What we're building for Basira, what's coming next, and the ideas learners send us. Vote for what you'd use most.
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This page: what Basira is building and has done, your ideas, and your votes on what comes next.
Apps and platform
Basira works with a keyboard and screen readers, with clear contrast and less motion for those who need it.
Learning
Short review exercises that bring back key terms and ideas at the right intervals so they stay with you.
Learning
Highlight any passage and add your note; on video and audio the note keeps the exact moment, and all your notes are in one place.
Learning
A lesson made of slides you move through at your own pace, with the instructor's voice if they add it.
Learning
The video is split into titled chapters drafted from what is said, so you can jump to the part you need.
Learning
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Learning
Watch lessons at the speed you like, with subtitles and chapters, and come back to the same point later.
Learning
Written lessons set in careful Arabic type, with footnotes, tables, images and sources.
Apps and platform
A dark theme that follows your device or your own choice.
Learning
Save any lesson with one tap and find it again on your account page.
Learning
Press play to hear an article or lesson read aloud.
Learning
The full text of what is said appears under the video; search it, and tap a line to hear that moment.
Learning
Journeys grouped into a learning path in a recommended order, with what to take before each one.
Learning
Lessons open on set dates or a set number of days after you join, and in order, so a journey unfolds step by step.
Learning
The video pauses at chosen moments to ask a question or invite you to reflect before going on.
Learning
At certain points in a video you choose what to explore next, and the lesson follows your choice.
Learning
Lessons built around diagrams, timelines and maps you can explore yourself.
Learning
A short, quiet moment that marks the end of a journey you have completed.
Learning
Set how much you want to study each week and when, and get reminders that keep you on track.
Learning
PDF summaries and readings attached to lessons, to download and keep.
Learning
Between lessons, a short suggestion of another journey you may like, which you can save or skip.
Learning
When a video or audio can't play, you see why (not ready yet, no access, connection) and can try again.
Learning
A journey's length is worked out from its videos, audio, reading and challenges, so the time shown is accurate.
Learning
A personal notebook for your thoughts while you study, where a good note can grow into a journey or an article.
Learning
Books, films and talks mentioned in a lesson open beside it, and a library page gathers everything Basira cites.
Learning
Quran verses, hadith and key terms in lessons become links that open the text with its source and translation.
Learning
A simpler, more playful way for children to learn from the same journeys, always checked by a person first.
Learning
A gentle starting path for people new to Islam, with plain explanations of terms and a way to ask a person.
Learning
Tools seminary students use daily, such as the Quran, Nahj al-Balagha, du'a, hadith search and a dictionary, in one place.
Challenges and activities
A certificate in Arabic and English when you complete a journey, with a link anyone can use to check it is real.
Challenges and activities
AI suggests challenge questions from a lesson's content, and the instructor edits and approves them before learners see them.
Challenges and activities
Instructors keep a bank of questions, and each attempt draws a different mix.
Challenges and activities
Share a thought or answer a poll inside a lesson without your name showing.
Challenges and activities
Explain a concept in your own words and get feedback based on what the lesson actually says.
AI
Instructors turn a book, article, talk or recording into a draft journey that links back to its source, and edit it from there.
AI
Ask questions about a journey and get answers drawn only from its lessons, pointing to the lesson and minute, or passed to the instructor.
AI
Members connect Basira to the AI assistant they already use and study Basira's journeys from there.
AI
A short summary and a card of key ideas for each lesson, to review before or after.
AI
Pick a topic and get a short personal lesson put together from Basira's existing journeys, with links back to the source lessons.
AI
A study session where AI classmates discuss a lesson with you and push your thinking.
AI
An assistant that helps the Basira team with reports and routine tasks, and acts only after the team confirms.
AI
Search by meaning across every journey to find where a subject is discussed.
AI
Each instructor decides whether AI features are on in their journey, and sees how they are used.
AI
One assistant across the site that answers from Basira's own content and sources, and refers questions needing a ruling to a scholar.
AI
Covers and article images generated in Basira's visual style, without faces or religious figures.
AI
Tell us a little about yourself and your interests, and see journeys and articles that suit you.
Community
A shared space for each journey and path where learners talk beyond single lessons.
Community
A simple profile you control, showing only what you choose to share.
Community
Small private circles of learners studying a journey together.
Community
Learners who opt in appear on a map, to arrange local study gatherings.
Community
Report, hide and filter posts, so discussions stay respectful.
Community
Write privately to your instructor and get a reply.
Community
A friendly welcome when you join, and a gentle reminder of your next lesson if you have been away.
Community
Tap a comment to fold it away with all its replies, so long discussions are easy to follow.
Community
Vote comments up or down so the most helpful ones rise.
Membership and payments
Pause your membership for a while instead of cancelling it.
Community
Long discussions get a short summary at the top, updated as they grow.
Community
One place to ask anything; an instructor takes the question, or you choose an answer drawn from Basira's content, and answers are voted on.
Live and in person
All live and in-person sessions in a calendar shown in your own time zone, with one tap to add them to yours.
Live and in person
Live classes held inside Basira, with video, chat, raised hands and screen sharing.
Live and in person
A shared whiteboard the instructor and learners draw on during a live class.
Live and in person
The recording of a live class becomes a draft lesson that the instructor can publish.
Live and in person
In-person sessions with date, place and map, limited seats, booking and check-in by QR code.
Live and in person
Free open sessions anyone can join without an account, to get a taste of a journey.
Live and in person
Journeys taken together by a group, starting on a set date with weekly live sessions.
Live and in person
A yearly streamed event where Basira presents its coming journeys.
Membership and payments
Prices that match each country, so learners everywhere can join.
Membership and payments
A higher membership level that adds extras on top of the standard membership.
Membership and payments
Give a journey or a membership to someone as a gift.
Membership and payments
Institutions buy seats for a group and manage them from their own dashboard.
Membership and payments
Buy several journeys or a whole path together at a better price.
Membership and payments
An email a week before your membership renews, so the charge never surprises you.
Membership and payments
Membership income is shared with instructors by how much their journeys are actually watched.
Membership and payments
Instructors' earnings are sent to them automatically.
Membership and payments
Invite friends to Basira and get rewarded when they join.
Membership and payments
The refund policy is shown clearly before you pay.
Membership and payments
Pay for a membership or journey in instalments.
Membership and payments
Top up a Basira wallet by local transfer and pay from it, and try the membership for seven days.
Membership and payments
Instructors add their payout methods and withdraw their balance in the currency they choose, with every sale recorded.
Journey pages and outreach
A gentle reminder if you started buying a journey or membership and didn't finish.
Journey pages and outreach
For each journey, ready-made captions, images in every size and a short vertical video, approved by the instructor.
Journey pages and outreach
Ask to be told when an upcoming journey opens.
Journey pages and outreach
Good-looking cards to share a journey or your certificate on Instagram and WhatsApp.
Journey pages and outreach
See which campaigns bring learners and sales.
Journey pages and outreach
A video announcing the new Basira, and a short video for each feature as it is released.
Journey pages and outreach
Original background music made for Basira's videos.
Habits
Counts the weeks you keep learning, calmly and without daily pressure.
Habits
Miss a week and your streak is kept once, so one busy week doesn't undo your effort.
Habits
Set a goal such as two lessons a week and get a gentle reminder.
Habits
Points and levels for learning activity.
Habits
Badges that mark finishing a journey or a whole path.
Video
The player shows Basira's short logo intro before lesson videos, so videos themselves stay clean.
Video
Titles, verse cards and names appear over the video at set times in the viewer's own language.
Apps and platform
Add Basira to your phone's home screen and open it like an app.
Apps and platform
Native Basira apps for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
Apps and platform
Download lessons in the apps to watch without a connection; they stay protected and expire if the membership ends.
Apps and platform
Watch Basira journeys on your television.
Apps and platform
Notifications for a new lesson, a live session starting soon, or a reply to you.
Apps and platform
A way for other tools and services to connect to Basira safely.
Apps and platform
A faint mark tied to your account on the videos you watch, to discourage copying.
Apps and platform
A first visit to Basira that is memorable from the opening moment.
Studio and team
One dashboard for the Basira team: learners, activity, completion and income.
Studio and team
Instructors see where viewers stop watching each lesson, to improve it.
Studio and team
Instructors see their learners, their income and the questions waiting for them.
Studio and team
Scholars and teachers apply to teach on Basira, and the team reviews each application.
Studio and team
Approved instructors publish their own journeys, following Basira's standards.
Studio and team
A record of important actions by the team and by AI, so every change can be traced.
Subtitles are made with a more accurate speech service and checked for terms before they appear.
Challenges and activities
Test your understanding with multiple choice, true or false, ordering and matching questions, with an explanation for each answer.
Challenges and activities
Write a reflection or hand in a file, and receive the instructor's feedback on your work.
AI
Journeys and video subtitles are translated between Arabic and English, marked as AI-translated where they are.
AI
Watch selected lessons in English, voiced in the instructor's own voice with their consent.
Community
Ask and discuss under every lesson, with replies from the instructor and private questions when you need them.
Membership and payments
One membership, paid monthly or yearly, that opens every journey.
Membership and payments
Buy just the journey you want and keep access to it.
Membership and payments
Use a coupon or promotion code at checkout.
Membership and payments
Without a card, pay by bank transfer and the team opens your access.
Membership and payments
Try the first lessons of a journey for free before you decide.
Journey pages and outreach
Each journey has a page with its trailer, instructor, lessons, reviews and common questions.
Journey pages and outreach
Journeys and articles are easy for search engines to find in Arabic and English.
Journey pages and outreach
Account and journey emails arrive in your language.
Journey pages and outreach
Rate a journey and write, record or film your review; the average appears on the journey page.
Video
Background noise is removed from recordings, lessons and voice notes on request.
Apps and platform
Sign in with your Google account or with a link sent to your email, without a password.
Studio and team
Instructors build journeys by dragging lessons and modules, with a live preview in both languages and on a phone.
Studio and team
Instructors choose or upload lesson videos straight from Basira's video library.
Studio and team
Journeys are reviewed before they go live and can be scheduled to publish on a chosen date.
Studio and team
Each person on the team, editors and instructors see and change only what their role allows.
Learning
Lessons you can listen to, for study on the move or away from the screen.
Studio and team
Ask for help from any page; we reply on the site, and content questions go to the journey's instructor.
Learning
Your latest lessons from every journey wait for you on the home page and your account, so you pick up where you stopped.