Ha Meem Foundation
Ha Meem Foundation is a registered charitable organisation in the UK with the mission of:
- imparting authentic traditional Islamic knowledge
- providing guidance based upon the teaching of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and
- serving the needs of the community through social, spiritual and well-being initiatives.
Our intention is to do our part in fulfilling the communal obligation upon this blessed community (ummah) to learn, act upon and transmit to others the teaching of the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ.
This teaching has come to us, without change or corruption, from the breaths of the Beloved Messenger ﷺ himself through his Noble Companions and the hearts of Pious Believers in each generation until our own.
Those in each generation who carried this Light struggled and strived in the Path of Allah with their wealth and their lives until the words of Allah became true of them:
We intend to proceed, with the guidance and advice of our respected elders and scholars, to systematically analyse and prioritise, depending upon the resources available to us, to establish centres in which the work of Islamic teaching, prophetic spiritual guidance, community building and da’wah (missionary work) can take place. These four domains constitute the areas we have identified as critical to furthering the lofty objectives for which the Ha Meem Foundation has been established.
We have already been working in the local community of West London for over two decades and a huge number of individuals have attended our classes in traditional Islamic knowledge as well as our conferences and events.
Our current efforts can be grouped under the following initiatives:
London College of Islamic Studies (previously known as West London School of Islamic Studies/Ha Meem College) is an educational centre that provides a range of courses for students of all ages and abilities; through imparting sacred knowledge acquired from leading scholars of this age with unbroken chains of transmission (Sanad) going back to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
Spanning over two decades, thousands of students have benefited to date – alhamdolillah. At London College of Islamic Studies, we take pride in equipping students with the right tools they need to succeed:
✓ Direct access to our qualified teachers
✓ Well-equipped classrooms with study space
✓ Provision of supplementary material (as required)
✓ Prayer area with ablution facilities
✓ Free car parking
A secondary school for girls that established in 2009. It aims to produce balanced, open-minded young British-Muslim women who imbibe a strong Islamic ethos and who are prepared to excel in higher education and contribute to the wider world. Ma Jadda Wajada (whoever strives will succeed) has always been it’s mantra!
It is our hope that Allah the Transcendent and Exalted accepts our efforts, purifies our intentions, and makes Ha Meem Foundation a centre for authentic traditional Islamic learning and spiritual guidance in the UK.
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1997 |
A series of Islamic Courses, named LightStudy, launched in Hounslow Jamia Masjid focusing on the teaching of traditional texts by Senior Ulema. |
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2005 |
In February, Shaykh Dr Ridhwan Ibn Saleem given formal authorization to teach the Islamic Sciences. He returns to the UK and begins teaching classical Islamic texts in his house while continuing his work as a psychiatrist. The teaching later moves to the Rose Cottage, premises devoted to Islamic learning and spirituality. |
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2007 |
West London School of Islamic Studies (WLSIS) inaugurated by Shaykh Dr Ridhwan Saleem. |
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2009 |
WLSIS launches Lady Nafisa Independent School for Girls. This significantly grows from a handful of students to now reaching 65 [as of 2018] |
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2013 |
WLSIS is rebranded to Ha Meem Foundation, giving the organisation a wider scope on it’s focus to not only teach students traditional Islamic learning, but also to reinvigorate the community. |
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2018 |
Due to having outgrown the premises in Hounslow, Ha Meem Foundation & Lady Nafisa School move to a larger building in West Drayton in Jan 2018. |
“I did not create the Jinn and Mankind except to worship Me.” - [51:56]
Our vision is to connect people with their Lord; disseminating traditional Islamic knowledge, embodying prophetic spiritual guidance and nurturing through community care.
Ha Meem are the letters that begin seven powerful consecutive surahs of the Quran, known in Arabic as ‘al-hameemaat’ (the Ha-Meems). These surahs are:
Ghafir (Forgiver), Fussilat (Expounded), al-Shura (Consultation), al-Zukhruf (Embellishment), al-Dukhan (Smoke), al-Jathiya (Crouching), and al-Ahqaf (Wind-curved Sandhills).
The letters ‘Ha Meem’, like all the letters that start surahs, are a sign of the limit of human knowledge, according to scholars of the Quran, as well as a sign of the miracle of Quran which is composed of such letters.
Thus, at Ha Meem Foundation, students begin their studies of the Islamic tradition with the humble recognition that human knowledge can never be compared to the Ultimate Knowledge of God. This distinguishes us at the foundation from the Western path, which has confused spiritual blindness with intellectual freedom by arrogantly claiming to have dispensed with the divine.
OPPORTUNITIES AT HA MEEM
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