COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Islamic Studies & Diploma in Community Development

Community development is rooted in empowerment through knowledge and understanding. 

The following program aims to enable individuals to grow in faith, think critically, and work collectively toward a just, resilient, and spiritually grounded community. 

The Prophet ﷺ developed a generation of the Qur’an — a community of companions empowered through deep internal transformation, elevated, and mobilized by the direct impact of the divine revelation.

These courses come together as a program that aspires to nurture spiritually grounded, intellectually empowered, and socially responsible individuals who can think with clarity, live with purpose, and lead their communities with prophetic wisdom and confidence.

Our Approach

Learning approach is based on a tarbiyyah model guiding development through revelation, reasoning, and real-world relevance and application: 

1. Building a foundation through usul al-din:   Beginning with a reflective journey of Juz ‘Amma to understand the divine  objectives, understanding iman, Islam, and Ihsan holistically through the 40 Hadith of Imam Nawawi, and understanding Prophetic wisdom and strategic thinking through Qasas and Seerah. 

2. Independent study and research orientation: Aim at developing sincere ownership of life-long learning experience. 

3.  Dialogue, discussion, and disagreement with adab (Etiquette): Guided discussions by mentors to simulate the majālis of the scholars — where disagreement creates refinement not division. Students learn to articulate, critique, and build ideas while embodying the Prophetic ethics of speech and difference.

4. Real-world application and mission-driven projects as assessments: Each assignment is scenario-based projects or service-oriented tasks with real-world applications, including, khutbahs, educational halaqaat, tools, and campaigns, or community advisory briefs. Aimed to develop active khalīfah-minded contributors.

5. Murabbiyyah model — Mentorship for Transformation
Students are paired with instructors who serve as mentors, guiding their journey through accountability, spiritual reminders, reflective discussions, and a shared commitment to service.

Who is this program designed for?

For a high-level tarbiyyah and executive training experience

Ideal for those looking for the tools, character, and vision to build, guide, and transform communities: 

  • Teachers, coaches, mentors, and counselors developing the next generation. 
  • Youth workers, activists, and dai’is on the frontline of identity and ideological crisis. 
  • Organizers, managers, future board members shaping policy, institutions, and strategy. 
  • Media and communication leaders in journalism, podcasting, and public voice. 
  • Community problem-solvers working in public policy, civic engagement. 
  • Futurists and researchers envisioning sustainable Muslim solutions for tomorrow.
  • Leaders in humanitarian work – from waqf development, to economic sustainability, to debt relief, to trauma care..  

This program is for builders of the ummah, Islamic incubators, raisers of the next Salah ad-Din. 

Application Process

Coming Soon

Can’t wait and have questions?

Email: Imran@Momintum.com

Courses & Specialization

Year 3 - Specialization

Momintum aims to develop specializations essential for long-term community development — specializations that integrate spiritual depth, religious integrity, and transformative civic engagement. 

Our goal is to prepare individuals who can lead with wisdom, serve with sincerity, and solve real-world challenges through the lens of revelation.

Whether through the Murabbiyyah model, interdisciplinary study with field experts or partner institutes, or immersive project-based mentorship, students will be empowered to specialize in the following key areas:

Islamic Education & Murabbiyyah:  Become a mentor, teacher, or spiritual guide; develop curricula, lead tarbiyyah programs, and serve in Islamic schools or community education.

Islamic Psychology & Counseling: Address trauma, family support, identity crises, mental health, and offer faith-based counseling rooted in Islamic psychology and spiritual care.

Da’wah & Public Communication: Develop skills in public speaking, khutbahs, podcasting, social media, and community outreach with a prophetic da’wah framework. 

Islamic Thought & Worldview Studies: Pursue advanced studies in Islamic epistemology, critique of secularism, and defense of the Islamic worldview. Suitable for researchers and public intellectuals. 

Islamic Law & Social Ethics: Deepen expertise in usul, maqāṣid, fatwa application, and Islamic ethics in finance, medicine, and family life. Ideal for legal consultants and community muftis.

Leadership & Organizational Strategy: Learn visionary planning, HR, conflict resolution, and waqf-building to lead masājid, NGOs, and Islamic centers. 

Political & Civic Engagement: Engage in political theory, minority fiqh, public discourse, and activism grounded in prophetic ethics. Prepare for roles in public policy, legal reform, or advocacy.

Interfaith & Outreach Studies: Develop respectful and confident tools to engage with non-Muslims, participate in interfaith spaces, and articulate Islam in pluralistic societies.

Islamic Media, Journalism & Narrative: Train in narrative strategy, ethical journalism, digital storytelling, and controlling the Muslim voice in public and media spaces. 

Islamic Entrepreneurship & Economic Development: Develop waqf projects, micro-enterprise ventures, debt-relief programs, and economic engines that serve the ummah with vision and sustainability.

Year 1 - Foundations of Islamic Knowledge and Character

1. Purpose: 

A thematic Tadabbur-based exploration of Juz ‘Amma that uncovers the Qur’an’s call to piety (from tughyan), responsibility, and transformation.

2. Foundation: 

Study of foundation of the religion through the 40 hadith (of Nawawi) outlining the pillars of Iman, Islam, and Ihsan in spiritual development and social conduct. 

3. Transformational: 

Through Qasas and Seerah, this course explores leadership personality, intent, decisions, relationships, strategies in community development under the divine light.

 4. Framework: 

Exploring the development of Islamic thought to apply to human  civilizational development.  The course provides a cursory view of various areas of Islamic academics that come together to form jurisprudence with the aim of appreciating complexities and need of deep study and scholarship.

5. Halal & Haram

Study of Islamic legal boundaries related to consumption, behavior, interaction, and everyday conduct.

6. Jurisprudence of Interaction: 

Fiqh of Transactions and Dealings:  Islamic principles that guide financial and interpersonal dealings, including business ethics and contractual integrity.

7. Tazkiyyat al-Nafs: 

A journey of spiritual reform using classical texts, cultivating sincerity, humility, discipline, and inner purification. 

8. Fiqh of Priorities:

Evaluating competing actions, obligations, and projects through lens of Islamic values and wisdom from subects of Maqasid and Maslaha. 

9. Mission: 

Tadabbur-based study of Juz Tabarak highlighting divine sovereignty, truth and falsehood, and the prerequisites of Prophetic missions. 

10. Solutions:

From the wisdom of Surah Al-Kahf to explore solution building based on capacity and context. Relevance to status, identity, wealth, position, knowledge, and governance. 

 

Year 2 - Applied Specialization & Worldview Development

1. Mapping the Islamic Intellectual Tradition: 

Overview of classical disciplines, key texts, scholars, and the structure of traditional Islamic learning.

2. Navigating Disagreements:

A comparative study of belief systems, legal schools, and ideological methodologies to foster unity amidst diversity.

3. Western Academic Study of Islam:

Investigates how Islam is studied in modern academia through the lens of orientalism, secularism, and historical criticism.

4. Environmental Ecology:

Exploring contemporary ideologies, systems & Muslim challenges in the West: Comprehensive of exploration of ideologies (liberalism, scientism, feminism), sociopolitical systems (capitalism, democracy), and the struggles Muslims face in the modern West, including integration, identity, and Islamophobia.

5. Fitra-Centered Epistemology: 

Drawing on the works of classical scholars like Ibn Taymiyyah, explore the foundations of Islamic knowledge through the lens of the innate human disposition toward truth, morality, and divine recognition.

6. The Murabbi:

Exploring Islamic Psychology, Counseling, and Spiritual Development. Training in guidance and mentorship, including emotional care, family counseling, youth development, and mental/spiritual well-being.

7. Applied Qawāʿid, Maqāṣid, and Maṣlaḥah

Tools of Islamic legal reasoning applied to modern cases using maxims, higher objectives, and public benefit principles.

8. Islamic Activism: Vision, Voice, and Public Responsibility

Practical foundations of social reform through Islamic ethics, narrative influence, policy work, and da‘wah in society.

9. Islamic Organizational Leadership

Leadership, governance, project management, and institution-building in Islamic organizations and community institutions.

10. Islamic Epistemology and Worldview

Study of how knowledge is defined, sourced, and validated in Islam, and how it contrasts with secular knowledge paradigms.