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Alhamdulillah, everything we post here on our website is AI free. My son designed this stamp of certification – it verifies that the one who wrote this material took the covenant of “Alastu birabbikum?” (Am I not your Lord?), and is thus, human. Feel free to use it with attribution to www.inaraeducation.org!
The Science Curriculum Cake
🍰 What’s Baked Into Science Education? When you eat a slice of cake, you’re not usually thinking about the ingredients. You just take it in. But those ingredients — whether good or bad — become part of your body. Science education is the same. You have to take it in again and again, because you […]
Natural Science & Objective Meaning
The end product of a K-12/modern mass education program is that the universe is portrayed as objectively meaningless. When you start looking at science with the iman in your heart, you will see it as objectively meaningful. And then, something even more remarkable happens: when you then take a close, hard look at the science […]
How to Develop a Mental Habit (Two-Minute Read)
What Are We Trying to Do Here? Everything we do at Inara is aimed to change how we learn so that whether we study fiqh or physics, every detail is a path to The One. If you are not uttering ecstatic “subhanAllah’s!” and feeling like you simply must stop what you are doing and run […]
How to Develop a Mental Habit (1 Second Read)
By thinking that way again and again.
Mental Habit 3: Seeing Indirect Vertical Relationships (Seeing the Unseen)
Another Kind of Vertical Relationship So far we have shown how the Quran and the our Nabi ﷺ call us to develop a mental habit of seeing past the horizontal relationships between asbāb to the direct vertical relationship: the relationship between Allah and each created thing. But there is another kind of vertical relationship that […]
Mental Habit 2: Seeing Direct Vertical Relationships (Seeing the Unseen)
The first mental habit we discussed was the mental habit of Seeing Asbab. Whether a single proton, a flowing river or a magnificent mountain, all are asbab—their fundamental reality is that they are means of becoming closer to Allah. The Natural Sciences & Asbāb When we study the natural sciences, we are busy studying the […]
Mental Habit 1: Seeing Asbab as Asbab
What is a sabab (السبب)? This word (pl. asbāb) appears in a few āyāt of the Quran. Imam Raghib al-Isfahani, may Allah have mercy on him, in his well-known and beautiful work, Al-Mufradāt fī Gharīb al-Quran, provides linguistic, semantic and contextual analysis of Quranic words and their meanings. Regarding “sabab” he mentions: “Every means that […]
What is a Mental Habit?
The Heartlands of Islam vs. the Lands of the Heart As the heartlands of the Muslims are under attack, our brothers and sisters there are being blessed with becoming shaheed. In place for their suffering and sacrifice, they are, as Allah says, “alive with their Lord, receiving rizq from Him,” and will have the highest […]
What is Nature?
Bismillah. After studying nature through the lens of K-12 modern mass education, we become conditioned to seeing nature as: But if we were to study nature through a Quranic lens, we would become conditioned through our study of it to see:
The Heart of a Science
What is a Science, Mom? After (our) Muslim learners get their epistemological (how we know), ontological (what really exists) and cosmological (how it all fits together in a grand system) foundations down in our Foundations course we then shift our attention to what it means for something to be a science. In the Introduction to […]
How We Classified Knowledge for our Kids
Bismillah. Setting the Foundation Homeschooling gave us the freedom to decide that we would design our own curriculum for our children over the course of their education. First, by Allah’s grace and the guidance of our teachers, we developed the content of the Foundations course via our 12 year old daughter. That meant teaching in […]
