Barakah Masjid presents
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Eighty per cent of the Qur'an, one hundred words at a time
A live online cohort built on a single fact: a hundred or so words account for most of what you hear in salah. Learn those first and the Qur'an starts opening while you are still a beginner.
27 attending
Date
Wednesday
26 August 2026 · 13 Rabi' al-Awwal 1448
Time
7:00pm
to 8:30pm
Where
Online
Link on your ticket
Audience
Mixed
All welcome
The cohort begins in
Happening now
Why this course
Sequenced to pay you back from week one
Adult Arabic courses usually fail in the third month, when the grammar has piled up and nothing has been unlocked yet. This one is sequenced to pay you back from week one.
We take the highest-frequency vocabulary in the Qur'an, teach the grammar only as far as those words demand it, and read a short passage aloud every session. By week eight you will follow the meaning of the surahs you already recite from memory — not translate them word for word, but hear them.
Fawa'id
What you'll carry out of it
Recognise the hundred most frequent words in the Qur'an on sight
Follow the meaning of the short surahs while you are praying them
Read a verb and know its person, tense and root
Hear the difference between a noun and a verb without stopping to think
Use a dictionary by root rather than by guesswork
A ten minute daily habit that survives the end of the course
Week three I understood a line of al-Mulk while I was praying it. I had recited that surah for years.
Yusuf N., last cohort
Level
Is this the right class?
Not sure? Sit the first class free and move down a level if it is too fast. Nobody minds.
Before this
Foundations of Tajweed
Before this. You can sound the letters but have never been corrected out loud.
You are here
The First Hundred Words
This course. You read the script, and you want the meaning.
After this
Reading the Qur'an with Grammar
After this. Full i'rab, and longer passages read unaided.
Before you enrol you should be able to
Sound out the Arabic letters, slowly is fine
Read short joined words without transliteration
Sit down for ten minutes a day between classes
Curriculum
Week by week
8 weeks · Wednesdays, 7:00 pm
- 01Wed 26 Aug
Week 1 — The script, refreshed — and your first twenty words
A quick alphabet refresher, then straight into vocabulary you already recite.
- 02Wed 2 Sep
Week 2 — The root system
How three letters generate a family of words, and why that halves the memorising.
- 03Wed 9 Sep
Week 3 — Nouns, and the endings you actually hear
Just enough grammar to stop the endings sounding random.
- 04Wed 16 Sep
Week 4 — The past-tense verb
One table, learned properly, and suddenly a lot of the Qur'an opens.
- 05Wed 23 Sep
Week 5 — The present tense, and the command
The forms you meet most often in du'a.
3 more weeks
- 06Wed 30 Sep
Week 6 — Idafa
How Arabic joins two nouns, and why English translations always sound clumsy here.
- 07Wed 7 Oct
Week 7 — Reading al-Mulk together
A surah most of us know by sound, read this time for meaning.
- 08Wed 14 Oct
Week 8 — Where to go next
A study path for the year, questions, and the certificate.
Inside a class
Ninety minutes, honestly
- 0:00
Du'a, and last week's words
Ten questions on the vocabulary from last week, out loud, nothing recorded.
- 0:10
This week's twenty words
Each one shown where it sits in an ayah you already recite from memory.
- 0:35
Only the grammar those words need
Nothing is taught because it comes next in a textbook.
- 0:55
Reading aloud, together
A short passage in breakout rooms. Somebody will correct you kindly.
- 1:20
Questions, and the week ahead
Ten minutes a day, set before you leave.
How it runs
Over video, every Wednesday
Or over video
Join from home on the same evening. The Zoom link comes with every reminder.
Recordings
Emailed the next morning, and yours for the whole term.
Who it is for
Set the audience on the programme and it is named here.
Taught live, online
A real class, from wherever you are
One teacher, cameras on, every Wednesday evening. Not a recording and not a webinar. You will be asked to read aloud, and somebody will correct you kindly.
A link that never changes, in every reminder
A small class, capped so everyone gets to read
Recording sent afterwards if you miss it
Cameras on, so it is a class and not a webinar
Questions in the chat, answered as we go
Notes and slides shared after every session
Everyone reads aloud, and is corrected kindly
Nothing to install beyond a browser
Platform
Zoom
Class size
60 students
Time zone
Shown in yours
Enrolment
Enrol for the whole term
One payment covers all eight weeks, the workbook, the recordings and the certificate. Enrolments close on Sunday 23 August, and the cohort is capped at sixty so everyone gets read.
27 of 60 enrolled
Early bird
Available until 12 August. Saves $60 on the standard fee.
$220
Standard
All eight live sessions, recordings, workbook, and the certificate.
$280
Concession
Students, seniors, and anyone for whom the full fee is a barrier.
$160
Instalments
Paying over the term
No interest, no fee, no credit check. The same fee, split so it lands with your pay.
Today
Charged now, when you enrol
Week 4
Charged automatically to the same card
Week 7
Charged automatically to the same card
If a payment fails
We try again in 3 days, and email you before we do.
Your place is never taken away
Not for a failed card. We will write, and if you are struggling we will talk.
Included
What the fee covers
All eight live classes, taught over Zoom
The recording of every class, yours for the whole term
The hundred-word workbook, printable or posted
Weekly worksheets, marked by hand and returned
A certificate if you attend six of the eight
Questions answered between classes, within two days
A mushaf. Bring the one you already read from
One to one tutoring outside class hours
The work
What is asked of you
Outside class
30 minutes a week
Graded
Pass or sit again
Marked by
By hand
Weekly worksheet
Twenty words and one short passage. Marked by hand, back before the next class.
Reading aloud, week 4
Two ayahs recorded on your phone. Corrections come back privately, in writing.
Final reading, week 8
A passage of al-Mulk, read for meaning rather than for speed.
Nobody is ranked against anybody else and no marks are published.
Getting ready
Before your first class
The mushaf you already read from
A pen and a notebook kept only for this
Zoom installed, and tested once before the first Wednesday
Somewhere you can read out loud without whispering
A dictionary. You will not need one until week six
Any grammar book you half finished. Start clean
The class pauses for salah and resumes ten minutes later.
Asatidha
Who you'll learn from
Ustadha Khadija Osman
Teacher of Qur'an and Tajweed
Ustadha Khadija holds an ijazah in Hafs an Asim and has taught tajweed to adult beginners across Sydney for nine years. She built the Foundations cohort around the problem she kept meeting: adults who can read the letters but have never once been corrected out loud.
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Sheikh Bilal Adem
Resident scholar, Bonnyrigg Mosque
Sheikh Bilal completed his studies in Qur'anic sciences in Cairo and returned to Sydney in 2016. He convenes the youth halaqa at Bonnyrigg and spends most of his week with families across south-west Sydney.
Studied under
The chain behind the class
Nothing here is a claim you have to take on trust. Every one of these is verifiable, and we will happily put you in touch.
Ijazah in Hafs an Asim
Under Shaykha Amal Siddiqui, Sydney2013 to 2017
BA, Arabic language and literature
University of Jordan, Amman2009 to 2013
Diploma in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers
Qasid Institute, Amman2014
Nine years teaching adult beginners
Lakemba, Bankstown and Parramatta2017 to now
Finishing
A certificate, if you turn up
Attend six of the eight classes and you finish with a certificate. Miss more than two and you are welcome to sit the term again at no charge.
To finish
All
Signed by
Ustadha Khadija Osman
Certificate of completion
This is to certify that
your name
has completed
Quranic Arabic: The First Hundred Words
Barakah Masjid
Signed
Ustadha Khadija Osman
Issued
At the end of the term
The year ahead
Term dates
- Enrolling now
Term 3, 2026
26 August to 14 October
- Tell me when it opens
Term 4, 2026
28 October to 16 December
- Tell me when it opens
Term 1, 2027
3 February to 24 March
- Closed
Term 2, 2026
29 April to 17 June
Every date
The course calendar
September 2026
Rabi' al-Awwal – Rabi' al-Thani 1448 AH
Wednesday 2 September
20 Rabi' al-Awwal
Wednesday 9 September
27 Rabi' al-Awwal
Wednesday 16 September
5 Rabi' al-Thani
Wednesday 23 September
12 Rabi' al-Thani
Wednesday 30 September
19 Rabi' al-Thani
Good to know
The practical answers
- English
- Live streamed
- Recorded event
- Intensive course
- Evening program
- Registration required
Anything else you need to know? Message us.
If plans change
Refunds, plainly
Written before you pay, not buried in an email afterwards.
Any time before the first class
Refunded in full, no questions asked.
Before the second class
Refunded in full. Keep the workbook.
After the second class
Your place moves to the next term, or half the fee comes back.
If you miss a class
Nothing to refund. The recording is emailed the next morning.
If we cancel a class it is refunded, or added to the end of the term, whichever you prefer.
Questions
The ones we keep answering
Do I need to register in advance?
Yes. Registration closes once the cohort fills, and the reminder, plus any change of time, goes to the email you register with.
Will it be recorded?
Most lectures are recorded and the link goes out to everyone who registered, usually within a week. Course sessions are recorded week by week so you can catch up if you miss one.
What if I need to cancel?
Email us and we'll refund a paid ticket up to seven days before the program begins. Inside seven days we can move your seat to the next date or the next cohort.
Do I need to know the Arabic alphabet already?
Yes. You should be able to sound out the letters and read short joined words, slowly is fine. Week 1 opens with a refresher, so a rusty reader is welcome. If you cannot read the script at all, start with Foundations of Tajweed and take this cohort next term.
What happens if I miss a week?
The recording is emailed the next morning and it is yours for the whole term. That week's worksheet comes with it, and Ustadha Khadija takes questions on it in the first ten minutes of the following class.
Is it brothers and sisters together?
Yes, the cohort is mixed. Cameras are on for the reading practice, and the breakout rooms group brothers with brothers and sisters with sisters.
Can I pay in instalments?
Yes. Three payments across the term, no interest and nothing added. The first is taken when you enrol, then week 4 and week 7. A failed card never costs you your place.
From past terms
What students said
4.8 average
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Aisha Abbas
“Somebody finally said out loud: this report is weak, and here is why people keep repeating it anyway. I have waited years to hear that in a community setting.”
Asma Hassan
“Dr. Bakri treats it as history with stakes rather than a set of moral lessons for children. The Hudaybiyyah section reframed the entire period for me.”
Nadia Ahmed
Only students who finished the course are asked.
Reflections
What people say
reflections
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“Somebody finally said out loud: this report is weak, and here is why people keep repeating it anyway. I have waited years to hear that in a community setting.”
“Dr. Bakri treats it as history with stakes rather than a set of moral lessons for children. The Hudaybiyyah section reframed the entire period for me.”
“I had been unsure about my wudu since I was a teenager and never had a room safe enough to ask in. Week two dealt with it in about four minutes.”
“Twenty years of Friday recitation and I had no idea the four stories map onto four distinct trials. Sheikh Bilal laid it out so plainly I was embarrassed not to have seen it myself.”
“I have recited every day of my adult life with letters coming from the wrong place and nobody had ever told me. Ustadha Khadija told me in week two, kindly, and then fixed it.”
Afterwards
Where this leads
The next level, and what students most often take alongside it.
Next
Grief, Sabr, and the Things We Don't Say
Reading the Divine Names
Ihsan in an Age of Distraction
Eight weeks from now you could be hearing it
Enrolments close on Sunday 23 August. The cohort is capped at sixty so every voice gets heard in the breakout rooms.
Stay close
Hear about the next cohort first
One email when the next term opens, and nothing else.
From
$160.00