Our Story

The Muraqaba School is the dream project by founders Wadud & Leiya. They both grew up in the North Dallas area of Collin County, and as a young husband-wife team, quickly found their calling in education. From leading Sunday and Summer Programs to co-founding three different schools in the DFW area, they have always been passionate about teaching and mentoring our youth. With an eye for continuous development and researching the latest best practices, they created a unique, project-based Prophetic Tarbiyah curriculum for kids and a certification course for teachers. After training over a hundred schools and organizations globally, including USA, Canada, South Africa, and Australia, they decided it’s time to dream big and launch their own school - an environment of Ihsaan, integrating research, innovation, and traditions of teaching and learning to enable children to reach the best version of themselves academically, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

Our 20+ Years Journey

Youth Leaders

Grew up in Collin County. Love for education and youth leadership for Masjid Sunday & Summer schools (1995-2004). Started 1st Islamic School in Plano in 2004.

School Leadership

Wadud served as the Assistant Principal and Leiya College Guidance Counselor for 4 years at local Islamic school from 2007 - 2013

Accreditation

Wadud & Leiya were part of the original founding team in 2009 for another Islamic school now based in Plano. Later Wadud spent 2 years there as Principal and helped the school become re-accredited in 2023.

Harvard, Vanderbilt, and AT&T

Wadud & Leiya received their Leadership Training from Harvard in the summer of 2012. They graduated from Vanderbilt University with Masters in Education (Leadership LOP) and MBA in 2015. Wadud became a certified Mindfulness/EQ coach through SIY which started at Google and Leiya became a Marketing Director at AT&T.

Define360

Define360 was founded and launched in 2016 to serve the community with curriculum for teaching children Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence through an Islamic framework. It evolved beyond Sunday & Summer school into a global teacher training program in 2019. Successfully implemented in VRIC (2018-2020) and Frisco communities (2023-2024).

Muraqaba

Launched Muraqaba app in 2023 for “Developing Mindful Muslims” - at the intersection of Science and Islamic Psychology + Spirituality. Founded Muraqaba Institute in 2024 to bring all our services under one brand, including The Muraqaba School.

Youth Leaders

Grew up in Collin County. Love for education and youth leadership for Masjid Sunday & Summer schools (1995-2004). Started 1st Islamic School in Plano in 2004.

Our 20+ Years Journey

Youth Leaders

Grew up in Collin County. Love for education and youth leadership for Sunday & Summer schools (1995-2004). Started first school in Plano in 2004.

School Leadership

Wadud served as the Assistant Principal and Leiya College Guidance Counselor for 4 years at another local school from 2007 - 2013.

Accreditation

Wadud & Leiya were part of the original founding team in 2009 for another local school now based in Plano. Later Wadud spent 2 years there as Principal and helped the school become re-accredited in 2023.

Harvard, Vanderbilt,
and AT&T

Define

Define was founded and
launched in 2016 to serve the community with curriculum for teaching children Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence through a faith-based framework. It evolved beyond Sunday & Summer school into a global teacher training program in 2019.
Successfully implemented in VRIC (2018-2020) and Frisco
communities (2023-2024).

Muraqaba

Launched Muraqaba app in 2023 for “Developing Mindful Muslims” - at the intersection of Science and Faith-based Psychology and Spirituality.
Founded Muraqaba Institute in 2024 to bring all our services under one
brand, including
The Muraqaba School.