Free Quran Class at Masjid UIA Gombak
Every Monday and Friday, from after Maghrib until Isyak, we hold a free Quran class at Masjid UIA, Gombak. Reading, tajwid and memorisation, taught by an ustaz and a team of teachers based at the mosque. Open to everyone, and there is nothing to pay.
When and where the Quran class at Masjid UIA Gombak runs
Monday and Friday, after Maghrib until Isyak. The class runs inside that window each of the two nights, so the exact length shifts slightly with prayer times through the year.
Masjid UIA, Gombak. This is a different location from our academy at PV8, Setapak, so if you usually come to our Monday evening class there, note that this Quran class is a separate session at a separate mosque.
Free. No fee, no registration required. Come as you are able to.
Who teaches
The class is led by an ustaz together with other teachers based at Masjid UIA, Gombak. Having more than one teacher means you are not waiting on a single person’s schedule, and it also means correction and feedback on your recitation comes more often.
All levels are welcome
You do not need to already read Arabic script fluently to come. The class holds people at different stages side by side: those still working on the basics of reading, those refining their tajwid, and those working toward memorisation.
If you are only just starting to read the Quran, our page on the free Quran and where to get a copy in your own language is a good place to begin alongside this class.
How this fits the rest of the week
This class sits alongside our other regular sessions rather than replacing any of them. The Monday evening class at PV8 covers dawah and the ethics of speaking to people, and the Thursday circle is for brothers going deeper together. This Quran class is about the text itself: reading it correctly and, for those ready, committing it to memory.
Several of our students do both, treating Monday and Friday nights at Masjid UIA as the foundation the rest of the week is built on. See the full weekly programme or the activities page for everything running this week.
Why this is worth two evenings a week
Almost every Muslim intends to fix their relationship with the Quran. Very few ever schedule it, and intention without a fixed time in the week quietly becomes nothing.
That is really what a Quran class at Masjid UIA Gombak gives you. Not secret knowledge, but two evenings that already exist in the calendar, a teacher who will hear you recite, and other people in the room who will notice if you stop coming.
The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that the best of you are those who learn the Quran and teach it (Sahih al-Bukhari). Learning comes first in that sentence, and there is no age limit attached to it.
What tajwid actually fixes
Most adults who learned to read the Quran as children are carrying mistakes they cannot hear. This is not a criticism, it is simply what happens when nobody has listened to your recitation closely in twenty years.
A letter pronounced from the wrong part of the mouth. A madd held for the wrong count. Words run together where they should stop. Each is small on its own, and together they are the difference between reading the words and reciting the Quran.
The only way this gets corrected is out loud, in front of someone qualified to hear it. No app and no video does this, because neither can hear you. That is the single strongest reason to come in person rather than continue alone.
On memorisation, honestly
People hear the word hifz and picture a child finishing the entire Quran by fourteen. That comparison stops more adults from starting than anything else, and it is the wrong comparison.
You are not competing with anyone. Memorising the short surahs of juz amma changes your prayer immediately, because those are the ones you actually recite five times a day. Most adults find that within months they are no longer repeating the same two surahs out of habit.
Slow is normal. A few lines a week, held properly and reviewed, beats a page rushed and lost. The teachers here have seen both patterns many times and will pace you honestly.
Understanding grows with it. Memorisation without meaning is a missed opportunity, and part of what happens in the room is discussing what a passage is actually saying, not only how to pronounce it.
If you would rather begin with reading before memorising, that is a completely normal path and nobody will push you further than you want to go. We have written more on the importance of memorising the Quran, and in Malay on kepentingan hafal Quran.
The reasons people give for not coming
“I am too old to start.”
The adults in this class are largely people who thought the same. Memory works differently at forty than at ten, but adults understand meaning faster, which is an advantage children do not have.
“My recitation is embarrassing.”
Then you are exactly who a class is for. The teachers correct people for a living and have heard every mistake there is. Sitting alone with the same errors is the only outcome that should embarrass anyone.
“I do not have time.”
The class sits between Maghrib and Isyak, which for most people is already an interval spent waiting rather than working. You are not adding an hour to your day so much as using one you were already losing.
“I will start after Ramadan / after this project / next year.”
Everyone says this and almost nobody returns to it. The class runs this Monday.
“I do not read Arabic well enough yet.”
Neither do several people already in the room. All levels sit together here on purpose.
What to bring, and what an evening looks like
Bring a mushaf if you own one. If you do not, come anyway and tell us, because we keep free Qurans and translations at the academy and can get one to you.
Arrive for Maghrib prayer at the mosque, and the class begins shortly afterwards. It runs until Isyak, so you finish the evening having prayed both, which is part of why this timing works so well.
You recite, a teacher listens and corrects, and you leave with something specific to work on before the next session. Those working on memorisation recite what they have held from the previous week before adding anything new, which is the part beginners tend to skip and later regret.
Why we run this alongside dawah training
It might seem unrelated to a dawah academy. It is not.
Non Muslims ask about the Quran constantly, and the daie who has only read about it in translation answers differently from the one who has recited it, sat with a teacher, and carries some of it in memory. The confidence is audible, and so is its absence.
This is the same principle behind our writing on how much knowledge you need before doing dawah. Nobody is asking you to become a scholar. But the person inviting others to a book should have a real relationship with that book, and two evenings a week is how that relationship gets built.
Our Monday evening class at PV8 teaches you how to speak to people. This class works on what you are speaking about.
Come this Monday or Friday
After Maghrib, at Masjid UIA, Gombak. No registration, no fee, and no level you need to have reached first.