Islamic Services Foundation

ISF (Islamic Services Foundation) is a non-profit organization established in 1989 by a group of Muslim families in the Dallas area dedicated to establishing an educational institution conducive to an Islamic environment that would not only provide a great academic foundation for the children of the community, but also a strong Islamic foundation that would benefit the Ummah/community in years to come.

The first ISF project, Brighter Horizons Academy (BHA), has blossomed to almost 900 students and has graduated eight senior classes. To this day, it continues to provide a positive learning environment for Muslim children in the DFW area and to deliver leaders for our Ummah that are not only academically prepared for the real world, but have a solid Islamic foundation to help them navigate the challenges faced by young adults on a daily basis and stick to their beliefs and values.

Additionally, ISF has expanded to include a few other entities:

1. Brighter Horizons Academy
2. My Islamic Books Series – Books designed to help teachers and students in Islamic studies throughout North America, taking what was developed for BHA and sharing it with other Islamic schools.
3. The Muslim Yellow Pages – Bringing businesses and consumers together.
4. IQI, (The ISF Quranic Institute) – Designed to facilitate a strong Hifz program for parents and students seeking that extra edge.

In 1988, a group of dedicated Muslim parents founded the ISF in the Dallas metropolitan area for the purpose of establishing an educational institution conducive to an Islamic learning environment. The initial plan was to start with kindergarten and first grade levels and to add one higher grade level every year.

Today Brighter Horizons Academy (BHA) is the first full-time Accredited Islamic college preparatory academy in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is also the largest in Texas and the southern United States. Since its inception, the Academy has grown from 10 students in 1989 to over 800 today, ranging from PK to 12th grade.

Some of the key goals for ISF are:

• Offer education conducive to an Islamic learning environment.
• Initiate and guide an integrated Islamic personality and help Muslims in North Texas learn and practice Islam.
• Establish and maintain Islamic educational institutions.
• Promote and conduct business related, moral, intellectual, social and cultural programs.
• Offer the Muslim business communities Islamic business-type ideas that mobilize and coordinate the community’s human and material resources.
• Promote friendly relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.
• Endeavor to make Islamic teachings known to interested non-Muslims.