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Nurturing a real, personal connection to faith that your child can carry into adulthood.

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Faith & SpiritualityAll 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 & SpiritualityEarly Childhood – Teen · 14 min

Your Inner Child Isn’t One Child

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

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Faith & SpiritualityMiddle 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 & SpiritualityAll 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 & SpiritualityAll 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 & SpiritualityEarly Childhood · 9 min

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…

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Faith & SpiritualityEarly Childhood – Teen · 18 min

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…

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Faith & SpiritualityEarly Childhood · 37 min

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…

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Faith & SpiritualityPreteen – Teen · 83 min

The Quran on Psychological Trauma

83 min · Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan argues that Western psychology and Quranic guidance start from different premises about human beings, one assuming people…

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Faith & SpiritualityAll ages · 17 min

Feeling Safe in a Broken World: Allah’s Names

17 min · Dr. Omar Suleiman walks through four of Allah’s names, Al-Mu’min, Al-Muhaymin, Al-Hafidh, and Al-Wakil, as layered doors of protection for anyone…

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Faith & SpiritualityAll ages · 31 min

Understanding Tawakkul: Effort, Outcomes, and Anxiety

31 min · This talk reframes anxiety not as an emotion but as a quiet, unexamined belief, that an outcome’s arrival depends on you,…

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Faith & SpiritualityAll ages · 87 min

The Quran Offers Us a Beautiful Path to Improved Mental Health & Healing

87 min · Dr. Rania Awaad, a Stanford psychiatrist and Islamic scholar, makes the case that mental health has always been embedded in Islamic…

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