Qur'an
Has memorised a documented portion, recites correctly, reflects on meaning, and keeps a daily bond with the Mushaf.
Muslim Youth Development Program
The year that counts.
Between secondary school and university lies the most decisive year of a young Muslim's life.
إِنَّهُمْ فِتْيَةٌ ءَامَنُوا۟ بِرَبِّهِمْ وَزِدْنَـٰهُمْ هُدًى
“They were young men who believed in their Lord, and We increased them in guidance.”
- 4
- days a week
- 3
- terms a year
- 8
- years of Al Falah Academy
- 1,000+
- Academy graduates
Why this year matters
A year of formation
MYDP is a one year programme of Al Falah Modern Learning Hub for young Muslims who have finished secondary school.
In Nigeria, the road to university is rarely straight. Students wait on JAMB and post UTME results, on admission lists, and sometimes on strikes that keep whole cohorts at home for months. Too often that waiting becomes drift.
Then comes campus. Cultism, drug abuse, exam malpractice and “sorting”, the pull of internet fraud and betting, the pressure to live beyond one's means, and ideas designed to unsettle faith. Most students meet all of this with no teacher beside them. Identity hardens in these years. If it is not deliberately formed by the Qur'an and Sunnah, it will be formed by default.
MYDP turns the waiting into a year of formation, so that our young people enter university not as easy targets, but as grounded, confident Muslims who know who they are and what they stand for.
وَشَابٌّ نَشَأَ فِي عِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ
“And a young man who grew up in the worship of his Lord.”
The outcome
The MYDP graduate
Everything in the programme serves one outcome: a young adult who is ready. By the end of the year, an MYDP graduate:
Belief
Holds a clear creed rooted in Tawhid, and meets doubts, fear of sihr, and superstition with knowledge.
Knowledge
Can read a basic Arabic text, knows where answers are found, and knows whom to ask.
Practice
Worships with knowledge rather than imitation, and can reason through the questions of money, work, and digital life.
Character
Is honest, disciplined, respectful, and in command of their emotions and time.
Direction
Has thought seriously about course, career, marriage, and purpose in the light of revelation.
Resilience
Can stand firm against peer pressure, cultism, ideological challenge, and loneliness on campus.
A young adult who is ready, for university and for life.
What students study
The Qur'an at the heart
The Qur'an is the heart of every day. Around it stand the core disciplines of Arabic, Aqeedah, Hadith, Fiqh, and Seerah, each taught from the books of the scholars and applied directly to the lives students are about to lead.
01
The Qur'an
The Qur'an is taught in three strands, every day, by qualified teachers.
02Arabic Grammar and Literacy
This subject removes the fear of the Arabic book.
03Aqeedah
Tawhid first. Everything else follows.
04Hadith
MYDP does not skim Hadith.
05Fiqh for real life
Case studies, not just rulings.
06Seerah
The life of the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, told as a story, then examined as a model.
Beyond the classroom
Ready for the adult world
Knowledge alone does not make a young adult ready. MYDP deliberately exposes students to the adult world, with an almost university style approach, so that nothing on campus takes them by surprise.
Character Development
Regular, discussion based sessions with people who have walked the road.
Mentors
Every student has a personal mentor.
Seminars for Tertiary Life
Run like university lectures: students take notes, ask questions, and present.
Culinary and Baking Studio
Hands on sessions for the young women, and for any young men who wish to join. Every student leaving home for university needs to feed themselves well; some will build a business from it.
How the programme runs
The shape of the year
- Days and hours
- Monday to Thursday, 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM, with Dhuhr prayed in congregation
- Duration
- One academic year of three terms, with holidays between terms as in the usual school calendar
- Intake
- Three a year: students may join at the start of any term
The three stages of the year
Grounding
Placement, routines, and foundations. Recitation is corrected, the memorisation plan is set, and each subject begins at its root.
Growth
The engine room. Memorisation deepens, Arabic moves to real texts, and Aqeedah and Fiqh turn to sihr, Qadr, and the contemporary questions of money and work.
Direction
Consolidation and final assessments, doubts and the fiqh of family, and firm preparation for university and what comes next, closing with graduation before families.
Who we are
Why Al Falah
For eight years, Al Falah Academy has taught structured Islamic knowledge to adults, with more than one thousand graduates. We know how to build a syllabus, hold teachers to a standard, measure progress honestly, and carry students to completion. MYDP brings that experience to the age group where it matters most, at our permanent, purpose built campus in Jahi.
Vision
Young Muslims who carry the Qur'an in their chests and its guidance in their conduct, and who enter university and adult life with a firm identity and a clear purpose.
Mission
To give young Muslims one focused year of Qur'an, Arabic, and Islamic knowledge, alongside real preparation for adult life, so that they leave grounded, confident, and ready.
Our campus in Jahi
اغْتَنِمْ خَمْسًا قَبْلَ خَمْسٍ: شَبَابَكَ قَبْلَ هَرَمِكَ، وَصِحَّتَكَ قَبْلَ سَقَمِكَ، وَغِنَاءَكَ قَبْلَ فَقْرِكَ، وَفَرَاغَكَ قَبْلَ شُغْلِكَ، وَحَيَاتَكَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِكَ
“Take advantage of five before five: your youth before your old age, your health before your sickness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before your preoccupation, and your life before your death.”
A young person in the year before university holds three of these five at once: youth, health, and free time. MYDP makes sure that rare combination is not wasted.
Fees
- ₦300,000
- Tuition per term
- ₦900,000
- Full year, three terms
Fees are paid at the start of each term, before resumption.