ADI extends grants to support American-born students studying the Qur’an. The procedure to receive a grant is to first, complete the “12 Spiritual Attributes” course with a 90% grade, and secondly, form a study group of seven or more American-born pupils. If all seven complete the course with a grade of 90% or higher, ADI will issue a $10,000 grant payable in twelve monthly installments of $833/month.

At the end of one year, if the study group forms a 501-C3 religious entity, (mosque) of fifty or more members, and teaches the Qur’an in accordance with the 12 Prophetic Spiritual Attributes, ADI will issue a $50,000 grant to the organization payable to its creditors and suppliers. To be clear, grants to a mosque are not paid to the mosque; payments are made directly to the mosque’s vendors, bank or landlord.  
If the mosque continues to grow and pursues owning its own facility, ADI’s MosqueSHARE will match the congregation’s building fund up to $100,000. If you would like to apply for a Qur’an Study Grant, please fill out the form below.

We limit funding to students who do not comply with these ten tenets:

  1. Conformance to the principles enshrined in the United States Constitution, such as:
    Separation of church and state
    Democratic governance
    Equal rights for all
    Protection of individual liberties, etc . . . 
  2. Rejection of violence, sectarianism, and radical clerics and pundits who refuse to westernize Islam.
  3. Rejection of Sharia Law, polygamy, and hadiths that do not align with American ideals.
  4. English to be the liturgical language. ADI adopts the lesson learned by the Catholic Church. In Vatican II (1962-1965) the decision was made to use vernacular languages in worship rather than Latin. Prior to that, masses were conducted in Latin only. Now French worshipers worship in French, in Italy Italian, and in Spain Spanish. ADI promotes English to be used in ritual prayers, worship, and homilies.
  5. Actively promoting western cultural norms such as: self-discovery, music, dance, the arts, film, sports, literary criticism, and modern scientific methods in all areas of education.
  6. Acceptance of religious plurality, including freedom of abdication. “There shall be not compulsion in religion.” 2:256
  7. Abrogation of anachronistic Qur’anic directives such as military action, jurisprudence, and the propensity to elevate men over women. 
  8. Completion of ADI’s three-month online course on how to interpret the Qur’an using the same methods used in Biblical criticism. One example, the Qur’an says that humans are multidimensional, both physical and spiritual (32:9; 15:29; 38:72). Yet the Qur’an’s multi-dimensional nature of humankind is silenced by orthodoxy.
  9. Rejection of Muslim scholars and clerics who refuse to accommodate Western democracies. 
  10. Reversing certain traditional practices such as prohibiting female imams, women leading prayers, and requiring women to wear certain coverings in public — the hijab (head covering), a niqab (face veil), a burqa (a full-body covering), etc. Also, such seventh century practices such as prohibiting cremation and requiring grave orientation facing Mecca.