About Online Quran Class for Kids

Mustafa is a Southern California native who completed his Hifz at 18 at the Institute of Knowledge (IOK) in Diamond Bar. He has taught online with Umar Academy and at IOK’s Saturday school, and he now teaches Qur’an in Ansaar Academy’s Sunday school program. Outside the classroom, he sings with Ahbab Al-Habib, a SoCal nasheed group. He has taught Qur’an with us since summer 2022.

Imanne grew up in Berkeley, California, and memorized the Qur’an with Qari Amar Bellaha at the Muslim Community Center in Pleasanton. She has studied Tajweed with Qari Amar and with Ustedha Noha Leheta of Egypt, and continues today with Ustedha Umm Abdullah of Jordan. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, she wants every student to feel comfortable and at home with the Book of God.

Juwayriyya was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She started her Hifz at 4 and finished at 11, then studied the Islamic sciences while teaching Qur’an. At 21 she earned a bachelor’s in Health Science from the University of South Florida, and she is now studying at Qalam Institute in Dallas with the aim of completing its Aalimiyyah program, inshallah. Her goal is to pass her love of the Qur’an on to every student through kindness and attention to each child’s needs.

Nabeel grew up near Philadelphia and attended Noor ul Iman School in New Jersey from kindergarten through 12th grade, where he first learned Tajweed, Hifz, and Arabic. He completed his Hifz in 2017 and has led Taraweeh at local masajid. To understand the Qur’an more deeply, he has studied through Level 5 of our Arabic program. He holds a computer science degree from the University of Pennsylvania and works as a software engineer in New York City.

Yusuf grew up in Corona, California, and memorized the Qur’an at Al Rashid Islamic Institute in Cornwall, Canada. He later earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC San Diego. Since returning from Canada in 2016, he has taught Qur’an reading and memorization at mosques in his area, with a special focus on pronunciation, rhythm, and flow. He now lives in New York and teaches Qur’an with us.

Zahraa has lived in Florida, Jordan, and California. She completed her Hifz in Amman, Jordan, in 2014, received her ijāzah that same year, and stayed on to study Arabic. Her Islamic studies began in middle school at the Institute of Knowledge and continued through junior high in Jordan. Today she is pursuing a bachelor’s in Liberal Arts and Islamic Studies at Zaytuna College and hopes to build a career in dentistry.

Abdullah is a Southern California native who completed his Hifz at 18 at the Institute of Knowledge (IOK) in Diamond Bar. He teaches online with Umar Academy and joined our Qur’an team in Spring 2025. His lessons are clear and well structured, with a strong focus on precise, accurate recitation.

Fatima was born and raised in Southern California and finished memorizing the Qur’an at 14 through the Institute of Knowledge (IOK). She is working toward an ijaza in Hifz with Umm Abdullah of Jordan and plans to study medicine. She has taught with us since January 2023.

Faheem comes from Atlanta, Georgia, and finished memorizing the Qur’an at 14 at the Georgia Islamic Institute. He went on to earn a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech and worked as a technology consultant. He learned Arabic as one of our students before joining the teaching team. A former sub-regional coordinator for YM Atlanta, he now studies the Islamic sciences full-time at Darul Qasim College.

Umayma has taught Arabic for more than ten years and holds a degree in English Translation from Yarmouk University in Jordan. She has taught with the Peace Corps and the Qasid Institute, covering Classical and Modern Standard Arabic as well as media, literary, and diplomatic Arabic. She is an ACTFL-certified Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Tester and loves helping our students reach their language goals.

Amro grew up in Dallas, Texas, and studied Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also took two semesters of Arabic. He kept learning on his own while working as a software engineer, then completed all seven courses in our part-time Arabic program. After that he spent nine months studying Arabic through immersion in Egypt. Now back in the U.S., he continues his studies online and teaches with us.

Fathima was raised in Southern California and completed her Hifz at 18 with Ustadha Aadila Kharsany and Ustadha Ayesha Ansari. She took a gap year to study Classical Arabic with Imam Adam Jamal, then earned a B.S. in Biomedical Sciences at Arizona State University, followed by an MPH and medical school at the University of Arizona. She has taught Qur’anic Arabic for more than a decade and co-wrote Understand Qur’anic Arabic: Arabic Made Easy. She is finishing the ‘Alimiyyah program at Qalam Institute while working as an emergency medicine resident physician.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Inaya began memorizing the Qur’an at 10 at the African American Islamic Institute in Senegal, where she spent four years learning the Warsh recitation. She then studied for a year at Zaynab Umm al-Mu’minīn in Morocco. Her other teachers include Imam Hamzah Abdul-Malik of Miraaj Academy and, for Tajwid, Ustadh Ashir Kirk. Now a student at Zaytuna College, she continues her memorization with Qari Amar Bellaha and teaches Arabic and Qur’an on our team.

Iman studied in the Shaykh-ul-Hind program at Darul Qasim and holds an ijāzah in the Ḥafṣ ‘an ‘Āṣim recitation. In close to ten years of teaching, she has taught Qur’an, Qāʿidah, Tajwīd, Ḥifẓ, Arabic, and Islamic Studies at Masjid Uthman, Monarch Academy, Islamic Foundation School, and Carriers of Light. She has worked with every age group, from preschoolers to adults, and works to make her classes safe, engaging, and supportive.

Jannah grew up in the Bay Area and memorized the Qur’an under her father’s guidance, starting at 8 and finishing at 14. She studied Arabic at Darul Qasim’s Bay Area branch, graduated high school early, and moved to Chicago in 2021 to study full-time at Darul Qasim College, where she is now in her fifth year of the Intermediate Islamic Studies Program. She is four ajzā’ away from completing her ijazah in Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim through ṭarīq ash-Shāṭibiyyah, speaks at local ḥalaqahs and masājid, and hopes to one day serve as a muftiyah.

Basil grew up between the UAE and the Bay Area and memorized the Qur’an by 14. He went on to study all ten canonical qirā’āt and received ijāza to teach them at Recite with Love. After earning BAs in Economics and Applied Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2019, he began working full-time as an economist in antitrust litigation. For more than five years he has pursued advanced Islamic studies, including Tafsīr, Hadith, Shāfi’ī and Hanafī Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, ‘Aqīda, Tajwīd, ‘Ulum al-Qur’an, and Arabic literature, and he is now an ‘Alimiyyah student at Qalam Institute in Dallas. He researches and writes on Qur’anic studies and Tafsīr under his teachers’ guidance, and recently published a short book, “Within its Depths: How the Canonical Recitations Affect the Meaning of the Qur’an.”

Raised in Chino Hills, California, Arhum memorized the Qur’an at the Institute of Knowledge and later earned a B.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. A growing love for the Islamic sciences in college took him to Amman, Jordan, to study Classical Arabic at the Qasid Institute. There he read core texts across the Islamic sciences and earned several ijazat in Arabic grammar, most notably from Shaykh Ali Hani, along with one of the shortest chains of Qur’an recitation in the world, from Shaykh Muhammad Noor. After returning home he worked as a Product Manager at Zelle. Today he leads Kitaab Academy as its Founder and CEO.

Aashir also grew up in Chino Hills, California, and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He works full-time as a Senior Audit Associate while studying for his CPA license. What drives his work with us is helping Muslims build a stronger bond with the Qur’an.