sense.
Someone starting out. Someone who has picked things up over the years and can feel where the gaps are. Someone who knows the basics and wants to go back over them properly, with more depth. No previous formal Islamic study is needed, and neither is Arabic.
Next step
The next group starts on Thursday 22 October 2026. You are taken to the payment page as soon as you book, and the seat is yours once the payment goes through. If the class is full you can join the waiting list instead.