Nisaa’s Academy — Sunday School · Al-Maun Neighborly Needs

Students and teachers of Nisaa’s Academy gathered together outside Masjid As-Sabur. — The Nisaa’s Academy family outside Masjid As-Sabur — students, teachers, and elders together.

What it is

A Sunday school with a long memory.

Nisaa’s Academy is Al-Maun’s weekend school for the children of the neighborhood. Boys and girls come to learn the Arabic alphabet, to sound out their first words, and — letter by letter, sūrah by sūrah — to read the Qur’an for themselves. Alongside the reading, they learn adab: the manners, patience, and kindness that make a good neighbor.

The classes carry the name of Sister Nisaa Seifullah, Al-Maun’s co-founder and president. For more than twenty years she taught the children of this masjid to read — and generations of Westside families learned their Arabic at her side. The academy keeps her name, and keeps her work going.

Everyone is welcome, and cost is never the reason a child stays home. If your family would like to enroll, or you’d like to help keep a seat open, we’d love to hear from you.

In the classroom

Twenty years of bright mornings.

A few moments from Nisaa’s Academy — many from Sister Nisaa’s own years teaching the children of the Westside.

Four Nisaa’s Academy girls laughing together, one wearing a paper crown, at a decorated ‘Create’ chalkboard. — Craft day at the chalkboard.

A boy in headphones beaming at his desk during a lesson. — Headphones on, working through a lesson.

A teacher and older student embracing a smiling young girl who is waving to the camera. — The care that raised a generation.

A boy standing at a whiteboard, working through a math problem. — At the board.

Children and a teacher working together on an activity around a table. — Learning together at the table.

Two students laughing together over the same desk. — Friendships made over the same desk.

What children learn

Four things, taught with patience.

The Qur’an

From the first letters to fluent recitation — at each child’s own pace, with no one left behind.

Arabic letters

Reading and writing the alphabet that unlocks the Book — and a language shared by a billion neighbors.

Adab & character

Manners, honesty, and the akhlāq of the Prophet ﷺ — the quiet lessons that outlast any worksheet.

A place to belong

Weekend mornings with friends, mentors, and a masjid that knows every child by name.

Keep her classroom full.

Sponsoring Sunday school covers a child’s books, supplies, and a warm place to learn — and it keeps Sister Nisaa’s work alive for the next generation of the Westside. Want to enroll your own child? Just send us a note.

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