Learn to Pray (Salah) for New Muslims — Male Teacher
Learn to Pray (Salah) for new muslims, taught with a male teacher in 45-minute lessons, 1–3 lessons a week. Every position of the prayer and what is said in it, taught step by step.
45-minute lessons1–3 per weekMale teacher
Lesson length and why
Forty-five minutes, with time set aside for questions. Nothing is assumed as already known, including vocabulary other students take for granted.
Where most students start
No Arabic, and often no background knowledge to hang it on. Frequently learning to pray at the same time as learning to read.
What is expected at home
None.
How long it takes
Learn to Pray (Salah) typically runs 8–20 weeks at 1–3 lessons a week. The range is wide because it moves with revision between lessons more than with anything that happens in them.
What is covered
- 1Wudu
- 2The positions in order
- 3What is recited in each
- 4Completing a full prayer
What usually gets in the way
Specific to new muslims — these are the things that actually derail progress for this group.
- Being taught by people who assume prior knowledge
- Terminology used without explanation
- Needing salah before reading fluency
By the end
- Pray independently and correctly
- Know what invalidates the prayer