Basira Education

Our goal is to help Muslims preserve their religious worldview and pass it on to their children by providing a religious curriculum that is thoroughly grounded in the traditional Islamic sciences while explicitly engaging the difficult questions raised by the physical sciences and the humanities in the curricula of modern schools and colleges. As adults and children study God and His attributes, they will also learn about atheism; as they study the life of the messenger, Muhammad (God bless him and give him peace), they will also learn about historical criticism; as they study zakat, they will also learn about economics; as they study spirituality, they will also learn about Internet addictions; as they study the Qur’an, they will also learn about stars, galaxies, embryology, and tectonic plates. They will immerse themselves in the truth-based culture of the Qur’an and Sunna, they will understand how that culture gave birth to the Islamic tradition, they will become adept at the tools of critical thinking that their tradition left behind, and they will use those tools to critically integrate modern science and culture into their religious worldview. And throughout their education, they will be able to ask, with complete freedom, at any time, any religious question that is on their minds. When this education is supported by healthy religious communities and families, it will be means to replace confusion with clarity, doubt with conviction, and a fearful shame of religious identity with religious confidence.