Live class every Thursday Night, 7-9 pm EST
Starts October 9th, 2025
In-person in Mississauga (limited seating) or online attendance.
Class runs indefinitely, as long as it will take to finish the tafsir of the entire Qur'an (1-2 pages of the Qur'an per class)
Register anytime. Obtain access to all recordings is as long as you are enrolled.
Note: Class is open for learners of all levels, but some background in learning Islam is recommended.
Are We Truly Guided If We Do Not Understand Allah's Revelation?
What will we learn?
1) The guidance of the Qur'an for our daily lives in a time of confusion, ignorance and misapplication, when understanding its message is needed the most.
2) The Qur'an's miraculous & timeless intelligence in it's language and structure that is not immediately discernible to the casual or uninformed observer.
3) The Qur'an's instructions & counsel for our individual spiritual, intellectual and practical struggles.
4) The Qur'an's immense relevance to our current social, political and civilizational malaise.
5) The Qur'an's decisive answers to popular & important questions & challenges.
6) Important principles & rules on understanding the Qur'an the way it has been understood since the time of the Prophet SAW & how to identify false understandings of it.
Primary text used: Al-Baydawi's Anwar ul-Tanzil wa Asrar-ul-Ta'wil
Curriculum
Instructor
Samir Hussain
Samir Hussain studied Evolutionary Biology & Cosmology at McMaster University in Canada and realized that the real answers could only be found with God and in the Islamic tradition.
In 2007 he began studying Islam in English with various preachers & scholars in Canada. In 2010 he moved to Riyadh & studied the classical Islamic sciences with scholars in private, one-on-one classes. In 2016 he moved to Cairo to study Hadith. Throughout most of his studies, he worked as a professional educator at the university level.
He has ijazahs to teach most of the texts he has studied with his teachers, ranging from beginner to advanced texts across different subjects in the traditional Islamic sciences.
Samir Hussain's main research interests are in Islamic theology, Usul-ul-Fiqh & philosophy, and he is also passionate about the Arabic language. Since 2017 he has been teaching Islamic Studies full-time at the high school level. In 2018 he started the social media blog, The Usuli. In 2020 he started teaching traditional texts in the Islamic Sciences online at Fahm Education.
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