Education: From Formation to Empowerment
In an age where knowledge accelerates, the question is no longer how much we teach, but what kind of human being we are forming. The second edition of Aqwam Qeela sets out to return education to its true mission — building the human being in awareness, identity, values, and the capacity to act and create impact.
Discover the idea of the second editionAt Aqwam Qeela, five integrated pillars shape the educational experience and define its impact on the human being:
A role model who revives meaning and connects knowledge with purpose.
A person who understands what they learn and turns it well into action and impact.
A genuine partner in building identity and rooting values.
A supportive system that helps the learner grow, engage, and achieve.
Organised knowledge that builds the mind, sets direction, and connects learning with life.
The vision of the second edition extends from the forum into Takween City — an interactive space that brings together applied educational models within the five formations, allowing visitors to see the idea, experience it, and engage with it.
The impact of Aqwam Qeela widens through institutional partnerships that believe building the human being is the foundation of development, and that help turn the vision into programs and experiences whose effects extend into society.
Many ways to take part in Aqwam Qeela — choose your path to impact.
8 ways to take part
The people of the Qur'an have a special space in Aqwam Qeela. The Tahbeer Competition opens the door to good and noble competition in the service of the Book of Allah, through two main tracks: memorization and recitation.
The competition aims to deepen participants' connection with the Holy Qur'an, to show the beauty of recitation, to master memorization, and to build a generation linked to the Qur'an in knowledge, recitation, and conduct.
This track is for those who wish to take part in the Tahbeer Competition, according to the approved conditions and categories. Entries are subject to review and acceptance, in line with the competition's rules and judging process.
Live the forum's sessions and conversations and the experiences of Takween City, and come closer to the questions that return education to its purpose and its impact on people and society.
This track is for the general public, families, and anyone interested in the issues of upbringing, education, values, identity, and building awareness.
Schools and educational institutions have an organised visit track that turns attendance at the event into an educational experience, where students engage with the ideas and models on display in a living language close to their own reality.
It is designed for schools, centres, and educational bodies that wish to organise group visits within the approved schedule and capacity.
If you have an initiative, a program, or an applied model that achieves a tangible impact within one of the five formations, this is your opportunity to present it in the interactive spaces of Takween City.
We are looking for applied models that do not stop at presenting an idea, but offer a living experience that can be understood, engaged with, and measured, and that adds real value to the visitor.
Requests are subject to review and approval according to standards of content and impact, and how closely the experience relates to the theme of the edition and one of its five formations.
The impact of Aqwam Qeela widens through partnerships that bring national institutions and supporters together around a shared purpose: investing in building the human being, strengthening values, developing education, and creating an extended community impact.
The media is a genuine partner in carrying the question to society, widening the circle of impact, and turning the idea from a limited event into a public conversation and a lasting presence.
This track is for media bodies, journalists, content creators, and digital platforms that wish to cover Aqwam Qeela or produce content connected to its message and themes.
Behind every impactful experience is a team that believes in the message and creates the details that not everyone sees.
We open the door to volunteering for those who wish to take part in organizing, reception, visitor services, media support, crowd management, and supporting the operational teams during the days of the event.
If you believe that the quality of the details creates the impact of the experience, then your place is with us.
The second edition includes specialised programs and empowerment workshops connected to its question and themes. They target specific groups and are subject to registration or prior acceptance, depending on the nature of each program and the number of seats.
The professional and educational programs are directed to teachers and practitioners in the field of education, to deepen understanding, develop practice, and connect education with formation and impact.
Aqwam Qeela is not a seasonal event that is held and then ends, nor a fixed title repeated each year. It is a major yearly platform that begins from the Holy Qur’an as its founding reference and great compass, then turns to the issues of people and society, reads them in the light of guidance, and raises one essential, unifying question.
“A new question, a deeper issue, a wider impact, and a compass that does not change.”
Join Aqwam Qeela 2026 — from formation to empowerment.
The second edition brings together a distinguished group of scholars, thinkers, experts, and practitioners in education and upbringing. Confirmed names are announced progressively through the website and the official channels.
The second edition comes as a natural extension of the question of guidance, turning to the field where a person is shaped: education. Does education form a human being, or just deliver a subject? Does it shape awareness, or pile up information?
The first edition was the founding launch of the project. It began from the greatest question to renew society’s connection with the Holy Qur’an — not as a text that is only recited, but as a book of guidance, building, and awareness.
The forum brings together keynote and dialogue sessions and empowerment programs hosting scholars, thinkers, and practitioners, to examine the questions of education — from its reference and purpose to its impact on the teacher, the learner, the family, the curriculum, and the learning environment.
Sheikh Ahmad Al-NufaisTawhīd First: How Is the Mature Person’s Compass Built?20 min
Sheikh Muhammad Yahya TaherO My Son: The Gentleness That Opens the Heart to Counsel20 min
Sheikh Muhammad Al-JasimMindfulness of God: How Is the Conscience Built from Within?20 minSheikh Salem Al-QahtaniResponsibility and Patience: Raising the Young on Action and Steadfastness20 min
Dr. Alaa NassifFamily First: The Relationship Where Formation Begins20 min
Ms. Nawar Al MahmoudThe Exemplary Teacher: A Planting Beyond the Bounds of the Lesson20 min
Dr. Jamila KhalifThe Guiding Curriculum: Knowledge That Gives a Person Their Measure20 min
Sheikh Hisham Abu YusufFormation Before Information20 min
Sheikh AbdelRahman MurphyInner Formation: Building Character, Choice, and Discipline20 min
Dr. Omar SuleimanThe Trust of Stewardship: From Personal Faith to Public Responsibility20 minOsama AlshurafaFrom Purpose to Impact: Turning Conviction into Action20 min
Mr. Abdulaziz Al-MullaKnowing God: The Certainty That Gives the Reformer Steadfastness20 min
Dr. Abdulrahman Al-HaramiThe Everyday Role Model: When Values Are Seen in Conduct20 min
Prof. Mustafa Abu Al-SaadFrom Value to Habit: How Do We Build Behavior from Within the Child?20 min
