What we are for
The madrasah is where a civilisation is formed
Madani Institute was founded in 2010 and is administered under Muhaddith-e-Azam Mission, established by Hazrat Shaykh al-Islam, Allama Mufti Sayyid Madani Ashrafi al-Jilani, and named for his father, Hazrat Shaykh Abu’l Muhamid Sayyid Muhammad, Muhaddith-e-Kichowchawi. It is now recognised as a leading Ahl us-Sunnah Islamic education centre in Preston.
Registered charity 1186185
What we hold to
Our values
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A living connection with Allah and His Messenger ﷺ
Love for the Beloved ﷺ is the essence of our tradition, and the greatest way to reach it is to emulate him: children who can read what was revealed to him, understand what he taught, and walk as he walked.
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Rooted knowledge
Our students will know what they believe, why they believe it, and how to practise it. Rather than abandoning parts of the tradition — Ilm al-Kalam, Mantiq and the other sciences — we preserve and teach them.
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Prophetic character
The tradition has always insisted that adab is prior to knowledge. We assess character with the same seriousness as memorisation.
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Knowledge that transforms
What is taught in the madrasah must not be left in it. What is taught in under two hours a day must shape all twenty-four.
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Contextualised education
We are not in nineteenth-century rural India. We are in twenty-first-century Britain, with its own challenges. We face them head on.