2017, 2018, 2019 Going By

As cliche as it sounds, it's actually been a long time, three years to be exact, that we haven't updated this blog.

Too many things have happened in between, but inshaAllah one of the things I plan to do this year is to restart writing and reactivate this blog.

So what are we at iLuvQuran working on now?

2017 

Umi Irah on the final closing date of submission, decided to apply for the Teraju Superb Series 2 grant competition. The main motivation was to be able to gain more capital so we could improve and share our creative Quran learning modules with more children.

Alhamdulillah, iLuvQuran was one of the ten winners amongst 800+ applicants nationwide.

2018

We launched our Quranic Seedlings year 1 module as our iLuvQuran Hifdz Activity Module (ILHAM) covering eleven surahs from Surah Al-Fatihah to Surah Al-Fiil and alhamdulillah we had twelve institutions subscribe to license and use the modules in their schools.

iLuvQuran joined Malaysia Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC)'s Amplify Accelerate programme in our process to be certified as a social enterprise. Alhamdulillah we passed the first round of assessment and pitching.

2019

The modules are officially sent and used in the subscriber schools, after an intense training session in December.

Our team made a benchmarking and sales & marketing trip to Finland and UK. Alhamdulillah we came back with tonnes of knowledge to improve our modules and implementation in Malaysia, as well as the best collaboration: Islamia Primary School UK, the school founded by brother Yusuf Islam, was very excited to become our pilot school to implement our ILHAM system in UK!!! Alhamdulillah, Allahu akbar!

We're still working on improving our modules and approach to benefit our children and to ease the burden of Quran teachers. Tomorrow we'll be testing REQA, another Superb Teraju series 2 winner who makes educational blocks as learning toys as one of the tools for our next ILHAM module for the next ten surahs.

Are you or your school interested to learn more about how to make Quran lessons in your schools and institutions more exciting, creative and engaging for children?

Contact us at our website on our Facebook/ Instagram page, we would be happy to visit your institution to do a FREE storytelling session with Quran understanding activities at your school!

Together we can improve Quran lessons for our children, and in turn create a better future society built on children who love, understand and memorize the Quran.

iLuvQuran
Your Journey to Loving the Quran

Much love,
Umi Irah

March, April and May plans

Bismillahi rahmani rahim

Alhamdulillahi rabbil 'alamin wassolatu wassalamu 'ala rasuluhil mubeen

All praises to Allah, we are soon entering our third month of operation. Alhamdulillah too, all our classes for Q Babies, Quranic Seedlings and Junior Al-Hafiz are full. The Quranic Coaching classes still have some space, for adults and teenagers. 

(A mother and daughter working together during Q Babies playgroup class)

Our Dream Team is working very hard to ensure the current students are understand, memorize and apply the lessons they've learnt at their current levels. Memorization, particularly is one of the main focus areas as iLuvQuran is a tahfiz center, and we are currently looking at the memorization rate and progress for all our students on a daily basis. From the data, inshaAllah we identify areas for improvement.  

Apart from that, our current goals for these coming two months are:

1. Getting a new class up for Quranic Seedlings, pending an interview session to identify the best candidate to teach our young stars. Alhamdulillah so far we already have a few student names on the waiting list. 

2. Start working on a specific module for teenagers. Our experience with teenagers memorizing the Quran is that there is a general lack  of motivation, understanding, and, as a consequence, love of Allah's message in their hearts. Of course, with the constant bombarding of social media, television, YouTube etc, all these things, unfortunately, look much more exciting than reading and memorizing Qur'an. And at the age of 13-17, no one, not even parents, can force them the way younger children can be coerced into learning something they don't want to. Thus, this is an area that we really want to develop to help build a better generation of teenagers who are closer to the Quran, and Allah. 

In case you are wondering, for the Q Babies, Quranic Seedlings and Junior Al-Hafiz classes, we do make our own modules and lesson plans for the classes- to ensure our students not only memorize, but understand the main messages in a fun way! InshaAllah we will soon start working on a specific module for teenagers too. 

Please make du'a that Allah gives us taufiq and hidayah to create a great solution to increase the understanding and love of our teenagers to the Qur'an while they memorize. Amin 

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim - the first step

Alhamdulillahi rabbil 'alamin

Wassolatu wassalamu 'ala Rasulillah

All praise to Alah that He has allowed our dreams to set up an out-of-this-world Quran memorization a.k.a tahfiz center to come true. 

Keep yourself posted to our latest updates by subscribing to our blog! 

Wabillahi taufiq walhidayah

Al faqir ilaAllah

The poor one in search and longing for her Lord