A picture and an update...

Assalaamu Alaykum everyone,

Sorry been so long getting my blog updated but been uber busy lately with the Da'wah and everything else.

Also had a little illness and a few personal issues but alhamdulillah everything ok.

Right so what is happening?

Well the Da'wah is getting better in my local city, we now have two, sometimes three Dawah stalls in the city centre on Saturdays, and one at least most of the rest of the week.

Quite frankly the other brothers are better at it than us, so got lots to learn from them inshallah. They are also running new muslim classes in one of the local masaajid so when we get a Shahadah we just take them to someone else and know they will be taken care of inshallah.

Tesol course is going well mashallah, it is very hard though as a word of warning for those planning on this course for next year but it is meant to be hard as a Cambridge certified TESOL course is a passport to jobs all over the world Inshallah.

But lots of note taking, two or three hours reading every week, as well as learning all the grammar they no longer teach you in school anymore and on top of that... assignments!

I've done a bit more teaching practice, and although I am a bag of nerves in my head, apparently I come across very calm and gentle and everyone including the other students and teachers say I get things across very well.

Finally here is a picture i lifted from a bnp supporting website... I really liked it. lol.

OK I am leaving the UK, there is a war on and its not allowed to stop here but doesn't mean I cant like the fact the Da'wah is going well and the kuffar are losing not just on the battlefields of Afghanistan but the battlefields in the hearts and minds of the British public.

Assalaamu alaykum,

Abu Abillah

TESOL so far...

Assalaamu Alaykum brothers and sisters,

I am continuing in my journey towards Hijrah alhamdulillah, with a few stumbles along the way but still I am satisfied with the speed I am getting things done with only my Arabic studies lacking at the moment.

I thought I'd give people an update on the CELTA TESOL course I am doing and my thoughts so far.

TESOL is a course for teaching non-English speakers English when they have some basic knowledge of English already.

It is an extremely well thought of qualification if you want to get into English teaching overseas (one way of supporting yourself once you have made hirjah) and the CELTA one is amongst the very best of TESOL qualifications.

Next week will be week 7 of the course and it will be the first time I am going to be teaching real students, so before Tuesday I must prepare a lesson plan and make myself ready to face the class who are a mixture of Saudi, Indian, Chinese, Italian and Iranian students.

Before this week we have covered the basics of how to prepare for lessons, the use of classroom resources and some basic grammar rules we must be able to teach.

I am finding most of the stuff I know already, I just didn't know all the names, rules etc but it just came naturally to someone who reads a lot alhamulillah.

I would recommend the TESOL course to anyone wishing to make Hijrah without qualifications or degrees, it is difficult and challenging but Inshallah it will all be worth it in the end.

More updates coming next week on my first lesson...

Assalaamu Alaykum,
Abu Abdillah

Acceptance on TESOL CELTA!

Assalaamu Alaykum all,

Had some excellent news today alhamdulillah, I've been accepted onto the TESOL Celta course at my local college to do a years course to learn to teach English as a 2nd language.


The course looks excellent, 2-3 hours observing classes and teaching a week and 2 hours teaching theory. Some Tesol and Tefl (interchangeable course just about) only teach you the theory, or have very little practice on real students or are crammed into a short space of time.

So inshallah this time next year I will be fully qualified English instructor and on my way to somewhere I can here the Azhaan five times a day to teach English and where I don't need to be worried whether I am going to be the next brother doing Da'wah work to be picked up and locked up on false charges.

I will keep you all informed on how the course goes, but here is a hint for you all in case anyone else is applying, the grammar test was the hardest exam I have ever done, far beyond GCSE and A-Level, so swot for the exams like you've never swotted before for an English exam!

Going to be doing a lot of studying this year, with my OU Social Sciences course, my TESOL and of-course my never ending quest to learn arabic! Inshallah I can keep up with it all but if not then other committments will have to be dropped as inshallah nothing is going to come in my way of learning the skills I need to make sure me and my family can do Hijrah.

Assalaamu Alaykum,
Abu Abdillah