Online Quran Classes in Australia for Kids & Adults, 1-to-1

Murouj Academy offers live one-to-one online Quran classes with native Arab teachers, including ijazah holders, female teachers for women and girls, and a free trial class with a teacher matched to you. Australian families book every class in their own state's time.

The essentials for Australian families

• How lessons run: private, live, teacher-and-student only; no group sessions, ever. Each learner gets a plan built around them, in sessions of 30, 45 or 60 minutes, between two and five days a week.
• Progress reports: your family has its own WhatsApp group, with a written report after each lesson on performance, topics covered, homework and teacher's notes.
• Your state's time: bookings are made in AEST or AEDT, ACST or ACDT, or AWST, whether you're in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin or Perth.
• Who teaches: native Arabic speakers from the Arab world, including ijazah holders, a good number of them Al-Azhar graduates or Al-Azhar certified.
• The company behind it: Murouj LLC, registered in the United States. There's no Australian office or ABN, and the WhatsApp line, +1 (315) 541-8837, is an American number you can message from anywhere.
• Free trial: your first class is a free one-to-one trial with the teacher we match you with. The teacher checks the level and suggests a plan. No obligation to buy a package.

Online Quran classes for kids in Australia

At Murouj Academy a child studies alone with the teacher, live and online. Parents tell us what the child needs and we match an available native Arab teacher for the free trial; girls always get a female teacher, and most children do. The youngest students are 4. Committing means your child keeps the same teacher. Sessions are 30, 45 or 60 minutes, after school, in the evening or on weekends, in AEST/AEDT, ACST/ACDT or AWST.

• Teacher: a native Arab teacher matched to your child by us.
• Girls: women teachers only.
• Consistency: your child stays with the teacher you commit to.
• Ages: four and up with several teachers.
• Parents: a parent or guardian handles bookings for under-18s and the child's online safety around sessions, as our terms state.

See online Quran classes for kids for how the lessons, the learning path and child safety work.

Class times by Australian city

• AEST/AEDT: Sydney and Melbourne
• AEST, with no daylight saving: Brisbane
• ACST/ACDT: Adelaide
• AWST: Perth

Everything is online, so Perth or Sydney only changes the clock; times are set in your local zone.

Cities

• Sydney: before-school and Saturday-morning lessons, subject to teacher availability.
• Melbourne: early-morning and Saturday lessons, subject to teacher availability.

Everything is taught online by native Arabic speakers.

Classes that fit your family's schedule

Our teachers work around your timetable and book every class in your local time, whether you're on AEST, ACST or AWST, with or without daylight saving. Families book after-school, evening or weekend slots and can adjust them around school terms and holidays. We're flexible, and you pick the times that suit you when you book your free trial.

How do Quran classes fit the Australian school year?

Schools here run four terms, with term holidays in between and the long summer break from December to late January. Exact dates vary by state, yet the pattern is shared nationwide, and private lessons can bend around it:

• In term time, weekday slots straight after school or after tea line up best with our teachers. Pick anything from two to five lessons a week.
• Weekend sport. Saturdays are often netball, footy, cricket or swimming. Lessons can sit on weekday afternoons or evenings instead, so weekends stay free for the oval and the family.
• Term breaks and trips away: give your teacher plenty of notice and sort out any changes between you.
• Summer holidays are a great window for momentum, especially in memorisation. Message us on WhatsApp to ask if extra lessons through December and January are possible with your teacher.

Meet some of our teachers

Murouj Academy only takes on teachers who are native Arabic speakers from the Arab world. Some hold an ijazah, and each profile says which.

An ijazah is a formal, chain-based authorisation from a qualified teacher, certifying that the holder has mastered a body of knowledge such as Quran recitation and may teach it and certify others; a parent or friend who knows the Quran can help, but isn't a certified teacher. For the different kinds, see the meaning and types of ijazah.

Lessons are in English or Arabic, and most teachers speak English, which matters for kids raised speaking English in Australia. A good number of the teachers trained at or hold certification from Al-Azhar, and every profile spells out that teacher's own background and ijazah.

Read about our teachers if you like. We match you with an available teacher for a free class, and you commit only when it feels right. The match is made for your needs, never at random, and we change the teacher if it isn't working.

Teachers for sisters, brothers and children

Women and girls are always taught by female teachers, adult men by male teachers; for boys you can tell us whether you would like a female or a male teacher. Most of our younger students end up with a woman teacher. That rule is guaranteed, so mums and daughters can book knowing a woman will always be on the screen.

Is learning online with Murouj Academy safe?

Here is what we can honestly confirm today, without dressing it up:

• Lessons are one-on-one and live on Zoom, Google Meet or Halqora, Murouj's own online classroom software.
• Female students only ever have female teachers.
• Parents tell us what the child needs, and we match the teacher for the free trial before anyone commits.
• For under-18s a parent or guardian handles bookings and supervises internet use around classes, as our terms say.
• If something about a teacher worries you, tell us straight away on WhatsApp or by email.

Working With Children Checks are run by each state and territory and are built around Australian records. Our teachers live and teach outside Australia, so they can't hold one, and we don't claim they do. Feel free to ask us how classes are kept safe over WhatsApp before the trial.

Murouj Academy follows Islamic etiquette for privacy: when a female teacher teaches a female student, no non-mahram man can see the student. Read how privacy and etiquette work in our lessons.

Lessons are never recorded, and parents are welcome to sit in; with a female teacher the room is for women only.

Choosing between our courses

Every course is private, between teacher and student. A rough guide for where Australian learners begin:

• Little ones usually start on the Arabic alphabet and early reading through Qaida classes for beginners, and plenty pair it with Islamic studies, covering manners, worship and the prophets' stories.
• Readers who can read but make mistakes take Quran tajweed for the rules or Quran recitation correction to be corrected as they recite; those ready to commit the Quran to heart take Quran memorisation.
• Adult beginners can begin from the Arabic alphabet in the Qaida classes for beginners, with evening lessons that fit around work, women taught by women and men by men. See Quran classes for adults.
• Learners keen to understand the Arabic of the Quran can add Standard Arabic.
• Teenagers who want the basics of Islam can take Islamic studies for teens, adults who want the meaning of the Quran can take Understand the Quran: basic tafsir, and children can take Arabic for kids.

Still deciding? The free trial settles it: the teacher gauges the student's level and recommends a starting point.

Getting started with a free trial

1. Reach out through the free trial form or on WhatsApp, letting us know your state, the learner's age and aims, and whether a woman or man should teach.
2. We match you with a teacher, based on what you tell us, and line up a time in your state's zone with them.
3. Sit the trial lesson. It's a genuine private class: the teacher assesses the student and proposes a plan. Carry on afterwards with a package of two to five lessons a week, each 30, 45 or 60 minutes.

Before you enrol

Quick answers for Australian students and parents.

• Format. Strictly one-to-one. Lessons of 30, 45 or 60 minutes are set in Australian time.
• Your teacher. We match you for the free trial class, switch you if the fit is off, and you commit when it feels right. Women and girls study with female teachers.
• Cancellations. Cancel up to three hours ahead, at most twice a month, and the lesson is made up on another day. Inside that window a genuine emergency such as illness, a device problem or an internet problem is accepted and the lesson is made up on another day. Without an acceptable reason, or if nobody joins, the lesson is charged in full with no make-up day, and a lesson booked in its place is billed as a new one. If a teacher cannot make it, the lesson is made up too.
• Invoices. One a month, in Australian dollars, payable by PayPal or Wise.

Lesson plans for families in Australia

Families in Australia can choose from four lesson plans, all one-to-one: Beginner (2 classes a week), Intermediate (3), Advanced (4) and Fluency (5). Lessons for students in Australia last 30, 45 or 60 minutes, and every plan includes a free trial class. Payment is by Wise, PayPal or bank transfer.

Plans start from A$7.50 per 30-minute lesson. For detailed pricing, contact us or book a free trial.

Do students stick with it?

Most of our students stay with us for more than a year. Hear it from them directly on the reviews page.