# Ismail Bowers — Private Counsel

> Trusted Istisharah for Life's Important Decisions. Istisharah Access is a twelve-month private counsel membership built around ongoing written and voice-note correspondence.

Islam teaches that important decisions are not made through Istikharah (seeking Allah's guidance) alone, but through Istikharah and Istisharah (seeking trusted counsel) together. Istisharah Access is a twelve-month private counsel membership built around ongoing written and voice-note correspondence, led by Ismail Bowers, Resident Scholar at the Islamic Society of Central Jersey, a graduate of the traditional ʿAlimiyyah curriculum at the University of al-Qarawiyyin, and a doctoral candidate in Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford.

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