Time and time again, after finishing a lesson, students would ask: "Can I have a copy of your notes?"
It happened in classes. It happened at workshops. It kept happening, until I realised these maps weren't just useful for teaching. They were what students needed to study with.
Here's the thing: I didn't make these to teach. I made them to understand.
I started mind mapping my ʿĀlimiyyah books in 2019, while I was still a student myself. Dense passages from al-Qudūrī, al-Hidāyah, Dars-e-Tirmidhī, the classical texts we were studying. I was sitting with the same books you're sitting with, just as confused at times, and mapping was how I made sense of them. Over the years, across dozens of subjects, I built over 100,000 branches.
When I started teaching, I already had the maps. So I taught from them. And something changed. Students could follow along more easily. Difficult passages had a shape. The same structure that had helped me understand as a student was now helping them understand too.
Every branch here is my own work. These are my personal study notes from real durūs with accomplished teachers. Hours and hours of my own understanding, my own way of breaking down difficult material, thought through one masʾalah at a time.
My name is Omar Multani. I completed my ʿĀlimiyyah in 2023 at Dār al-ʿUlūm Canada and have been teaching in multiple madāris since. These maps came with me the whole way. Now it's time they did the same for you.
