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This week's guest is Nadia Akhtar she's a mental health educator and coach. She, helps sisters overcome stress and anxiety and achieve amazing results with getting life back on track.

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In season 5, inshallah I will be exploring the following topics from an Islamic perspective:

• How to find a spouse
• Dating, halal relationships, dating apps
• How to protect ourselves from fitna, zina, and LGBTQ 
• Why has it become so difficult to get married
• The wedding industry
• Celebrity Muslim Couples
• Why is the divorce rate going up amongst Muslim couples?

I know I'm going to be adding more to this list...

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This week's episode of Muslima Mindset is a discussion from my husband's podcast, The Thinking Muslim Podcast. He spoke to a regular guest Dr Shadee Elmasry about division within the Muslim community. I ask him, how does Islam help us to navigate our differences? What makes a valid shari’ opinion? How do we know whether a scholar or commentator is sincere to sources of Islam? What makes a mujtahid and what are the limits of the muqallid (follower)? We discuss the recent trend amongst duat to call out and defame one another.

We also discuss the duty of enjoining maroof and forbid munkar, how does a layman fulfil this duty? What gives the commoner the right to question even scholars on issues and what are the guidelines? How do we forbid wrong while transmitting respect and not exacerbating divisions? We look at the notion ‘only Allah can judge’ and the anger that pervades much of modern social media ‘da’wah’. What does it mean to be smart in conveying Islam? and does being smart sometimes come at the cost of being truthful?

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Recently, political pundit and FOX Nation host Tomi Lahren put out a 14-minute video addressing her and her friends’ issues with men. She said  "I think they're trash all over this country ... a lot of men don't know how to treat women."  So, this week's episode of A Muslim Mom is a discussion from my husband's podcast, The Thinking Muslim Podcast his guest was, Ameen from the popular Mind Heist podcast, and the YouTube help channel Seera Masters. Ameen is currently working on writing a book on the subject of what it means to be a " Good Muslim Man" and in the episode, he discusses the reasons why some men are perceived as being  'trash'. Inshallah, love to know what you think.

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The journey to cover and conduct ourselves in a way that is pleasing to Allah is a struggle many Muslim women experience. Like other requirements of Islam, we experience natural highs and lows regarding our hijab. However, this noble endeavor has become particularly difficult for those of us living in western liberal societies, as journalists and politicians audaciously believe they have the right to ferociously scrutinise our hijabs, niqabs and jilbabs.

There is a vocal minority of Muslim feminists such as Samina Ali who, in her infamous  Tedx talk titled ‘What does the Quran really say about a Muslim woman’s hijab?’, deny the obligation of hijab. They are taking equality, personal freedom, and individualism as their guiding principles, not the Quran and Sunnah.

To add to the problem, the global fashion industry has jumped on the ‘modest fashion’ bandwagon and via Muslim Youtubers and influencers, non- muslim fashion brands are in essence telling us:

• why we should wear hijab
• how we should wear it
• when we should discard it

• the obligatory nature of the hijab
• critique the main arguments against hijab
• understand the ideological forces that are working against Muslim women
• the paradox of the modest fashion industry
• solutions to the challenges we are facing

Farhat Amin is a teacher and host of A Muslim Mom Podcast. She is also a speaker for The Thinking Muslim. In the UK, Farhat has delivered lectures on Women in Islam and Feminism. Currently, with an international group of female Muslim writers, she is editing a new book "The Islamic Alternative to Feminism" 

This online  women-only event is organised by The Thinking Muslim 

1st August 2020  - Online Zoom Event - 3 pm to 5 pm (UK time)

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The Center for Gender Studies: Feminism and Family Phobia 18th July

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The dress of Muslim women has been politicised by secular thinkers, left-wing activists, conservatives, feminists, and talk-show hosts that all believe their take on the subject will emancipate Muslim women. For centuries, an obsession with Muslim women’s dress has enabled an array of political projects.

This week we speak to two guests, firstly Farhat Amin, who is working on a book project to address the twin challenges of Muslim confusion about their Islamic rights and feminism and then we discuss the long colonial history behind the politicisation of women's dress and how to view the hijab from the shari’ah rules with Ustadh Iyad Hilal, author, and imam from the United States.

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This week the subject of the hijab was under the spotlight again. A famous Muslim You tuber posted a video where she explained why she had decided to no longer wear the head covering: khimar

Inshallah, in this episode I want to look at the main reasons why there is so much confusion around the simple act of wearing the hijab.

To help me resolve the confusion I have  Eeman Abbasi

who wrote an article titled “ Hijab: Not my Body, Not my Choice”  on the website traversing traditions.

About the author: Eeman Abbasi is a graduate in Physiology & Neurobiology and Human Rights, working in international development. Her interests include Hanafi jurisprudence, refugee advocacy, health and human rights, and the food industry. You can follow her on Twitter here.

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Firstly, Why did I want to read this book? The title is hardly Islamic. What could I possibly learn from a book whose title has such promiscuous connotations?

The reason why I read this book was for the purpose of research for a new book that I am writing with fellow Muslim writers on the topic of the Islamic alternative to feminism.

Since I became interested in the topic of whether Islam is compatible with feminism, I have genuinely made an effort to understand feminist ideas by reading books by non-muslim and Muslim feminists. I don’t want to have a shallow understanding.

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