Programs
Every program below sits in one of four shapes. Pick by how much time you actually have, not by how ambitious you feel on the day you sign up.
The catalogue
Everything we run is for adults, 18 and over. Pick the one that suits you.
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What we teach
The subjects Alfurqan teaches across all of its courses, and there will be more. Foundations covers some of them. What that course covers, term by term, is on the Foundations Course page.
What every Muslim must know about Allah, His names and attributes.
Practical rulings for worship, transactions and daily life.
The life of the Prophet ﷺ, his character, mission and legacy.
How the Qur’an was revealed, compiled and interpreted.
How Prophetic traditions are authenticated and applied.
From the early generations to the present day.
Purification of the soul and character building.
Islamic answers to modern Australian challenges.
Basic Arabic to access primary sources.
01 · Long pathways
For people who want to actually get somewhere, and are willing to give it years rather than a term.
The starting point. A structured year across creed, fiqh, seerah, adab and the essentials every Muslim is assumed to know and mostly wasn't taught.
Finish it and you carry straight on into Intermediate rather than starting again somewhere else. You can also stop here. Each year is a complete year on its own, not a down payment on the next one.
The second year, continuing on from Foundations.
Foundations, then Intermediate, then Advanced. Three years end to end, and you enrol one year at a time.
It is here so you can see the whole route before you start rather than finding out in year two that there is no year three. Nobody signs up for three years. Finishing a year and stopping there is a normal way to use this, and you can come back to the next one later.
Arabic aimed at reading the Qur'an, hadith and classical texts. Not conversational Arabic, and we'd rather say that up front than have you find out in week six.
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02 · Planned term courses
Programs we would like to run at the centre. None of these has a date yet.
Envy, riya', pride, anger, love of dunya and heedlessness, and what the tradition actually prescribes for each.
Life, death, the grave, resurrection, judgment, the ṣirāṭ, and what comes after.
Built around the Names and Attributes, and what each one changes about how you pray.
Credit cards, mortgages, buy-now-pay-later, cryptocurrency, superannuation, insurance, shares and business transactions. The questions people actually ask, answered with evidence rather than a forum post.
Before marriage: choosing a spouse, expectations, rights, communication, family interference, conflict and money.
For couples already married. Rights, communication, conflict, parenting, finances and holding on to īmān through all of it.
Islamic parenting in a secular culture, taught by people raising children in the same suburbs.
An introduction to uṣūl al-fiqh, ikhtilāf, evidence and the madhāhib. Why scholars disagree, and why that isn't a scandal.
One hadith a week, taken as a life principle rather than a memorisation exercise.
Ten companions, ten personalities, ten lessons. Run alongside a parallel course on Khadījah, ʿĀ'ishah, Fāṭimah, Umm Salamah, Asmā' and Nusaybah.
03 · Planned intensives
Programs we would like to run at the centre. None of these has a date yet.
The whole fiqh of prayer, start to finish, in one sitting.
Calculated on real numbers, including the awkward cases people usually guess at.
Practical cases, calculations and competitions. Genuinely one of the harder sciences and much easier with a room full of people working the same problem.
An immersive preparation day for anyone going.
Halal investing and Islamic financial ethics, then contracts, employees, debts, partnerships, riba and barakah for people who run something.
AI, social media, privacy, screen addiction, online interaction and where the lines are.
Evidence, context, who is speaking, internet fatawa, and how to handle two answers that disagree.
04 · Planned
Programs we would like to run at the centre. None of these has a date yet.
Monthly. Fajr, a fifteen-minute reminder, then breakfast together.
Breakfast and a forty-five minute lesson. Weekly.
Monthly open Q&A. Nothing off limits, nothing prepared.
Ninety minutes on a single verse, from every angle. Monthly.
Four weeks of essentials for newly practising Muslims and converts.
Planned
Programs we would like to run. None of these has a date yet.
The Cave, twenty-four hours offline. Brotherhood and sisterhood retreats. Games Night. The Long Table. Beach Fajr. Hikes, and a father-and-son day.
Everything we run is for adults, 18 and over.