Our students should be true believers at heart, righteous in deed, and wise of thoughts. Only thus can they assume their responsibility as stewards over God’s earthly dominions.

In 1985, A group of businessmen in Jeddah gathered to set up a non-profit, private school that provides the children of Jeddah with a distinctive education, similar to that offered by prestigious schools in the United States and Britain.

The first motive behind the establishment of schools is to believe in the importance of the personal and emotional development of the child in the family, rather than the alienation that separates the child from his or her national, Arab, and Islamic environment, and distorts his emotional growth; Balancing Islamic culture with the values ​​of society and learning through modern science curricula.

The founders made a huge donation, bringing together around 70 million riyals, and the schools were built on a plot of land from a high-rise area of ​​10.000 square meters.
The schools were built based on the idea of ​​a combination of Architectural significance and the human values of ​​learning and education.

Dar Al Fikr (DAF) seeks to empower its students with the Quranic mission of “Iqra,” which is the invocation to read. Our students should be true believers at heart, righteous in deed, and wise of thoughts. Only thus can they assume their responsibility as stewards over God’s earthly dominions.