Academic
Markazus Sahabah is an online Islamic Education and Cultural center founded to serve the larger community, providing 95% percent of the class is taught in English.
Curriculum
The curriculum is based on Islamic books and teaches Tawheed, Al-Qur’an, Tafseer, and Qira’ah. Khattu, Hadeeth, Fiqihu Ibadah, Fiqihu Tarbiyyah, Azkar/Du’a, Seerah, and Arabic language. The curriculum is designed to teach students the fundamentals of Islamic knowledge and to prepare them to apply what they have learned to lead a purposeful life. The school has five different learning sections, named after the Prophet’s (SalalLahu Alaihi Wasalam) companions, the Sahabah. These include the Hamza bn Abdulmuttalib class (men adult) Ummu-Ayman Barakah (women adult), Abubakar (young adult), Umar (Tenageres), Uthman (children’s), and Ali-Raudah (Kids).
The school currently has 61 students from all sections. The adult women’s section meets every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, while the young adult class (ages 18-27) meets once a week on Sunday. Teenagers aged 13 to 17 years old attend classes on Friday and Saturday evenings. Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays are the days the Children and Kids section hold their classes. The students are from all over the United States and Canada.
In addition to academic activities, the school organizes lectures from outside speakers on current issues that are relevant to the community’s religious and social practices. The most well-known is the Ramadan Tafsir and lecture series, which the school organizes to educate and strengthen communities during the spiritual month of Islam. Similarly, the center assists students in mentoring and tutoring on their academic subjects.
Aside from academic activities, the center focuses on community social development. This includes the social structure of the community, which it serves by running social programs and activities such as the monthly women’s online get together “taron zumunchi,” which allows women from all over the United States and Canada to connect and discuss issues that will strengthen their kinship. The center also organizes the annual communities’ vacation, where all families and friends from the school communities come together for a five-day vacation. The first annual vacation was held in August this year in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Another activity is the quarterly newsletter publication. Furthermore, the school’s communities donate money to buy food for the less fortunate people in Ghana, Niger, and Nigeria.