Dhzkay Nwry Hykmh Bۆ Bhrwhrdh W ڕۆshnbyry

Located in the Kurdish city of Erbil in the Arbil governorate of northern Iraq, Dezgay Nuri Hikma bo Perwerde u Roshnbiri, the Institute of the Light of Wisdom for Education and Culture, combines a centre for Islamic teaching with a broader mission of cultural formation and community building for the Kurdish families of the capital of the Kurdistan region. Erbil itself is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, with its ancient citadel rising above the surrounding plain and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list for its outstanding preservation of layered urban history reaching back more than six thousand years.
Kurdish Islamic heritage is deep and distinctive. The Kurdish lands embraced Islam in the seventh and eighth centuries, and Kurdish scholars have played a major role in the history of the wider Muslim ummah, including the renowned Salah al Din al Ayyubi, known in Europe as Saladin, who was born in Tikrit of Kurdish parentage and led the Muslim forces that restored Jerusalem to Muslim rule in 1187 after decades of Crusader occupation. Kurdish religious life has also produced a long line of pious teachers, poets, and reciters whose works in Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian continue to enrich the spiritual life of the region.
The name Nuri Hikma, the Light of Wisdom, evokes the Qur'anic theme in which God is described as the Light of the heavens and the earth, and in which true wisdom is given to whomever He wills. Dedicating a centre to this theme plants a quiet daily reminder that every lesson taught within its walls should serve the greater purpose of bringing the heart into closer remembrance of the Creator. The Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family, taught that the heart that does not remember God is a dead heart. Programmes at the centre include Qur'an memorisation, Arabic grammar, tajwid, youth activities, and adult lectures on prophetic biography, family ethics, and Kurdish Islamic history. Daily prayer times for Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha at the Nuri Hikma institute appear on this page for every resident and visitor in Erbil.