Since 2015
The lamp, and the niche
Al-miṣbāḥ is the lamp of Āyat an-Nūr. We took the name because a lamp does not generate the light — it carries it, and makes it possible to read by.
مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ
“The likeness of His light is as a niche wherein is a lamp.”
Qur'an 24:35
Why we exist
A gap that nobody was filling
Singapore has a long and serious tradition of Islamic education. Almost all of it is taught in Malay. For a growing number of Singaporean Muslims — professionals, converts, the children of mixed families, anyone who thinks and argues and prays in English — that tradition was sitting behind a language barrier.
On 26 November 2015, a group of professionals and scholars led by Muhammad Ameen Packir Mohideen and Mohammad Khalid Rafi opened Al Misbah Academy in Geylang to close it. Not a lecture series and not a weekend talk — a structured, examined, sequenced programme in the Islamic sciences, taught in English, at a standard that would survive scrutiny.
More than ten years and 20 asatizah later, that is still the whole brief.
Our mission
To equip our students with academic proficiency in Islam, positive character building, and a readiness for an ever-evolving society.
What we hold to
Ilmu · Ikhlas · Istiqamah
Ilmu
Knowledge
Sound learning, taken from qualified teachers in a structured order — not gathered piecemeal from a feed.
Ikhlas
Sincerity
Study undertaken for its own sake and for the sake of Allah, before any certificate.
Istiqamah
Consistency
Eighteen months of Saturdays. Knowledge settles through steadiness, not intensity.
For the record
The organisation
- Registered name
- The Misbah Pte. Ltd
- UEN
- 201541581R
- Established
- 26 November 2015
- Campus
- Geylang, Singapore