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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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