Faith & Identity

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Faith & IdentityEarly Childhood – Teen · 60 min

Our Ways in Raising Children, Part 4

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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Faith & IdentityAll ages · 45 min

Our Ways in Raising Children, Part 3

45 min · In the third part of his series “Our Ways,” Sheikh Ali Hammuda completes his list of twelve habits he says wear…

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Faith & IdentityAll ages · 58 min

Our Ways in Raising Children, Part 1

58 min · In the first part of his series “Our Ways” on raising children, Sheikh Ali Hammuda argues that raising righteous, capable children…

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Faith & IdentityAll ages · 16 min

STOP Forcing Your Kids to Pray! – The Secret to Raising Devoted Muslims!

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Faith & IdentityAll ages · 77 min

There’s More to Raising Children Than You Think

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Faith & IdentityAll ages · 28 min

How Gratitude Can Heal Your Trauma

28 min · Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan explores gratitude through the story of Musa (peace be upon him) and Bani Israel, newly free from…

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Faith & IdentityPreteen – Teen · 10 min

Social Media Is Changing Your Heart

10 min · Even a feed full of Quran pages and nature photos can leave the heart scattered and restless, because the problem isn’t…

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Faith & IdentityMiddle Childhood – Teen · 38 min

Making Homeschooling Work in 2026

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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Faith & IdentityMiddle Childhood – Teen · 11 min

How to Teach Your Kids Gratitude (Shukr)

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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Faith & IdentityEarly Childhood – Teen · 9 min

Why Don’t Kids Respect Elders Anymore?

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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Faith & IdentityEarly Childhood – Middle Childhood · 11 min

Why Won’t My Child Say Salam?

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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Faith & IdentityEarly Childhood – Middle Childhood · 22 min

Teach Your Child This Before Anything Else: Adab

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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Faith & IdentityAll ages · 9 min

Your Motherhood Routine Is Actually Worship

9 min · When worship feels like one more thing on a mother’s to-do list, it helps to remember that motherhood itself can be…

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Faith & IdentityAll ages · 36 min

How to Manage Your Mental Health as a Mother

36 min · Mothers give and give until they are running on empty. Psychiatrist Dr.

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Faith & IdentityEarly Childhood – Teen · 12 min

How to Raise Children in Islamic Way? Great Lessons From the Mother of Imam Ash-Shafi’i

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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Faith & IdentityPreteen – Teen · 35 min

Raising Teenagers: Some Practical Advice

35 min · Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi opens with a confession: 25 years ago, as a new student of Islam, he went looking for…

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Faith & IdentityEarly Childhood – Teen · 36 min

How to Raise Mentally Resilient Children (According to Age in Islam)

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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Faith & IdentityMiddle Childhood – Teen · 18 min

Teaching Methods for Inspiring the Students of the Future

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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