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Trauma
Articles · Baṣīrah Care
A reflection on forgiveness as ṣadaqah: giving up a genuine right for Allah’s sake without denying pain, injustice or necessary boundaries.
Useful when you are carrying the pain of being wronged and considering what justice, forgiveness and healthy boundaries can each mean.
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Articles · Baṣīrah Care
A reflection on finding consolation in Allah's past favours and holding firmly to His promise during times of sadness and emotional distress.
Useful when sadness feels heavy and you need to be reminded that what lies ahead is better than what has passed.
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Articles · Baṣīrah Care
A reflection on the passing of Rasūlullah ﷺ and how remembering the greatest loss of the Ummah can help believers find patience and consolation in their own grief.
Useful when a loss feels unbearable and you are searching for a way to hold it.
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Articles · Baṣīrah Care
A reflection on the Prophetic ḥadīth regarding fatigue, sorrow, chronic pain and anxiety, and how unavoidable hardship can become a means of forgiveness and spiritual purification.
Useful when hardship feels senseless and you want to understand how the Sharīʿah frames it.
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Articles · Baṣīrah Care
Knowing our patterns is real progress — but knowing is not the same as changing. A short reflection on moving from awareness to responsibility and action.
Useful if you can name exactly what needs to change but keep finding yourself in the same place.
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Self-Assessments · Baṣīrah Care
A short 9-question screening tool to help you reflect on symptoms of depression experienced over the past two weeks.
9 Questions • Approx. 2–3 minutes. Useful if your mood, sleep, energy or motivation have shifted lately.
Take the AssessmentAnxiety
Self-Assessments · Baṣīrah Care
Ten questions to help you reflect on how often social anxiety-related experiences have affected you over the past week. Educational and private — not a diagnosis.
Useful if social situations have started to feel heavier than they used to and you want language for it.
Begin the Self-ScreeningMarriage
Self-Assessments · Baṣīrah Care
A moment to pause, reflect, and take the temperature of your marriage. Fifteen questions on intimacy, commitment and passion — scored privately in your browser.
Useful when you sense something has shifted in your marriage but can't yet put words to it.
Take the Marriage QuizRelationships
Self-Assessments · Baṣīrah Care
Thirty statements to help you reflect on how you tend to connect, communicate and respond to closeness — scored privately in your browser across secure, anxious and avoidant patterns.
Useful if the same dynamics keep repeating in your close relationships and you want language for them.
Begin the Self-AssessmentSelf-Awareness
Self-Assessments · Baṣīrah Care
A gentle twelve-question reflection on how things have been for you over the past month — emotions, coping, relationships, routine — to help you consider whether counselling could be useful right now.
Useful if you are unsure whether what you are carrying is something to work through alone or with someone.
Begin the Self-AssessmentParenting
Self-Assessments · Baṣīrah Care
Thirty questions in two parts — what you believe about parenting, and what parenting actually looks like in your home — scored across three approaches: autocratic, permissive and active.
Useful if you want to see honestly where your intentions and your daily responses may be pulling apart.
Begin the Self-AssessmentSelf-Awareness
Self-Assessments · Baṣīrah Care
Nineteen questions on control, coping and consequences — a private way to reflect on how sexual thoughts and behaviour may be affecting your worship, relationships and daily life. Scored in your browser.
Useful if you keep promising yourself you will stop and want honest language for what is really happening.
Begin the Self-ReflectionSelf-Awareness
Worksheets · Baṣīrah Care
Explore the difference between the person others encounter and the person you experience within. A five-page printable reflection on your Outer Self and Inner Self.
Useful if you feel you are carrying a version of yourself in public that few people really know.
Download WorksheetAnxiety
External Resource · Yaqeen Institute
A useful external resource from Yaqeen Institute exploring supplications for stress and anxiety.
Helpful when the mind is racing and you want words to turn to before anything else.
Read on Yaqeen InstituteParenting
External Resource · Yaqeen Institute
A useful resource exploring Islamic approaches to parenting and helping children develop a secure relationship with Allah and their parents.
Useful if you are trying to raise children who feel safe with you and connected to their Lord.
Read on Yaqeen InstituteRelationships
External Resource · Instagram Post
An external social media resource on relationships, shared from the Baṣīrah Care Instagram page.
A short reflection you can read in a minute and sit with for longer.
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External Resource · Instagram
A practical resource exploring intrusive thoughts and negative fixation, with an emphasis on understanding and responding to unhelpful thought patterns.
Useful when the same unwanted thought keeps returning and you want a way to respond rather than wrestle.
View on InstagramGrief
External Resource · Khalil Center
A resource exploring loss and grief through an Islamic psychological framework, offering insight into how Muslims can understand and navigate experiences of loss.
Helpful when grief feels disorienting and you want language for what you are carrying.
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External Resource · Khalil Center
An exploration of psychological themes found within the classical Islamic intellectual tradition, providing an opportunity to engage with Islamic psychology through primary sources.
For readers who want to meet the tradition's own voices on the soul rather than a summary of them.
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External Resource · At-Taqwa Academy
A talk by Maulana Yunus Patel addressing how continuing to live together after divorce negatively affects both the individuals and the children born of that relationship. Useful when reconciliation is no longer working.
Useful when considering why reconciliation just doesn't seem to work — and whether the couple is even still in nikah.
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Social Media Posts · Baṣīrah Care Instagram
A reflection on why therapy that ignores or contradicts Islamic beliefs can be harmful, and what to look for in a therapist grounded in the Islamic tradition.
Useful if you are looking for therapy but unsure whether it will honour your faith.
Read the PostInteractive Resource · Marriage
A moment to pause, reflect, and take the temperature of your marriage. Fifteen questions on intimacy, commitment and passion — scored privately in your browser.
Take the Marriage QuizYou may find more resources on this topic in our library.
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