Support · صدقة
Help sustain this work
A gift does more than fund a class. It gives a young Muslim knowledge, companionship, and a place to belong; helps a masjid establish something that may continue long after the first cohort; and sustains the students of knowledge who devote their lives to teaching and service. We pray that what begins with one student continues through families, communities, and generations.
Why It Multiplies
One gift, three levels of khayr
It gives a young Muslim access to serious Islamic learning, mentorship, and belonging.
It helps a community build an enduring environment in which young people can love Islam, live it, and carry it forward.
It sustains teachers and students of sacred knowledge who have devoted themselves to full-time study, teaching, and service.
Three ways your gift lands
Choose the one that matches your intention; your designation is recorded with the gift automatically.
Student Scholarships
Scholarship a learner
So a sincere student is never turned away for inability to pay.
- $75
- sponsors one student in an Ihsan Circle for one month
- $160
- funds a full eight-week course scholarship, or a month of private study at the entry rate
- $400
- funds a complete Teaching with Ihsan scholarship
Smaller gifts join together toward the next scholarship.
Sponsor an Ihsan Circle
Sponsor a whole circle
A circle is ten students, one mentor, and a weekly rhythm that holds for months.
- $75
- covers one student’s seat in a circle for one month
- $750
- sponsors a full ten-student circle for one month
Families and communities can also contribute partially toward launching or sustaining a circle in their own masjid.
Bring Hilaq to a Masjid
Help a masjid build its own
Hilaq installs a trained youth-development system inside a masjid, and leaves it there.
- $1,500
- helps fund half a month of the Full Build & Deployment partnership
- $3,000
- funds one full month of Full Build & Deployment
Any amount helps a masjid establish or sustain Hilaq for its own community.
Designated gifts are honored as designated; anything beyond a fund’s current need is applied where it helps most. Donations are tax-deductible through our fiscal sponsor, Ideal Foundation.
For Families & Communities
Become the means
A gift here carries a room: a seat, a whole circle, or Hilaq for a masjid. This page shows exactly where it goes.Some gifts carry a whole room. A family or a small community can sponsor an entire circle, or help bring Hilaq to their own masjid, and become the means through which a generation of young people falls in love with Islam, lives it, and grows ready to carry it onward. If that is the gift you want to give, talk to us directly and we’ll shape it together.
The Standing Circle · صدقة جارية
Keep a seat open
We call the people who give this way the Standing Circle. A halaqah is only worth the name if it keeps standing: the same room, the same faces, week after week, long enough for a boy to change inside it. That standing is the thing a monthly gift pays for.
This work is priced by the month because that is how it actually runs. A mentor is retained, not booked. A seat in a circle costs seventy-five dollars a month. Growth in a student is measured over months, sometimes years. A gift that arrives the same way is the only kind shaped like the thing it pays for.
Whoever ends up in the seat you hold will not know your name. That is rather the point.
Joins with two others to hold a seat. Most gifts arrive this way.
Holds one student’s seat in a circle, month after month, for as long as you keep it open.
Carries a full circle: ten students and the mentor who stays with them.
Members are not listed anywhere on this site. We know who you are, and so does Allah. That is the whole ledger.
Prefer to give once? Make a single gift instead. Undesignated gifts go where they are needed most.
Every gift is received through Ideal Foundation (EIN: 41-3365312), a registered non-profit organization, and is tax-deductible.
This Year’s Goal
$10,000
One circle, carried for a full year
Ten students, one trained mentor, every week, and the meal that ends every session. At the published rate of seventy-five dollars a student each month, that is what the figure above buys, almost to the dollar.
It is not a building or a campaign, and it was not chosen because it looked ambitious on a page. It is the cost of keeping one room open for one year.
What You’re Funding
The people behind the numbers
Six real stories from ten years of circles. Every one of them came to us through a door someone else’s generosity held open.
The friend he brought
Every few weeks a teen brings a friend, sometimes one who takes his shahadah in the room. When those boys ask how to read Qur’an and how to pray, we open free morning classes for them. They show up punctually, every week.
Your gift is what keeps those classes free.
The boy who kept his hood up
He had lost his father, never took his hood off, and never spoke in public. His mother asked for help, so we launched an entire new circle for him, his peers, and his neighbors, without asking anyone for a cent. The hood came off. He started smiling again.
Your gift is how we say yes without sending an invoice.
The son who was drifting
A mother described her divorce, and a son slipping away from everything. We brought him into the circle and along on every outing, and never let his family think about the cost; we simply kept him in brotherly company while he found his way.
Your gift covers the seat, the meals, and the outings.
The one who came back
A father came to us about a son whose doubts had led him to declare he’d left Islam. It took meeting after meeting: no pressure, only reasoning, time, and a place where he mattered, until he returned to faith genuinely.
Your gift buys the hours that kind of patience takes.
The one who wanted to study
He longed to study the sacred tradition but was working full-time, fitting lessons in at the margins, and had no idea where to begin. Parents whose sons had flourished under him asked for a circle of their own, then another, then more, as word travelled between families. Today he teaches on a schedule built around his studies: a youth director, and a full-time student on the path to scholarship.
Your gift is what lets a future scholar earn a living by teaching.
The brother who built a circle
He watched his younger brother drift: new friends, Muslim but unattached to the faith, and slowly no more masjid, no more praying together. Then their mothers came to him asking for something weekly. He wanted to say yes and had no idea how. After planning sessions and months of guidance, he was leading a circle of his own that grew in size and in seriousness. His younger brother grew with it, into a leader himself.
Your gift is the training and guidance behind a new mentor.
Questions
Is my gift tax-deductible?
Ihsan Circle is fiscally sponsored by Ideal Foundation (EIN: 41-3365312), a registered non-profit organization. Your gift is received through them.
How do I direct my gift to a specific purpose?
Use the giving button in the section that matches your intention: Student Scholarships, Sponsor an Ihsan Circle, or Bring Hilaq to a Masjid. Your chosen designation is recorded with the gift automatically. Designations are honored; if a designated need is fully met, the remainder is applied where most needed.
Can I stop or change a monthly gift?
Whenever you like. Write to us and it is handled the same week, with no conversation about why. A gift given under pressure is not the kind we want.
Can I give in honor of someone?
Yes. Mention it when you give, or reach out directly and we’ll note it with your gift.
How is my donation actually used?
Directly toward scholarships, mentor compensation, and bringing circles and Hilaq to more communities: the three forms of impact above.