Year of Quran Instructor Bios

Hafidha Rana has been teaching girls and women in Jannah Institute since 2013. She has successfully graduated more than 13 hafizat from the Jannah Institute Pearls Program (hifz program for young girls) between 2013-2017 and continue to teach women proper recitation and memorization .She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and her teaching diploma at the Syrian University in Damascus. She memorized the Qur’an in Beirut, Lebanon with shaykha Nahed Khalil Khattab and received her Hifz Ijazah and Al-jazariyya poem (certification) in the recitation of Hafis ‘an Asim from the highest authority of Qur’an memorization in Syria under Shaykh Muhyee Ad Deen AlKurdi in 2002 and Since then, she has taught Qur’an with tajweed and Al-Jazariyya .She loves teaching the Qur’an and is filled with joy when her students proceed forward in their Qur’an pronunciation or memorization. She feels that it is essential for every woman to dedicate time to improve her spiritual life by learning the Qur’an and other Islamic knowledge. As a mother of five, she knows the importance of balancing between a woman duties and her pursuit of knowledge in preparation for the Day of Judgement.

First introduced to Jannah Institute by a friend in 2018, Hafidha Ayat’s serious learning journey began as a student of Dr. Haifaa. Memorization of the Quran was completed shortly before the start of this journey Alhamdulila and was accompanied by the passion to focus on learning the means of purification of the heart, Tazkiyah. Since being introduced to Jannah Institite, she has been enrolled in the Tazkiyah, Quran and Hifth revision courses with Dr. Haifaa. With a love for sports and math, Ayat is energetically motivated to help and encourage other sisters in their Hifth journey incorporating summary sheets and memorization tips she has been taught along the way.

Hafidha Fatima Rashid has been teaching Tajweed since 2007. She completed the Tajweed course from Dar Al Huda Quran school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She then went on to teach in the same school. After moving to Madinah she started teaching online and has been teaching online since 2013. Hafidha Fatima Rashid obtained an Ijaazah in the Jazariyyah from Sheikhah Rabeeah Shad. She obtained an ijaazah in the three books of tajweed written by Sheikhah Kareema Czerespinski from Sheikhah herself, Alhamdulillah. She has memorized the Quran by the grace of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'laa and is  studying different Qira’aat from the Qira’aat Al Ashr min tarqeeq Ash Shatibiyyah (the 10 methods of recitation by the way of Ash Shatibiyyah) She is very passionate about teaching tajweed. Her aim and hope is to help as many students as possible to be able to recite the Quran correctly as our beloved Prophet (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) recited.

Ustadha Nezha is originally from Morocco, and a mom of a 10 year old. She completed her studies in Itqan at Jannah Institute during 2015-2018. She started memorizing the Quran at Jannah Institute. In January 2019, she started teaching the Perfecting Quran course, and last school year 2019-2020, she started teaching the Quran for Beginners course.

Hafidha Lina is originally from Syria. She currently lives in Saint Louis, MO. She holds a degree in public health and architecture. The degree she honors the most is the one I have in Qur’an. Usatatha Lina describes her journey with the Holy Quran as one that “teaches me that sincerity is what matters most. Hard work and persistence is the boat that drives you to your goal. However, sincerity drives you safely.”  She has taught Tajweed’s rules in theory and in practice in small private classes, and has been teaching for the Jannah Institute since August of 2019. Her goal is to have students perfecting their recitation of the Holy Quran, and eventually, become teachers themselves and transfer the knowledge to other students.

Hafidha Amina Mujela-Botic finished her Bachelor’s degree at Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at department of Islamic Theology, as one of the highest ranked students and the receiver of the Golden badge from the University of Sarajevo. She was a student assistant for the Qira’atu-l-Qur’an class at Faculty of Islamic studies, and is currently at Islam in Europe master’s studies at the same faculty. Amina has three years of experience in teaching classes of Qur’an, tajweed, Arabic letters and hifdh of the Qur’an, and has  completed her hifdh of the Qur’an. She studied the Qur’an under Shaykh qurra hafidh Armin Abaza, Shaykh qurra hafidh Dzevad Sosic, and Shaykh hafidh Kenan Music.

Ustadha Shaista's journey of learning tajweed began when she took the Alhuda online course in 2009. After that, she enrolled in the very first batch of Jannah Institute students joining to improve their tajweed with Ustatha Rowhea Nawa. In 2015, she completed her Itqaan course with Ustatha Alaa at JI. She started teaching in 2014 during the weekends. Starting in 2015, she taught the Itqaan Course for 3 years. Currently she is focusing on teaching Tajweed in Urdu.

Hafidha Tasneem completed her master’s degree in computer science from the University of Arizona in 2011 and began her Qur’ān journey shortly afterwards. She studied under Ustadha Badia Khazaal of Southern California for nearly 5 years, completing her hifth and earning an ijāzah in the recitation of Ḥafṣ by the way of Shāṭibiyyah. Currently, she is working on strengthening her memorization by studying the mutashābihāt of the Qur’ān under Dr. Haifaa Younis. She is also studying the ten variant readings of the Qur’ān under Shaykh Uthman Khan of Critical Loyalty. For the past two years, she has been teaching introductory tajweed to a small group of adult sisters in her local community in Houston, Texas.