Current Sponsorship Situation = No Active Sponsors
Also see:
Iterative Arabic Research Content Development
and
Arabic Case Theory Project - Nahw - Raf' Nasb Jarr Jazm رفع نصب جرّ جزم as the Next Level of Arabic Patterns Research
and
Book Indexing Project for Quick Study Tools and Quick Access Studies
Ideal Full-Time Plan
The ideal plan is to take sponsorship for 80% of time spent and do 20% voluntarily, and to shift full-time to the blog.
Ideally, at least 10 dedicated sponsors are required who should be willing to sponsor on a monthly basis and be willing to contribute more in case some sponsor is unable to contribute any more and no suitable replacement is found. I don't like advance, and take sponsorship after the completion of the post. Interested sponsors may contact me at my live email address asimiqbal2nd @ live.com
Less Ideal but still useful Part-Time Plan
Lesser efficient, but still better than no sponsorship, is partial sponsorship method, where sponsors or even 1 sponsor can partially sponsor 10+ to 20+ part time hours per week (out of which minimum 20% hours will be done voluntarily inshaALLAH! and this amount can increase to 50% or more depending on topics chosen, benefit of that post or project towards Qur'anic Understanding and situation of sponsor).
Method of sponsoring / Funding
Direct IBAN transfer, or via Google Pay or Apple Pay, or transfer via Ria, Western Union or MoneyGram, but other methods can also be explored via email. IBAN and other required details can be provided to interested sponsors, after some discussion with the sponsor for some days or weeks. 1 thing to note is that I hate advance, and only like to take sponsorship once the post or project is complete and for mega posts, once the available draft version is launched publicly online. I never take 100% sponsorship since at least 20% work is to be kept ultra safe inshaALLAH for the hereafter, though I hope ALLAH will give me reward for the sponsored work also as HE Knows, how much I hate risking Hereafter reward by taking sponsorship. There are only 2 reasons, I take sponsorship. The old and ever green reason is that with sponsored full-time method, much more unique work can be achieved by The Help of ALLAH, specially when a person is doing a rare or unique kind of research like me. 2nd reason is that sometimes a person has to spend his part-time also striving to try to meet his responsibilities towards his family. In such situations, all projects have to be paused till situation changes or partial sponsorship is received.
Most Important Projects Requiring sponsorship
The major areas requiring urgent sponsorship are as follows:
1. Full check up of blog and tool links and re-upload of PDFs and re-editing of links and tools. (Estimated time required 100+ hours at $10 per hour. But once work is started, repairs and revised links can be released in phases inshaALLAH!)
2. Continuing the posts on patterns series (see patterns section below for some suggested patterns along with estimated unique words from the pattern used in The Qur'an. Posts can be attempted 1 pattern at a time or a set of patterns in chunks of 50 hour sponsorships).
3. Initiating the 1st post on grammar, specially a detailed post on one of the most important grammar concepts, The usage and use cases of نصب in Arabic. (Post is estimated to take a lot of time, but inshaALLAH! it can be attempted and released draft style via chunks of 100 hour sponsorships till its completion).
InshaALLAH! more target areas may be attempted after the above 3 targets.
Suggested Method of Sponsorship
1. Sponsorship commitments of at least 10 hours or $100 required for a sponsor. More than this is also allowed.
2. Sponsorship is not taken in advance, since I am only 1 person running this blog and can't guarantee my life, and so I only prefer to take the sponsorship once the post is complete and preferably also launched online.
3. Since sponsorship is not taken in advance, so the sponsor should commit the amount he plans to sponsor via email with me and then save that amount separately with himself till the completion of the post or the project.
If no sponsorship is received for generation of new content, or for repair of old tools and links
Then blog will inshaALLAH! remain paused till current situation requiring sponsorship changes, or till some sponsor becomes interested.
Sponsorship Tracker (There has been only 1 sponsorship run so far. This partial sponsorship run was only active from December 2019 till September 2021 and is now OFF since the single sponsor ended this arrangement citing his personal reasons)
May ALLAH reward the sponsors for contributing towards this mission and also accept my voluntarily spent hours and sponsored hours. Aamin!
Sponsors (1) :
Sponsor 01: Sponsor has not been named on the request of the sponsor to be kept anonymous
Status : OFF
Status : OFF
Total amount sponsored: $ 3000
Manpower sponsored: Asim Iqbal
Distribution of sponsorship:
25 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 250 for More on ل25 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 250 for Learn Arabic Particle وَ
25 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 250 for Learn Arabic Particle فَ
10 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 100 for Learn Arabic Particle حَتَّىٰ
10 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 100 for Learn Arabic Particles ثُمَّ and ثَمَّ
5 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 50 for Learn Arabic Particle أَوْ
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Learn مَا and its compounds
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Arabic Pattern Meanings Set 1 فَعِيل فَعِل فَعْلَان فَعُول فَعَّال
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Arabic Pattern Meanings Set 2 فَعُّول فُعُّول فُعَال فُعَلَة فُعْلَان
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Arabic Pattern Meanings Set 3 أَفْعَل فَعْلَآء فُعْلَىٰ مِفْعَال فِعِّيل
Manpower (1) :
Asim Iqbal:
Status : Awaiting full-time or partial sponsorship to resume posts and projects. In short, PAUSED!
Status : Awaiting full-time or partial sponsorship to resume posts and projects. In short, PAUSED!
Cost: $10 per hour (fixed cost, regardless of project or post)
Transferred sponsorship : $ 3000
Total amount received : $ 2899 (-$101 deducted for transaction processing service charges etc.)
(This deduction is only mentioned to be more accurate and truthful, with due respect to the sponsors. Work is done based on complete transferred amount, and not on actually reached amount)
Distribution of sponsors : Sponsor 01 (100%).
Utilization of sponsorship:
Note: Count of voluntarily spent hours and sponsored hours mentioned at the bottom of each post. See each of the below posts to see split of voluntarily spent hours and sponsored hours.
25 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 250 for Learn Arabic Particle وَ
25 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 250 for Learn Arabic Particle فَ
10 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 100 for Learn Arabic Particle حَتَّىٰ
10 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 100 for Learn Arabic Particles ثُمَّ and ثَمَّ
5 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 50 for Learn Arabic Particle أَوْ
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Learn مَا and its compounds
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Arabic Pattern Meanings Set 1 فَعِيل فَعِل فَعْلَان فَعُول فَعَّال
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Arabic Pattern Meanings Set 2 فَعُّول فُعُّول فُعَال فُعَلَة فُعْلَان
50 hours @ $10 per hour i.e. $ 500 for Arabic Pattern Meanings Set 3 أَفْعَل فَعْلَآء فُعْلَىٰ مِفْعَال فِعِّيل
Note : There is no audit for all the free services I am offering via my Islamic Projects and blogs and I only expect my recompense from ALLAH and pray for HIS Approval, Mercy and Paradise.
Sponsorship sought for following planned targets inshaALLAH! :
1. Particles & common usage words: Post on بَلْ and كَ and إِنْ and هَا
2. Grammar: Detailed posts on:
Usage and use cases for نصب in Arabic. Most important and recommended post in Grammar and requires 100s of hours.
Usage and use cases for رفع in Arabic.
Usage and use cases for جرّ in Arabic.
Usage and use cases for جزم in Arabic.
3. Vocabulary: Posts on فُؤَاد and قَلْب and رُوح
4. Patterns: Word Patterns meaning shades
Some possible pattern sets, after launch of 1st 3 posts, 1 of which may be selected for next post inshaALLAH!. Note that a set may be split further inshaALLAH! in case it takes too much time. Some suggested patterns are shown below along with a rough estimate of unique words from the pattern used in The Qur'an.
1. Particles & common usage words: Post on بَلْ and كَ and إِنْ and هَا
2. Grammar: Detailed posts on:
Usage and use cases for نصب in Arabic. Most important and recommended post in Grammar and requires 100s of hours.
Usage and use cases for رفع in Arabic.
Usage and use cases for جرّ in Arabic.
Usage and use cases for جزم in Arabic.
3. Vocabulary: Posts on فُؤَاد and قَلْب and رُوح
4. Patterns: Word Patterns meaning shades
Some possible pattern sets, after launch of 1st 3 posts, 1 of which may be selected for next post inshaALLAH!. Note that a set may be split further inshaALLAH! in case it takes too much time. Some suggested patterns are shown below along with a rough estimate of unique words from the pattern used in The Qur'an.
To prepare more free for all :
In Depth, Researched Posts to Learn Arabic in required detail, deep with focus on core and authentic meanings. The crux from multiple books with enhancement via research and contextual analysis, where needed. Testing the meaning shades derived after thorough research using The Qur'anic Usage is the most important step of this research.
Quick Study Tools to Learn Arabic Faster and Study The Qur'an more easily with Fast Referencing to Any Ayah in multiple books, and Fast Referencing to any root, word or topic in various books. Due to this facilitation and easy access to multiple books together on any topic, the researcher can spend his available time on the actual research and that too a comprehensive research using multiple available books on the topic he is researching.
High Impact and Unique Islamic Projects. Qur'an Concordance Projects, facilitating studying The Qur'an and its Words from various angles to understand them better and also to put the understood interpretations and derived meanings to the test. Even theories that certain letters or certain pair of letters in a root have a common meaning, can be put to the test using this Concordance Research.
A Comprehensive and Easy to Understand Qur'anic Arabic Grammar + Vocabulary + Particles website or PDF covering all important aspects of Qur'anic Arabic, and presented in an easy to understand manner, inshaALLAH!
Sponsorship is required to achieve all these projects since these are full time and serious projects that require due time, which is only possible by going full time, and going full time is only possible using sponsorship.
Win-Win for All
- All the knowledge is available for everyone anywhere, to Learn Arabic for free!
- I can spend a lot more time on generating
- More posts.
- More Indexed Quick Study Tools.
- More High Impact Projects.
- Sponsors can advertise their halal business in return or can sponsor just to make this free for all Learn Arabic mission a success.
- Even those who cannot sponsor can participate by sharing as many posts and pages as possible using the share buttons given at the bottom of each post and page.
- This is a new initiative for Free for all In Depth Arabic Education. Play your part.
- Sponsor more time for me to prepare the tools and posts and also promote this blog as much as you can.
- Thorough research costs time.
- Sponsorship cost is $10 per hour and is same for all the below. Total sponsorship received since launch of blog till today: $ 3000.
- Sponsorship cost for advertisers is per month and varies based on location and type of advertisement. Email me if interested. Again for every $10, 1 hour of my time is dedicated inshaALLAH!. Total sponsorship in return for advertisement received since launch of blog till today: $ 0.
- Difference between above 2 methods is that in pure sponsorship method, you can specify the exact post or tool or project on which the bought hours are to be spent, while in sponsorship via advertisement, I decide which post, tool or project I allocate time to, but in advertisement method you get advertisement space on the blog (monthly and renewable).
- Only by ALLAH's Continuous Help, projects, tools and posts have been done.
- With sponsorship, more time can be allocated and 1st sponsorship was received in 2020 MashaALLAH!. May ALLAH reward the sponsors for contributing towards this mission. Aamin!
Email me at asimiqbal2nd @ live.com to discuss.
1. Indexing of any book and embedded quick study tools.
1. For Qur'anic works, indexing for each Ayah.
2. For Arabic Vocabulary works, indexing based on roots or words.
3. For Arabic Grammar works, indexing based on topics or sub-topics or grammatical terms.
4. For other books, indexing by topics or subtopics.
The index can then be used to make a quick study tool. I can help with that also, since I have also made quick study tools by linking page numbers on archive for Qur'anic Ayaat and also to Arabic books' topics.
Experience in this service:
Indexed about 30 of the included books for :
Arabic Almanac and Mawrid Reader
Indexed all the books in:
Qur'an Ayat Navigators 1,2,3,4,5
Arabic Particles Tool
Indexed
Howell Arabic Grammar
Prepared embedded quick study tools for
A Thesaurus for Distinctions of meanings between assumed Synonyms in Arabic.
Wright Arabic Grammar
Sharh of Miatu Amil English
Qawaid e Zaban e Qur'an (Urdu)
Aasaan Khaasiyyaat e Abwaab - Arabic Verb Forms (Urdu)
Mujam ul Furooq il Lughawiyyah (Arabic)
Arabic Nahw & Arabic Sarf Reference Books Quick Study Tool (Arabic)
All this was done free of cost, for ALLAH and Islam, and I can continue doing in the limited free time I can get inshaALLAH! but with sponsored services many more books can be done and many more tools prepared.
Suggested Indexing Project in my sight requiring sponsorship for quick launch:
Taj ul Uroos Quick Study Tool Idea .
2. More Posts on this Blog and Important Islamic Projects
If more time is allocated to this blog, like 50 hours per week, inshaALLAH! many more posts can be generated and this blog can be built as a reference blog for learning Classical Arabic. Phase 1 of this blog can be complete with coverage of following areas. An honest analysis of my posts on below topics will show that I am trying to add something unique to these important areas of Arabic. In addition to that, the important Islamic projects can be completed much faster inshaALLAH!A Comprehensive and Easy to Understand Qur'anic Arabic Grammar + Vocabulary + Particles website or PDF covering all important aspects of Qur'anic Arabic, and presented in an easy to understand manner, inshaALLAH! . This includes the 3 types of posts below and some other types also inshaALLAH! which will be added inshaALLAH if sponsorship is received and this project gains some momentum inshaALLAH!
1. Learn Arabic Particles and Related Words Meanings
Time Consumption = Very High,
Status = 13 posts!
Importance and requirement of in depth posts = Very High:
Arabic particles and related words with multiple meaning shades (about 30+ posts)
See Arabic Particles and Related Words Meanings for notes so far published. Next most important target is بَلْ but due to the high amount of time required to investigate multiple books in detail and to do research and to present that research, these posts are slow moving. As you saw in my particles notes published so far, I don't choose the easy route of just copying notes from books or translating notes from books, I attempt to do research and contextual analysis for the examples presented in the books, and only after analysis, include the meaning shades and also try to keep the core meaning shades in focus while preparing the notes.
Arabic Particles notes can be prepared, keeping the following split in mind:
Type 1: Core meaning shades of particles.
Type 2: Modified meaning shades due to context and if so what meaning & in which context
Type 3: Same meaning shades as type 1 or 2, but it + context gives a unique overall message.
Below picture gives status for Arabic Particles Notes as on 18th April 2020:
2. Learn Arabic Verb Forms
Time Consumption = High,
Status = 13 posts and completed!
Importance and requirement of in depth posts = Very High:
Arabic verb Forms I to XI and BQI , QI, QIV
See Arabic Verb Forms for published notes.
3. Learn Core Meaning Shades of Important Arabic Words
Time Consumption = Normal
Status = 13 posts!
Importance of posts focusing on core meaning shades of word instead of mixing relevant and less relevant meaning shades = High
Arabic Vocabulary Posts on words used in The Qur'an that are very important. (About 300+ posts targeted) .
See Arabic Words Core Meanings for notes so far published.
Next 4 targets are فُؤَاد قَلْب أمْر شَآءَ but due to the amount of time required to investigate multiple books in detail and to do research to investigate the core meaning shades and then also put the derived meaning shades to the test using The Qur'an for contextual analysis, these posts are paused for now. As you saw in my Arabic Words notes published so far, I attempt to research multiple books, searching for the core meanings, then I put the derived meanings to the Test using The Qur'an. This analysis using Qur'anic Usage is the most important step for any researcher. I don't take the easy route of simply adding up all the available notes in all the dictionaries, rather I focus on trying to extract the core meanings and also try to verify them using The Qur'anic context.
4. Islamic Projects
Time Consumption = High
Status = The most important project, The Qur'an Concordance project is complete MashaALLAH!
Importance = Very High
Sponsorship.
Sponsor my time spent for this blog i.e. pay per hour to get more posts generated. This payment can be in return for advertisement on this blog or just for the sake of service for Islam.
Note: Sponsors can decide which Arabic Particle, Arabic Verbal Form or Arabic Word to post next, but The Qur'an will be 1st priority and until all Qur'anic Vocabulary is completed, other words will not be processed.
Suggested Project requiring sponsorship now to initiate and proceed quickly on it inshaALLAH!
Grammatical Concordance of The Qur'an
in which all Aayaat containing a grammatical concept are gathered together & all grammatical concepts used in The Qur'an have an entry
Labeling each Ayah for used Grammatical concepts requires full-time time
Suggested Posts Series requiring sponsorship now to speed up progress :
Arabic Particles and Related Words Meanings
Advertise.
Advertise your halaal business or institute etc. on this blog via suitable banner or text advertisement on the right side bar.Why?
1. Ideally, I want to spend about 50 hours per week on the blog and its related services. But that is not possible without shifting full-time to the blog. I can't achieve this part-time as a hobby, since the areas I am focusing on are unique and require due time. Hoping that this can be achieved in parallel with spending most of the productive hours doing worldly work for making a living to meet family and financial responsibilities is nothing more than wishful thinking. But, I am rest assured that whatever happens, I am only accountable for what I can achieve using the resources (including time) I have, not for what I could have achieved if something that is not in my control (e.g. sponsorship) also happened.2. Other alternatives are selling the knowledge via books, ebooks or offering paid teaching. I don't want to do any of these as my services for Islam are free for all, whether they can afford or not, whether I can generate many posts or no posts, and I recommend sponsorship only from the ones who can afford and who may also want to benefit by advertising in return.
3. Teaching in return for expensive tuition fees is being done by some, selling books on Islam is being done by some, but in my opinion sponsored free for all services is the best option, i.e. win win for all.
Offers from Institutes and Organizations for joining them
Organizations and Institutes are welcome to contact me if they want me to work with them, but I won't join or be linked to any organization or institute unless it fulfills my following 2 requirements:1. All Islamic Work Produced is to be free for all to access in all formats. They can cover costs via sponsorship, funding, donations etc. as long as they don't restrict free access to Islamic Material in any way.
2. No blind acceptance of any institute or organization's views or beliefs. Each view is to be evaluated based on evidence and merit. I am willing to work with them on matters of public benefit as long as they don't demand me to have same view as them. We should work together for mass benefit of Islam and Muslims, setting our differences aside for later or ignoring our differences.
Any genuine reasons for not supporting these Projects, Tools & Posts?
Those who think that I am not the person who should attempt all these projects, tools and posts, you should at least do 1 of the following:1. Ask your favorite scholar / institute / organization to launch all these projects, tools and posts and make all the end products free for all. (They may use funding/ sponsorship/ donations)
2. Launch these projects, tools and posts yourself. (You may use funding/ sponsorship/ donations)
If you do any of the above 2, then I have no problem at all, if you don't support any of my projects, and am even ready to guide you further on how to initiate these.
These projects, tools and posts are very important. The problems being faced by Muslims are too diverse and complex and there is no single solution. Multiple, parallel efforts are required to solve these and proper research and spread are very important to make knowledge available and accessible to all and in the required depth. Spreading the understanding of Classical Arabic is one of the key steps in this regard.
Suggested Rule of Implementing Metered & Transparent Funding & Utilization of Islamic Services for Islamic Projects :
Based on https://rse-i.blogspot.com/p/islamic-ideas-list.htmlNo hidden or ambiguous utilization of donations, funds, sponsorship money or campaign money etc. - Transparent tracking of:
- Exact work done.
- Exact time spent.
- Exact person who worked on the task.
- Exact amount of money paid to the person for the above 3.
All my projects will follow this rule inshaALLAH!
Sponsored Full Time Islamic Workers Concept
Copied from : https://revivearabic.blogspot.com/2016/04/sponsored-full-time-islamic-workers.htmlA necessary requirement for Proper & Fast Islamic Research & Spread in today's complex & confusing time.
Concept only, no actual working done so far.
Suggested Rules & Summary:
1. Highly Skilled Paid Manpower spending about 50 hours/week/person. 1 person = 50 hours/week, 10 persons = 500 hours/week. Doing Unbiased Research. Truth is good enough, just do proper unbiased & thorough research with honesty and dedication, spending as much time as is required for properly exploring a topic and studying as many reference books as required in that area.
2. Sponsors Funding the Payment for Highly Skilled Manpower, in return getting advertisements to their Islamic Site, Islamic Organization, Halaal Business, Islamic Books etc.
3. Organizers, managing everything transparently. How much money is given by which Sponsor to which Full Time Islamic Worker for which project for how many hours work.
4. Volunteers, Providing free Islamic Worker services for 5 to 10 hours per week.
Analysis:
Today’s busy life schedule makes it difficult to spend time on job and Islamic work together. For example, If a person does job of 8 am to 7 pm with travel included for 5 days. It takes out 55 hours from the week. Such a person with family responsibilities, if he tries very hard, can manage about 10 to 14 hours per week for Islamic work. If such a person can be dedicated for Islamic work and spends 50 hours or more per week on Islamic work, that can help him achieve about 5 years work in 1 year. A project can be launched which gathers a team of high potential Islamic workers and good Islamic sponsors :
1. Full Time Islamic Workers - The Work Force :
The Islamic Workers can be selected based on their past volunteer projects, Islamic contributions and skills. These can apply by sharing their skills, examples of their past work, interests etc. Other people who have worked with them in the past on Islamic projects can provide recommendation with brief comments on their performance. Then based on donations or sponsorships available for a project, they can be selected as full time paid workers for a period of 6 months to 1 year on some projects. At least 6 months period is recommended since this person will have to leave his job and become a full time Islamic worker and donations should also be at a suitable level to encourage him to leave his job and join as full time worker. A site can be set up where such potential persons will update monthly a kind of CV or profile and their areas of interest in priority from set of projects decided and listed. These are planned to be the man power or workforce.
2. Donors & Sponsors - The Funding:
The donor Muslims can make donations to support the selected high potential people as full time paid Islamic workers. They can select the projects in which they want to contribute and how much and how regularly. The sponsors are those donors who want advertisement to their halaal business, institute or their own Islamic site in return for sponsoring. These are planned to be the sponsors/financiers of the project.
3. Volunteers :
The volunteers can be those who will provide their free services in limited time i.e. about 5 to 10 hours average per week (average i.e. overall this rate should be maintained, if 1 week he can only manege 6 hours, he can do 12 hours in next 2 weeks to cover this up or 11 hours in next 4 weeks etc. and maintain average of 10 hours per week) . They will be assigned the most in demand task and these can start working immediately. Most in demand potential is classical Arabic to English Translation.
4. Organizers:
Organizers should be trusted Muslims who transparently manage donations and their distribution to paid Islamic workers. This project should be very transparent, how much donation is being given to which person for which task, and that task if possible should also be uploaded as draft version somewhere or at least shared with donors to that project, so that they can continue seeing the progress of their interest work. Moreover, donations should also be tracked in a separate sheet, where the amount of donation by a donor used for a project should also be marked and this sheet can be regularly shared with the donors.
5. Potential Areas:
Many potential areas are there e.g.
1. Classical Arabic to English Translation e.g. translation of selected roots from Taaj ul Uroos or Lisaan ul Arab for roots used in The Qur’an starting from last 8 Arabic letters. Translation of The Qur'an with a lot of dedicated time, effort, and skills.This is the most in demand skill and potential!
2. Islamic Research and Sharing of that research in unique areas of interest e.g. Research into Qur’anic Studies selected areas, Sunnah issues.
3. Quick Study Tools development, enhancement and launch e.g. comprehensive quick study tool which searches an Arabic root in all major classical Arabic Dictionaries and shows all the relevant content on searching together. A comprehensive Tafsir tool that shows all available useful Tafaaseer on any Ayat together. Qur'an Quick Study tools and other important books quick study tools. Due to shortage of time, make study instant and quick by making quick study tools, so that interested people who want to study some area of Islam, can do so immediately. No matter how much time they have, they can study directly and quickly using quick study tools instead of 1st finding the topic and then studying.
4. Searchable text projects: Conversion of important scanned books to fully searchable books and applications by typing them again in proper formatting.
5. Islamic services: like preparing blogs on an Islamic field e.g. Qur'anic studies, Arabic learning, personal teaching, web designing, and many other areas can be identified.
But the need today is to quicken the Islamic Research and Spread it far and wide.
Youtube Clip from Siraj Wahhaj’s lecture :
We Need Full-time Workers For Islam
Interested people can email me at aasimiqbaal @ gmail.com to discuss or give suggestions on how to improve the concept further and once fully refined, a version can be prepared which can be shared with popular sites and scholars and launched.
Example: Lane was identified as having high potential and hired as full time paid worker on preparing an Arabic English Lexicon. He was able to focus his energies and time on this project without having to spend time on doing a job and instead of doing this as a hobby or part time volunteer activity, he worked on it in a focused manner and was able to provide due time to it. We should have potential Islamic translators having skill level equal to or higher than Lane. Once the project is launched from a proper platform, the energies of such high potential Muslims can be focused on important Islamic projects instead of being spent on worldly jobs.
Interested workers and donors can email, so that I can add reference to their services on this post, so that they can be contacted by the person who launches the project, whenever the project is launched. The potential workers to prove their skills and potential will have to do some volunteer work of about 10 hours in the most in demand project matching their skills as indicated by the organizer who launches the project, based on which their quality, skill, speed etc. can be evaluated. The potential donors and sponsors should indicate their way of earning to organizer so that only those donors are selected who don’t have any disallowed money (e.g. ribaa) in the earnings.
Interested volunteers can also email me. Currently most in demand project is Classical Arabic to English Translation. Also volunteers can be assigned various smaller tasks from above 5 potential areas. The high potential volunteers who show excellent performance, are most suitable candidates to be chosen as paid Islamic workers in addition to getting my recommendation. The volunteer activities can start immediately by coordinating with me, but think over it before applying, as sometimes I receive a volunteer mail and when I assign him or her a task, the task is not submitted. In volunteer activities I don't want to make any kind of push as this is volunteer activity by its very definition, I can assign target timelines for paid workers and push them with due respect to meet the targets, but not volunteers. Before posting here your interest to volunteer, also note that it is not certain when the paid project will start, and if you can easily manage without harming your current job, then I will recommend you participate. This project may even be limited to volunteer based project for a considerable time till it gains acceptance among high impact Muslims and ALLAH Knows when that can happen, so volunteers should be prepared and willing to continue this as volunteer based project.
How Mega Free for All Educational Resources founded by Non-Muslims are using the Funded Free for All model
Archive and Wikipedia both collect funding to keep their mega sites free for all.Archive 2018 fundraising campaign to collect 6 million dollars (screenshot taken on 25th December 2018)
Wikipedia 2016-2017 fundraising, for details see their 2016-2017 detailed report
On smaller scale projects, even authors are using funding model to generate free for all books , e.g., see this JavaScript book, for which, only to make a 3rd edition of its existing book, the author collected all this funding. Why give the lion's share to the publishers when it is mainly by the authors for the readers.
Also read Free for All Islamic Books in PDF and other formats
Research, investigate and be bold and courageous enough to speak : truth / reality / fact : openly and clearly, even if you are alone in your stance, even if the whole world criticizes you, without resorting to any cover-up, hiding any inconvenient or hard truth, sugar coating facts, use of diplomacy, trickery or foxery for gaining more following and for appearing more compliant to what masses like.
Poetry by Iqbal: Translation Attempt:
Constitution of youthful-men: speaking : truth/ reality/ fact : and dauntlessness
ALLAH's lions don't know foxery