For the kids
Alumni who walked these halls, talks worth their time, scholars and mentors they can actually reach, and community events worth showing up to.
Featured alumni
Featured alumnus · Class of 2007
Field: Public service · College: Harvard University (2011), MBA from the University of Chicago (2022) · Now: Illinois State Representative for House District 21 — Bridgeview’s own district — since 2023, after serving as chief policy officer at the Cook County Assessor’s Office and deputy chief of staff to the Cook County Clerk.
Read more →Worth watching
Found one your kids benefited from? Send it to the WhatsApp group and it lands here.
Scholars & mentors
Curated from Kawthar’s scholar directory (kawthar.app), where each profile carries contact details. Cards show the scholar’s own listed focus; open a profile to connect.
A Universal School teacher your kids already know — and the sheikh at Palos Islamic Center, minutes from campus.
Profile & contact →Imam at the Mosque Foundation — Bridgeview’s own masjid, minutes from the school gates.
Profile & contact →Principal Imam & Director of the Mosque Foundation, serving Bridgeview for decades.
Profile & contact →Imam at the Mosque Foundation, a short walk from Universal’s doors.
Profile & contact →Imam at the Mosque Foundation — the masjid most of our families call home.
Profile & contact →A former Universal School teacher, now Resident Scholar at The Mecca Center (Willowbrook) — Tafsir, aqeedah, and work with new Muslims.
Profile & contact →Principal of Universal School itself — the person who already knows every student’s name.
Profile & contact →Dean of Aqsa School, Bridgeview — a lifetime of educating Muslim kids on the same streets.
Profile & contact →Resident Scholar, Muslim Community Center (MCC) · Morton Grove. Long focused on young Muslims finding their footing.
Profile & contact →Imam & Director of Outreach — the “Youth Imam” — Prayer Center of Orland Park. Orland Park is fifteen minutes from Bridgeview.
Profile & contact →Youth Director, Islamic Center of Naperville. Fiqh and counseling under one roof — the combination teenagers actually need.
Profile & contact →Outreach Director & Imam, The Mecca Center (Willowbrook). Seerah and identity are his listed lane.
Profile & contact →Youth speaker and volunteer at Palos Islamic Center — the closest masjid to campus after our own.
Profile & contact →Resident Imam, Islamic Foundation (Villa Park). Youth & identity is his listed focus.
Profile & contact →Scholar-in-Residence, American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), South Side Chicago. One of the most sought-after young-audience teachers in the city.
Profile & contact →Dean of Faculty & Chair of Humanities, Darul Qasim College (Glendale Heights). History taught as inheritance, not trivia.
Profile & contact →Founder & Lead Scholar, Sacred Learning (Lincolnwood). Daily recorded lessons that generations of Chicago students grew up on.
Profile & contact →Founding Director, Khalil Center (Lombard) — counseling grounded in the tradition, for when a teenager needs more than a talk.
Profile & contact →Female Scholar & Marriage and Family Therapist, Muslim Community Center. A qualified sister for our daughters to talk to.
Profile & contact →Hematopathologist at NorthShore and Sacred Learning student of Seerah and spirituality — medicine and the deen, one life.
Profile & contact →Data scientist and Sacred Learning Hadith student — proof the algos and the ancients fit in one schedule.
Profile & contact →Every profile on kawthar.app carries its own connection details. Browse the full directory of 150+ scholars →
Youth & community events
Live from kawthar.app, filtered to the organizations our families actually attend: Mosque Foundation (Bridgeview), The Mecca Center (Willowbrook), Muslim Community Center (MCC), Sacred Learning (Lincolnwood), Islamic Center of Wheaton (ICW), and the community-wide feed for conventions and city events. The club curates this list — youth programming from any of them lands here automatically.
Prayer Center of Orland Park, Palos Islamic Center, Darulsalam, and IFS (Villa Park) aren’t publishing through Kawthar yet — when they do, their tabs land here. Open the full community calendar →
On the workbench
One evening a semester where students sit with fathers in medicine, engineering, trades, law, and business — twenty minutes each, honest answers.
FAFSA and state aid walk-through for senior families, run by fathers who have already filed it.
One student’s work featured at each monthly meeting — a project, a competition, a quiet act of service.
Green-light any of these at a monthly meeting and it ships — dates here.
