AI and Content Use Policy

You are welcome to teach with Bayyinah's books, courses and apps. You are not permitted to reproduce them as a product of your own, by hand or with AI.

Why this page exists

Bayyinah exists so that more people can understand the words of Allah. We have always wanted this material to travel. Teachers use it to prepare halaqas, students build lessons from it, volunteers subtitle it into languages we do not work in, and that reach is the purpose of the work rather than a side effect of it.

What has changed is how easy it has become to take a body of teaching and make it look like something new. Transcripts become books. Course material becomes apps. Lectures become AI generated study guides published under somebody else's name. Some of this is done sincerely by people who want to serve their communities, and some of it is not. Either way, we think it is better to say clearly what we welcome and what we do not, so that anyone who wants to do right by this material knows where they stand.

The short version is that you may teach with our material as much as you like, as long as you name where it came from. What you may not do is reproduce it and present it as your own.

What you are welcome to do

None of the following needs a license, a fee or a message to us first. If you are teaching with our material and naming us as the source, you are inside this policy.

1. Teach from our books, courses and apps. Use them to prepare and deliver classes, halaqas, weekend school lessons, study circles and khutbahs, in a mosque, a school, a home or online.
2. Quote us in your own teaching, writing and talks, with Bayyinah and Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan named as the source.
3. Share clips of our publicly available lectures on social media, with the source named and a link back where the platform allows one.
4. Write your own lesson plans, worksheets and notes based on what you have learned with us, in your own words.
5. Charge a reasonable fee for the class you teach, in the way any teacher is paid for their time, as long as what you are charging for is your teaching rather than access to our material.

If you are a teacher building something for your own students and you are unsure whether it sits inside this list, write to us and ask. We would rather have that conversation than have you guess.

What is not permitted

1. Reproducing our material as a product of your own. This includes publishing our books, course content, transcripts, workbooks or app lessons as a book, app, course, membership, subscription or paid download, whether or not you have edited, reformatted, condensed or rewritten it.
2. Presenting our teaching as your own work, your own research or your own curriculum.
3. Removing, hiding or replacing attribution on anything that came from us, including watermarks, logos, intro and outro credits and source references.
4. Selling access to our material, whether as files, a drive folder, a channel, a bundle or a shared account. Bayyinah One and Bayyinah TV accounts are for one household and may not be resold or shared beyond it.
5. Re-uploading full lectures or complete courses to another platform, and in particular putting them behind a paywall, a donation wall or an ad supported model that earns from them.
6. Using Bayyinah's name, logo or course names, or Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan's name or image, in a way that suggests we produced, approved, certified or partnered on something when we did not. Describing yourself as Bayyinah certified when you have not completed a Bayyinah certification program falls under this.
7. Registering domains, app names, channel names or social handles that a reasonable person would read as belonging to Bayyinah.

Using AI tools with our material

AI does not change what this policy is protecting. It only changes how quickly somebody can produce a copy that does not look like one. The line is the same line.

Studying with AI is your own business

If you use an AI tool to help you study, we have no issue with it. Ask it to explain something from a lesson you are taking, summarize your own notes, build flashcards for yourself, quiz you on what you learned, or help you work through an ayah you are stuck on. That is your study and it stays with you.

Publishing what an AI made from our material needs our permission

Feeding our books, transcripts, course material or app content into an AI tool in order to produce something you then publish, distribute or sell is a different thing, and it needs our written permission. That covers generated books, study guides, courses, worksheets, chatbots, apps, summaries and tafsir notes.

Rewriting by machine is still reproducing. The test we apply is simple. If your output exists because our material went into it, and somebody could reasonably use yours instead of ours, you need to ask us first.

Training and datasets

Training or fine tuning a model on Bayyinah content, or including our content in a dataset assembled for that purpose, needs our written permission. This applies to commercial and non commercial projects alike. We are not closed to it, and there is serious work we would like to see done well, so we would far rather discuss it with you at the start than discover it afterward.

Ustadh Nouman's voice, name and likeness

We do not permit synthetic recreations of Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan in any form. That means no cloned or AI generated voice, no AI generated video, avatar or image of him, no lip synced dubbing made to sound like him in another language, and no AI generated text published as though he said or wrote it.

This holds even where the content is accurate and the intention is sincere. People trust what they believe he said, and that trust is not ours to hand to a machine. A single convincing fake saying something he never said does damage that no correction undoes.

If you are translating or dubbing his lectures for your community, read the next section. There is a way to do that, and it does not involve recreating his voice.

Translations and community channels

A large part of our audience met this material through somebody else's channel, in a language we do not publish in, posted by a volunteer who was never asked to do it. We are grateful for that work and we have no interest in shutting it down.

If you run a channel that shares Ustadh Nouman's lectures, or you subtitle them into your own language, we would rather work with you than issue a takedown. We are building a partner program for exactly this, so that the people already doing this work have proper source files, accurate translations, clear permission and a way to be supported rather than a notice in their inbox. Write to us and we will tell you where that stands.

While we are building it, keep to three things. Name Bayyinah and Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan as the source on every post. Do not put the content behind a paywall or a donation wall. Do not use AI to recreate his voice for dubbing, which is covered above. Subtitles, captions and a human voiceover that is clearly identified as a translation are all fine.

How to credit us

Credit should be visible to the person receiving the material, not buried at the end of a document nobody scrolls to. On a slide, put it on the slide. In a video, put it on screen and say it. In a handout, put it in the footer of every page.

Name Bayyinah, name Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan where he is the teacher, name the course or book it came from, and link to bayyinah.com where a link is possible. A line like this is enough:

Adapted from Bayyinah TV, Deeper Look, taught by Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan. bayyinah.com

If you have rewritten the material substantially in your own words and it is now your lesson rather than ours, you can simply say that your study drew on Bayyinah's courses. We are not asking for a citation on every sentence you ever learned from us.

Asking permission

Most people who write to us get a yes. Send us a short note at [email protected] telling us what you want to make, which of our material it uses, who it is for, where it will live and whether it is free or paid. If money is involved, say so plainly at the start. It does not disqualify you and hiding it is the only thing that would.

Permission we give is in writing, for the specific thing described, and it does not transfer to anybody else or to your next project.

If you see something

If you come across our material published as somebody else's work, an app or book built from it, or a video using Ustadh Nouman's AI generated voice, send it to [email protected] with a link. You do not need to be certain. We would rather check something harmless than miss something that is not.

When we find a problem, we start with a conversation. Most of the time the person did not know, and the matter ends with credit added or a product taken down quietly. We will go further when we need to, particularly where somebody's words are being put in Ustadh Nouman's mouth or people are being charged for material we give away.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page as the tools change, which at the moment means more often than we would like. The date at the top is the last time it was revised.