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Abū Zayd Khālid
Arabic Tutor for English-Speaking Students
Ustādh Abū Zayd Khālid Ditta brings over 30 years of experience teaching Arabic to English-speaking students around the world.
He has spent years studying Arabic and benefiting from scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah, including Shaykh ʿUbayd al-Jābirī, raḥimahullāh. His teaching is rooted in clarity, structure, and helping students understand how the Arabic language works.
Students benefit not only from his experience, but also from an approach that connects grammar, verbs, sentence structure, and reading into a clearer path of learning.
Teaching Philosophy
Arabic is best learned as a structured system, not as disconnected rules.
Ustādh Abū Zayd’s teaching places strong emphasis on helping students understand how verbs, words, and sentences work together. The aim is not simply to complete material, but to help students recognise patterns, understand meaning, and read with greater confidence.
His lessons focus on clear foundations, strong verb understanding, sentence structure, reading with meaning, and practical comprehension.
A word from Dr. ʿAbdulilah Lahmāmī
“Abū Zayd Khālid, may Allāh preserve him; he was my neighbour in Madīnah, and we were neighbours to Sh. ʿUbayd al-Jābirī, may Allāh have mercy on him, and all praise is to Allāh, we had the blessed opportunity to read to our Shaykh, Sh. ʿUbayd al-Jābirī — to read some mutūn; and all praise is to Allāh, he was my partner for the lessons in Lughah al- ʿArabiyyah with Sh. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Kūni, one of the students of al-Shaykh, al-ʿAllāmah, al-Mufassir Muḥammad Amīn ash-Shanqīṭī, may Allāh have mercy on him.
So we completed al-Ājurrūmiyyah together with Sh. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Kūni, naʿam. And all praise is to Allāh, he [Abū Zayd] loves the Lughah, and mashā-allāh tabārakallāh he displayed good understanding mashā-allāh and benefitted. And he was also teaching in Reading, [teaching] the shabāb, teaching them Lughah al-ʿArabiyyah.
So he is a man who is, inshā-allāh, upon khayr and we only know good of him, and we wish him success in his future, and for himself and his family and his children — may Allāh bless him with good in this life and the hereafter.”
More Courses by
Abū Zayd Khālid

Arabic Verb Mastery — The Core Verb System Course

Al-Ājurrūmiyyah — Foundations of Arabic Grammar Course



