Pukhtana’s Blog

I have discovered, although slightly late, that you can learn the quran online with a tutor.

The quality of teaching is very good, and mostly you can get 30 min lessons though you do have to if you don’t speak languages like Urdu bear with the slightly rough English as most of the tutors are from Pakistan, and their explanations on where you pronounce/form the letters in the mouth(makhrij/makharij) can be slightly off if you don’t have a basic understanding of the Arabic Alphabet.

I know that people have taken these lessons and have sucessfully learnt to recite the quran but what i really really really feel is being lost, is the essence of teaching the quran for free!

Islam is not a religion only for those that can afford it, and is not to be sold and marketed like i think it is being with these tutors. It is not a business where they are making a profit, i am sorry but that really does hurt me, i have lived in pakistan i am aware of prices there but i am 100% certain alot of these prices are set to make  profit. That is wrong.

My mum says to me that in her village, and i think a lot of the villages/areas in Pukhtunkhwa, you went to the mosque or to the house of the quran teacher, and they taught you, they gave you their time, and expected what in return? That you learn, and that you practice and that Allah rewards them. 

At the end of each major step in the learning process, e.g. finishing the qaidah, finishing the recitation of the whole Quran, Khatam, the mothers or family of the student would give a gift to the Teacher or give a seasonal or yearly gift as a token of gratitude and respect, the teachers were happy with that, the greater reward was and always is from Allah.

Now with these online tutors, sorry don’t make selling the Quran or the knowledge of it a business, and it is a business when you are profiting financially.

 One tutor, Allahamdulliah a Hafiz blessed by Allah with knowledge of the Quran reciation, said to me, we are not selling the Quran we are taking expenses, for our time, our internet costs and electricity costs.

I can appreciate what he is saying except when he said, i will need to discuss any changes in prices with my “partners”, basically there are groups of them teaching from the same computer, same connection – therefore costs should be lower!

Really though, i am waiting for the Ultimate Quran Tutor, the one that says yeah i will teach the quran, and i will do it for free or a minimal fee that really does just cover my costs and only that.

Why are you taking costs for your time? Is not the reward of Allah better then a financial gain that you have sacrificed your time, that is dawah, you are getting sawab for it without realising it!!

There is a  hadith:

Sahi Bukhari, Vol 9, Book 90. Wishes. Hadith 338.
Narrated By Abu Huraira : Allah’s Apostle said, “Not to wish to be the like except of two men. A man whom Allah has given the (knowledge of the) Qur’an and he recites it during the hours of night and day and the one who wishes says: If I were given the same as this (man) has been given, I would do what he does, and a man whom Allah has given wealth and he spends it in the just and right way, in which case the one who wishes says, ‘If I were given the same as he has been given, I would do what he does.’”

The above hadth clearly shows the great blessing in reciting the final message to mankind, and the reward for those that taught it, especially those that do it for free has to be substantial!

Everytime someone you have taught, recites you get a copy of that sawab, any good action that comes out of it, you get a copy for free! Is that incentive not enough, i am not saying that you do not have the right to ask for compensation for your time, but who can compensate better then Allah, and can there be such a imaandar person that would say yeah i will teach for free!

Is such a person out there?