On-Demand Courses

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview Cultivating mindfulness of Allah Most High is a process that every Muslim struggles with. We spend much time in heedlessness of Allah, lacking consciousness of His ever-present and enveloping Mercy. ...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview: Sura al-Mulk consists of 30 verses and presents believers with numerous lessons on how to bring their faith to life. Shaykh Faraz Rabbani elucidates the meanings of these verses based on classical commentaries...

Instructor: Shaykh Ahmad Saad Al-Azhari Course Overview: In clear succinct lessons, Shaykh Ahmad Saad Al-Azhari explains how to bring this great sura to life and how to save one’s self in this life and the hereafter, along with ways to nourish taqwa. The lesson...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview In this course, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani covers a thematic study of Sura al-Waqi’a, a close explanation (tafsir) of it, and key lessons that can be drawn from it. The course also examines how to nurture one’s re...

Instructor: Shaykh Yahya Rhodus Course Overview “Indeed We have granted you [O Messenger] the Seven Frequently-Repeated [verses] and the Tremendous Recital.” (15:87) Experts in Qurʾanic commentary have explained that this verse ...

Course Overview Understanding the meanings of the Qur’an is the key to achieving deeper levels of reflection and appreciation of our Lord’s address. With more understanding one can achieve a greater connection to the Qur’an and reverence for it, finding serenity in remembrance of Alla...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview The keys of excellence in relations are found in Sura al-Hujurat. It calls to the believers to adopt these standards, appealing to the God-given faith that we have as the motive for making us do so. Shaykh Faraz Rabb...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview How do I renew my faith and renew my connection with my Lord and Creator? Sura al-Hadid is a 29-verse sura containing key guidance on renewing faith through reflection (fikr) and remembrance (dhikr).

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview Ghazali’s Ihyaʾ is a blueprint for renewing one’s religious practice and drawing closer to Allah. Known, not only for his knowledge but his exceptional teaching ability, Ghazali selected key verses of the Qurʾan to b...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview What is change? How does change happen? What is the purpose of change? What are the spiritual and worldly keys to change—for the individual, for groups, for communities, and for believers? ...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview What would you ask God if you were granted the opportunity to ask one question? “My Lord, what are the best means with which those close to you have gotten close to you?” ...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview As Divine speech, the Quran leads people from darkness to true light. It is guidance for the people of piety to the straight path that leads to Allah. Pious people hold fast to the Book of Allah and have the correct ...

Instructor: Shaykh Walead Mohammed Mosaad Course Overview Sura al-Kahf contains four allegories that contain many crucial lessons for us all. The story of the sleepers of the cave highlights the importance of belief in God, and the need to nurture it and keep...

Instructors: Shaykh Muhammad Qaylish and Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview This On-Demand course analyzes Shaykh Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda’s book titled, The Prophet As a Teacher. It explores the teaching methodology of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (...

Instructor: Shaykh Abdullah Misra Course Overview This is a General-level course for youth that highlights what it was like to be young in the Prophetic times. This course inspires and empowers the youth by drawing on the examples of young people of ...

Executive SummaryThe Book of the Heart Softeners [Kitab al Riqaq] is a chapter that is included in many primary hadith collections, included Sahih al-Bukhari. It compiles hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad [peace be upon him]  that serve to soften the heart,...

Instructor: Shaykh Abdullah Misra Course Overview This beneficial General-level course covers hadiths that soften the heart from primary hadith collections. These include Bukhari, Muslim, Nasai, Ibn Hibban, Hakim, Darim...

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, Shaykh Saad Ahmed al-Azhari and Ustadh Amjad Tarsin Course Overview Due to the fast-paced nature of our lives, we may sometimes lose sight of our purpose in this world and the impending judgement we will face i...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview The words of our beloved Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) are full of significant lessons that we can benefit from. Among his preserved discourse was his sermons, particularly his address durin...

Instructor: Dr. Nuri Friedlander Course Overview This course covers Islamic law, theology, and ethics-related issues that pertain to animal slaughter and sacrifice. It covers the ethics related to why animal slaughter and sacrifice is deemed good in Is...

Instructor: Dr. Karim Lahham Course Overview This seminar begins by clarifying the role and importance of metaphysics in the philosophy of the natural sciences. It defines and deconstructs the two main philosophies of the natural sciences that have gained tr...

Key Teachings of the Prophet on the Benefits and Rewards of Learning and Reciting the Qur'an Instructor: Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary Course Overview Imam Ahmed al-Arwadi, a great sage and a prominent scholar of the 19th century, co...

Instructor: Habib Muhammad al-Saqqaf Course Overview This course covers the science of Shama’il, or the description of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) based on the famous hadith by Hind ibn Abi Hala.

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Ahmad Saad Al-Azhari Course Overview “My brother – you’ll not attain true knowledge except through six things. I shall tell you about them in detail. Intelligence, a burning desire, poverty, a humbled self, ...

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Yusuf Weltch Course Overview This course covers the famous work - The Shifa - by the great scholar of Islam, Qadi Iyad. The book discusses the blessed person and life of the Prophet Muhammad (peac...

Instructor: Shaykh Mohammed Tayssir Safi Course Overview This course covers 40 hadiths on fasting collected by Shaykh Yusuf al-Nabahani. This collection focuses on the merits of fasting in general, fasting the month of Ramadan specifically, and on some of ...

Instructor: Shaykh Yusuf Weltch Course Overview The course aims to look through the biographies of major Companions, male and female. Within the course, we will try to extract practical advice and guidance to apply to our lives. We also hope to instill the ...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Ali Hani & Ustadh Amjad Tarsin Course Overview What is the place of green and environmental stewardship in Islam? How does the Qur’an view concern for the environment? What is your responsibility towards the e...

Instructor: Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan Course Overview The Shama’il Muhammadiya of Imam Tirmidhi is a collection of 415 narrations focused on the sublime characteristics of the Prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace).

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Ustadh Amjad Tarsin Course Overview In this course, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Ustadh Amjad Tarsin address the identity of the Muslims and the key characteristics of the Prophetic Way. ...

Instructor: Shaykh Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari Course Overview In this captivating series of lectures, Shaykh Ahmad Saad explores the purpose and delivery of the stories of the Prophets in the Quran. He unlocks their aim, which is to direct us towards Allah Almighty a...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview From childhood, we are often enthralled with great real stories of the past, with the astounding mystery they bring, from a time period no longer familiar to people. This especially holds true for the lives of th...

Instructor: Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat Course Overview There is nothing quite like a good story, and the Qur'an has the best of them. They inspire; they console; they fill us with hope, and they are proof of Allah's promise being true. In those stories are the b...

Instructor: Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary Course Overview In this course, Shaykh Ahmed Hussein El Azhary will discuss why the art of reading is critical for students of knowledge to master. One of the greatest barriers in mastering a science is the inability to read with st...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview In these lessons Shaykh Faraz Rabbani looks at the heart of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to draw inspiration from the lofty states of the Prophet, and how they manifested through his character and af...

Instructor: Amjad Tarsin Course Overview Islam is a social religion. The benefits of social interaction also spill over into one’s religious practice. This is why worship in Islam has placed a social element within the even the obligatory acts of worship....

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Shaykh Yusuf Weltch Course Overview Trodding the path to Allah is a type of war, and its battlefield is the heart. To win, we must strengthen our army: our soul, and weaken the enemy: our lower-self and the devil. ...

Instructor: Shaykh Abdullah Misra Course Overview This beneficial General Level course is essential for every believer. It is based on the text Kitab al-Kaba’ir (The Book of Major Sins), a short treatise, written by the encyclopedic Damascene...

Instructor: Shaykh Ahmad Saad al-Azhari Course Overview This On-Demand course is based on a series of short lessons about the supplications found in the Qur’an. Allah only enables and guides us to make a suppl...

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Yahya Rhodus Course Overview Coffee can be more than just a caffeine boost in the morning. This On-Demand Course explains the meaning of life and worship, exploring where coffee fits into all of this....

Instructor: Shaykh Yusuf Weltch Course Overview It covers the Aphorisms of Imam Haddad, a great 12th-century AH scholar who had the unique ability to synthesize and simplify the writings of earlier scholars into works easily accessible for the ordinary M...

About the Text This course is based on the text "The Clarification of Noble Character," by Habib Umar bin Hafiz. This book consists of thirty lessons that discuss the importance of character refinement and focus on the traits and qualities that every believer should strive to acquire. ...

Instructor: Shaykh Talal Al-Azem Executive Summary This course is a guided reading of Shaykh Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami’s book titled ‘Kitab Al-Futuwwa’. Futuwwa, spiritual chivalry, is the cornerstone of t...

Instructor: Dr. Yusuf Patel Course Overview In this course, Dr. Yusuf Patel reads and reflects on Said Nursi's treatise, A Message for the Sick. This course provides a spiritual perspective on how to understand and deal with diseases. Said Nursi is conside...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview Shaykh Faraz Rabbani starts by elucidating the importance of the keys to change and how to be both conscious of Allah and have true awareness of Him. Having watchful...

Instructor: Shaykh Faid Mohammed Said Course Overview Shaykh Faid Mohammed Said offers guidance on upholding one’s faith and nurturing it. He will equip us with fundamental tools and guidelines to address some of the main challenges and concerns we as Muslims...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview In this course, you will learn the importance of protecting oneself from harmful speech before critically examining sixty cases of religiously harmful or dangerous speech, with practical day-to-day appli...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Ustadh Amjad Tarsin Course Overview: The key to changing your life is restraining your tongue and learning positive, beneficial speech. In this course, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Ustadh Amjad Tarsin explore the guidance of t...

Instructor: Sayyid Salim bin Umar bin Hafiz Course Overview In this course, Sayyid Salim bin Umar bin Hafiz gives an in-depth commentary of a poem authored by his father Habib Umar bin Hafiz, celebrating the life of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace and bless...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview Allah Most High says, “I am near – I answer the call of the one who calls upon me (2:186). Yet, many of us wonder: Are my duas being answered? Is there a certain dua I have to read for each of my concerns? Do m...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview This course provides an important contribution to Islam’s answer to the big and existential questions of the purpose of life and the meaning of death. Based on lectures by three prominent scholars, Shaykh Faraz R...

Instructors: Shaykh Yahya Rhodus & Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview Death—the destroyer of all pleasures—is a guaranteed part of human existence. Yet, no one is certain about how much time they have in this world. Some leave as young people, so...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Walead Muhammad Mosaad & Shaykh Riad Saloojee Course Overview This overview of Imam Ghazali’s great work, Ihya Ulum al-Din (Renewing the Religious Sciences) will serve as a blueprint for how the believer can bring...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview Based on the work of Imam Ahmad Zarruq, The Sufficient Counsel for the one with God-given wellbeing, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani expertly unpacks the pearls of wisdom and teachings of one of the most beneficial of pro...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview You want a shortcut to Paradise? The Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, promised Paradise for something very simple: “Indeed, Allah has Ninety-Nine particular Names – one hundred minus one ...

Executive Summary “Reliance upon Allah is from the highest ranks of closeness to Allah.” – Imam al-Ghazali. Drawing on the knowledge and a lifetime experience of Imam al-Ghazali, one of the greatest scholars and saints in history, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani provides t...

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, Imam Zaid Shakir, Shaykh Yahya Rhodus, Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, Imam Tahir Anwar. Course Overview The prayer is one of the greatest blessings of Islam. It is the direct link to Allah in which the servant humbles himself comple...

Instructor: Shaykh Salman Younas Course Overview In this course, the student will study the Risala al-Khushu`iyya of Imam Abu Sa`id al-Khadimi, a treatise that provides a holistic look at the prayer as an act of worship centered on presence with, and attachment t...

Course Overview The Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, said that he was sent to complete good character (Muwattaʾ Malik), which leads us to understand that sound religious practice results in good character. However, there are certain matters of conduct that...

Instructor: Ustadh Omar Popal Course Overview Do you ever feel unorganized or confused in trying to get close to Allah Most High? This course serves as a practical study in the science of drawing closer to Allah Most High (Ilm al-Suluk). It is base...

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Ustadha Shireen Ahmed Course Overview This is an On-Demand course about how to live simply and practice renunciation. Minimalist lifestyle and decluttering homes have recently become trendy in society. They're pu...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Ustadha Shireen Ahmed Course Overview Learn how to enter into marriage with the right intention and purpose, find and choose the “right person”, resolve disputes, the key sunnas of a successful marriage, and much more.

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Yahya Rhodus & Ustadh Amjad Tarsin Course Overview All Muslims have the responsibility of having principled engagement with those around them. We should do everything solely for the sake of Allah, repress our ...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Ustadha Shireen Ahmed Course Overview One's etiquette in social situations is the key foundation to having strong relationships with other people. This is especially crucial when it comes to the people who have rights ove...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview This course takes a critical look at what is deemed an innovation in Islam. It clarifies the definition of innovation and the difference between good and bad innovations. Then five cases of perceived innovation a...

Instructor: Ustadh Amjad Tarsin Course Overview New to Islam? Or just looking to brush up on the basics? This course features an explanation of the clearest, concise and comprehensive introduction to Islam in print, Being Muslim, by Ustadh Asad Tarsin. The co...

Executive Summary What is the Bible? Is it the Torah which was revealed to Musa? Is the Zabur which was revealed to Dawud? Or perhaps the Injil which Allah revealed to ʿIsa? Does it prove he was God? Are there elements in it which support the Islamic claim of his prophethood of ʿIsa?

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Ustadha Shireen Ahmed Course Overview Raising righteous Muslim children is a noble and tremendous undertaking. In this course, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani and Ustadha Shireen Ahmed offer valuable advice and parenting tips to par...

Instructors: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Walead Mosaad & Ustadha Shireen Ahmed Course Overview Shaykh Faraz explains the parenting duty in light of the aspects of tarbiya (taking the child, stage by stage, to his/her ultimate fruition), ta’deeb (ins...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Description In all matters, the way of The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) is the best way. In this course, we learn from him the best way is to raise children. Children who are devoted to Allah ...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview The Prophet (peace be upon him) is often called ‘the Teacher’. In fact, his entire life in itself is one big lesson. In this seminar, we explore how the Prophet taught, nurtured and guided children through compassion, ...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview Despite the Prophet’s emphasis on the urgency and reward of adopting, many Muslims are wary of adoption. Many think that “adoption” is un-Islamic; that there are “too many issues” arising adopting; or that it i...

Instructor: Shaykh Irshaad Sedick Course Overview The Strong Believer is a short course for young Muslims who want Healthy Bodies, Minds, and Souls. This course is aimed at helping Muslims aged 20 years and up who want to live healthy, strong, active, and wholesome lives while not compromi...

Instructors: Dr. Asim Yusuf & Ustadh Amr Hashim Course Overview The Islamic faith is not unfamiliar to tests and tribulations. Our Master Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) endured great trials and sorrow during his lifetime. The...

Instructors: Imam Yama Niazi Course Overview In this course, we will reflect and ponder on the wisdom derived from a world pandemic. Sometimes the most powerful teacher could be life itself. Wisdom can be gained by deriving lessons from our own experiences in...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview This course takes a look at the principles and lessons derived from the guidance of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) when dealing with plagues and p...

Instructor: Shaykh Walead Mosaad Course Overview In contemporary times, there are many incorrect notions of how knowledge ought to be transmitted. This course outlines the traditional Islamic method of knowledge transmission in light of a few modern ...

Instructor: Walead Mohammed Mosaad Course Overview Social Justice In The Islamic Tradition: Righting wrongs, enjoining good, and honoring individual and community rights. Social justice has been the focus in recent times of Mu...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Course Overview “Allah is pure and accepts nothing but the pure.” The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) taught us that Allah only accepts the works and supplications of those who make their earnings and spending law...

Instructor: Shaykh Faraz Rabbani & Shaykh Ahmad Saad al-Azhari Course Overview Imagine a garden with many beautiful plants and flowers. Over time, weeds start to grow among them, and eventually, they take over. It is essential to remove the weeds in order for the...

Instructor: Jawad Qureshi Course Overview This seminar broadly covers the sciences of logic and dialectic, as well as the etiquette of reading various works of literature. This is important for anyone embarking upon studying sacred knowledg...