Approx 15/16 weeks - Starting 16th May 2025
In 2022, we launched the Discover the Quran course - a 14 week sprint through all 114 chapters providing a brief overview of the central themes of each Surah.
Now, we are delighted to continue with a full line-by-line tafsir of the Quran in a new course, Journey through the Quran.
Students have the option to either register per semester or purchase the full course, comprising eight semesters in total.
Join Shaykh Dr Asim Yusuf for this unique and long awaited next semester of Quran tafsir, consisting a complete commentary on the Quran. We will be covering 1/4 juz each week, looking at the meaning, context and guidance of the entire Quran.
This third semester will cover from Suras al-Araf to Sura Yunus - around 1/8th of the Quran. It will also provide an analysis of 15 popular English-language translations, to help students navigate the minefield of options.
Shaykh Asim Yusuf on the Journey through the Quran
Weekly recorded video presentations uploaded, each covering 1/4 juz of the Quran (about 5 pages of the ‘Saudi’ Quran)
Approx 16 weekly videos split over each semester (approx 4 months)
Once Monthly in-person sessions at our new Centre in Wolverhampton, The Light House
Suras al-A'raf, al-Anfal, Tauba and Yunus
In total, the entire tafsir will require eight semesters (120 sessions). The dates of further semesters will be announced when the current semester draws to a close. You will need to enrol for each semester separately, though we have also provided an option to enrol for all 8 semesters in one go and save on fees. To enrol for the full course, you can visit https://education.nuralhabib.org/courses/journey-through-the-quran-full-course
When you enrol for the course, you will be emailed instructions to create a student account on Thinkific, which is our chosen learning platform. You can select your own password to create the account. Don't forget to save your login details as you will require it to access the student platform. Your logins are only known to you and you may use them to securely access your courses. As we offer other courses on our website, we advise ALWAYS using the SAME email for enrolling on any of our courses so all your courses are kept together on one account. If you use multiple emails to enrol, you will need to access that course using the email you used to register.
Mainly yes, a recorded video presentation of the lesson will be uploaded each week to the learning platform, which you may access using your log in details when you enrol for the course. There will also be an in-person session held each month providing an opportunity for those students who live in the local vicinity of the West Midlands, UK to sit with the teacher and to ask their questions too.
Due to the nature of our learning platform, cross sharing isn't made possible. We do not permit sharing the course with others outside your home, however we do encourage members of your immediate family/ household (spouses/parents and kids etc.) to sit together and listen to the lessons
The monthly in-person session will be held at our new premise, The Light House (formerly known as the ECC Sports & Social Club), Showell Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 9LU. The first in-person session is on the 16th of May 2025 at 8pm. The session will be approx 90 minutes in duration. The rest of the live in-person dates for 2025 can be found on the table below.
The monthly sessions will consist of a recap of the themes of each juz upon its completion. There will also be an opportunity for questions raised during the month to be answered. Lastly, a specific Quran related topic will be introduced during each live session.
Yes. We will determine the best method for live streaming the lesson and provide the link to you on the student platform.
The Light House (formerly ECC Sports and Social Club), Showell Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 9LU
The monthly livestream link:
TIME |
DATE |
SESSION |
20.00 |
16/05/25 |
Intro Session |
20.00 |
6/06/25 |
Recap 8th Juz |
20.00 |
4/07/25 |
Recap 9th Juz |
20.00 |
1/08/25 |
Recap 10th Juz |
20.00 |
12/09/25 |
Recap 11th Juz |
Please note some of the in-person's session dates may be subject to change due to Shaykh's schedule. So please keep an eye on this table as we will amend dates if required.
Biography
Shaykh Dr Asim is one of the most senior English speaking scholars in the UK, and has studied widely and received authorisation from senior scholars from around the world. In particular, he is considered an international authority in Islamic Psychology and its philosophy, and a specialist in Islamic bioethics, astronomy, and metaphysics.
Most pertinently for this course, he has engaged in detailed readings of a number of major classical works of tafsir with some of the most senior scholars in the world. In addition to a general permission to teach tafsir, he has a specific authorisation to transmit the tafsir works of Ibn Kathir, al-Baydawi, al-San’ani, al-Nasafi, al-Zamakhshari, as well as the Itqan and other Quran-centric works of Imam al-Suyuti – all with multiple unbroken chains of transmission.
His studies have included the majority of the branches of the Islamic sciences, including advanced study of theology, philosophy, Islamic law (primarily Hanafi, but also basic studies of the Shafii and Maliki schools), Quranic hermeneutics, the principles of hadith critique, juristic principles (both approaches), the grammar and philosophy of the Arabic language, classical and modern logic, western and Islamic rhetoric, hadith commentary, shamail and tasawwuf. He has taught most of these subjects over the years.
He also narrates with specific the six canonical works of hadith, as well as the Muwatta of Malik and several other major classical works of hadith, via some of the best and highest chains of transmission in the world. Each of these entailed either complete or near-complete readings with over thirty senior scholars.
He teaches advanced classes in analytical theology, metaphysics, the philosophy of Islamic law and the theoretical study of mystical experience. Since 2014, he has been engaged in a complete reading, commentary and analysis of the Ihya Ulum al-Din of Imam Ghazali, and has to date completed the first third of the forty volumes with his students.
Professionally, the Shaykh is a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director for Mental Health Services in the Black Country, with a special interest in Islamic spirituality and mental health, about which he is regularly invited to lecture internationally at Universities, including Oxford, Cardiff, Chicago and Toronto.
He is the author of several books, most notably Shedding Light on the Dawn, as well as being a poet and lyricist better known by his pseudonym Talib al-Habib, with three well-received nasheed albums to his name. Shaykh Asim is the Emeritus and Founding Chair of the British Board of Scholars and Imams, the largest and most diverse scholarly organisations in the Western world.
