How long does the Noorani Qaidah take to complete?

There is no honest single number, because the pace is set by three things: the child's age, the number of lessons a week, and whether the pages are practised at home. What we can say is how the pace is decided and how you can see it. The school's Qaidah is a twenty-page book; a page is finished only when it is read correctly; and the monthly report shows the pages completed, so a parent can see the finish line approaching rather than wait for a date that was guessed at booking.

What decides the pace?

• Age. A five-year-old is learning what a letter is; a nine-year-old already reads another script and moves through the Qaidah much faster. Adults faster still.
• Lessons a week. Two lessons keep a child moving; three is what most families choose; five turns weeks into days. Between lessons the letters fade a little, so frequency matters more for the Qaidah than for any later course.
• Practice at home. Five minutes a day, reading the current page aloud to a parent, roughly halves the time. It does not need to be a parent who reads Arabic — the child reads, the parent listens and praises.
• The standard. A page that is "finished" with the letters half-right has to be re-done in Nazirah, at a cost of months. Here a page is finished only when it is read clean, and the recitation checker listens for the articulation. Slower at page three; much faster at page three hundred.

How can I see the progress instead of guessing?

Every lesson at the school ends with the record of what was covered — which page of the Qaidah, which letters were marked. The monthly report shows the pages completed that month and the accuracy trend across lessons. If your child completed pages 4 to 9 this month, you can see for yourself where the twenty-page book ends.

What if my child seems stuck on a page?

Some pages are genuinely harder — the joined forms, the tanwīn, the first madd letters — and every child stalls on one of them. A stall is not a problem; a stall the parent cannot see is. The teacher's marks show exactly which letters are catching, and the correction is made on the letter, not by repeating the page from the top. Where a child is tired of a page, the teacher moves forward and returns to it, because the same letter appears again three pages on.

What comes after the Qaidah?

Nazirah — reading the Qur'an itself from the mushaf, page by page, with tajwīd corrected on the word. A child who finished the Qaidah properly starts Nazirah reading slowly but correctly, and speed comes with the pages.