What can the lives of the Companions teach us about living with sincerity, courage, devotion, resilience, and faith today?
Join Ustadha Kouthar Muttardy for a monthly women’s gathering exploring the lives and legacies of the Sahabah through the virtues they embodied. Each session will center on a particular quality of faith and draw from moments across the lives of both male and female Companions.
Rather than approaching their stories simply as history, we will reflect on how the Companions responded to challenges, relationships, worship, sacrifice, and responsibility—and what their examples can teach us about our own lives.
Together, participants will consider practical ways to cultivate these same qualities while building meaningful companionship with other women seeking to align their hearts and actions with Prophetic guidance.
Location: ADAMS Leesburg Schedule: First Saturday of each month, after Maghrib Start Date: October 3, 2026 Duration: Ongoing monthly program Audience: Women
Instructor: Dr. Daoud Nassimi
Belief in the Hereafter is not simply knowledge about what happens after death. It is a powerful source of purpose, hope, accountability, and perspective for the life we are living now.
This five-week course explores the stages of the human journey beyond this worldly life: death, the life of the grave, resurrection, judgment, and our ultimate destination in the Hereafter.
Students will develop a clearer understanding of these realities while reflecting on why remembrance of the Next Life occupies such an important place in Islamic belief. How should awareness of death affect our priorities? How does belief in judgment shape responsibility and repentance? And how should hope for Paradise and awareness of accountability influence the way we worship and live?
The course aims to strengthen belief in the Hereafter while helping students translate that belief into more purposeful living and meaningful preparation for meeting Allah.
Location: ADAMS Leesburg Schedule: Fridays, after Maghrib Start Date: September 25, 2026 Duration: 5 weeks Audience: Open to all adults
Instructor: Dr. Daoud Nassimi
The greatest knowledge a person can attain is knowledge of Allah. The more deeply we know our Creator, the deeper our gratitude, love, trust, worship, and obedience can become.
This 10-week course explores how the Qur’an calls human beings to know Allah through revelation, reason, and reflection. Students will examine the existence of God, the signs of Allah throughout creation, His Names and Attributes, the meaning of Tawhid, and the deeper implications of the Shahadah.
The course will also engage contemporary questions surrounding belief, reason, science, and arguments about the existence of God, helping students develop a faith that is both deeply rooted and thoughtfully understood.
From foundational questions about who Allah is to the practical implications of Tawhid in everyday life, this course offers an opportunity to strengthen iman while developing a clearer and more meaningful understanding of the One we worship.
Location: ADAMS Ashburn Schedule: Wednesdays, after Maghrib Start Date: September 23, 2026 Duration: 10 weeks Audience: Open to all adults
Topics include: The existence of God; the Qur’anic approach to belief; signs of Allah; Names and Attributes; Tawhid and the Shahadah; false objects of worship; implications of Tawhid in daily life; and an introduction to Islamic theological schools.
Instructor: Ustadha Kouthar Muttardy
Join us for a weekly women’s suhbah dedicated to sacred learning, sincere reflection, spiritual growth, and uplifting companionship.
This ongoing gathering provides a consistent space for women to step away from the demands of daily life, study the Islamic tradition, reflect honestly on the state of the heart, and grow alongside a supportive community of sisters. New participants are welcome; no previous participation is required.
This term, the gathering will center on Ibn ʿAta’illah al-Iskandari’s al-Hikam, a collection of concise and profound aphorisms addressing the inner life of the believer. Through shared reading, commentary, and discussion, participants will reflect on themes such as reliance upon Allah, sincerity, spiritual struggle, trials, attachment, and the pursuit of closeness to Him.
Rather than a formal lecture course, Women’s Suhbah is designed as a space for sustained learning, reflection, conversation, and companionship.
*Location: ADAMS Sterling The gathering will begin this fall at ADAMS Sterling and is expected to relocate to ADAMS Ashburn in the coming months. Schedule: Wednesdays, 11:00 AM–1:30 PM Start Date: September 23, 2026 Duration: Ongoing weekly program Audience: Women Current Text:al-Hikam by Ibn ʿAta’illah al-Iskandari
Instructor: Ustadha Kouthar Muttardy
What would it look like to spend an entire year reading, reflecting upon, and building a more consistent relationship with the Qur’an?
The Living Qur’an is a weekly women’s tadabbur circle designed to help participants journey through the Qur’an together over the course of a year. Tadabbur means deep reflection and contemplation on the Qur’an—pausing to consider its guidance, themes, lessons, and relevance to our lives.
Each week, participants will read the designated juz’ at home and then gather to reflect on its central themes, ask questions, discuss important lessons, and consider how its message speaks to our everyday lives.
The emphasis is on thoughtful, guided reflection rather than formal tafsir: slowing down enough to notice recurring themes, make meaningful connections, and consider how the Qur’an should shape our faith and actions.
Whether you have read the translation many times or are engaging deeply with the Qur’an for the first time, this gathering offers structure, companionship, and a consistent space for reflection on the Book of Allah.
Location: ADAMS Gainesville Schedule: Wednesdays, 7:30–9:00 PM Start Date: September 23, 2026 Duration: Year-long program, with scheduled breaks Audience: Women Format: Approximately one juz’ per week
Instructor: Ustadha Kouthar Muttardy
What does Islam teach us about being a good friend, companion, brother, sister, and member of a community?
Over this 10-week course, Ustadha Kouthar Muttardy will guide students through the ethics, responsibilities, and spiritual dimensions of companionship through two classical works: Imam al-Shaʿrani’s Etiquettes of Companionship and Imam al-Ghazali’s The Duties of Brotherhood.
Students will explore the qualities that sustain sincere relationships: loyalty, generosity, good counsel, patience, forgiveness, appropriate boundaries, and a genuine concern for the spiritual well-being of others. The course will also examine the responsibilities we owe one another and how Islamic adab can guide us through the challenges that naturally arise in human relationships.
At its heart, this course asks what it means to build friendships and communities rooted not merely in shared interests, but in mutual growth and companionship for the sake of Allah.
Location: ADAMS Sterling Schedule: Tuesdays, 7:00–9:00 PM Start Date: September 22, 2026 Duration: 10 weeks Audience: Open to all adults Texts:Etiquettes of Companionship and The Duties of Brotherhood
Join us for the September session of the Chronic Illness Support Group!
Nour Zibdeh, MS, RDN, CLT, an expert functional dietitian and nutritionist will be joining us to discuss how to lower inflammation.
Instructor: Dr. Daoud Nassimi
Islamic character begins with the heart. Our intentions, spiritual habits, relationships, worship, and conduct are all shaped by what we cultivate within.
This 10-week course examines the Islamic process of spiritual purification and the development of noble character. Students will learn to recognize spiritual diseases and harmful qualities of the heart while exploring the virtues and manners that nurture sincerity, humility, gratitude, patience, compassion, and excellence in character.
The opening sessions will establish the foundations of tazkiyah, spirituality, Islamic ethics, and akhlaq. From there, the course will examine how inner transformation should shape not only our private relationship with Allah but also our worship, behavior, relationships, and everyday dealings with others.
The goal is not simply to identify good and bad traits, but to better understand the lifelong process through which the believer struggles against spiritual vice and intentionally cultivates the qualities beloved to Allah.
Location: ADAMS Ashburn Schedule: Sundays, after Fajr (breakfast will be provided!) Start Date: September 20, 2026 Duration: 10 weeks Audience: Open to all adults
Instructor: Ustadha Kouthar Muttardy
Join us for a monthly gathering of study, reflection, and sisterhood centered on Riyad al-Salihin (The Gardens of the Righteous).
Each month, Ustadha Kouthar Muttardy will guide participants through a carefully selected set of hadith from a new chapter of this celebrated collection of Prophetic teachings. Together, we will explore what these hadith teach us about faith, character, worship, relationships, and the everyday choices that shape our spiritual lives.
The gathering is designed to be interactive and reflective—not simply a lecture. Participants will consider how Prophetic guidance speaks to the realities of contemporary life and identify practical ways to bring the Sunnah more intentionally into their daily routines.
Come for sacred learning, meaningful reflection, and the companionship of women seeking to grow together in faith.
Location: ADAMS Ashburn Schedule: Third Friday of each month, after Maghrib Start Date: September 18, 2026 Duration: Ongoing monthly program Audience: Women Text:Riyad al-Salihin
Instructor: Imam Kebba Sallah
The generation that followed the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ faced the extraordinary responsibility of preserving his teachings, leading the Muslim community, and navigating new challenges after his passing.
This 12-week course introduces students to the lives and legacies of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs: Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan, and Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with them all.
Through their lives, students will encounter different models of leadership, sacrifice, courage, scholarship, service, and devotion to Allah and His Messenger ﷺ. The course will provide an opportunity to better understand this formative period of Islamic history while reflecting on the enduring lessons these remarkable Companions offer Muslims today.
Location: ADAMS Sully Schedule: Fridays, after Maghrib Start Date: September 18, 2026 End Date: December 4, 2026 Duration: 12 weeks Audience: Open to all adults