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The Prophet ﷺ was on the battlefield in his early 60s. Today, Muslim men look broken at 35. Dr Abud Bakri explains what went wrong - and why the fix starts with the Sunnah, not peptides.

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00:00 - Introduction

01:14 - shabbabmaxxing

02:53 - The "Muslim Dilemma"

05:15 - Fasting & Why Abundance Is Bad for Men

08:13 - What Salah Does to Your Nervous System

12:03 - "You Sit at a Desk 12 Hours a Day"

17:01 - How to Fix Your Sleep

21:26 - "It's All Qadr": Tawakkul vs Responsibility

23:11 - The Truth About Peptides

28:38 - Are Peptides Halal?

30:40 - "You're 18. You Don't Need Peptides."

34:41 - Why Your Health Is Your Biggest Business Asset

38:19 - Testosterone: The Check-Engine Light for Men

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Dr Abdallah Rothman is the Head of Islamic Psychology at Cambridge Muslim College and Executive Director of the International Association of Islamic Psychology.

An American convert and licensed counsellor, he spent over 15 years as a practising therapist before writing one of the first academic models of Islamic psychology.

He went on to serve as Principal of Cambridge Muslim College, founded Dar al-Shifaa, and now trains the next generation of Muslim therapists from the UAE.

In this episode, he breaks down what Muslims get wrong about their own minds, how the Prophet ﷺ dealt with anxiety and sadness, and the daily practices that actually change your heart.

Find out more:

https://www.cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/aer

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00:00 - Introduction

01:00 - The Part of You That Forgets Where It Came From

07:44 - The Verse People Hide Behind to Avoid Studying the Soul

17:30 - Doing Everything Right and Still Feeling the Constriction

20:06 - The Year the Prophet Spent in Sadness

24:24 - Why Psychology Books Put a Severed Head on the Cover

26:38 - The Five Minutes Before Prayer That Change It

28:13 - Why He Refuses to Call It Mental Health

33:54 - Don't Wait Until You're Out of Options

44:11 - The Part of Istikhara Almost Nobody Means

47:48 - Why He Thinks Superintelligence Is the Wrong Goal

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Dr Wajid Akhter is the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, the largest umbrella body for Muslims in the UK.

A practising doctor born and raised in Britain, he founded Charity Week and the Islamic History Channel, and was a founding member of the British Islamic Medical Association.

He was elected to lead the MCB in January 2025 and re-elected for a second term in July 2026, running on a plan he calls Vision 2050.

In this episode, he breaks down why so many Muslim organisations duplicate each other, what that fragmentation actually costs, and why he thinks we should be building institutions instead of personal brands.

Find out more:

https://mcb.org.uk/

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00:00 - Introduction

00:52 - One Street in Leicester With Eight Mosques

06:54 - Seven Hospitals in One Year, From Student Collections

10:54 - The Advice He Got on Day One at MCB, and Why He Ignored It

15:14 - The Red Phone and the Medical Student Who Did Too Little

17:24 - Michael Jordan, or the Man Who Owns the Club

26:12 - What If Disney Ran Your Mosque?

28:32 - The Words That Kept Britain Fighting

34:41 - The Muslim Nobody Talks About Who Built Everything

36:26 - The Best Answer to Islamophobia Isn't a Better Argument

44:37 - A Million Fried Chicken Shops, Not One KFC

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Yusuf Omar is a journalist and co-founder of Seen TV, building the world’s most immersive storytelling company. Creating a more empathetic world by helping people share their lived experiences.

Born to South African parents, he has been a foreign correspondent carrying nothing but a phone since 2010, later becoming CNN's senior social media reporter on Snapchat and mobile editor at the Hindustan Times.

He was recently detained at Ben Gurion Airport (Tel Aviv), deported, and banned from entry for up to ten years. He is now taking the case to court.

In this episode, he breaks down what happened in detention, why he thinks Muslims have failed at media, and the fund he wants to leave behind for independent journalism.

Find out more:

https://www.instagram.com/yusufomar/

https://www.seen.tv/

https://x.com/YusufOmarSA

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00:00 - Introduction

03:48 - The Watermelon Question

05:36 - 18 Hours in Interrogation

12:33 - Why He Thinks Muslims Have Failed at Media

14:01 - What America Actually Gave the World

17:25 - Boarding the Flotilla With a Six-Week-Old at Home

21:59 - Why the Ummah Won't Fund Media

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Shahzad Younas is the founder and CEO of Muzz, the world's largest Muslim marriage app.

A former VP at Morgan Stanley, he walked away from nine years in investment banking, taught himself to code, and launched the app from his bedroom in 2015.

Today Muzz has more than 20 million members, a team of 160, and is closing in on a million people who've met their partner on the app.

In this episode, he breaks down turning down Match Group's acquisition offer, the lawsuit that forced a rebrand, and why he's raised just $9 million in over a decade.

Find out more:

https://muzz.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahzad-younas

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0:00 - Introduction

1:46 - Five Traders Huddled Around One Phone

2:45 - The App He Designed in Microsoft Word

4:45 - Racing Out of Jummah to Hand Out Business Cards

9:17 - Would He Build It Again? His Honest Answer

12:55 - The Billboard That Went Viral Before Anyone Knew It Was Them

31:36 - The Acquisition Calls He Took From a Mosque Classroom

33:39 - Walking Away From $35 Million Over Dinner at The Ivy

34:18 - The Court Case That Cost Them Their Name

36:53 - Why Half His Series A Is Still Sitting in the Bank

45:10 - The Easiest Way for Muslim Men to Stand Out on the App

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Raafi Hossain is the co-founder and CEO of Fasset, a stablecoin-powered digital bank built for emerging markets.

Born in Dhaka, he studied at Harvard and worked at the UN before starting the company in 2019.

Today Fasset is valued at $1 billion, with more than 3 million wallets across 125 countries and $40 billion in annualised transaction volume.

In this episode, he breaks down why almost all of crypto is a scam, how he gets regulators and politicians to say yes, and why he thinks Sharia compliance is the wrong way to think about Islamic finance.

Find out more:

https://www.fasset.com/

https://www.instagram.com/raafihossain/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/raafihossain/

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0:00 - Introduction

4:14 - The Five Banks Standing Between You and $100

7:01 - Why He Says 99.99% of Crypto Is a Scam

8:55 - The Official Who Told Him to Come Back in 2074

10:23 - The Person Every Regulator Actually Answers To

16:15 - John Smith Clears in Seconds, Muhammad Ahmed Doesn't

21:20 - Why He Calls Sharia Compliance a Colonial Mindset

27:55 - The American Banking Problem He Didn't Expect

36:44 - Why He Thinks Western Muslims Are Too Comfortable

40:54 - The Medina Parable He Uses When Onboarding New Hires

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Rayyan Khan is the founder and CEO of Founders Arm, an offshore recruitment firm that places vetted talent from North Africa and Latin America into US startups.

Pakistani, raised between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, he dropped out in his final month of college and moved to San Francisco with no money to go all in.

Today Founders Arm is at six figures a month with no venture funding and not a single North American hire, with clients including Cal AI and MyFitnessPal.

In this episode, he breaks down how he found his first client, why he deliberately avoided the Philippines and India, and what he felt when he finally met his team in Egypt.

Find out more:

https://foundersarm.com/

https://x.com/rayyanfkhan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayyanfkhan/

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0:00 - Introduction

1:33 - Dropping Out in the Final Month of College

2:23 - Hundreds of Job Applications, Not a Single Interview

3:04 - How Offshore Recruitment Actually Makes Money

4:14 - Why Selling to Everybody Means Selling to Nobody

4:52 - The Content Funnel That Brought Clients to Him

6:12 - Six Months of Running Every Interview Himself

7:27 - Why He Avoided the Philippines, India and Pakistan

8:18 - The First Four Months Were Really Tough

9:07 - The Client Who Hired 22 People Through Him

10:43 - What Gets You to One Won't Get You to Ten

11:36 - A Seven Figure Company With No North American Hires

12:33 - The Lake Tahoe Trip That Didn't Feel Like Winning

14:13 - Failing School and Knowing It Since Fourteen

15:24 - Why He Never Wanted Venture Money

16:50 - Figure Out Who You Are Before You Pick a Model

22:33 - The Criticism of Offshore Hiring, Answered

24:43 - Flying to Egypt and Meeting the Team

28:00 - Why Building Something Deepened His Tawakkul

30:00 - What the Next Ten Years Look Like

Jawad Shreim is the co-founder and CEO of MilkStraw AI, a platform that automatically cuts companies' cloud infrastructure costs.

Palestinian, born and raised in Dubai, he spent over a decade in Silicon Valley building and selling a startup before walking away to start again from the Middle East.

Today MilkStraw is backed by VentureSouq and Flat6Labs, with more than 100 startups running on it.

In this episode, he breaks down why he left America, the near-death experience in Mexico City that brought him back to Islam, and what a co-founder breakdown taught him about who to build with.

Find out more:

https://milkstraw.ai/

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0:00 - Introduction

2:49 - The Day His Father Walked Away From a CEO Job

4:18 - Watching Dubai Go From Desert to Global Hub

9:47 - The Paper That Concluded Silicon Valley Isn't a Place

11:40 - The USB Dongle He Sold to His Classmates

12:49 - The Running Costs That Killed His First Company

15:52 - Six Months Living Inside One Italian Restaurant

18:41 - When the Side Product Became the Real Product

20:25 - The Co-Founder Signals He Kept Explaining Away

22:15 - The Acquisition That Arrived Mid-Fight

27:59 - Losing His Grip on His Own Identity

29:29 - The Taxi Ride in Mexico City

34:10 - The Shahada He Couldn't Bring Himself to Say

39:54 - Why the Exit Money Meant Nothing

41:11 - A Year Before He Knew It Was Depression

42:31 - Becoming Muslim for the Second Time

45:14 - The Trip That Convinced Him to Come Home

47:53 - Silicon Valley Level Engineers, in Jordan

50:13 - The Company Name That Came to Him in a Dream

Ammar Sulthan is the founder of Muslimpreneur, teaching Muslims how to start their service-based businesses.

He started his first agency while working an IT apprenticeship, cold-calling up to 100 businesses a day and taking six months to land his first client.

Today he's on a mission to help 1,000 Muslims become millionaires.

In this episode, he breaks down the middleman agency model, how to land your first client with no track record, and why he checks his deen first whenever business slows down.

Find out more:

https://go.halalonlinebusiness.co/muslimfounder

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0:00 - Introduction

0:52 - What Hajj Actually Felt Like, Weeks Later

3:14 - The One Question Almost Nobody Asks Themselves

6:00 - The Morning Protocol He Makes Every Student Do

9:56 - The Fine Line Between Certainty and Entitlement in Dua

11:58 - Why He Tells Beginners to Start Here, Not With Software

18:33 - The Middleman Model, Explained

22:06 - Six Months, Business Cards, and Still No Clients

23:32 - Selling Like a Doctor Who Has the Remedy

26:31 - How to Land a Client With Zero Testimonials

27:20 - Authority Jacking and Why He Tells People to Send a Brick

32:34 - 100 Cold Calls a Day and the 561 Nos

36:23 - Charging 5K a Month When That's Someone's Whole Salary

38:14 - Audit Your Time: The Exercise Most People Avoid

49:11 - What Stops the Freelancer Going Straight to Your Client

52:31 - The Unfair Advantage Muslims in the West Have

54:16 - What Happens After Your First 10K Month

1:01:44 - The Mission to Make 1,000 Muslim Millionaires

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Taimur Abdaal is the co-founder and CEO of Causal, the financial modelling platform built to replace Excel for finance teams.

Raised in the UK in a British Pakistani family, he taught himself to code as a teenager and studied maths at Oxford before quitting his job to build Causal with a university friend.

Five years and $25 million in funding later, he sold the company to Berlin-based Lucanet.

In this episode, he breaks down going from zero to $1M ARR in a year, raising from Accel and Naval Ravikant, and why so many Muslim founders set their sights too low.

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https://x.com/taimurabdaal

https://www.linkedin.com/in/taimurabdaal/

https://causal.app/

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How to achieve rapid startup ARR growth from zero to one million. Learn the distribution strategy behind this rapid scaling.

This breakdown examines the specific timeline of building a live demo and launching on Hacker News to capture initial demand. If you are a founder looking to understand how to build a waiting list and secure early traction, the content explores the exact steps taken to reach significant revenue milestones.

Effective distribution serves as the primary engine for growth. By analysing the journey to a Series A funding round while at 600K ARR, you will see how focusing on the right channels early on dictates your startup ARR growth. Learn why getting the product in front of users via Hacker News was the catalyst for the zero to one million journey and how to apply those lessons to your own startup ARR growth strategy.

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0:00 - Introduction

1:28 - One Shared Family Computer and the Fight to Use It

2:20 - Fake Psychic Readings and Other Teenage Side Hustles

3:10 - The Film That Made Him Learn to Code

4:47 - Oxford, and the Careers Website That Shaped His Whole Plan

8:20 - Meeting Two Guys Who Made Startups Feel Possible

11:03 - The Spreadsheet Problem That Became Causal

12:14 - The Hacker News Launch That Got Them 600 Signups

13:17 - What Made the Co-Founder Relationship Work

16:08 - 18 Months of Not Knowing Who the Customer Was

18:07 - The Six Months They Wasted on Marketing Agencies

21:31 - The Microsoft Excel Killer Headline

24:03 - Zero to $1M ARR: Future Selling and Price Discovery

25:48 - Why Technical Founders Have to Get Over Hating Sales

28:31 - Naval Slid Into the DMs Over a GIF Thread

31:11 - Selling the Company and the $25M Preference Stack

37:24 - What He'd Do Differently Building Company Number Two

41:56 - The Mistake He Sees Muslim Founders Make Most

44:00 - Why He's Staying in the UK Instead of Moving to SF