From the Inside Out

“Successful indeed is the one who purifies their soul, and doomed is the one who corrupts it!”Qur’an 91:9-10 You have the potential to become a reflection of the Prophet’s ﷺ character. To go about your day aware that God sees everything that you do. But to get there requires work. It requires changing who you are inside to the point that it becomes visible on the outside. In this weekly podcast, Ustadh Tabari of the Tayba Foundation will show you how the Qur’an, the Prophet ﷺ, and the early Muslims teach us to go about this transformation. This series is being recorded live at a SoCal masjid being delivered to an audience of previously incarcerated Muslims returning to free society to start a new life. It’s a practical and inspiring class that any Muslim would find transformational.Ustadh Tabari is Tayba Foundation’s former incarcerated student and currently Reentry Manager at the San Bernardino office. He has studied the Islamic sciences with scholars in the US and abroad and holds an MA in Social Work.The course is based on Imam Maulud’s “Purification of the Heart” and its commentary by Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al Khadim. Tayba Foundation is a US non-profit dedicated to providing incarcerated Muslims an Islamic education behind bars, critical life skills training, and reentry assistance after release. Our work in over 500 prisons in 47 states is only possible thanks to your sadaqa and zakat.Please support your incarcerated brothers and sisters at tay.ba/give

Contributors

Host

Tabari Zahir

Tabari Abdul-Zahir began formally studying the Islamic Sciences in early 2003 with Muslim scholars at Zaytuna Institute. Due to a series of bad choices and spiritual heedlessness, he found himself in federal prison for a non-violent drug crime from 2005-2016. It was in prison that Abdul-Zahir made the transformative ‘Tauba’, which Imam Ghazali said everyone needs to make one time in their life. In prison, Abdul-Zahir spent all of his time learning and teaching Aqeedah, Fiqh, Tazkiya, and Arabic, which make up the Tayba Foundation educational curriculum.

Currently, Abdul-Zahir is using his Master’s of Social Work to work as a therapist and drug counselor while directing both the national and local re-entry programs for the Tayba Foundation in Southern California, where he also serves by delivering khutbas to the local communities and runs a spiritual study group for Tayba students.