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The center for quran&soul Quranic Psychology Coach. Educator. Digital Creator. Wife, Mother of 4. HR Management University of Houston, 1995. Youth Program Coordinator ISGH NW Zone.

Qur'an and Islamic Knowledge Study Circles taught by Instructor Farhat Shamsi
Candidate Bachelor's Degree in Islamic Studies at Mishkah Islamic University, USA
Arabic Grammar Shariah Program CA, 2010
Certificate Saheeh al-Bukhari Alhuda Int'l CA, 2008
Diploma Islamic Studies with a concentration on Quran Tafseer and Vocabulary, Alhuda International CA,2006
B.S. Teaching Experience:
15 year teachin

g experience in Islamic Studies in English to children, teenagers, ISGH NW Zone. Seven years teaching Adult classes of Arabic Grammar and Tafseer, ISGH NW zone. Curriculum Development and Chair of Education Committee, ISGH NW Zone. Public Speaker. Currently teaching:
1.An onsite class in tafseer and Arabic Grammar at ISGH NW Zone on Sundays.
2. An online class on Wednesday. Married with four children. Lives in Houston, TX since 1990.

QPP Series 1- Knowing Allah: My Rabb’s Mercy. Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem Mūsā عليه السلام made a grave mistake, yet he immediat...
05/26/2026

QPP Series 1- Knowing Allah: My Rabb’s Mercy. Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem Mūsā عليه السلام made a grave mistake, yet he immediately turned back to Allah with honesty and hope.
He said: رَبِّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي فَٱغْفِرْ لِي
“My Lord! I have wronged my soul, so forgive me.”
He began with “My Rabb” — the One who nurtures, repairs, and receives us even after failure.
This is secure attachment to Allah: not perfection, but trust, return, and repair.
Allah forgave him. 
Forgiveness did not remove every difficulty, but it restored hope and direction.
Instead of being trapped in shame, Mūsā moved forward believing his Rabb would continue guiding him.
This is part of Qur’anic positive psychology: our Rabb does not define people by their worst moment, but by their capacity to return, grow, and reconnect with divine mercy.
That is how the heart heals with الرَّحِيم: through mercy, resilience, repentance, and the confidence that we are never abandoned.

Keep reflecting on the Mercy of the Most Merciful: 
The Prophet ﷺ said: “When Allah created the creation, He wrote in His Book—and He wrote that about Himself, and it is placed with Him on the Throne: ‘Verily, My Mercy overcomes My Anger.’”Bukhārī
The Prophet ﷺ also said:
“Allah is more merciful to His servants than this woman is to her child.”Bukhārī Muslim 
And the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The merciful are shown mercy by al-Raḥmān. Be merciful to those on the earth, and the One above the heavens will show mercy to you.”al-Tirmidhī 
The Prophet ﷺ said about kissing one’s children with affection: “This is mercy which Allah places in the hearts of whom He wills among His servants, and Allah only shows mercy to those of His servants who are merciful.”Bukhārī
And he ﷺ said:“Whoever does not show mercy will not be shown mercy.”Bukhārī
A heart closed to mercy becomes less able to receive mercy.
So pause.
Let shame stop writing the ending.
Reframe the story:
I am not abandoned.
I am being called back.
I am still held by الرَّحِيم.
Return.
Repair.
Rise. How is your attachment with your Rabb?

QPP SERIES | KNOWING ALLAH ‎ٱلرَّب/ Al-Rabb. The first name written on the heart You say the word “Rabb” almost every da...
05/21/2026

QPP SERIES | KNOWING ALLAH ‎ٱلرَّب/ Al-Rabb. The first name written on the heart
You say the word “Rabb” almost every day. But the Qur’an never intended it to feel like a distant title. The root ر ب ب does not describe a god who merely created and left. It describes One who owns, governs, nurtures, corrects, sustains, increases, remains present, and refines. Your Rabb is not absent from your story. Not absent from your waiting. Not absent from your confusion. Not absent from your healing. He grows things slowly. He rectifies what bends. He increases what is good. He refines through pressure. He remains over the life He manages. Even hardship begins to look different when you know your Rabb. Reflect on all His beautiful attributes of being your Rabb. Reset by asking Him with رَبِّي — Rabbi — the Prophets’ most intimate form of address. Direct your need as Musa عليه السلام begged:
رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ
“My Lord, I am truly in need of whatever good You may send down to me.” (28:24)
Hand the definition of “good” back to your Rabb. Maybe peace begins when the nafs stops demanding control… and starts trusting the One already conducting every affair.

QPP SERIES | KNOWING ALLAH ‎ٱلرَّب/ Al-Rabb. The first name written on the heart You say the word “Rabb” almost ...
05/21/2026

QPP SERIES | KNOWING ALLAH ‎ٱلرَّب/ Al-Rabb. The first name written on the heart
You say the word “Rabb” almost every day. But the Qur’an never intended it to feel like a distant title. The root ر ب ب does not describe a god who merely created and left. It describes One who owns, governs, nurtures, corrects, sustains, increases, remains present, and refines. Your Rabb is not absent from your story. Not absent from your waiting. Not absent from your confusion. Not absent from your healing. He grows things slowly. He rectifies what bends. He increases what is good. He refines through pressure. He remains over the life He manages. Even hardship begins to look different when you know your Rabb. Reflect on all His beautiful attributes of being your Rabb. Reset by asking Him with رَبِّي — Rabbi — the Prophets’ most intimate form of address. Direct your need as Musa عليه السلام begged:
رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ
“My Lord, I am truly in need of whatever good You may send down to me.” (28:24)
Hand the definition of “good” back to your Rabb. Maybe peace begins when the nafs stops demanding control… and starts trusting the One already conducting every affair.

QPP Series | Knowing Allah | Carousel 1You are not just tired.You may be unrooted.A heart can have comfort, company, act...
05/19/2026

QPP Series | Knowing Allah | Carousel 1
You are not just tired.
You may be unrooted.
A heart can have comfort, company, activity, and achievement—and still not feel settled.
Modern psychology got something right:
Meaning matters.
The human being needs a reason to wake up, endure pain, and keep moving.
But here is where it stops.
When psychology says, “Create your own meaning,” it gives you a rope woven from your own narrative:
Your mood.
Your circumstances.
Your achievements.
Your story.
But when life fragments—as Allah told us it will:
وَلَنَبْلُوَنَّكُم بِشَيْءٍ مِّنَ ٱلْخَوْفِ وَٱلْجُوعِ وَنَقْصٍ مِّنَ ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَنفُسِ وَٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ
“We will certainly test you with a touch of fear and famine and loss of property, life, and crops.”
— Qur’an 2:155
The very things we build meaning on can be taken.
And meaning that depends on what can be taken is fragile by design.
Allah did not only name what breaks us.
He named what holds us:
أَلَا بِذِكْرِ ٱللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ ٱلْقُلُوبُ
“Surely in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find comfort.”
— Qur’an 13:28
تَطْمَئِنُّ does not mean shallow calm.
It is the heart becoming settled.
Grounded.
No longer roaming.
But here is the foundation of this series:
You cannot truly rest in the One you do not know.
Dhikr settles the heart more deeply when the heart knows who it is remembering.
And the first name written on the heart was:
ٱلرَّبُّ
The One who nurtures, sustains, regulates, guides, and never stops tending to you.
This is not a relationship you invented.
It is the relationship you were made for.
That is why the heart grows restless when it searches everywhere else.
It is not broken.
It has forgotten.
This series is a return to the first name written on your heart.
Not just believing in Him.
Not just worshipping Him.
Knowing Him.
Because the deeper the knowledge,
the more unshakeable the ground.
QPP SERIES | KNOWING ALLAH
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Eid Mubarak & Congratulations on completing this mini course by the Grace of Allah Alone! 30 Days to Taming the Troubles...
03/23/2026

Eid Mubarak & Congratulations on completing this mini course by the Grace of Allah Alone! 30 Days to Taming the Troublesome Tongue became incredibly well received PURELY by Allah’s Grace on each one of us ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ and after that, your amazing support & feedback. What would you like to learn about next? # allah

DAY 30 The SILENT Tongue-30 Days to Taming the Troublesome Tongue Alhamdulillah, by Who’s Favor alone, all good acts ar...
03/19/2026

DAY 30 The SILENT Tongue-30 Days to Taming the Troublesome Tongue Alhamdulillah, by Who’s Favor alone, all good acts are completed. This series began with a small limb and ended with a lifelong struggle. Together, over these 30 days, we traced the wounds of the tongue through haste, harshness, pride, mockery, gossip, judgment, hurt, and heedlessness, and their psychology. Then we learned what must replace them: truth, gentleness, patience, gratitude, remembrance, justice, dignity, repentance, and finally silence and their inner workings. The Prophet ﷺ warned: “A slave (of Allah) may utter a word which pleases Allah without giving it much importance, and because of that Allah will raise him to degrees (of reward); a slave (of Allah) may utter a word (carelessly) which displeases Allah without thinking of its gravity and because of that he will be thrown into the Hell-Fire.” Across these 30 days, we have been assembling a portrait of the Islamic visionary through the inner psychology of the tongue—because the tongue reveals what rules the heart.Bukhārī. That is how serious this tongue is. It can preserve worship, or quietly undo it. It can carry the spirit of Ramadan forward, or betray it the moment Shayṭān is released and the nafs begins to stir again. So the work does not end with Eid. It begins there. In gatherings, in family conversations, in disagreement, in being provoked, in being wronged, in the urge to answer back, the believer now has a choice: to react, or to guard what Ramadan built. Across these 30 days, we have been assembling a portrait of the “Islamic visionary “ through the discipline of the tongue. As quoted on the slide from Imam Suhaib Webb’s earlier Virtual Mosque reflection, “The true Islamic visionary would remain silent in time of being personally verbally abused…” May Allah make us people whose words bring light, whose silence carries wisdom, and whose tongues protect the worship our hearts struggled to build. Ameen.

A small miracle of our lives alhamdulillah 🥰
03/18/2026

A small miracle of our lives alhamdulillah 🥰

DAY 29 The Dignified Tongue -30 Days to Taming the Troublesome TongueAllah describes the servants of the Most Compassion...
03/18/2026

DAY 29 The Dignified Tongue -30 Days to Taming the Troublesome Tongue
Allah describes the servants of the Most Compassionate with a dignity that begins in the soul and appears in speech and reaction: وَعِبَادُ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ قَالُوا سَلَامًا “And the servants of the Most Compassionate are those who walk on the earth humbly, and when the ignorant address them, they respond with words of peace.” This is not weakness. It is inner security. The self anchored in Allah does not need harshness, dominance, or the last word to feel secure.
And when empty, degrading speech passes by them, Allah says: وَإِذَا مَرُّوا بِاللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا كِرَامًا “And when they pass by idle talk, they pass by with dignity.” They do not stop at every low place. They do not feed laghw with more laghw. Sometimes dignity speaks. Sometimes dignity leaves.
This matters deeply online too. Not every disagreement with a scholar is jahl. But when mockery, sarcasm, suspicion, humiliation, and performance for an audience enter, the nafs has entered too. You may critique an opinion without stripping a person of honor. You may reject an error without losing your adab.
This character should reflect the Ummah of the Messenger ﷺ, the one of whom Allah said: وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ “And you are truly of outstanding character.” And at the end of this passage, Allah shows the reward for this patience: أُولَٰئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا “Those will be rewarded with the highest place in Paradise for their patience.” Real dignity is refusing to let pain corrupt your tongue.

This character should reflect the Ummah of the Messenger ﷺ, the one of whom Allah said: وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيم...
03/18/2026

This character should reflect the Ummah of the Messenger ﷺ, the one of whom Allah said: وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ “And you are truly of outstanding character.”

Allah shows the reward for this patience: أُولَٰئِكَ يُجْزَوْنَ الْغُرْفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُوا “
Those will be rewarded with the highest place in Paradise for their patience.” Real dignity is refusing to let pain corrupt your tongue.

Day 28 The Gentle - Tongue 30 Days to Taming the Troublesome TongueThe gentle tongue is not weakness. It is disciplined ...
03/17/2026

Day 28 The Gentle - Tongue 30 Days to Taming the Troublesome Tongue
The gentle tongue is not weakness. It is disciplined strength. It is what happens when the heart learns ḥilm, the self learns anāh, and the words come out with rifq.
The Prophet ﷺ taught: “Whoever is deprived of gentleness is deprived of all good.” Muslim. Gentleness is not a small extra in character. It is a door to good itself. When rifq is missing, correction becomes humiliation, truth becomes harshness, and words meant to guide begin to wound.
That is why Allah said even to Mūsā and Hārūn when sending them to Firʿawn: فَقُولَا لَهُۥ قَوۡلٗا لَّيِّنٗا “Speak to him gently…” 20:44. Even Firʿawn was first addressed gently. So gentle speech is not reserved for easy people. It is tested most with difficult ones.
Many people think enjoining good means being blunt. But the Sunnah teaches something deeper: truth does not need violence in its delivery. The goal is not merely to say the right thing. The goal is to say it in a way that leaves the door open for the heart.
Instead of saying, “What you’re doing is wrong,” say, “I think this may not be the best way.”
ALTERNATIVES: Instead of, “You need to stop this,” say, “Msybe there’s a better way to approach this?”
Instead of, “You clearly don’t get it,” say, “Maybe we need to look at this more carefully.”
Instead of, “I’m just telling the truth,” say, “Let me say this in a better way.”
A gentle tongue does not water down truth. It carries truth with mercy. It corrects without humiliating, warns without hardening, and advises without making people run from the reminder.
Ḥilm heals the heat within. Anāh slows the reaction. Rifq beautifies the response. Then the tongue becomes gentle.
May Allah make our words truthful, soft, and guided. Ameen

Laylatul Qadr… a state of tranquility, harmony, well-being, goodness, and profound gifts from Ar-Rahmaan! The Incredibly...
03/21/2025

Laylatul Qadr… a state of tranquility, harmony, well-being, goodness, and profound gifts from Ar-Rahmaan! The Incredibly Compassionate! Allah grant all Muslims Lalatul Qadr ameen! Say Ameen! 🤲🏻

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