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Mission

Tarbiya Institute believes that knowledge derived from authentic Islamic sources provides vital solutions to modern day challenges. Tarbiya aspires to document and export its understanding of Islam by creating Tarbiya entities throughout the nation. Each entity would lend and receive support from its local community and other Tarbiya entities. This will ultimately set the standard and provide all-encompassing services to meet the spiritual, intellectual and physical needs of the community.

Vision

Tarbiya will offer robust and comprehensive educational opportunities for students of all ages, both virtually and onsite, which will ultimately influence and impact policy making and integrate modern Muslim issues into the political and social discourse.

Tarbiya Institute exists to educate, train and empower generations of American Muslims through the lens of authentic Islamic knowledge, to address new and modern challenges, thereby fostering an American Muslim identity. To this end, Tarbiya provides religious and social services to the family, neighborhood, and community to bring people together, and provide them with leadership and clear direction to lead a godly life.

The year 2025 marks the tenth anniversary of the Tarbiya Institute. It has been an incredible journey with the community thus far, and each year we have sought guidance from the Quran and Prophetic tradition in the form of annual themes that guide our conversations and inform our programming. In years past we were guided by themes such as Ihsan or excellence, Hayaatan Tayyiba, or The Good Life, and Rabbaaniyya, or Godliness. Last year we focused on devotion to Allah through the theme of Ubudiyya, or Devotion in Worship.  

In our tenth year, as we prepare ourselves for the second decade of Tarbiya’s journey, which we pray will be even better than the first, we felt that the most appropriate theme would be one that reflects the very essence of who we are and what our mission is. A theme that echoes the very founding values of our Institute and our community. The Tarbiya Institute annual theme for 2025 will be, well, “Tarbiya” or Mentorship, in its strictly Islamic sense. 

We believe that the Messenger (PBUH) was more than a teacher or an admonisher. He ﷺ was a “Murabbi” a mentor at the very core of what he did. He used the Suhba, or companionship method, to impart in the hearts of the companions divine values, through words and genuinely crafted actions and choices of everyday life. This is collectively what we know as Sunnah. Allah (SWT) says in the Quran: 

لَقَدْ مَنَّ اللّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤمِنِينَ إِذْ بَعَثَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولاً مِّنْ أَنفُسِهِمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتِهِ وَيُزَكِّيهِمْ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَإِن كَانُواْ مِن قَبْلُ لَفِي ضَلالٍ مُّبِين

“Allah did confer a great favor on the believers when He sent among them a messenger from among themselves, rehearsing unto them the Signs of Allah, sanctifying them, and instructing them in Scripture and Wisdom, while, before that, they had been in manifest error.” Quran 3:164. Such was the Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ mentorship impact on his companions. He ﷺ elevated them to stations of piety and virtue that made them a generation that inspired the world. 

It is through the Prophetic mentorship methodology, the Tarbiya of Muhammad ﷺ, that we aspire to change our community for the better. Our team will work tirelessly to ensure that every program, every activity, and every event that we conduct will serve as a platform for mentorship. Whether it is the relationship between Khateeb and worshippers, Sunday school teachers and students, parents and children, adults and youth, instructor and pupil, Imam and community, every relationship should be transformed into an opportunity for mentorship. To this end, we will be the first to step forward, our Imams will find more ways to be available to the community and involved intimately in their lives. They will be regulars in youth groups and Sunday school classrooms, spending more time with Immersive Quran, opening their hearts during Heartsense, and organizing local and international travels. For these goals, we seek Allah’s help and pray for an incredible year for our community. Allah says: 

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱبْتَغُوٓا۟ إِلَيْهِ ٱلْوَسِيلَةَ وَجَـٰهِدُوا۟ فِى سَبِيلِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

“O you who believe! Be mindful of your duty to Allah, and seek the way of approach unto Him, and strive in His way in order that you may succeed.” Quran 5:35.

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is a linguistic derivative of the word Rabb, or Lord, and it denotes a comprehensive process of personal progress, whereby an individual grows spiritually, intellectually and socially to achieve a godly life. In the context of Islamic work, it's about helping individuals acquire the needed skills and knowledge base through a structured educational process to achieve harmony between their divine obligations and worldly responsibilities.

Tarbiya Institute is an Islamic organization that focuses its efforts on restoring the authentic image of Islam, and the empowerment of the Muslim individual through perpetual personal progress. Tarbiya acquired its first location in Roseville, California to serve the community in Placer County. The facility is called the Tarbiya House, which offers all the services that a masjid offers, but goes above and beyond to provide a safe space for all Muslims to worship Allah in a mosque environment, but also get involved in their community at their own pace. At Tarbiya, women, youth and converts, natives and immigrants, refugees and professionals, all are welcome.

For that, programs are devised, including mentorship, regular halaqas, ongoing activities, volunteer opportunities, leadership training, classes, camps and much more. This is the purpose of the Tarbiya Institute as we envision it.

At Tarbiya Institute, we strive to cater to the needs of the family by paying attention to the needs of its building blocks.