AlMaghrib Podcast

Islam looks West African in West Africa, Indian in India and Chinese in China. So why does it still look foreign in so many American masajid? Sh. Ubaydullah Evans says culture isn't something we choose to have or not. People produce it the way spiders spin webs, so the real question is whether we build it on purpose.

Sh. Ubaydullah and Sh. Ammar AlShukry get into what that means for Muslims in the West:

• Why the fiqh principle that custom carries legal weight is hard to apply in a community as mixed as America's

• What he tells a father whose daughter wants to marry outside their culture

• Living through the Arab Spring in Egypt, and what it taught him about being an immigrant

• Why Muslims need novelists, filmmakers and artists, and why the best stories aren't preachy

• Beauty as da'wah, and why he dresses the way he does

"When you can identify with something as yours, only then can you truly embrace it."

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

2:40 Every community produces a culture

11:41 Why Islam still looks foreign in many masajid

15:39 When your child wants to marry outside your culture

19:41 Growing up as a child of immigrants

24:09 Making Islam feel native to a people

31:55 Bosnia, Spain and indigenous Muslim identity

42:31 The arts make culture felt

52:42 Storytelling, novels and fantasy

57:15 Beauty as da'wah

1:00:35 Fashion and why he dresses the way he does

Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.

Guest: Sh. Ubaydullah Evans is a native of Chicago, a graduate of Al-Azhar University, and resident scholar at the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM).

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We have Mother's Day and Father's Day, but no day for the Sunday school teacher who taught you the Quran. Sh. Waleed Basyouni says we live in a "move on" culture, where people forget whoever helped them once they reach the next stage of life. The Prophet ﷺ taught that honoring old ties is part of iman.

In this episode, Sh. Waleed and Sh. Ammar AlShukry explore a chapter from Kitab al-Adab in Sahih al-Bukhari. Years after Khadijah رضي الله عنها passed away, the Prophet ﷺ would still send meat to her friends at Eid al-Adha.

They talk about:

• Remembering the good in your parents and spouse, even when things went wrong

• The difference between correcting the teachers who raised you and trashing them online

• Masajid that don't know who donated the land, or plan for imams after they retire

• Showing up for widows and seniors long after the first 3 days of condolences

• Telling your children the names of everyone who helped you, so they keep making du'a for them

It ends with the story of an 8th grader who saved for over a year to buy his masjid a water fountain in his father's name.

Imam al-Shafi'i said that even a single moment of kindness puts him in your debt for the rest of his life.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

3:04 Honoring old ties is part of iman

4:10 A culture of "just move on"

7:07 The Prophet ﷺ and Khadijah's friends

9:14 What institutions owe their imams and teachers

12:12 Remembering who helped you: spouses and parents

15:12 Don't forget the good, even after a divorce

16:00 Trashing the teachers who raised you

17:28 Who built your masjid?

19:08 Tell your kids who helped you

22:03 How masajid can care for widows and elders

23:38 When sisters fund the masjid

24:39 Pioneers who end up driving Uber

26:29 Small ways to honor old ties

27:31 The 8th grader and the water fountain

Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied the Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.

Guest: Sh. Waleed Basyouni is the President of AlMaghrib Institute. He holds a bachelor's in Islamic Sciences and a master's in Islamic Theology, World Religions and Modern Religious Sects from Al-Imam Muhammad University in Saudi Arabia, and a doctorate in Theology from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Indiana. He is the director of the Texas Da'wah Convention and serves on the fatwa committee of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA).

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The Prophet ﷺ said that 2 hungry wolves let loose on a flock of sheep do less damage than a person's love of fame and wealth does to their deen. Social media now offers both at once, and Dr. Omar Suleiman says that combination is what we should be most worried about.

In his first appearance on the AlMaghrib Podcast, Dr. Omar Suleiman sits down with Sh. Ammar AlShukry to talk about worship and sincerity in a world where everything is online. It picks up where his AlMaghrib seminar Behind the Scenes left off.

They talk about:

• Training your soul: if a falcon and a bear can be trained against their nature, so can you.

• The letter to Allah he had students seal and receive in the mail 3 months later.

• Why the vulnerability we see online is often the wrong kind.

• How the algorithm shapes the culture, and why Imam Al-Shafi'i wished none of his knowledge would be credited to him.

• Ruining a good deed after it's done by wanting people to hear about it.

• Performing for an audience of One, and asking what's the worst that can happen.

• Why discipline beats motivation, and why it starts with conquering your sleep.

• Advice for content creators, and the danger of making money from the algorithm.

• A du'a of Umar ibn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه for sincerity.

"Focus on building character over reputation."

Dr. Omar Suleiman's full seminar, Behind the Scenes: The Spiritual Practices of the Best of Generations, is on AlMaghrib Online. It covers the quality of your salah and dhikr, breaking habits like the pull of likes and follows, and purifying the soul.

👉 https://www.almaghrib.online/bts/

Every episode of the AlMaghrib Podcast is free, and it stays that way because of people who support the studio. If this conversation helped you, help us keep making more like it.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

2:41 Why Behind the Scenes was his first AlMaghrib seminar

4:53 If you can train a falcon, you can train your soul

8:47 The letter to Allah sealed for 3 months

10:19 The wrong kind of vulnerability

12:32 How the algorithm shapes our culture

16:03 Wanting your good deeds to be heard about

20:06 2 hungry wolves: the love of fame and wealth

25:26 Performing for an audience of One

27:42 What's the worst that can happen?

31:21 Motivation vs discipline

33:07 Discipline your time, starting with sleep

36:46 How much sleep is healthy?

38:50 Advice for content creators

41:01 Accountability and the Surah Al-Baqarah challenge

45:30 The danger of monetization

47:41 A du'a for sincerity

49:02 Masjid uncles and critics

52:46 A hint about next Ramadan's series

Book mentioned: Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin by Ibn Qudamah.

Guest: Dr. Omar Suleiman is the founder and president of Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an AlMaghrib instructor. His first AlMaghrib seminar, Behind the Scenes, focused on the spiritual practices of the Salaf.

Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.

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The Prophet ﷺ said that 2 hungry wolves let loose on a flock of sheep do less damage than a person's love of fame and wealth does to their deen. Social media now offers both at once, and Dr. Omar Suleiman says that combination is what we should be most worried about.

In his first appearance on the AlMaghrib Podcast, Dr. Omar Suleiman sits down with Sh. Ammar AlShukry to talk about worship and sincerity in a world where everything is online. It picks up where his AlMaghrib seminar Behind the Scenes left off.

They talk about:

• Training your soul: if a falcon and a bear can be trained against their nature, so can you.

• The letter to Allah he had students seal and receive in the mail 3 months later.

• Why the vulnerability we see online is often the wrong kind.

• How the algorithm shapes the culture, and why Imam Al-Shafi'i wished none of his knowledge would be credited to him.

• Ruining a good deed after it's done by wanting people to hear about it.

• Performing for an audience of One, and asking what's the worst that can happen.

• Why discipline beats motivation, and why it starts with conquering your sleep.

• Advice for content creators, and the danger of making money from the algorithm.

• A du'a of Umar ibn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه for sincerity.

"Focus on building character over reputation."

Dr. Omar Suleiman's full seminar, Behind the Scenes: The Spiritual Practices of the Best of Generations, is on AlMaghrib Online. It covers the quality of your salah and dhikr, breaking habits like the pull of likes and follows, and purifying the soul.

👉 https://www.almaghrib.online/bts/

Every episode of the AlMaghrib Podcast is free, and it stays that way because of people who support the studio. If this conversation helped you, help us keep making more like it.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

2:41 Why Behind the Scenes was his first AlMaghrib seminar

4:53 If you can train a falcon, you can train your soul

8:47 The letter to Allah sealed for 3 months

10:19 The wrong kind of vulnerability

12:32 How the algorithm shapes our culture

16:03 Wanting your good deeds to be heard about

20:06 2 hungry wolves: the love of fame and wealth

25:26 Performing for an audience of One

27:42 What's the worst that can happen?

31:21 Motivation vs discipline

33:07 Discipline your time, starting with sleep

36:46 How much sleep is healthy?

38:50 Advice for content creators

41:01 Accountability and the Surah Al-Baqarah challenge

45:30 The danger of monetization

47:41 A du'a for sincerity

49:02 Masjid uncles and critics

52:46 A hint about next Ramadan's series

Book mentioned: Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin by Ibn Qudamah.

Guest: Dr. Omar Suleiman is the founder and president of Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an AlMaghrib instructor. His first AlMaghrib seminar, Behind the Scenes, focused on the spiritual practices of the Salaf.

Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.

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Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf spent 7 years as a university chaplain sitting with students through anxiety, depression and doubt. One thread kept coming up. They didn't really know Allah. "The root of all pain is distance from Allah," he says, "and the root of all dysfunction is not truly knowing Him."

Sh. Ammar AlShukry chose the names of Allah for his very first AlMaghrib class and has taught it in around 30 cities since. In this episode, the 2 of them talk about how the names of Allah change the way you see your life and the way you make du'a.

They talk about:

• Christian students: what happened when Ustadh Hisham told a table of Christian students "we have a name for that".

• Names in the Quran: why the names at the end of a verse are often the point of the verse.

• Surah Al-Buruj: how the surah uses Allah's names to help believers make sense of a genocide, and why it ends on a Quran no one can touch.

• Their own names: Sh. Ammar keeps returning to Ash-Shakur, and Ustadh Hisham to Al-Latif and Al-Hayy Al-Qayyum.

• Surah Maryam: why Ar-Rahman appears 16 times in one surah.

• Atheism: how a wrong image of God leads people to it, and what to teach our children instead.

"If you know who the Commander is, the commands become easy."

Sh. Ammar's full course on the names of Allah, His Majesty, is on AlMaghrib Online. It teaches who you are calling on and how to call on Him.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

2:06 How each of them started teaching the names of Allah

7:05 "We have a name for that"

10:07 What happens when people meet Allah through His names

16:34 Why the names at the end of a verse matter

17:27 Surah Al-Buruj and making sense of suffering

26:10 They can't touch the Quran

27:43 Their go-to names: Al-Hayy Al-Qayyum and Al-Latif

31:32 Why Ar-Rahman appears 16 times in Surah Maryam

34:43 Ash-Shakur: so much for so little

38:30 "I know Allah, and you don't"

41:15 How a wrong image of God leads to atheism

45:11 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem

Book mentioned: Ma'a Allah by Sh. Salman al-Awdah.

Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.

Guest: Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf is a co-founder of Roots Academy and Chair of its Board of Trustees, and the creator of a widely watched YouTube series on the names of Allah. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University and is a former Muslim Chaplain at the University of Nottingham.

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Sh. Yaser Birjas has couples coming to him 2 weeks after the wedding talking about divorce.In his first appearance on the AlMaghrib Podcast, Sh. Yaser sits down with Sh. Ammar AlShukry to answer the questions he has been asked most in over 20 years of teaching and counseling on love and marriage. He starts by challenging the question everyone asks first. You shouldn't be chasing a happy marriage. Happiness isn't a goal you reach. It's the reward for contentment, and the objective Allah gives for marriage in the Quran is sakinah: peace and tranquility with your spouse.Together, they cover:Fights. Why most couple fights come down to "you're disturbing my peace".Love languages. The 5 love languages, and where each one shows up in the Sunnah.Single lifestyle. Getting married but still wanting to live single.Social media. What it is doing inside our marriages, even in our bedrooms.Intercultural marriage. Interracial and intercultural marriage, and why the future of the community is in its diversity.Parents. How much say they should have in who you marry, and when families should start the conversation.Gender roles. What the Quran and Sunnah define and what is culture.Money. Who pays when she earns more than he does.Searching. Why finding a spouse has become so exhausting, and how to get out of the "browsing cycle"."You follow the rules Allah put, you will have a successful marriage. You want to make it happy, that's on you."Chapters 0:00 Intro 2:36 Why a happy marriage is the wrong goal 5:53 The real objective of marriage: sakinah 7:29 Why couples fight: you're disturbing my peace 8:40 The 5 love languages in the Sunnah 11:16 Married but still living single 12:09 Love them on their terms 16:07 Make it or break it: now it's 6 months 18:10 How social media is hollowing out marriages 20:15 Interracial and intercultural marriage 24:13 How much say should parents have? 27:00 Start the marriage conversation early 32:56 Gender roles in Islam: what's divine and what's culture 37:08 Who pays when she earns more? 42:45 Why finding a spouse feels so exhausting 47:41 Keep it simpleBooks mentioned: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman, and The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman.Guest: Sh. Yaser Birjas is a senior instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Valley Ranch Islamic Center. For over 20 years he has taught and counseled on love and marriage. His AlMaghrib courses include The Fiqh of Love, Love Notes and Protect This House.Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.#Marriage #IslamicMarriage #AlMaghribPodcast #YaserBirjas #AmmarAlshukryEvery episode of the AlMaghrib Podcast is free, and it stays that way because of people who support the studio. If this conversation helped you, help us keep making more like it.👉 https://almaghrib.org/powerthestudio

⚠️ This episode discusses postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, harm to children and suicide. It may be triggering for some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised. If you or someone you love is struggling, support resources are listed below.How do you tell the baby blues from postpartum depression, and when does it become an emergency? Ustadha Sarah Sultan is a licensed professional counselor and an AlMaghrib instructor. She sits down with AlMaghrib host Hafsah Tarar for an honest conversation about maternal mental health. The recent high-profile case of Lindsay Clancy has raised a lot of questions in the community, and this episode tries to answer them with care.They cover the difference between baby blues, which most new mothers go through, postpartum depression, which affects about 1 in 7 mothers, and postpartum psychosis, which is rare and a medical emergency. Ustadha Sarah explains why the burden of noticing usually falls on the husband and family, because the mother often cannot see it herself. She also gives practical ways spouses and friends can rebuild the village new mothers used to have.From there they turn to the questions mothers are often afraid to ask. Do intrusive thoughts make you a bad mother? How do you tell waswasa from intrusive thoughts and from psychosis? Does needing therapy or medication mean your iman is weak? And what does worship look like when you have a newborn?"The state of your heart can be very different from the state of your brain."—If you want to keep going with Ustadha Sarah, her course Grounded draws on the stories of the prophets, the Seerah and psychology to help you work through grief, anxiety, loss and fear. It has 18 hours of on-demand lessons and live Q&As with Ustadha Sarah, and you get lifetime access. Grounded is pay as you can, so cost doesn't have to stand between you and the help.👉 https://almaghrib.online/grounded——Resources988 Suicide & Crisis LifelineCall or text 988https://988lifeline.orgChat: https://988lifeline.org/chatFree help from trained counselors by phone or live online chat, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you or someone you love has thoughts of suicide, call or chat for help.Postpartum Support International (PSI) HelplineCall 800-944-4773Text 800-944-4773 (English) or 971-203-7773 (Spanish)https://www.postpartum.netA nonemergency helpline for support, information, or referrals to mental health professionals during or after pregnancy. Open 7 days a week. Leave a confidential message at any time and a volunteer will call or text you back as soon as possible. PSI also runs online support groups and a weekly Chat with an Expert.National Maternal Mental Health Hotline1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262)https://mchb.hrsa.gov/national-maternal-mental-health-hotlineA free, confidential hotline for pregnant and new mothers in English and Spanish, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine1-800-950-NAMI (6264)https://nami.org/helpA free, nationwide support service for anyone with questions or concerns about mental health.If you are in immediate danger, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room.Book mentioned: And Baby Makes Three by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman.Guest: Ustadha Sarah Sultan is a licensed professional counselor, therapist and AlMaghrib instructor.Host: Hafsah Tarar is an AlMaghrib host and the Canada Events Manager at AlMaghrib.#PostpartumDepression #MaternalMentalHealth #AlMaghribPodcast #SarahSultan #LindsayClancy

💰 Sh. Navaid's new course on money is releasing on Faith Essentials this week. It covers rizq, debt, what to pay first when you can't pay everything, and how to rebuild without shame. Over 40 courses, one membership. 👉 https://faithessentials.online/?utm_source=ytGraduates can't find work, AI is coming for jobs, and every paycheck buys less than the last one. Sh. Navaid Aziz manages endowments and investments, and in his view that is not bad luck. The system is built to keep you poor, and he walks through how a Muslim can get out of it without compromising their deen.In his first appearance on the AlMaghrib Podcast, he sits down with Sh. Ammar AlShukry for a full conversation about money. They cover:- Skills over degrees: These are the 4 skills that matter more than your degree in this job market.-Why saving in dollars loses you money: A sheep the Prophet ﷺ bought 1,400 years ago would cost less gold today.- Gold: How to buy it in a way that is sharia compliant, and whether you can pay with a credit card.- Gambling: Why sports betting is haram, and whether a Pokemon or One Piece mystery box counts.- Qadr and effort: What rizq really means, and where qadr ends and taking the means begins.- Debt: A step by step plan for getting out of credit card debt.- Home: Dual incomes, qawwamah, and why respect at home is earned.- Zakat: Receiving zakat without shame.- Big decisions: Bitcoin, and whether to buy or rent your home.- Waqf: Why endowments could end the 27th night fundraiser for good.His answer on Bitcoin will surprise some people.💰 Sh. Navaid's new course on money is releasing on Faith Essentials this week. It covers rizq, debt, what to pay first when you can't pay everything, and how to rebuild without shame. Over 40 courses, one membership.👉 https://faithessentials.online/?utm_source=ytChapters 0:00 Intro 2:59 Graduates can't find jobs: the skills that actually matter 6:40 Laid off? Where to start 9:16 How to earn money while you sleep 10:47 Why saving in dollars keeps you poor 13:06 Gold: hedge or investment, and how to buy it 19:33 Can you buy gold with a credit card? 22:01 Sports betting and why gambling is haram 31:38 Are trading card mystery boxes gambling? 33:46 Unemployment, qadr and taking the means 37:28 When your new job is beneath what you expected 40:33 Not everyone is an entrepreneur 43:41 Why Muslims don't talk about money 47:43 Sh. Navaid's reading list 50:05 How to get out of credit card debt 54:27 Where to keep your emergency savings 56:43 Dual incomes, qawwamah and respect at home 1:03:36 Receiving zakat without shame 1:05:35 3 things every Muslim should know about money 1:06:36 Is Bitcoin halal? 1:08:25 Should you buy or rent a house? 1:15:22 Waqf and ending the Ramadan fundraiserBooks and videos mentioned: Rich Dad Poor Dad, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Money Master the Game by Tony Robbins, I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi, Dave Ramsey, and the buy vs rent videos by Ben Felix and Humphrey Yang.Follow Sh. Navaid Aziz on Instagram: @navaid_azizHost: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.Guest: Sh. Navaid Aziz is a graduate of the Faculty of Sharia at the Islamic University of Madinah. He has served as an imam for over 15 years. He manages the waqf for Yaqeen Institute and is chief investment officer at Phi Wallet.#IslamicFinance #Halal #AlMaghribPodcast #NavaidAziz #AmmarAlshukry

40 courses. 500+ lessons. Scholars you already trust, taught in lessons short enough for a commute. Faith Essentials is $95 for the full year until October 5 — that's $7.92 a month! Learn your deen from Dr. Omar Suleiman, Ust. Yasmin Mogahed, Sh. Waleed Basyouni, and more.👉 https://faithessentials.online/?utm_source=ytSh. Ubaydullah Evans has never had social media. He doesn't care about going viral. And that might be exactly why this conversation hits so hard.In this episode of the AlMaghrib Podcast, Sh. Ammar AlShukry sits down with Sh. Ubaydullah Evans, resident scholar at Alim and graduate of Al-Azhar, for a raw and honest conversation about fame, sincerity, and what Shaytan actually wants from people who are trying to do good online.They cover why your reputation is not the same as your standing with the people who matter, how the devil deceives not just ordinary people but scholars and daees, the difference between calling people to Allah and calling people to yourself, why somebody who can tell you the truth about yourself is worth more than a thousand followers, and what it actually means to make Allah your only audience."When the cameras go off, is the fervor for your worship as passionate as it is when the camera's on?"CHAPTERS0:00 Intro1:36 Kids want to be YouTubers now2:56 Visibility should never be the goal5:41 Reputation vs standing with the people who matter7:25 Why choose to chase the bag if you don't have to?10:47 Influencers and the honest merchant13:26 The viral nap post and Imam Shafi'i's wish16:42 Whoever desires fame is a slave to fame17:09 The pellet gun prank: "we're trying to go viral"21:52 What do you actually want from social media?22:51 Calling people to Allah or calling people to yourself26:15 Talbis Iblis: how Shaytan deceives people online27:19 Is it ihsan or is it dunya? The consistency test30:32 Everyone needs someone who refuses to flatter them35:32 Making Allah your only audience37:05 Why bombing on stage is liberating38:17 The 55 minute Eid khutbah

Surah Al-Baqarah has hundreds of subjects in it, so why did the Prophet ﷺ name it after a cow? Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf walks Sh. Ammar AlShukry through the whole surah as one structure: the first half is the handover from a nation that failed, the switch of the Qibla in the middle is the transfer of leadership, and the second half is the blueprint for the new ummah. There are no rules until the Qibla changes. Then they come one after the other.Along the way: why the 7 long surahs replace the Torah and Baqarah works as their contents page, why Baqarah and Ali Imran come as a pair, the 2 cow stories and what the golden calf reveals about absorbing the culture around you, the 6 verses aimed at religious leaders who monetised the deen, the "inverted abudiyah" of a people who believed Allah served them, and why Ibrahim's submission is the direct contrast to the cow mindset. The second half covers the verse of righteousness and how its order mirrors the rest of the surah in reverse, Talut, Dawud and the river as the test of permissible distractions, why Ayatul Kursi sits right after the command to spend, and why the longest verse in the Quran is not really about loans.Everyone has a cow. Everyone has a river. Everyone has a Jalut.Chapters0:00 Intro2:03 A gem from Kitab al-Iman: iman is a muscle, not a mood6:39 The structure of the Quran and Baqarah as the contents page12:42 The axis of the surah: the switch of the Qibla14:48 Why the surah was named after the cow17:07 3 responses to revelation and the first commandment19:56 What khalifa actually means22:54 The handover meeting: Bani Israel and the religious elite28:38 The golden calf and absorbing the culture around you36:05 Slaughter the cow: what is your calf?39:49 Inverted abudiyah and the disease in the heart43:58 Ibrahim's submission and the birth of a new ummah48:10 The verse of righteousness and the laws begin51:44 Talut, Dawud, Ayatul Kursi and the cost of building a civilisation56:17 The river: what is your permissible distraction?58:00 Riba, the ayah of loans, and why the surah ends with duaThe book mentioned: An-Naba' al-'Azim by Shaykh Muhammad Abdullah Draz, translated into English as The Qur'an: An Eternal Challenge.Host: Sh. Ammar AlShukry is a Director and instructor at AlMaghrib and the imam at Clear Lake Islamic Center in Houston. He studied Quran, hadith, aqidah, fiqh, and tafsir with teachers across the United States. He is known for courses such as A Mindful Salah, His Majesty, The Names of Allah and the Dhikr series, and for his poetry, collected in his book What the Pen Wrote.Guest: Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf is a co-founder of Roots Academy and Chair of its Board of Trustees. Roots Academy delivers structured Islamic education to university students and professionals in the UK, Ireland, Canada, the US, Turkey and Australia. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University, having first studied Arabic and the Islamic sciences in the UAE, alongside a BEng in Electrical Engineering and an MSc in Senior Leadership. He is the former Muslim Chaplain at the University of Nottingham and has served as an imam, khatib and teacher for over a decade.-----Share this episode with a friend or family member. It helps the channel grow.#SurahBaqarah #Quran #AlMaghribPodcast #HishamAbuYusuf #AmmarAlshukry