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Some of us never learned to read Arabic as children. Others did learn, a long time ago, in a weekend class or from a rel...
10/19/2026

Some of us never learned to read Arabic as children. Others did learn, a long time ago, in a weekend class or from a relative and it has quietly been years since a page of the Quran felt familiar rather than foreign. If either of those describes you, the distance you feel from the Quran was probably never about sincerity. Most Muslims who cannot read Arabic simply never had the chance or the right environment to learn it in the first place, not a lack of desire.

Learn to Read Quran is built to meet you exactly where that leaves you, whether you are starting from the very beginning or returning after a long pause. Part 1, Build Your Foundation, starts with exactly what the name promises. You learn to recognize the Arabic letters, understand how each one actually sounds and connect them into words, moving through step by step lessons that build real confidence rather than rushing you past anything. From early on, the practice uses real examples pulled from the Quran itself, so you are never just memorizing an abstract chart of shapes. You are working with the actual words you are trying to reach.

That distinction matters more than it might sound like at first. The goal of this course was never simply to teach you to recognize letters. It is meant to be the beginning of something more intentional, a personal relationship with the words of Allah that can keep growing for the rest of your life, well past the last lesson in this part.

Part 1 is also the direct foundation for Part 2, Bring the Quran to Life, where you build fluency, apply tajweed and move into longer passages. That comes after this first step is solid, so there is no need to rush it.

The course is available now on Bayyinah TV. You can start free for 7 days, then continue for $11 a month with full access to this series and everything else on the platform.

Visit https://byna.tv/95 to begin Part 1 today.

10/19/2026

The story of Yusuf (AS) shows what can happen when wounded emotions take control.

The minister’s wife experienced rejection as humiliation. Her goal was no longer simply to deal with the situation. She wanted Yusuf (AS) to suffer because she had suffered.

That is what happens when feelings become the authority. Justice no longer feels sufficient. Revenge begins to feel necessary.

The Quran teaches us to recognize when our pain is pushing us beyond justice.

Taken from our YouTube video: "Don’t Let Your Desires Replace Allah"

Knowing When to Let Something Go- The TestHere's the part people don't expect: most of the things we've stopped weren't ...
10/18/2026

Knowing When to Let Something Go

- The Test
Here's the part people don't expect: most of the things we've stopped weren't failing. Some were working, just not well enough to justify what they were costing us. And "cost" is not always money. Sometimes it's the staff hours spent on a headache that could have gone somewhere else, sometimes it's the reputation risk of a product or program that's 80% good, sometimes it's the mental load of managing something that was never core to what we do. The test we've started using is pretty blunt: is the headache worth the margin, in money, time or reputation? If the answer is no for all three, you already know what to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Merch
We added mugs and t-shirts to our Shopify store because we were already on Shopify for books and the print-on-demand plugin made it look easy. And for a while it was fine. People ordered, items shipped, nobody complained loudly.

But the complaints that did come in were the worst kind: quality issues we couldn't fix ourselves because we weren't touching the product. Refunds were a separate workflow from our book refunds. Margins were low, meaning we were absorbing a lot of hassle for not much return and every customer service exchange was time our team wasn't spending on something that actually builds Bayyinah.

So we pulled it. We still print t-shirts for events because that's a different supply chain and a different purpose. But the website? No more merch for now. We're looking at journals, honestly, because they sit closer to the books category and our audience of students already buys the books. Stationery is in the same conversation. The difference is that those feel like they serve a real need rather than "we have a Shopify store, let's fill it."

The why behind the decision: if the product creates a customer service burden that outweighs what it earns you and you can't fix the root problem, stop selling it.

- The Internship: Obligations You Can't Honor
In summer 2025 we ran what we called an internship program. Students completed real projects. Some of the work was genuinely good, but then the emails started arriving from employers asking for references and students were listing Bayyinah on LinkedIn under work experience in ways that implied traditional supervision, reviews, all of it. We weren't equipped to provide any of that.

Our standard reply became: this was an educational and training initiative, not a traditional internship. We said it over and over. And every time we said it, it confirmed that the gap between what we'd offered and what people reasonably inferred had been there from the start.

We replaced it with a volunteer form, project-based, with certificates of completion that say exactly what the person did. No ambiguity about what Bayyinah is and isn't claiming to have provided. The door isn't closed to students contributing, it's just honest now.

Read the rest of the blog on https://byna.tv/BWorks

In Surah Ali ’Imran, Allah describes the people of sound minds with two qualities at once: they remember Allah standing,...
10/18/2026

In Surah Ali ’Imran, Allah describes the people of sound minds with two qualities at once: they remember Allah standing, sitting and lying on their sides and they reflect deeply on the creation of the heavens and the earth (3:191). One of those habits is spiritual, the other is intellectual. In the Foundations of Faith series, Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan makes the point that faith cannot stand on one leg alone. Here are four habits that build the balance.

The first is to remember Allah in the in-between moments. Dhikr does not require a retreat. You can remember Allah while walking between classes, before a meal or while looking out a window. The Quran promises that hearts find their rest in the remembrance of Allah (13:28) and remembering Him is the simplest first step toward getting closer.

The second is to think deeply rather than merely look. Tafakkur, real reflection on the skies and the earth, is an intellectual exercise the Quran treats as an act of faith (3:191). Give your mind real questions to sit with instead of letting it idle.

The third is to sit with one ayah at a time. Allah asks why people do not reflect on the Quran, pointing once to its perfect consistency (4:82) and once to hearts that have been locked (47:24). One ayah pondered deeply will benefit you more than twenty quoted in passing, because beautiful things deserve a long stare.

The fourth is to match your learning with your prayer. Ustadh Nouman’s rule for students and community workers is simple: if you are learning more, you should be praying more. The straight path we ask for in Surah Al-Fatihah (1:6-7) runs precisely between those who kept only the spiritual and those who kept only the intellectual. When the heart and the mind grow together, the result is purpose, a person who begins to see a mission in everything they do.

Read the full Foundations of Faith series here: https://byna.tv/NewMuslim

10/18/2026

In many cultures, lying and cheating become easy to excuse when family is involved.

A person may pray, fast, say all the right Islamic words, and still abandon truth when their cousin, uncle, parent, or sibling is the one in the wrong.

Islam does not teach “family first, deen second.” Justice does not stop at the door of our homes. The real test is not what we say in a khutbah. The real test is where our loyalty goes when truth becomes uncomfortable.

Taken from our series: "The Liars, Cheaters & The Ungrateful"

Look at how this ayah ends. There is hardly another one in the Quran that closes like it. Rulings in the Quran tend to l...
10/17/2026

Look at how this ayah ends. There is hardly another one in the Quran that closes like it. Rulings in the Quran tend to land on taqwa. Go through the laws of divorce, the laws of inheritance, the rights a husband owes his wife and the refrain is taqwa, taqwa, taqwa. This ayah closes somewhere else entirely. All of you turn back to Allah together, believers, so that you may succeed (24:31).

Tawbah sits above taqwa, because tawbah is what a person makes when something has pulled them away from Allah and they want to come back. Placing it here tells you what the entire ayah was about. Cloth by itself would need no returning. This ends in tawbah because guarding the eyes, guarding your beauty and everything else in the passage were spiritual matters from the first word, tied to the light Allah describes in the middle of this surah.

There is also the fact that it is collective. Everything before this point was individual and deliberately so, given in the third person, as though to say you will be doing this when nobody is supervising you. Then the closing gathers everybody together. Men and women, jointly, because we are frequently the reason somebody else let this go. A husband who says come on, my friends are coming, nobody will mind today, owes tawbah for that. She owes tawbah for giving up her ground. The instruction is individual, the returning is shared.

Which tells us something about how we speak to each other. The first thing we call anybody towards is tawbah rather than khimar or guarded eyes. Those follow from there, in the spirit of someone who has already decided to come back.

The last word is the most hopeful part. The word for success comes from the same root as the farmer and a farmer is paid once in an entire year, not weekly, not monthly. He works every season, drops seed after seed into the ground one after another and has no idea yet which ones will take. Night after night he makes du'aa for rain that may or may not come, checks for weeds, checks for infestation and waits without any guarantee that the season will be kind to him. Then harvest arrives and in farming villages all over the world that single day gets treated like a festival, with decorations and dancing, because every bit of labor from the entire year has finally come due at once. That is the word Allah chose for success here. Not a person who got it right immediately, but a person who kept showing up through an uncertain, unglamorous season and was still there when the harvest came. A person becomes successful in this word only after exhausting amounts of labor. Nobody becomes a different person overnight, so give this seasons rather than days.

This is from Ayah of Hijab, a course by Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan. Follow along at https://byna.tv/414

10/17/2026

One angry post can become much bigger than the person it was aimed at.
Publicly attacking someone without proper procedure does not only damage their reputation. It can affect their children, their parents, their marriage and people who had nothing to do with the original conflict.
Then something even more dangerous happens. Other people see that humiliation getting attention and learn from it. What began as personal anger becomes a strategy. A strategy becomes engagement. Engagement becomes money. And eventually public shaming turns into a culture people imitate because it works.
Social media does not let these words disappear. They become an archive that can keep producing harm long after the anger that created them is gone.
The Quran teaches us to take evil seriously because once we normalize spreading it, we may no longer control how far it travels.

10/17/2026

False ideas do not enter the mind overnight. They are built slowly, reinforced repeatedly, and tied together until they feel impossible to separate.

That is why one khutbah or one reminder may not be enough. It takes deep thinking, deprogramming, and honesty to break the false connections we have built.

The legacy of Ibrahim (AS) is not only about breaking statues in a temple. It is about recognizing and breaking the idols inside our own minds.
On Judgment Day, the real weight of our choices will become clear.

Taken from our series: "The Idols of Our Time (Prophet Ibrahim’s Legacy)"

10/16/2026

TikTok Drama, Speaking "My Truth", and "Exposing" Others Online

This seems to have taken the forefront of the current Muslim social media landscape, but what does the Quran have to say about this? Can speaking about personal matters in public or “exposing” others ever be justified in the sight of Allah?

“But I was wronged."

A person can be genuinely wronged and still respond in the wrong way.

The Quran gives room for injustice to be exposed when every proper avenue has failed, but it also draws a clear line between seeking justice and turning personal pain into public humiliation.

Feeling hurt is not the same as having evidence. Anger can make someone feel like the victim even when they are being unfair, and social media can turn that feeling into a permanent accusation that follows families, children and reputations for years.

Not every private conflict belongs online. Not every painful story needs an audience. And even when someone has done something wrong, the Quran does not teach us to reduce their entire identity to that one act.

Justice is not silence, but it is also not revenge with better branding.

10/16/2026

Standing for justice is not something you do once and then move on from.

Like holding a difficult position during physical training, the longer you hold on, the more exhausting it becomes. You may feel like saying, *"I already spoke up. I already did my part. I’m tired."*

But Allah calls believers to remain firm. The standard does not change because we are tired, uncomfortable or under pressure.

True principles are the ones we continue holding when holding them becomes difficult.

Taken from our YouTube video: "Are You Really A Believer?"

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