The Ansari Podcast

The Ansari Podcast

By Mahmoud AnsariReligion & Spirituality
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The Ansari Podcast episodes

  • E46: Choosing a Career Path, Mental Health, and Cool Stories! w. Career Coach Arif Kabir
    The Ansari Podcast: Arif Kabir and Mahmoud Elansary talk about the way a Muslim should choose their career path and what their mindset should be for it.  They strike examples and share stories to illustrate how a Muslim or non muslim can be successful in their life. They talk Muslim apps and business. They talk about Mental health and therapy, especially within Marriage. They talk about cool stories of The Prophet PBUH, Hamzah Yusuf, a highway robber story and more!
    59 min
  • E45: A Journey that Shaped the Lives of 1000's of Muslim Kids in it's Community | ILIA Founder Ayman Nassar

    The Ansari Podcast: w. ILIA Founder Ayman Nassar goes through his life journey, the lessons he learned from youth working on the ground, the behind the scenes for what happens with troubled children, the mistakes parents make in involvement, the biggest regret he's had, the youth he couldn't save and; instead, lost. And what made him decide to found ILIA and help Muslim Kids.


    #muslim #teenager #mentalhealth #life #islam


    The Ansari Podcast: Ayman Nassar narrates the stories of the young Muslim lives he's come across as a man who works on the grounds, helping Muslim youth leave their troubled lives, minds, and environments. He speaks on Muslim kids dealing with drugs, gangs, murder, family issues, and all vices of life. But there's one thing all these Muslim Kids have in common...he breaks that down too!  #muslim #teenager #life #islam #mentalhealth   More About the Guest:  Ayman Nassar is the President and Founder of ILIA: Islamic Leadership Institute of America  At ILIA they inspire and develop youth to become responsible leaders of the future taking accountability for the needs of their communities; through experiential learning programs, their own self-identified projects, and making meaningful impacts to society. They are here to inspire and develop the next generation of leaders.  For over 11 years, ILIA has been shaping youth into leaders and transforming communities, impacting the lives of over 3,000 people from all across the nation and even a few international students.  Check out ILIA Website @ https://www.islamicleadership.org/home or follow on  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/islamicleader/?hl=en

    1 hr 8 min
  • E44: The Time of Death | A Story of a Muslim Chaplain in a California Hospital | w. Author Sondos Kholaki

    The Ansari Podcast w. Mahmoud Elansary. Chaplain Sondos Khosaki takes you through her stories. Like about a a hopeless agnostic who was coming close to his time of death, the most common regrets she hears from those dying, an emotional experience that resonates with her till today, the difference between Muslim and Non-Muslim patients. What it's like to experience life and death on a daily basis in a non-Muslim world. And how pain is Sacred.

    1 hr 24 min
  • E42: Converting to Islam On 9/11 - Followed by My ENTIRE Family | w. Dr. Hernan Guadalupe

    The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Dr. Hernan Guadalupe discuss his journey to becoming Muslim, especially on the day of 9/11. they discuss What kind of internal conflicts Dr. Hernan had before and after becoming Muslim. They discuss the reaction of his community of his conversion during 9/11. They discuss how his brother, mother and father followed in his foot steps and all became Muslim shortly after. They discuss his new struggles that arise as a newly minted Muslim American Frat Boy. And they discuss Dr. Hernan's current status as the Founder of Hablamos Islam - an organization that teaches Spanish speaking children all about Islam and creates Islamic content for young Spanish speaking Muslims.

    Visit his website @ hablamosislam.org

    And/Or follow them on Instagram @hablamosislam

    Or for Dr. Hernan's Jujitsu Studio Follow @rollstarbjj_md


    About the Guest:

    Dr. Hernan Guadalupe has studied Islamic sciences at the Islamic learning foundation, American open university and university of Mishkah. He also spent a year in Cairo Egypt where he studied and completed the classical Arabic curriculum at the Fajr center for the Arabic language. Additionally, he holds a master's degree in engineering from the university of Maryland college park and earned his doctorate in business administration at Walden university in 2005, he founded Hablamos Islam Inc.


    A nonprofit organization focused on creating educational resources about Islam in the Spanish language. He has lectured about Islam at various universities, such as Columbia, Johns Hopkins and George Mason university. He has been involved in the work of Dawa as, as with organizations, such as Why Islam and is a Brazilian jujitsu black belt, and its an instructor, a co-founder of role star, LLC co-founder of philosophy and co-founder and CEO of Hablamos Islam.

    1 hr 44 min
  • E41: Why & How does God have the Moral Authority to Torture Us Forever? w. Harvard Theologian Hamzah Raza

    The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Hamzah Raza discuss the Argument of "Necessary Existence" How God is a necessary cause

    They break down the 3 categories of existence in the universe

    The idea of idea the soul in Islamic philosophy vs. Western Philosophy and how islam answers the trolley problem

    They discuss the "fine tuning" argument and its refutation

    They ponder over why God cares so much about what we do if we're not important?

    They ponder of why God demands for us to worship him and a break down of the 3 purposes for Human existence

    They wonder how's it justified that God can torture? Is Hell moral?

    They define Islamically what it means to be a disbeliever

    They define prayer and success briefly 

    They address whether Allah is the most violent form of god 

    A break down of the 3 types of worship

    They discuss why there is so much pork in Spanish food

    1 hr 13 min
  • E40: Discussing Christianity and Islam w. A Christian & Muslim

    The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and his friend Kelly discuss the holy Trinity, the relationship between Faith and using reason/logic, the purpose of humanity in the Islamic perspective. Kelly asks What halal and Haram are in Islam and the story behind praying in Islam. They finally discuss the corruption found in Christianity.

    1 hr 25 min
  • E39: The Best Diet and Workouts During Ramadan w. Fitness Coach Shehab Hady

    The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Shehab Hady discuss the strategies, plans, schedule and different techniques a Muslim can use in order to work out during Ramadan and maintain a healthy life. They discuss when to work out during Ramadan. They discuss how to work out during Ramadan. they discuss what your mentality and goals for your body should be for Ramadan. They discuss what you should eat during Ramadan in order to lose weight, gain weight, or maintain weight during Ramadan as a Muslim. They discuss the tactics and strategy to a healthy Ramadan for a Muslim. And what foods to eat and what foods not to eat during Ramadan as a Muslim. They discuss dieting habits and mindsets for food and how much to eat during Ramadan as a Muslim.


    insta: @hadyfitness

    43 min
  • E38: How to Have Sex, Party, and Smoke During Ramadan

    The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Osly Melendez break down the 5 types of people entering Ramadan, The Sexer, The Partier, The Smoker, The Converter, and the Nicotiner. They Discuss how Non-practicing Muslims and Non-Muslims who are wanting to observe Ramadan should conduct themselves in sexual relations with their significant other, specifically if they're not married to them. They talk about How to purify yourself in Islam after sex, the requirements for your fast to count during ramadan, how to have sex during ramadan with your boy/girl friend. They do NOT condone pre-marital sex but instead offer some advice without judgement. They discuss how to smoke weed and nicotine during ramadan while making sure you're still fasting and praying. They discuss how to still party during Ramadan and if you even could in the first place.  

    55 min
  • E37: I was an Iraqi Refugee - Now I'm an American Immigration Attorney w. Mohamed Al-Hamdani
    The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Attorney Mohamed Al - Hamdani discuss identity and some of the history of Islam in America, how Islam doesn't let slavery thrive. Islam is deeply anti-slavery. They discuss getting married to non-Muslim women and Al Hamdani's own experience with that. They talk about Islam being as American as apple pie. And how undocumented Americans "illegal immigrants" are the backbone of this country. They talk about Mohamed's own struggle growing up as an Iraqi refugee in America, and how that led him to want to fight for the less powerful.
    Mohamed Al-Hamdani is an immigration attorney, Chief Legal Deputy, and  recognized as one of Dayton’s most influential young leaders in the 2016 class of DBJ’s Forty Under 40. Al-Hamdani founded his own law firm, offering legal representation on immigration issues, criminal matters and domestic relations. He began serving on the Dayton Public Schools Board of Education in January 2018. His previous work with the Department of Defense helped develop cultural and linguistic immersion training for more than 3,000 marines prior to their deployment in Iraq.
    1 hr 14 min

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