For masajid and community organisations
Your community has people who cannot read Qur'an.
Every masjid does. Adults who pray correctly, raise children in the deen and have carried the community for years — and were never taught the letters. Almost nobody will say it out loud, and almost nobody has the hours to teach them.
And children, who still can be taught before it becomes the thing they never say out loud.
We will run those classes for your community, adults and children in separate cohorts. There is no fee to host them.
The arrangement
Who does what, in full.
What the masjid does
- Announces it — from the minbar, in the newsletter, in the group chat. Coming from you, it is an invitation; coming from us, it is an advertisement. The adults' cohort and the children's are announced separately; they reach different people.
- Gives us one point of contact — a person who can answer a question in a day, not a committee.
- Tells us honestly what the community needs — who is asking, what has been tried before, and what did not work.
- Optionally sponsors seats — many masajid cover a handful of students who would not otherwise enrol. Entirely optional, and never a condition.
What we do
- Teach it — every session, by a former imam, from the letters through to Juz ʿAmma with tajwīd.
- Place every student — a short call each, out loud, so nobody sits in the wrong class and quietly leaves. Children are placed with a parent on the call.
- Record every session — students keep the recordings for the weeks they cannot attend.
- Handle the admin — sign-ups, reminders, payments and the awkward money conversations, so that none of it lands on your office.
- Tell you how it is going — plainly, including if turnout is poor. You will not have to ask twice.
What it costs the masjid
Nothing. There is no hosting fee, no minimum number of students, and no revenue share asked of you. Students pay $50 a month directly, and a masjid that wants to sponsor seats may — that is the only money that would ever move between us.
What we will not do with your community
We will not take your membership list, add anyone to a mailing list they did not ask for, sell or share anyone's details, or use your name to sell website work. The Studio is a separate arm and it stays out of this conversation unless you raise it.
How it goes
From a phone call to a class reading out loud.
No paperwork, no MOU, no board presentation unless your board wants one — in which case the one-page summary below is written for exactly that.
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Step one
A conversation, twenty minutes
Who in your community is asking, roughly how many, whether it is adults or children or both, and what has been tried before. Usually with the imam or whoever runs education. If it is not a fit, we will say so on that call rather than three weeks later.
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Step two
You announce it, we write nothing for you to sign
We give you the wording, a link, and a date. You announce it the way your community actually hears things — which is almost never a poster.
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Step three
Everyone who signs up gets placed
A short call each, out loud. This is the step most programs skip and it is the reason most adult classes lose half their people by week four.
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Step four
The cohort starts, small
Weekly, at an hour that suits the people who actually enrolled. Every session recorded. If your community would rather gather in the building and join together on one screen, that works and several will prefer it.
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After
You get told the truth about how it went
How many finished, how many can read who could not, and what we would do differently. Including if the answer is that it did not work — that is the report that makes the next one worth running.
For your board
One page you can forward without explaining it.
Everything on this page, on a single sheet: what it is, who teaches it, what it costs the masjid, what it costs a student, and what we ask for. Written to be read by somebody who has not met us and printed for somebody who does not read email.
If your board needs more than a page
Hamza will get on a call with them. He has stood in front of congregations in four cities, and a board asking hard questions about who is teaching their community is a board doing its job properly.
The questions we are asked most — who is teaching, what it costs, what happens to our members' details — are answered on the teacher's page and below.
What boards ask
The questions, answered plainly.
Who is actually teaching our community?
Hamza Abdul-Tawwaab — a former imam who taught Qur'an and led taraweeh before he built anything, and who has taught at Islah LA in Los Angeles, Midtown Mosque in Memphis, Masjid As-Sabur in Las Vegas and Atlanta Masjid in Atlanta. His teaching background, in full — including what he is not qualified to teach.
What does this cost the masjid?
Nothing. No hosting fee, no minimum, no revenue share. Students pay $50 a month directly. If the masjid chooses to sponsor seats for families who cannot carry that, it may — and that is the only money that would ever move between us.
Does it have to be online?
The teaching is delivered online, because that is what lets one teacher serve four cities. But a masjid can absolutely gather people in a room and join together on one screen, and for elders in particular that tends to work far better than asking each person to manage a video call alone.
What happens to our members' information?
Students give us their own details when they enrol, and that is all we ever hold. We do not ask for your membership list, we do not add anyone to anything they did not ask for, and we do not sell or share data — that is a written rule for this whole house, not a policy for this page.
Our website carries no trackers, no cookies and no third-party scripts. You can check.
Is this only for adults?
No. There is a cohort for adults and a cohort for children, and they are run separately — different hours, different pacing, and different teaching entirely. An adult who was never taught does not want to learn beside nine-year-olds, and nine-year-olds do not learn well in a room built for adults.
Most masajid start with one and add the other once the first is running. Tell us on the call which your community is actually asking for.
What is taught, beyond reading?
The reading track runs from the letters to Juz ʿAmma read correctly. Beyond that there is tajwīd taught as its own study, and memorisation of Juz ʿAmma — the sūrahs your community already stands in prayer with, carried properly. It is not a full-muṣḥaf ḥifẓ program and it does not lead to an ijāzah, and we will say so plainly to anyone hoping otherwise.
What if only five people sign up?
Then five people learn to read. Small is the design, not the failure case — a cohort that size is one where every student reads out loud every week. If nobody at all signs up, we will tell you that too, and it costs you nothing to have asked.
Are you going to try to sell us a website?
No. The Studio is a different arm of the same house and it stays out of this. If you ever want to talk about that, you raise it — and if you do, it will be a separate conversation with a separate price, not something folded into a class for your community.
Start the conversation
Tell us about your community.
Six lines and we will come back to you with a time to talk. It opens your own email app so you can see exactly what is being sent.
Where we already have people
Hamza has taught in Los Angeles, Memphis, Las Vegas and Atlanta, and those communities are where the first cohorts will most likely form. If you are somewhere else, say so anyway — distance stopped mattering the moment this went online.
Or reach us directly
- Email hamza@inheritingislam.com
- Phone (470) 404-0648