Faith & Identity

Your Hardest Days As A Mother, And What The Qur’an Says To You

52 min · In a class on the struggles of motherhood, Maulana Asim Ayub takes up a subject many people find hard to hear:…

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…

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…

Our Ways in Raising Children, Part 2

59 min · In part two of his series “Our Ways,” Sheikh Ali Hammuda describes three styles of parenting: the firefighter who steps in…

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…

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

There’s More to Raising Children Than You Think

Parenting Lessons from the Quran: Listening to Your Children

15 Ways to Teach Like the Prophet ﷺ

Michael Abraham walks through fifteen moments from the teaching of the Prophet ﷺ, as reported in hadith, and draws parenting lessons from each. He…

Fatherhood & Islam

In a talk he gave at a convention, Imam Tom Facchine reflects on what it means to be a father in Islam. He describes…

The Role of Fathers in Islam

In this talk, Shaykh Waleed Basyouni speaks to three audiences about the role of fathers: fathers, mothers, and children. He encourages fathers to see…

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…

Kids Need Less: Here’s Why

48 min · Do our children really need more, or less? In this conversation with Lauren Booth, educator and children’s author Anisa Rasul shares…

Be Gentle: A Talk for Parents and Teachers

22 min · Gentleness beautifies everything it touches. Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi explains why knowing your own temperament is the first step toward the Prophet’s…

Islamic Puberty Guide for Boys

7 min · A calm, shame-free guide to puberty for Muslim boys, covering voice and body changes, wet dreams (ihtilam), ghusl, reaching religious maturity…

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…

Your Inner Child Isn’t One Child

14 min · Ever snapped at your kids in a way far too big for the moment? Dr.

Reflections: 12 Years of Homeschooling

46 min · As his eldest son prepares to graduate, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar looks back on twelve years of homeschooling his children: why he…

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:…

How to Teach Your Kids to Handle Conflict Prophetically

9 min · Disagreements are part of life, between siblings, friends, neighbors, and even between parents and children. In the final episode of Raising…

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…

Who Are Your Child’s Friends?

12 min · Friends shape who our children become, and no friendship is neutral. In Episode 7 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar…

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…

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…

How to Say No to Your Kids and Get Them to Listen

19 min · Saying no is part of loving your child, but how do you set limits without becoming harsh, or giving in to…

When Your Child Misbehaves, Don’t Do This

12 min · When a child forgets, refuses, or pushes back, it’s easy to react with a lecture, a guilt trip, or a rebuke,…

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…

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…

How to Manage Your Mental Health as a Mother

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

Education of Your Baby During Pregnancy

9 min · A child’s relationship with the Quran may begin earlier than most parents realize: in the womb. Sheikh Tawfique Chowdhury explains why…

5 Duaas for our Children from the Quran

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…

How Do I Raise My Muslim Kids In The West?

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:…

When You Feel Worthless, Know This: Allah Doesn’t See You That Way

18 min · A reminder that no one, adult or child, was placed on this earth by accident. Sheikh Belal Assaad explains why an…

How to Deal With Anxiety & Depression in Islam

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…

The Quranic Way to Escape the Age of Distraction

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…

Overcoming Fear: A Quranic Perspective

20 min · Many people quietly believe that feeling afraid means their faith is weak. Shaykh Dr.

Mistakes, Mercy & Motherhood

57 min · With her three sons now grown and leaving home, writer and educator Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar looks back with unusual honesty on…

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…

Advice for Raising Steadfast Children in Times of Fitnah

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…

The Simple Solution to Phone Addiction

14 min · Delivered as a khutbah, Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf’s talk names the smartphone as one of the biggest barriers between believers and…

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…

Advice & Tips on How to Raise Children in This Land

23 min · Since the Quran and Sunnah give broad principles for raising children rather than rigid, place-specific rules, Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi turns…

The War on Kids in the Modern Muslim Family

12 min · Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy opens with a question worth sitting with: people have parented successfully across nearly all of human history, so…

How to Raise Righteous Muslim Children in the West

30 min · Hisham Abu Yusuf structures his talk around a saying he attributes to Ali ibn Abi Talib: play with children for seven…

How to Raise Confident Muslim Children With Emotional Strength and Confidence

37 min · Opening a series on raising righteous and effective Muslim children, Sheikh Ali Hammuda tells of meeting the modest, barely-educated father of…

Why Is My Teenage Daughter So Rude to Me?

11 min · Asked how to handle a rude, adolescent daughter, Sheikh Assim Al-Hakeem turns the question back on the parent. He describes his…

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,…

Advice for Mothers: Leading by Example

12 min · Dr. Haifaa Younis opens with a hadith: nothing brings a servant closer to Allah than fulfilling the obligations He’s made binding.