Tayba Foundation

The angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge. Not the seeker with the right circumstances. Not the seeker with access to a masjid or a scholar or a library. The seeker.
There are men in federal facilities across America seeking knowledge of their deen with everything working against them, no imam, no community, restricted access, and a system that was never designed to support what they're trying to do. And yet they seek.
Tayba Foundation makes sure the knowledge reaches them. Your support makes sure the distance doesn't win.

8 books. One incredibly generous scholar. And thousands of incarcerated Muslims who now have access to all of it on their prison tablets.
Shaykh Furhan Zubairi has given Tayba Foundation permission to share his entire library, from Hadith studies to Usul al-Fiqh to his beloved In the Company of the Quran series.
For a student inside with no masjid, no teacher, and no community, this is a full curriculum arriving through a screen. May Allah reward Shaykh Furhan for every word read, every lesson understood, and every heart changed through his work. 🤲
Follow his work: 📘 Facebook: .zubairi 📸 Instagram: 📘 Institute of Knowledge: 📸 IOK Seminary:
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They hear the adhan on Fridays. They just can't always answer it.
Jumu'ah for an incarcerated Muslim is often a gymnasium, a folding table, and permission that any officer can revoke for any reason on any given Friday. The command in the Quran, hasten to the remembrance of Allah, came without an exemption clause for men who need approval to walk down a corridor.
The ummah has shown up beautifully for two of the three commands the Prophet ﷺ gave us. We built masjids. We funded hospitals. The third one, free the captive is still sitting on the list.
A book from Tayba Foundation is sometimes the entire Jumu'ah a man gets that week. He holds it like it is, because for him, it is.
You can't open the doors. But you can send what gets through them. Link in bio.

ANNOUNCING Taught by Ustadh John Ropoulos of Adab Academy, students will study the great Mauritanian scholar Muhammad Mawlüd's didactic poem on birr al-walidayn, or righteousness towards parents. It covers the proper etiquette and Islamic legal rights that are due to parents by their children. ⁠
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This is a life changing text for many who have studied it. All registration fees for this course go to support Tayba Foundation. ⁠
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Date: Begins June 1st (5-6 weeks)⁠
Time: Mondays & Thursdays; 10:00 - 11:00 am EST⁠
Cost: $50 to support Tayba students⁠
Register: tay.ba/adab_parents⁠
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From a well to a palace, and when he had everything his dua asked for none of it.

The story of Yusuf AS is about what directing every experience toward Allah produces in a person over time.

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Yusuf AS had a kingdom, a family reunited after decades apart, and a childhood dream finally fulfilled in front of him.

His dua from the peak of all of it was: cause me to die as a Muslim and join me with the righteous.

Not for more of what surrounded him, just to finish in the right company. That is what years of a well, slavery, false accusation, and prison do to a heart that keeps directing everything toward Allah.

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How long have you been holding a dua?

Zakariyya AS asked across a lifetime with certainty rooted in who he was asking, not in what the circumstances looked like.

There is no expiry date on a sincere dua.

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His bones had weakened with age, and his wife had never been able to have children.

Before making his du'a, he called out to Allah: in all the years I have turned to You, You have never left me in wretchedness.

Then he asked for what seemed completely impossible. Allah gave him Yahya AS, a Prophet, and said هُوَ عَلَيَّ هَيِّنٌ - it is easy for Me, because I created you before while you were nothing at all.

You are yourself the proof that starting from nothing is not a challenge for Him.

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There is no location so remote, no circumstance so closed, no darkness so complete that it places you outside of Allah's knowledge or beyond the reach of His response.

Yunus AS was inside a whale. The response was immediate.

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Three layers of darkness surrounded him: the night, the sea, and the belly of a whale.

He had left his people without permission from Allah, and he knew it; however, he still called out to the All-Hearing, All-Forgiving.

فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ. Then Allah said وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُنجِي الْمُؤْمِنِينَ and كَذَٰلِكَ means in this same way, present tense, addressed to every believer who calls from any darkness.

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