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60 min · In the final part of his series “Our Ways,” Sheikh Ali Hammuda walks through the stages of a child’s growth that…
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Michael Abraham walks through fifteen moments from the teaching of the Prophet ﷺ, as reported in hadith, and draws parenting lessons from each. He…
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In a talk he gave at a convention, Imam Tom Facchine reflects on what it means to be a father in Islam. He describes…
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In this talk, Shaykh Waleed Basyouni speaks to three audiences about the role of fathers: fathers, mothers, and children. He encourages fathers to see…
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48 min · Do our children really need more, or less? In this conversation with Lauren Booth, educator and children’s author Anisa Rasul shares…
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22 min · Gentleness beautifies everything it touches. Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi explains why knowing your own temperament is the first step toward the Prophet’s…
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14 min · Ever snapped at your kids in a way far too big for the moment? Dr.
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46 min · As his eldest son prepares to graduate, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar looks back on twelve years of homeschooling his children: why he…
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38 min · After more than a decade of homeschooling his four children, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar shares eight lessons for making homeschooling work today:…
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9 min · Disagreements are part of life, between siblings, friends, neighbors, and even between parents and children. In the final episode of Raising…
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11 min · In a world of constant comparison and instant gratification, children can easily feel dissatisfied, and even feel let down by Allah…
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12 min · Friends shape who our children become, and no friendship is neutral. In Episode 7 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar…
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9 min · Children today spend most of their time with peers, and many rarely spend real time with grandparents or older people. In…
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11 min · Many parents feel embarrassed when their child won’t say salam. In Episode 4 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar and…
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19 min · Saying no is part of loving your child, but how do you set limits without becoming harsh, or giving in to…
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12 min · When a child forgets, refuses, or pushes back, it’s easy to react with a lecture, a guilt trip, or a rebuke,…
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22 min · When a scholar was asked what parents should teach their children first, he didn’t name a fiqh book or a list…
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A righteous child is one of life’s greatest joys, and a parent’s dua for their child is one of only three supplications the Prophet…
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When a father at a Q&A asks how to raise Muslim children, especially daughters, in the West, Nouman Ali Khan reframes the whole question:…
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18 min · A reminder that no one, adult or child, was placed on this earth by accident. Sheikh Belal Assaad explains why an…
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24 min · Ustadh Muhammad Tim Humble traces a Quranic framework for anxiety, depression, and grief, starting with a simple but easy-to-miss point: much…
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32 min · Shaykh Hamza Yusuf unpacks Surah al-Asr — just three verses, but so central that Imam Ash-Shafi’i reportedly said it alone would…
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20 min · Many people quietly believe that feeling afraid means their faith is weak. Shaykh Dr.
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57 min · With her three sons now grown and leaving home, writer and educator Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar looks back with unusual honesty on…
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12 min · Imam Ash-Shafi’i — founder of one of the four major schools of Islamic law, and the first scholar to systematize the…
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33 min · Speaking to parents worried about raising children amid today’s competing pressures, Shaykha Umm Jamaal ud-Din — a Sydney-based educator, revert, and…
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14 min · Delivered as a khutbah, Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf’s talk names the smartphone as one of the biggest barriers between believers and…
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23 min · Since the Quran and Sunnah give broad principles for raising children rather than rigid, place-specific rules, Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi turns…
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12 min · Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy opens with a question worth sitting with: people have parented successfully across nearly all of human history, so…
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30 min · Hisham Abu Yusuf structures his talk around a saying he attributes to Ali ibn Abi Talib: play with children for seven…
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11 min · Asked how to handle a rude, adolescent daughter, Sheikh Assim Al-Hakeem turns the question back on the parent. He describes his…
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36 min · Closing a four-part series, Sheikh Ali Hammuda maps a child’s development onto six age brackets drawn from the Quran and hadith,…
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12 min · Dr. Haifaa Younis opens with a hadith: nothing brings a servant closer to Allah than fulfilling the obligations He’s made binding.
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18 min · Though addressed to teachers, veteran biology teacher Joe Ruhl’s TEDx talk offers a framework any parent can use at home: what…
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21 min · Financial planner Chad Willardson joins Smart Money Parenting host Scott Donnell to unpack what it actually means to be a financial…
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80 min · This is the final part of a three-part seerah-based series on building a strong Muslim family, focused on marriage and in-laws.…
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48 min · This is part two of a three-part seerah-based series on building a strong Muslim family, tracing the Prophet Muhammad’s example with…
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34 min · Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar shares five practical strategies she has observed in families raising confident, grounded Muslim children. She begins by emphasizing…
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61 min · Sheikh Belal Assaad, a family and marriage counselor, lays out the Islamic foundations of a healthy family. He traces the theological…
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6 min · Dr. Omar Suleiman connects gratitude and patience as two expressions of the same underlying quality, then applies this to family life,…
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17 min · Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan traces the Quranic account of Adam’s creation to explain why every human being carries inherent worth. The…
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10 min · Dr. Haifaa Younis walks through what the Quran says about children, described as a blessing and a source of joy, illustrated…
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57 min · Drawing on the story of Prophet Yusuf (peace be upon him), Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan explores five ways love is expressed…
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