Salutations be unto thee, O Successor of the Prophet, and O one Holy and Selected.
Salutations be unto thee, O Support of Religion.
Salutations be unto thee, O Heir of the Prophets, and the Repository of His Knowledge.
Salutations be unto thee, O Pious and Purified.
Salutations be unto thee, O Successor of the Prophet of Allah—the Creator of all the worlds.
Salutations be unto thee, O Proof of Allah for all His creation.
I bear witness that thou art the Chosen of Allah and one very near to Him.
Salutations be unto thee, O Saint of Allah, and O one who understands the Secrets of Allah, the Knower of His Commands, and the Treasurer of His Divine Knowledge.
My parents be sacrificed upon thee, O Commander of the faithful,
My parents be sacrificed upon thee, O Trustee of Allah for His creatures,
My parents be sacrificed upon thee, O Gateway to Paradise,
My parents be sacrificed upon thee, O Light of Allah.

I bear witness that thou didst preach the Code of Allah and His Prophet (the Blessings of Allah be upon him and his progeny), and thou didst shoulder the responsibility to guide the people to safeguard the Faith and to propagate His Religion, and thou didst summon men to goodness and thou didst forbid what was evil, and thou didst conduct for Allah, the kind of steadfastness that needs to be maintained, and thou didst never transgress the limits of Allah, and thou didst pray to Allah with a firm sincerity and wonderous Faith, and may Allah shower His blessings upon thee and the Imams after thee.

The Bab-ul-Ilm Library is a modern library setup primarily for the Shia Ithna-Asheri community of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. It has been established in the Haji Daya Walji building (Tabligh Building), a stone's throw away from the main KSIJ mosque.

While the connotation from the name of the library (Bab-ul-Ilm) would be of a purely Islamic library, it is much more. It has materials in all fields of life, from picture books for toddlers to secular subjects like politics, psychology, and philosophy.

Please visit the library website by clicking the banner above.

Madrasah al-Zahra (‘a) is an institute of higher Islamic learning that offers a two-year advanced level Islamic course that is tailor-made to help different groups of ladies in the community. The target groups included current and future teachers, zakirahs (orators), professionals, mothers and those who intended to go for further studies. We intended to ensure that, though we would follow a course similar to the introductory level of hawza, we would also include subjects that would fulfill the community needs.

We also provide specific modules for certain specialized groups e.g. Islamic Banking and Medical Ethics. Students who cannot attend the entire two-year program are permitted to attend specific modules that would be relevant to their fields of study or their interests.