Al Hiraa & Suffah
From 2021 to Today
Home Tuitions & A Growing Vision
- Al Hiraa begins as small home-based Qur'an and Islamic studies circles
- Students responded quickly word spread through families and communities
- Demand outgrew what WhatsApp groups and notebooks could manage
- A vision forms: not just tuition, but a structured institution with proper systems
AHIC Formally Established
- Al Hiraa Islamic Coaching Centre (AHIC) officially founded
- Structured Islamic programs launched for students aged 425 years
- Subjects: Tajweed, Qur'anic Recitation, Hifz, Functional Arabic
- Classes begin both offline locally and primarily through online sessions
The Need for Suffah
- Every existing LMS Teachable, Thinkific, Moodle, Google Classroom evaluated
- None could track prayer compliance, parental oversight, or enforce role separation
- Decision: build a dedicated Islamic learning platform from scratch
- Suffah is conceived an Islamic education system, not a rebranded generic tool
Core Infrastructure Built
- Architecture: Next.js 15 App Router, TypeScript, PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM
- Four-role auth system Admin, Teacher, Student, Guardian via NextAuth v5
- Course management, enrollment pipelines, and admin dashboard completed
- RFC 5545 RRULE scheduling engine for recurring classes
The Classroom Goes Live
- LiveKit WebRTC integration built-in video classroom, no third-party dependency
- tldraw collaborative whiteboard embedded into every live session
- Persistent in-session chat with full message history
- Automatic attendance marking triggered on session join and leave
Namaz Tracker & Guardian Portal
- Namaz Prayer Tracker launched five daily prayers, monthly summaries, CSV export
- Guardian Portal dedicated parent accounts with ward-level visibility
- Bidirectional feedback system: teachers to students and students to teachers
- Prayer and attendance data linked across teacher, student, and guardian dashboards
Role-Specific Dashboards
- Recharts-powered analytics dashboards for all four user roles
- Attendance CSV export printable, parent-ready, date-filtered
- Admin KPI dashboard: active students, course growth, enrollment trends
- Teacher performance metrics: session rates, feedback history, student progress
Suffah in Full Operation
- Full feature suite live and running daily within Al Hiraa
- Every enrolled student attends live classes, tracks prayers, and gets parent reporting
- Upcoming courses: Qiraat, Calligraphy, Qur'anic Tarjuma
- Every future update informed by real teachers, students, and families
In Honoured Memory
A Legacy of Mercy
Al Hajj, Al Hafiz, Late Dr. Noor ul Huq
طَلَبُ الْعِلْمِ فَرِيضَةٌ عَلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ
“Knowledge is not a possession it is a trust. And a trust must be passed on.”
Dr. Noor ul Huq Teacher, Scholar, Benefactor
The establishment of Al Hiraa Islamic Coaching Centre was made possible through the profound generosity of Al Hajj, Al Hafiz, late Dr. Noor ul Huq Saheb. By providing the space for this Centre, he planted a seed of Sadaqah Jariyah ongoing charity that continues to flourish with every verse recited and every lesson learned within these walls.
His life gave this institution its soul. His generosity gave it its home. Suffah, the platform we built to run that institution, is named in acknowledgement of his legacy: that sacred knowledge, properly structured, can outlast any single teacher.
May Allah (SWT) have mercy upon Dr. Noor ul Huq Saheb, accept this noble act, and grant him a place in the highest ranks of Jannatul Firdaus. Ameen.
A Life Devoted to Teaching
Al Hajj, Al Hafiz, late Dr. Noor ul Huq dedicated decades to teaching Qur'an, Arabic, and Islamic Studies not from formality, but from deep sincerity. He believed knowledge was a trust belonging to every Muslim regardless of means.
Generosity Without Condition
He funded students who could not pay. He opened space as a classroom. He never allowed financial circumstance to become a barrier to sacred learning. Generosity was not occasional for him it was his character.
The Seed of Al Hiraa
His model of teaching personal, accountable, spiritually grounded shaped Al Hiraa's founding principles. By providing the space for this Centre, he planted a seed of Sadaqah Jariyah that continues to flourish with every verse recited and every lesson learned here.
The Inspiration Behind Suffah
Suffah is our answer to a question he lived by: how do we make this accessible, trackable, and lasting? Technology cannot replace a teacher. But it can honour one by making the institution he made possible impossible to lose.
His Work, Continued
The Platform Is the Promise
Every feature in Suffah the Namaz Tracker, the Guardian Portal, the live classroom exists because a real teacher showed us what education grounded in ibadah and accountability looks like. We build technology to protect and continue that model, not replace it.