al-amin trust
Bismillahi wa salaatu wa salaamu `alaa nabiyyunaa Muhammad wa `alaa aalihi wa
ashaabihi ajma`een(With the Name Allah, the Blessings and peace be upon him, his
family, his companions, all of them.) We invite you to join the IOU Education
Distance Learning Initiative for the Incarcerated. This is an effort to bring
Islamic Education to a population that needs it most. IOU has embarked on a
journey to provide it’s Diploma and Undergraduate course of Islamic and Arabic
studies, and other course offerings to the incarcerated Muslim population across
the country, and around the world where requested. Efforts are underway in
several state and federal correctional facilities to provide authentic Islamic
Education through this initiative, to Muslim inmates in an effort to aid their
rehabilitation process and to assist in preparing them for a successful and
productive life after prison. Because the Islamic Online University was founded
as an internet-based institution of learning, to accomplish the above-stated
objective has required a “paradigm shift” away from the internet resource, to
that of hard-copy materials, i.e. soft-back, non-spiral bound text-books, (cds
and dvds where staff supervision is available.) There is no need for the inmate
to access the internet, as the materials are made available to him or her, free
of charge. The cost of the Diploma program to the inmate is free, through the
generous donations of global and local donors. Currently male and female Muslim
inmates are enrolled in 26 states and Puerto Rico. To date more than two
thousand (2000) inmates are registered in the program across the country, with
an active enrollment of more than one thousand (1000) inmates.
