How Students Learn Arabic at Al-Hashmi: From Noorani Qaeda to Faizul Adab

Most parents want their children to learn Arabic islamically — not as a foreign language scraped through for marks, but as the language in which the Quran, the Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and the books of the scholars are read. The question is how a schoolchild actually gets there. At Al Hashmi Academy the answer is a single graded pathway that begins with the letters of the Noorani Qaeda in kindergarten and ends with the advanced Arabic reader Faizul Adab in Classes 9 and 10, with the Minhajul Arabia series carrying the middle years. This post maps that progression book by book, shows where it leads in the advanced Deeniyat departments, and offers parents practical ways to support Arabic at home.

The Arabic Progression at a Glance

Arabic at Al Hashmi is taught as a ladder rather than a scatter of unrelated books. In order, the rungs are:

1. Noorani Qaeda — LKG and UKG: the Arabic alphabet, their sounds and combinations.
2. Alphabets plus 50 Arabic words — still in the kindergarten years: memorising fifty useful words so the script carries meaning.
3. Baghdadi Qaeda — Classes 1 and 2: fluent joining and reading, alongside Yassarnal Quran.
4. Minhajul Arabia, Parts 1–3 — Classes 6, 7 and 8: the structured Arabic reader series, paired with Naql-o-Imla (dictation) in Class 6.
5. Faizul Adab, Parts 1–2 — Classes 9 and 10: advanced Arabic reading and composition, with Arabic continued as a formal subject in Class 9.

Between the Qaeda stage and the readers sit the Quran terminals, the short suras and Tamir-e-Adab, which keep the child reading continuously while the language matures around him. Nothing on this ladder is optional, and nothing on it is skipped.

Stage by Stage: What Each Book Teaches

The kindergarten stage — letters, sounds and fifty words. In LKG and UKG the child works through the Noorani Qaeda, learning the alphabet and its combinations, and memorises 50 Arabic words alongside short passages such as Sura-e-Fatiha, Sura Asr and Sura Ikhlas, plus 5 Ahadees, 3 Kalime and the daily duas. Notice what the fifty words do: they give the child his first proof that Arabic is a living language. When he later meets the same words in prayer or in a hadith, the language stops being a puzzle and starts being familiar.

The primary stage — fluency through Baghdadi Qaeda. In Classes 1 and 2 the Baghdadi Qaeda takes the student from isolated letters to connected reading, while Yassarnal Quran puts that skill to immediate use on verses 1–3 and then 4–10, followed by short suras such as Feel, Quraish, Ma’un, Kafirun, Falaq and Naas. Reading is now a daily habit rather than a lesson.

The middle stage — Minhajul Arabia, Parts 1 to 3. Classes 6 to 8 bring the formal reader series: Minhajul Arabia Part 1 in Class 6, Part 2 in Class 7 and Part 3 in Class 8. Class 6 also adds Naql-o-Imla, dictation and transcription, which trains the ear as much as the eye — a student learns to hear exactly what is written and to write exactly what he hears. These years run beside Seerat-e-Rasul-e-Akram and, in Class 8, Tareekh-e-Habeeb-e-Ilahi, so language and history reinforce each other rather than compete.

The secondary stage — Faizul Adab, Parts 1 and 2. Class 9 takes Faizul Adab Part 1 with Arabic continued as a subject; Class 10 takes Faizul Adab Part 2 alongside Aqaid (Kitab-ul-Aqaid) and Fiqh (Bahar-e-Shari’at and Anwar-e-Shari’at). The student is now reading books written in Arabic for their own sake — exactly the skill the years of Qaeda and readers were building toward.

From School Arabic to Aalimiyat Arabic

The school ladder does not end at Faizul Adab; it feeds the post-graduate Deeniyat departments. A student who continues into the Deeniyat track meets Arabic again at a much deeper level:

• Nazirah (3 years) — basic Urdu, the Arabic Qaeda and the complete Quran, for those rebuilding or formalising their foundation.
• Aalimiyat (2 years) — Arabic, Fiqh and Usool-e-Fiqh, where the language becomes an instrument of scholarship rather than a school subject.
• Fazeelat (2 years) — Tafseer, Hadith and Aqaid: the original sciences, read in the language in which they were written.
• Imamat (1 year) — practical training in Namaz, Khutbah, Nikah and Janaza, applying everything the language made possible.

This is the whole point of the school-level progression. Every letter learned in LKG is a step toward opening a book of Tafseer or Hadith without a translation standing in between — toward the kind of scholarship the Academy’s scholars have carried within the Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah tradition for generations.

How to Learn Arabic Islamically at Home

Arabic improves fastest when school and home pull in the same direction. Nothing here replaces the teacher’s plan; these are habits that make the plan work:

• Give letters ten honest minutes a day. Short, daily, unhurried beats a long weekly session the child dreads. Consistency is the whole method.
• Keep the fifty words visible. Write them on cards, put them on the fridge, and revisit a few at dinner. Vocabulary the child sees daily becomes vocabulary he owns.
• Practise the words of prayer first. Attahiyat, the suras of daily prayer, and the duas for entering the home or the mosque give the language an immediate purpose a child can feel.
• Read with him, not over him. Sit beside the Qaeda and the reader, follow with your finger, and let him correct you sometimes — children stay with a subject in which they are useful.
• Revise before you add. A few minutes on yesterday’s lesson protects it far better than pushing into new material with tomorrow’s portion still shaky.
• Partner with the teacher. Use the parent-teacher conferences and the Academy’s online portal to ask precisely which letters, words or verses need work at home this month.
• Model respect for the language. When the family listens to the Quran together, or pauses to look up a word, the child learns that Arabic belongs to living people, not only to examinations.

The aim of home support is not to turn the kitchen into a second classroom. It is to make the language ordinary — heard, spoken and expected — so that the school’s teaching has somewhere to land.

Frequently Asked Questions

When do students begin learning Arabic at Al Hashmi?

From LKG and UKG, where children work through the Noorani Qaeda and memorise the alphabets together with 50 Arabic words, short suras, 5 Ahadees, 3 Kalime and the daily duas. Classes 1 and 2 then continue with the Baghdadi Qaeda for fluent reading alongside Yassarnal Quran.

Which Arabic books are used in the middle and secondary classes?

Minhajul Arabia Parts 1, 2 and 3 are used in Classes 6, 7 and 8 respectively, with Naql-o-Imla added in Class 6. Classes 9 and 10 use Faizul Adab Parts 1 and 2, with Arabic continued as a formal subject in Class 9.

How does school-level Arabic connect to advanced Islamic study?

It is the foundation for the post-graduate Deeniyat departments: Nazirah (basic Urdu, Arabic Qaeda, complete Quran), Aalimiyat (Arabic, Fiqh and Usool-e-Fiqh), Fazeelat (Tafseer, Hadith and Aqaid) and Imamat (Namaz, Khutbah, Nikah and Janaza). The school ladder exists so a student can read the classical texts in their original language.

How can parents help a child learn Arabic at home?

With short daily practice rather than long occasional sessions: revise the letters and the fifty vocabulary words regularly, prioritise the words of prayer and the daily duas, read alongside the child instead of supervising from a distance, and use parent-teacher conferences and the online portal to find out exactly what needs reinforcement.

One Ladder, End to End

Arabic at Al Hashmi runs as one continuous ladder: Noorani Qaeda and fifty words in kindergarten, Baghdadi Qaeda and Yassarnal Quran in the primary years, Minhajul Arabia through Classes 6 to 8, and Faizul Adab in Classes 9 and 10 — then the Aalimiyat Arabic that turns a reader into a scholar. Each rung is small; together they carry a student to the point where he can open the books of his own tradition and read them.

To find the school where your child would start climbing, see all Al Hashmi institutions across Bijapur and Dharwad, or learn about the Trust’s heritage on the about page.