I launched Basira just under six months ago today. But that's not how Basira began. Basira began years before its launch out of my desire to educate my own children. That desire grew into a desire to educate my friends' children.

Basira Education was conceived to solve a problem. Watch this webinar by Shaykh Hamza where he explains the disconnect in the curricula taught in schools and colleges and the religious curricula taught at home and the mosque.

Watch Hamza Karamali explain this distinction, unpack New Atheist arguments, illustrate how to respond to them, and and answer questions on the problem of evil and the place of evolution in an Islamic worldview.

If bravery is to realize its full potential in a human being, its requisite conditions need to be met. What are those conditions? Read Tabraze Azam’s new blog on empathy.

Every week, we will select one of your questions on parenting and answer it in this space. This week's answer deals with preventing jealousy and malice among siblings.

Feminist insecurities over the use of the pronoun “He” for God stem from three mistakes: (a) imagining that huwa in Arabic carries the same biological connotations that “he” does in English, (b) an anthropomorphic conception of God, and (c) a modern humanist worldview.

Every week, we will select one of your questions on parenting and answer it in this space. This week's answer deals with raising Muslim children in the age of LGBTQI+ influences.

Studies show that there exists a strong correlation between attention-seeking and selfies. From an Islamic perspective, the danger in this is falling into the unlawful (haram) by showing off (riya’) — something that ruins the sincerity of your blessed deeds and efforts.

The global monoculture has done away with true love. Most of us no longer understand what it means to truly love another human being and, by extension, what it means to truly love God. Osama Hassan chats with Hamza Karamali on the relationship between worship, slavehood, love of God, and love of other human beings.

Every week, we will select one of your questions on parenting and answer it in this space. This week's answer deals with teaching our children about sexual ethics and knowledge.

Leonard Sax argues that the key to transferring your values to your children is your “parental authority”. “Authority” is a heavy word. We might think that parents earn their authority by being heavy-handed with their children. But that is not what Sax means by “parental authority”.

We live in a world that is heavily influenced by a worldview grounded in modern scientific reasoning that seeks to explain the universe without any reference to God. Osama Hassan chats with Hamza Karamali about Aristotle, the medieval Catholic church, science, the modern disinterest in religion, and the role of Islam in helping us discover the purpose of our lives.

Every week, we will select one of your questions on parenting and answer it in this space. We are all human beings, and sometimes we get frustrated, lose our temper, and say things that we shouldn’t. Learn how to protect your children from verbal hostility this week.

Leonard Sax, family physician, psychologist, and an insightful analyst of modern culture, argues that our surrounding culture works against us because (a) it teaches our children to value their same-age peers more than their parents and (b) it teaches us to treat our children like grown-ups.

Hamza Karamali unpacks a traditional Islamic definition of “deen” (commonly translated into English as “religion) to open up a conversation with Osama Hassan about why Islam is not a political ideology, the Age of Enlightenment, rational and spiritual proofs for the truth of a religion, and how Islam fills a modern spiritual void to bring us true happiness in the 21st century.

Introducing Parenting Question of the Week! Every week, we will select one of your questions on parenting and answer it in this space. Read the first answer now.

Leonard Sax, family physician, psychologist, and an insightful analyst of modern culture, has written an eye-opening book that can help us understand why we are not transferring our religious values to our children.

Hamza Karamali, the founder of Basira Education thanks everyone for the tremendous support and encouragement since the launch of the Basira project just over a month ago.