Our Team

Sr. Maha has more than 17 years of experience teaching Arabic to non-native speakers in the United States and Japan. She has authored a book, "Learn How to Read and Recite Al-Quran" which is being used as part of Islamic School curricula in the USA, Canada, and the U.K. Originally from Egypt, Sr. Maha lived in the United States for 7 years and in Japan for 6 years. "Alhumdullilah, I learned a lot from both cultures. Traveling taught me that the best way to learn a new language is to live the language rather than to study it. From there, I started to implement this concept in Arabic teaching," says Sr. Maha. During her stay in Kuwait, Allah blessed her to attend multiple classes in Islamic sciences and she was awarded first place in the yearly Quran competition organized by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.

Sr. Eman Badr has been teaching Qur'an in Dar-us-Salaam's part-time hifzh program for many years and has been a source of inspiration for many sisters in the community.

She has taught seminars and intensive tafseer courses for the Quran Institute over the years. 

Hayat Marso was born in Pakistan and immigrated to USA with his family when he was fourteen years old. He then memorized the Noble Qurān in 2011 at Dar-us-Salaam's Hifdh School in College Park, Maryland, under the guidance of Shaykh Mohammad Nahavandi. He holds a bachelors degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) in Psychology. In 2017, he began formally studying at the Islamic University of Madinah and earned his associates from the Arabic Language Program for Non-Arabic Speakers in 2019 and a bachelors from the College of Noble Qurān and Islamic Studies in 2023 becoming the fourth American to graduate from the College of Noble Qurān. He also received a diploma in Arabic from the Madinah Arabic Tuition Center and Arabi Center for Arabic Studies in Alexandria, Egypt. Since completing the memorization of the Qurān, Br.Hayat has been studying Islam and its sciences under various teachers and has received ijāzāt in different Qirāāt from the teachers of Masjid An-Nabawi. He has led Tarawēh in multiple states in America such as Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia

Shaykh Mohammad Nahavandi is a teacher at Dar-us-Salaam's full time hifzh program and has inspired multitudes of students in the path of the Qur'an.

Sr. Alia is a "hafidhah" with over 20 years of experience teaching students from the ages of 5 - 75 years. She has been teaching an online hifzh class in the Qur'an Institute for the past 3 years with a dedicated group of students who attend year round. These students memorize an average of 2- 4 ajzaa per year and their class focuses on memorization with a heavy emphasis on review.A deep understanding of how learning takes place in the West has motivated Sr. Alia to teach Quran. She finds it important to instill the love of Qur'an in the hearts, and loves to see kids succeed and develop a love for the Quran.