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Take what is useful. Nothing to sign up for.
Everything on this page is free and there is no form in front of it. We do not want your email address in exchange for a PDF — if you want to hear from us, message us, and if you do not, take the file and go.
Worth saying
Using these with a teacher works better than using them alone. That is not a sales line — it is why the first class is free.
The shelf
Four shelves, and you probably need one
Grouped by who is looking rather than by file type. If you are not sure which shelf you are on, you are on the first one.
These are not downloadable yet.
This page is the shelf we are building, published early so families can tell us what is missing before we make it. Every row below says "coming soon" because it is — none of them links anywhere, deliberately, rather than linking to a file that is not there.
Starting out
For a child — or an adult — who cannot yet read the Arabic script. Begin here and ignore everything else on this page.
The Arabic letters, one page
Coming soonAll twenty-eight letters in their isolated form, large enough to read across a room, with the four that get confused with each other set apart.
PDFArabic and English
Beginning, middle, end — tracing worksheet
Coming soonThe same letter in its four positions, to trace. This is the thing beginners find hardest about Arabic and the thing most charts leave out.
WorksheetArabic and English
Harakat drill — fatha, kasra, damma
Coming soonTwelve lines of nonsense syllables. Deliberately meaningless, so a student is reading the marks rather than recognising a word they already know.
WorksheetArabic
Reading and Tajweed
For someone who can read but is not sure they are reading correctly. Rules, drills, and the letters people most often get wrong.
Where each letter is made
Coming soonA diagram of the mouth and throat with the seventeen articulation points marked, and the letters that belong to each. The reference to keep open while practising.
PDFArabic and English
Tajweed rules on two pages
Coming soonIdgham, ikhfa, iqlab, izhar, the madd lengths and the rules of qalqalah — named, defined, with one example each. A summary, not a substitute for a teacher.
PDFArabic and English
Ten mistakes, said twice
Coming soonEach of the ten most common errors read wrongly and then correctly, so you can hear the difference rather than read a description of it.
AudioArabic
Juz Amma, in the order to learn it
Coming soonThe last juz arranged by difficulty rather than by page order — which is not the order a new reader is usually given, and it costs them months.
PDFArabic and English
Memorisation
Revision schedules and trackers. The hard part of Hifz is not learning new pages, it is keeping the old ones.
A revision cycle that survives a bad week
Coming soonThe sabaq, sabqi and manzil split written out as a weekly grid, with what to drop first when a week goes wrong. Most Hifz plans fail at exactly that point.
PDFEnglish
Thirty-juz tracker
Coming soonOne page, thirty rows, three columns — learnt, revised this month, secure. Printable, and blunt enough to be uncomfortable, which is the point.
WorksheetEnglish
For parents
Practical, not devotional. How to sit with a child’s practice for ten minutes a day without either of you dreading it.
Ten minutes a day, without an argument
Coming soonWhat to actually do in a short home practice session when you cannot read Arabic yourself. Listening is a skill and you already have it.
PDFEnglish
What the first three months look like
Coming soonRoughly where a student gets to, what usually stalls, and when to raise something with the teacher rather than waiting for the monthly note.
PDFEnglish
Missing something
Tell us what you needed and could not find
This shelf grows from what people ask for. If you came here looking for something specific and it is not here, that is worth a message — it is the fastest way to get it made, and you are probably not the only one who wanted it.