ABOUT CEI

CEI facilitates a number of different programmes in central London and Crawley.

The weekly London Academy in central London (Euston) is a two year programme and brings together different teachers to cover modules in Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh, Aqidah, Prophetic Sciences and Spirituality. The London Short courses are termly, and two teachers cover a theme or short classical text.

The Kids Academy in Crawley provides supplementary tuition in Maths and English. Many previous Kids Academy students have gone on to graduate from good UK universities and now volunteer with CEI. Our Crawley classes have provided the local community with free classes since 2005.

There are two annual programmes: The tarawih and iftar at Royal Nawaab and our popular Saunterer’s Path annual walk. 

Please click on CEI in the menu above to learn more about each of these programmes, and we look forward to seeing you at one of these soon.

ABOUT QX

Qx (Qur’an Experience) is CEI’s dedicated Qur’an platform and enables students to experience the Qur’an through a number of innovative and exciting programmes.

Sustained and rigorous study of the Qur’an is too often neglected, and Qx therefore aims to provide attendees with the opportunity to seriously engage with the Qur’an. We facilitate a number of Qur’an specific courses, such as Q-Club in Soho, Q-Connect (online), Q-Read, Q-Immersion at the University of Oxford and Q-Conference. The Qx instagram page, quran.experience, provides daily reminders from the Qur’an. 

Please click on Qx in the menu above for details of all our current Qur’an programmes, and we hope that you can join us at one of these soon.

WEBCAM

LONDON LIVE

The live webcam on the CEI homepage capturing the skies, clouds, sunsets, rain and fog over the city of London firmly roots the work of CEI in time and place. We facilitate most of our courses in the inspiring city of London, and during most days of the week.

The alternation of the night and day, the rising and setting of the sun, the phases of the moon, the rainfall, as well as the creation of the heavens and the earth are all very powerful signs. There are many Qur’an verses repeatedly highlighting these signs. We hope the live webcam with its views of the city and the sky captures some of these signs, and together with the content of this webpage, inspire visitors to join one of our programmes. 

TIME

وَالْعَصْرِ

إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ

إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ

(1) By the declining day, (2) man is [deep] in loss,

(3) except for those who believe, do good deeds, urge one another to the truth, and urge one another to steadfastness. Q. 103

NIGHT & DAY

إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ لَآيَاتٍ لِّأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ

Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding. Q. 3:190

QX PROJECT

The Qx project landing page is inspired by CEI’s first bespoke landing page, which we launched in 2010. The black dots were a gateway into each of our programmes then.

The white bubbles in the new Qx project are now gateways that transport visitors into a specific Qur’an programme, such as the Q-Immersion at the University of Oxford or the Q-Club in Soho.

BLUE OCEAN

The Qur’an is an ocean: it purifies, inspires and raises those who dive into it. The Qx landing page is underwater, and the colour blue, the shimmering light and the bubbles are all inspired by those who have described the Qur’an to be like an ocean. Ghazali, for example, writes in Chapter One of Jewels and the Pearls of the Qur’an:

‘Has it not come to your knowledge that the Qur’an is like an ocean’

and he further writes 

‘I then wish to rouse you from your sleep. O you who recite the Qur’an to a great length, who take its study as an occupation, and who imbibe some of its outward meanings and sentences.

GHAZALI

How long will you ramble on the shore of the ocean, closing your eyes to the wonders of the meanings of the Qur’an. Was it not your duty to sail to the midst of the fathomless ocean of these meanings in order to see their wonders, to travel to their island in order to gather their best produce, and dive into their depths so that you may become rich  by obtaining jewels?

Do you not feel ashamed of being deprived of their pearls and jewels by your persistence in looking at the shores and outward appearances?’