Year three of the IS-3 sequence, and the bridge into IS-4. Students trace how a ruling is actually derived step by step, weigh weak and fabricated hadith against practice, and learn to disagree with a scholar’s opinion respectfully — alongside halal earning, identity in the West, and khushoo in the prayer.
Grade 9 covers thirty-four lessons across the eight IS-3 units and two units of its own:
- Bridging Aqeedah — review and extend
- Sources of knowledge
- Seerah — deeper study
- Intro to fiqh reasoning
- Ethics and contemporary life
- Academic skills — reading and writing about deen
- The Last Day — the grave, the Sirat and the Scale
- Salah in depth — fiqh, khushoo and consistency
- Al-Aqeedah al-Wasitiyyah — studying the text
- Qasas al-Anbiya — the prophets of the Makkan surahs
Set text: Al-Aqeedah al-Wasitiyyah, studied in Unit 9. Grade 7 Unit 1 previews how this treatise approaches Allah’s names and attributes; this is the year the student reads it. Quran Grade 9 cites it the same year.
Each IS-3 year carries its own set text: Grade 7 Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtoom, Grade 8 Kitab at-Tawheed, Grade 9 Al-Aqeedah al-Wasitiyyah.
Course Information
Course Instructor
Unit 1: Bridging Aqeedah — Review and Extend
Living the Meanings of Allah’s Names in Daily Du’a
Trials of Faith — Why Good People Face Hardship
Unit 2: Sources of Knowledge — Introduction
Weak and Fabricated Hadith — Why It Matters for Practice
Ijmaa in Practice — A Historical Example Worked Through
How a Ruling Actually Gets Derived — Step by Step
Unit 3: Seerah — Deeper Study
The Companions as a Generation — Why They Matter as Evidence
Dawah Methodology — What the Seerah Teaches About Calling Others
Women’s Courage in the Seerah — Nusaybah, Umm Ammarah and Others Beyond the Wives
Unit 4: Intro to Fiqh Reasoning
Following a Scholar Without Blind Following — Taqleed vs. Ittiba
Fiqh of Everyday Life — School, Money and Modern Situations
Ijtihad in the Time of the Companions vs. Today
Unit 5: Ethics and Contemporary Life — Introduction
Halal Earning in a Modern Economy — First Look
Identity as a Muslim Teen in the West
The Earth as an Amanah — Environmental Responsibility in Islam
Unit 6: Academic Skills — Reading and Writing About Deen
Peer Discussion and Respectful Disagreement in Islamic Topics
How to Disagree With a Scholar’s Opinion Respectfully
Unit 7: The Last Day — The Grave, the Sirat and the Scale
The Scale (Al-Mizan) and Standing Before Allah
What Happens to Good Deeds After We Die — Sadaqah Jariyah and Beyond
Unit 8: Salah in Depth — Fiqh, Khushoo and Consistency
Khushoo — Bringing the Heart Into the Prayer
Consistency and the Danger of Neglecting Salah
Common Struggles With Consistency — Practical Solutions
Unit 9: Al-Aqeedah al-Wasitiyyah — Studying the Text
The Creed of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah — What the Treatise Is and Why It Was Written
The Method With Allah’s Names and Attributes — Affirming Without Tahrif, Ta’til, Takyif or Tamthil
The Attributes in the Quran — Working Through the Treatise’s Evidences
The Attributes in the Sunnah — Working Through the Treatise’s Evidences
The Last Day and Qadar as the Treatise Sets Them Out
The Companions, and the Characteristics of Ahl as-Sunnah
Unit 10: Qasas al-Anbiya — The Prophets of the Makkan Surahs
Yusuf — The Whole Surah, Not the Children’s Story
Yunus — The Prophet Who Left, and the Du’a From the Darkness
Ibrahim — The Argument Against His People, and the Building of the House
Isa and Maryam — What the Quran Affirms and What It Denies
Musa — From the River to the Confrontation
Ayyub, Zakariyya and Yahya — The Prophets of Al-Anbiya
Dawood and Sulaymaan — Kingship, Judgement and the Ant
