Online Tajweed Classes — Correct Your Recitation with a Certified Tutor

Tajweed (Arabic: تجويد) is the complete system of rules governing correct Quranic pronunciation. The word itself comes from the Arabic root j-w-d, meaning to improve or to perfect. Tajweed determines exactly how each Arabic letter is articulated — the precise point in the mouth, lips, or throat — and how letters interact with each other in the flow of connected Quranic recitation.

The 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn al-Jazari, whose foundational text Al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah remains a core teaching text in Islamic seminaries worldwide, wrote that applying Tajweed is an obligation on every person who recites the Quran. Without Tajweed, the recitation contains actual errors in the text of the Quran itself — mispronounced letters, sounds merged or dropped, meanings inadvertently altered.

Most American Muslim families who attended weekend Islamic schools or group madrasa classes as children were never formally taught Tajweed. They learned to recite from memory, but the underlying rules were never explicitly addressed. The pronunciation errors that formed in childhood are still there in adult recitation — and they become harder to correct the longer they remain uncorrected. Our Tajweed course identifies and corrects those errors systematically, one-to-one, with a certified tutor.