The Ansari Podcast

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary, Bilal and Aymene discuss what role will Muslims play in the geopolitical atmosphere of modern times and what will the future hold for Muslim countries. They talk about what needs to change within every Muslim in order for Allah to bless us as an ummah. They talk about why we ended up in the state were in as Muslims today, what the state of Muslims today are, and how to get out of it. They talk about this generation of Muslims being the next generation to change everything. They also talk about the definition of a man in the west vs. the east and how Islam defines manhood.

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Maryam Beg discuss her life journey that led her to becoming Miss Pakistan USA, what bumps of Islamophobia and racism she encountered and overcame. They talk about arranged marriage and the misconceptions and stereotypes behind it.  They talk about drinking and the narratives behind it in western culture. They talk about Islam and being Muslim in America.  

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary calls out our Muslim Leaders and some of their incompetencies. He calls out Saudi Arabia and Iran for their crimes in Yemen.  He calls out the amount of money spent on the Kaaba and the hypocrisy of it. He ponders over the state of the Muslim world and where we're all lacking. He talks why us Muslims stand idly by and let "Muslim" countries commit human violations against other Muslim Countries. He talks about how we need to change as Muslims and why. He talks about improving as individuals and his own personal Journey. 

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Osly Abraham, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss their feelings as Muslims in America. How Islam gets them through hardship, and how Islam challenges them to be better every single day. They talk about living day by day and striving towards good character of Islam. The struggle of being Muslim.

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Dr. Rana Dajani Discuss whether or not Evolution and Islam conflict on a fundamental level. Dr. Rana Dajani defines Evolution and then Explains how it fits into Islam. Dr. Rana Dajani clears up many of the misconceptions surrounding Evolution and Islam. How Muslims can believe in Evolution and the story of Adam and Eve at the same time. They talk about how evolution and the story of Adam and Eve in Islam don't conflict. Dr. Rana Dajani proposed a different look at the Quran where we do not use it as a book of science. They talk about Molecular Biology. They talk about Epigenetics and whether trauma affecting genes can be passed down generation to generation. They talk about Women in the STEM field, specifically the Middle east and why women are not in the STEM fields in mass. 

Rana Dajani is a Palestinian-Jordanian molecular biologist and tenured professor of biology and biotechnology at Hashemite University. She earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Iowa. The UK-based Muslim Science Magazine[10] praised her as one of the most influential women scientists in the Islamic World; and Arabian Business lists Dajani as one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Arab Women," in which she ranked number thirteen. Dr. Dajani is a Fulbright scholar alumna, having received two awards. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and possessed an Eisenhower Fellowship as well. She is also a former Yale University visiting professor at the Yale Stem Cell Center and a visiting scholar at both the University of Cambridge and the Stem Cell Therapy Center in Jordan.

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Revert Latina Muslim Author Wendy Diaz discuss her story and journey to Islam at a young age. Why she chose Islam? What sparked her interest in Islam? Why not Other religions? What made Islam stand out? What made Wendy Diaz see the illogic in Christianity's theology, while billions of Christians don't? And finally when she decided to convert to Islam. After that we discuss what was life's reaction to her Islam, what struggles did she have now that she became Muslim. What Islam concepts did she struggle with, did she struggle with daily Muslim interaction between genders, as a Latina? How did the Muslim community treat her for being Muslim? What she thinks Muslims need to work on and we talk about the Spanish Inquisition, how Muslims were tortured and killed. And finally, the state and future of Islam in Latin America.  What should we Muslims do to spread the message of Islam in Latin America.  

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Imam Ahmed Deeb discuss Imam Ahmad's life growing up in the United States as a first generation Muslim, they discuss the cognitive dissonance felt when you're a Muslim living in America. They discuss the philosophical and theological questions that troubled Imam Ahmad growing up and how he dealt with them on a personal level. They discuss why the Imam ultimately chose Islam and was convinced by it, and why he decided to completely devote his life to Islam rather than go into medicine as he originally had planned. They discuss the false myth that religion is the cause of war, they discuss having to take a hard look at themselves and see their issues and just how much they hated their own identities, specifically Islam. They discuss what makes Islam more unique than other religions and whether they're all the same like people may believe. They talk about whether or not there is sexual harassment within the Muslim community. They discuss the lack of resources and systems put in place for Muslim women or men to speak to someone who will actually listen and take sexual harassment cases seriously. They speak about the rising issue of call out culture on these sensitive matters, but recognize that they are a cause of the lack of concern for sexual harassment within the Muslim community in the first place. Imam Ahmad Deeb highlights that we must come together to end sexual harassment rather than standing on 2 sides of an argument and budding heads with one another, while both sides of Muslims clearly don't want sexual harassment within their world and community.

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The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Omar Faison discuss Omar's journey through different religious texts, and how he eventually settled on Islam and becoming Muslim. They discuss Omar's thought process during his religious journey and reading different religious texts such as the bible, torah and more. And then how he felt when reading the Quran, and what about the Quran stood out so much that led him to converting to Islam. Why did he come to the conclusion that Islam was the truth? They discuss Jesus in the Quran ], and how Omar was able to navigate the redefining of Jesus in the Quran. They discuss the Miracle that is Prophet Muhammed PBUH and the proofs of his prophethood, where Allah speaks to him in the Quran. They discuss how Islam is the clear truth.

Audio will be fixed in 2 Weeks! On this episode of The Ansari Podcast, Mahmoud Elansary and his buddy Max Mzhen have a light discussion about the commonalities between Islam and Judaism. And how Muslims and Jews historically lived in peace together. This episode is not to be informative on historical or religious points, but instead supposed to show a rare civil conversation between a Muslim and Jewish person in today's times. 

The Ansari Podcast, Mahmoud Elansary and Artist Malik Naim discuss the dangers of a Muslim becoming Arrogant in their Islam. How every Muslim has a personal journey with Allah/God and how every Muslim and all humans commits sins. They talk about the dangers of Muslims judging each other. And why Muslim parents and immigrant parents never have the sex talk with their Muslim kids/children. They talk about  Muslims conflicting between their non Muslim friends but also wanting to get closer to Islam and Allah/God. They talk about weed, girls, drugs and alcohol and how we've struggled with it in the past and what its effect is.