Help prepare future Muslim chaplains to serve in hospitals, prisons, campuses, and communities—bringing Islamic guidance, compassionate care, and steady presence to people in moments of need. Your support helps equip them with the knowledge, training, and spiritual formation required to walk alongside individuals and families through crisis, grief, uncertainty, and major life transitions.
A gift of $6,000 sponsors one SOLACE scholar for a full year of graduate education, chaplaincy preparation, mentorship, and practical formation.
With faith, wisdom, and compassion, chaplains serve people facing crisis, grief, isolation, and uncertainty. Your support helps prepare them for that work.
Hospitals, prisons, and campuses where people often face crisis, isolation, and major life transitions.
Islamic spiritual guidance, compassionate presence, and emotional support during moments of grief, uncertainty, and need.
Prepare chaplains to serve with sound knowledge, sincere faith, wisdom, empathy, and professional care.
Strengthen individuals, families, and communities through trusted care that continues far beyond a single encounter.
At York University, Nimao Ali accompanies students through stress, grief, major life transitions, and questions of faith. Through pastoral care, mentoring, workshops, and crisis support, she offers thoughtful listening and a steady presence rooted in Islamic compassion.
Through SOLACE, support for chaplaincy helps prepare leaders like Nimao to meet students with care, guidance, and belonging when they need it most. Her work creates space for students to be heard, reconnect with their faith, and move through difficult seasons with greater hope and support.
“Chaplaincy is not about removing hardship; it’s about helping people find the strength to move through it with faith, dignity, and the assurance that they do not have to face it alone.”
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From healthcare to community care, SOLACE prepares chaplains to accompany people through some of life’s most vulnerable moments.
Abdul Muhaymin encountered Islam while incarcerated and began a journey that reshaped the course of his life. Through serious study, spiritual formation, and scholarship-supported education at TISA, the man who once needed guidance became someone others now turn to for it.
Today, he continues that work through teaching, mentorship, pastoral care, and community service, drawing on both lived experience and sacred knowledge to help others move through hardship with faith, dignity, and hope.
“Sacred knowledge gave me a way forward. Now I carry that knowledge back into the lives of people who need guidance, hope, and a reason to believe their story can change.”
Found Islam during incarceration and committed himself to serious Islamic learning.
TISA helped deepen the knowledge, discipline, and formation he now carries into teaching and service.
His lived experience helps him meet others with credibility, compassion, understanding, and genuine hope for change.
“Sometimes care begins where medicine ends—with presence, listening, and the reminder that no one has to face a difficult moment alone.”
Supports spiritual and emotional needs alongside the realities of illness and medical care.
Accompanies patients and families through fear, grief, uncertainty, change, and difficult decisions.
Helps ensure Muslim patients can receive compassionate care that recognizes their faith and spiritual needs.
Your gift helps remove the financial barriers that can keep promising Muslim leaders from pursuing the education, formation, and preparation needed to serve with knowledge, compassion, and confidence.
Helps cover tuition for rigorous graduate-level Islamic studies and chaplaincy preparation.
Supports the spiritual, pastoral, and professional formation needed to care for people in vulnerable moments.
Connects scholars with experienced faculty and mentors who help shape knowledge into responsible service.
Helps equip scholars to carry Islamic care into hospitals, campuses, communities, and other settings where it is needed.
