You might remind your children to be polite or to say salaam to the neighbours without much thought. But beneath those small habits is a bigger lesson: being a good neighbour is part of our deen....
Muslim parenthood is a journey that begins as soon as your child is born. Suddenly, you become a parent, and now you have a lot of duties.
Discover how faith in Allah and the blessings of motherhood can bring comfort to Muslim widows. This reflection explores grief, trust in divine wisdom, and raising children with hope and dua.
Freedom of speech in Islam is more than a right — it's a duty. This heartfelt reflection reminds Muslim parents and daughters that every voice matters when used for truth, courage, and faith.
Arabic language learning builds a deeper connection with the Quran, especially for children. Discover how one mother’s personal journey to teach her daughter Arabic turned into a lasting gift of faith, healing, and spiritual growth rooted in understanding Allah’s names.
Strengthening family bonds through love, kindness, and joyful faith-based experiences helps children form lasting connections with Islam. This blog explores how maintaining family ties in Islam can nurture emotional intelligence and create lifelong love for faith.
Empowering Muslim daughters starts with more than hijab—it’s about nurturing courage, kindness, and faith. This blog explores how Islamic parenting can shape strong, confident Muslim women by focusing on character over appearance.
Choosing a Muslim name is more than tradition — it's legacy. Learn the importance of names in Islam and how the names we give our sons and daughters shape identity, values, and future aspirations.
Trusting Allah in grief brings light to darkness. Discover how seeing Allah as your Protecting Friend can transform loneliness into peace and pain into purpose.
One moment of true tawakkul (trust in Allah) can reshape your life and legacy. This heartfelt letter explores the life-changing impact of relying on Allah, with lessons from Prophet Ibrahim (AS).
Muslim parenting principles start with listening. Discover how nurturing a child’s voice with mercy, not control, shapes confident, emotionally intelligent Muslim children.islamic parenting
Trusting Allah means taking action, showing patience, and embracing growth through trials. A heartfelt letter reveals timeless Islamic wisdom for spiritual success.
Patience in Islam means trusting Allah’s plan, even when answers are delayed. This heartfelt reflection explores how faith, prayer, and perseverance bring peace and reward, especially in parenting and life’s struggles.
How can we protect our kids from Islamophobia? Learn Muslim parenting strategies to raise confident children grounded in faith and identity.
Raising practising Muslim children isn’t easy. This reflection explores how Shaytan’s tactics teach us key parenting lessons — patience, persistence, and small steps. Rooted in Islamic wisdom and personal experience, it offers practical strategies to raise faithful, resilient kids in a challenging world.
Islam teaches us that youth is a time for growth, purpose, and worship. Discover how to raise Muslim youth with strong values, good companions, and a passion for learning—through parenting rooted in faith, wisdom, and the prophetic example.
Learn how the story of Prophet Musa (AS) offers powerful Islamic parenting principles for raising courageous children. Through his fears, duas, and reliance on Allah, we’re reminded it’s okay to be afraid — and essential to seek help with humility and trust.
Discover the inspiring lessons from the life of Maryam (AS) in the Qur’an — a story of strength, struggle, and trust in Allah. Her example empowers Muslim women to persevere through pain and to act, even when the results seem beyond reach.
Explore how the story of Musa (AS) and his mother teaches children — and us — the true meaning of bravery. Islamic parenting begins with trust in Allah, especially when life brings us face-to-face with fear. Sometimes, the beast is where the blessing is.
Ihsan in Islam means doing every act with excellence and sincerity — as if you see Allah. This blog explores real-life examples of Ihsan, from prophetic traditions to small modern moments that reflect spiritual excellence in daily life.
Prophet Musa (as) carried a staff while shepherding his flock of animals in Madyan. At the time, Pharaoh and the oppressive system of governance he...
Our author Sarah Musa has loved writing since she was a child. She would visit the library weekly to restock and read 300 page books cover-to-cover...
Do you know that censorship and shadow-banning by major social media platforms limit the reach of most of the Palestinian content? Even content tha...
Today we are chatting with one of our readers, ten-year-old Aisha. She is an aspiring writer and the second child of a family of five children (soon to be six). Her favourite book isStuck in the Middleby Sumayyah Hussein.
Lela Goldsmith, author of Bibi’s Blessing and Not too Little to Make a Difference, grew up in Lamu an island off the coast of Kenya. The island is ...
Both kids and adults alike often ask me where my ideas for stories come from.Usually an idea goes through a lots of revisions in my own head befor...
Rukhsana Khan’s book, Elephant’s Makeover, is all about making friends, bullying, and accepting the way you were created! Elephant makes an unlikel...
We are in the thick of winter, my least favourite season of the year! Being a parent of an outdoorsy child that's mostly stuck indoors means lots o...
Stories are powerful. I’ve know that since I was a little girl, consuming many chapter books in one day, and pulling all-nighters to finish those p...
A new school year is often a time of trepidation for kids and parents alike. It’s a whirlwind of emotion and change, excitement and dread. It’s a t...
Many of us were voracious readers as children, and we devoured whatever fell into our hands. However, most of the stories we read were about charac...
As parents, we want the best for our children, and part of that is raising them to be citizens of the world. But sometimes we’re torn between makin...
Stories are powerful. Hollywood knows it; media moguls know it; book publishers know it. We know it too. It’s in our nature to be drawn to stories....
Sometimes it feels like the good you bring to the world is just a small flame surrounded by evil winds threatening to snuff it out. But our religi...
It’s never been clearer than at the present how systems of domination seek to shut down people who are deemed unimportant or who speak inconvenient...
Reading stories written by kids is always a lot of fun! This past October, we received over 1000 entries for our Islamic Heritage Month story compe...
It’s hard to believe that the sacred month of Ramadan is just around the corner! One of Ruqaya’s Bookshelf’s five titles that are centred around th...
How important are Muslim children’s books in shaping our kids’ Islamic identity? Very! Many of us grew up reading stories about characters who bore...
Drumroll, please! The arrival of new books, fresh off the press, is hands-down the most rewarding (and most exciting!) part of publishing books for...
Sarah Musa’s Dawud Helps is one of our newest books available for pre-order. It tells the story of Dawud, whose Papa is struggling to make ends mee...
Growing Giddo’s Hair by Sumayyah Hussein is the last of our five newest books available for pre-order. Nuh wants to give his grandpa something amaz...
Sarah Musa’sMy Garden Over Gazatransforms pain into purpose. Rooted in truth and resilience, it’s a powerful children’s story that nurtures hope, identity, and strength — written by a Muslim author reclaiming the narrative.
How many times has your child asked why we fast in Ramadan, or why we pray five times a day? You know how curious they can be. Hajj rituals are no ...
Some months carry more weight than others. And Muharram 2025 is one of them. It’s the first month of the Islamic calendar, but more importantly, it...
Every year around this time, our feeds light up with powerful moments—pilgrims circling the Kaaba, standing on the sunlit plains of Arafah, and rai...
Have you ever noticed how quickly a child memorizes a story? Stories shape how our children see the world. More importantly, they shape how childre...
Some nights, being a religious parent feels like struggling to pay attention to the Qur'an playing in the kitchen while packing lunch boxes and wip...
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