Certification
What you graduate with
Three things stand behind this certificate: the teachers who teach it, the institution it is organised with, and the record you leave with. Each is described here exactly as the documents describe it — which is what makes it hold up when someone checks.
Every class is taught by ARS-certified asatizah
Every one of our teachers is certified under the Asatizah Recognition Scheme — the register of Islamic religious teachers maintained by MUIS, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore. It is a regulated credential, and you can check it.
Organised with the IIUM Centre for Continuing Education
A Certificate of Completion, organised by the IIUM Centre for Continuing Education together with Al Misbah Academy, and signed by both.
It is a certificate of completed training, not a university degree, and not a government-regulated qualification. It does not by itself qualify you to give fatwā or hold a scholarly post.
You graduate with a real transcript
Not just a certificate. Graduates receive an academic transcript: a mark for every subject, an overall grade point average, and a letter grade on a published scale — signed by the academy and by the IIUM Centre for Continuing Education.
The certificate
Exactly as the document says it
A Certificate of Completion, organised by the IIUM Centre for Continuing Education together with Al Misbah Academy, and signed by both.
The IIUM Centre for Continuing Education is the continuing-education arm of the International Islamic University Malaysia. It organises this programme with us, and its signature sits beside ours on every certificate. When you describe your certificate — on a CV, in an application, to your family — use those words. They are the words on the document, and the exact name is the one that stands up.
It is a certificate of completed training, not a university degree, and not a government-regulated qualification. It does not by itself qualify you to give fatwā or hold a scholarly post.
The stronger evidence
And a full academic transcript
A mark for every subject, an overall grade point average, and a letter grade on a published scale — signed by the academy and by the IIUM Centre for Continuing Education. Anyone who reads it sees exactly what you studied and how well you did.
- A+97–100
- A90–96
- A−85–89
- B+80–84
- B75–79
- B−70–74
- C+65–69
- C60–64
- Fail0–59
Every subject is examined and graded. There is no way to sit quietly at the back for eighteen months and collect a certificate — which is exactly why the certificate means something.
Where it leads
A beginning, not a finish line
Eighteen months gives you an ordered foundation in the Islamic sciences — and a record of it. Here is where students take both.
Into the Diploma in Syariah Studies
The academy's most advanced programme — three and a half years, twenty-eight subjects — asks for a certificate in Islamic studies as its preferred preparation. This is that certificate.
See the DiplomaInto whatever you apply for next
Your transcript records eighteen months of examined study, subject by subject. Put it in front of a university, a masjid committee or an employer, anywhere sustained commitment counts. Each institution decides for itself what weight to give it — so ask them, and show them the transcript.
Into your own home
For a parent, perhaps the return that matters most: being the one in the family who can answer the question properly — and explain where the answer comes from.
Still weighing it up?
Ask us anything — what a Saturday looks like, how the assessments work, how this compares with what else is available in Singapore. We will give you a straight answer.