The “Why Islam Is True” course is designed to move the statement “Islam is True” from the realm of subjective cultural preference to the domain of objective fact. The course seeks to establish that faith can be secured through evidence and rational proof, allowing a person’s belief to remain firm regardless of the challenges they may face. It systematically contrasts the Islamic worldview — which identifies God as a Necessary Being — with the materialistic worldview, which denies God and objective purpose.

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish between facts and preferences, identifying facts as objective statements describing reality and preferences as subjective statements.
• Reject the “Atheist Faith Frame”, which incorrectly claims that science is based on facts while religion is based solely on faith.
• Demonstrate the existence of God through logical frameworks, including the Argument from Contingency, the Kalam Cosmological Argument, and the Design Argument.
• Define God as a Volitional Agent — possessing life, knowledge, will, and power — rather than an abstract, lifeless force.
• Explain the core definition of Islam as a provable fact based on three pillars: God’s existence/creation, the messengership of Muhammad, and the reality of resurrection and the Day of Judgement.
• Address the “Problem of Evil” by understanding suffering as a temporary test within a broader divine purpose, spiritual purification, and the transcendent wisdom of God.
• Provide evidence for the Quran’s divine origin by examining its literary inimitability and the testification of non-Muslim scholars.

Target Audience

Authentic Islam: A Journey to Learn Deen the Right Way is a multi-day course designed to provide a methodology for obtaining verified religious knowledge in an era of potential confusion. The course highlights that seeking answers based on personal desire, convenience, or the popularity of a speaker often leads to error. Instead, it presents an authentic Islamic framework for deriving answers from traditional sources like the Quran and Hadith.

Learning Objectives

• Acquire authentic answers to religious questions by following established traditional frameworks rather than individual interpretation.
• Identify the primary sources of Islamic law, which include the Quran, Hadith, Ijtihad (scholarly reasoning), and Ijma (consensus).
• Understand the criteria for an authentic expert (Mujtahid), specifically their required mastery of Arabic sciences, Quranic sciences, Hadith sciences, and Fiqh sciences.
• Distinguish between authentic experts and deviant or false experts by evaluating their qualifications, experience, and adherence to the Islamic tradition.
• Recognise the validity of different schools of thought (Madhabs) and understand why legitimate scholarly differences exist.
• Protect themselves from deviance by learning to identify when an “expert” has disconnected from tradition or is being led by personal desires and political gain.

Intended Audience

An Urdu adaptation of the ESM programme designed specifically for Ulama, Madrassah students, and Urdu-medium senior faculty. It addresses modern religious skepticism — its causes and its impact on youth — while introducing core epistemology and the sources-of-knowledge framework (Logic, Science, Philosophy, History, Religion).

It equips educators with clear concepts and practical tools to understand doubts and guide students with wisdom and confidence.

Target Audience