Tayba Foundation

Tayba Foundation "Freedom Through Education"
Over 12,000 Incarcerated Muslims Served. A group of dedicated Muslims have been teaching the incarcerated Muslims since 2002.

As their teaching efforts grew, the need to work as an organization became real and Tayba Foundation was founded in 2008.

Sh. Rami Nsour is speaking at ISNA this weekend! 📍 Event 1: When Worship Gets Dry, Friday, Sept 4th at 5:15pm, Room 310A...
09/03/2026

Sh. Rami Nsour is speaking at ISNA this weekend!
📍 Event 1: When Worship Gets Dry, Friday, Sept 4th at 5:15pm, Room 310A
With Sh. Rami Nsour & Ustadha Fatima Lette
📍 Event 2: Our Youth, Our Future: Challenges and Opportunities
Sunday, Sept 6th, 11:15am–12:15pm
If you’re at ISNA this weekend, come through and say salaam. See you there! 🌙
Isna Headquarters

09/02/2026

There's a line about Muslim Spain worth sitting with: it thrived when a merchant would tell a customer "go next door, they have a better version of this than I do," and it began to fall when merchants started saying "everyone else's product is bad, only buy from me," even when they knew that wasn't true. This shift in business ethics is used by scholars as a marker of a civilization's rise and decline. It's a small story with a much bigger point about honesty in trade, and it's the same principle behind a specific ruling in Islamic commercial law where a merchant would complete a sale on a neighboring shop's behalf out of that same spirit of goodwill.

Most people know Allah forgives. Surah Al-Furqan goes further, for those who sincerely repent, believe, and do righteous...
09/01/2026

Most people know Allah forgives. Surah Al-Furqan goes further, for those who sincerely repent, believe, and do righteous work, He replaces the evil deeds with good ones. The same record. Rewritten. This is يُبَدِّلُ, replacement. Save this and share it with someone who needs to know what coming back to Allah actually produces. (Quran 25:70)

Every few weeks, a letter arrives. The handwriting is familiar. The person writing it keeps surprising her, in the best ...
08/31/2026

Every few weeks, a letter arrives. The handwriting is familiar. The person writing it keeps surprising her, in the best way.

He quotes the Quran now. He asks about her health with a tenderness that wasn't always there. He writes about what he's learning and what it means to him, and she reads it twice because she wants to hold onto that feeling a little longer.

This is what happens when someone is given the chance to grow, even from inside prison walls. She didn't expect it, but she's grateful for every page.

The work Tayba Foundation does doesn't stay inside the walls. It reaches mothers, families, and homes. Share this with someone who needs a little hope today.

Muslim organizations across the country put their names on a joint statement this month responding to the anti-Muslim rh...
08/31/2026

Muslim organizations across the country put their names on a joint statement this month responding to the anti-Muslim rhetoric coming out of Washington. Tayba is proud to be one of them. The statement we signed this month says American Muslims will keep contributing to this country freely and fearlessly. We believe that, and we see it every day in students who keep learning under conditions most people couldn’t imagine.

A donation to Tayba Foundation doesn't end with the book being sent. It ends somewhere much further down a chain the don...
08/28/2026

A donation to Tayba Foundation doesn't end with the book being sent.

It ends somewhere much further down a chain the donor never gets to see in a conversation between two men in a cell, in a letter that reaches a family, in a person who walks out different from who he walked in.

Share this with someone who hasn't given yet. Link in bio.

Abdullah ibn Masud RA volunteered to be the first to recite the Quran publicly in Mecca. He was beaten for it. He kept r...
08/26/2026

Abdullah ibn Masud RA volunteered to be the first to recite the Quran publicly in Mecca.

He was beaten for it. He kept reciting until he finished, came back with a bloodied face, and said he had never felt the enemies of Allah more contemptible than in that moment.

What he carried that day is still being transmitted.

Tag someone who needs to know this.

08/25/2026

He got dressed two hours early. He pressed his uniform with his hands. His name was never called. He walked back to his cell and opened his book, because in a place where people don't always show up, it always does. Follow for more stories from inside.

This verse wasn't revealed for people who made manageable mistakes. It was revealed for those who went far — الَّذِينَ أ...
08/24/2026

This verse wasn't revealed for people who made manageable mistakes.

It was revealed for those who went far — الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا — and it begins by calling them "My servants" before anything else. The relationship is established before the door is opened.

Save this for someone who needs it. (Quran 39:53)

Recently we welcomed Ust Malcolme to the Tayba office. Malcolme Muttaqee is a native of San Diego, CA. He is the author ...
08/22/2026

Recently we welcomed Ust Malcolme to the Tayba office. Malcolme Muttaqee is a native of San Diego, CA. He is the author and illustrator of several children’s books, including The Year of the Elephant, a biography of Prophet
Muhammad for Children. Malcolme received his master’s degree from San Diego State
University and he is currently a doctoral student at the University of Toledo, where he is
pursuing a PhD in the Foundations of Education. Malcolme has written numerous
published articles and has been involved in much advocacy in San Diego and beyond.

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31080 Union City Boulevard
Union City, CA
94587

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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