Her daughter was seven and ten juz into her hifz when Dr Hajir Bawa asked her to pause. Radia broke down: "Mommy, please, I don't want to stop. I want to be like our Nabi."
Dr Hajir Bawa was born in District Six, married at sixteen, and worked as a textile designer before the Quran took over her life. She co-founded the Jameyyatul Qurra Girls Hifth School at IPSA with the late Shaykh Yusuf Booley, studied at Darun Na'im, and after decades of teaching returned to the student's chair to earn a PhD in education. Today she teaches at Zahraa Institute and researches the wellbeing of the teachers who carry the Quran.
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00:00 Cold open
00:23 Welcome
02:28 The deen at home, District Six
04:48 Married at sixteen
06:59 Falling in love with the Quran
08:20 Shaykh Yusuf Booley
12:10 Darun-Na'im
15:00 From reciting to understanding
16:14 Jameyyatul Qurra Girls Hifth School
18:07 Teaching women and children in the early years
19:03 Shamiela, and the Tuesday class
21:56 Take the fruit, plant a seed
22:31 Back in the student's chair
26:56 The PhD
29:37 The gaps in our madrasas
30:33 A second study: the hafiz teachers
35:41 Sitting at the feet of a teacher
37:48 Radia and Zahraa Institute
38:55 The hardest season
40:59 To the woman who thinks it is too late
44:03 Every teacher was first a student
44:23 Dua
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