Yaqeen Podcast

Renad Attalah inspired hope with her cooking videos set in war-torn Gaza. Now, she has sought safety in the Netherlands while her mother remains behind. 

Join Dr. Omar Suleiman to hear from Renad and her mother, Um Firas, learn about what life is like in Gaza as the world moves on, and hear the stories of a mother and daughter separated by a needlessly cruel conflict.

A time will come, the Prophet ﷺ said, when people gather in the masjid and there isn't a single believer among them.

Dr. Omar Suleiman unpacks that warning alongside several others: mosques built to compete rather than to function, mushafs that grow more beautiful while fewer people actually read them, and a Companion who wept after watching someone recite the Qur'an for payment. 

This episode of Signs of the Hour asks a harder question than whether our masjid is beautiful enough. It asks whether there's still a living faith inside it.

We live in a culture where every slight can become a microaggression, every disagreement can feel like an attack, and “protect your peace” can sometimes mean cutting people out the moment they make us uncomfortable.

But what happens when we lose the ability to overlook?

The Prophet ﷺ described the believer as samhaa—someone who is gracious, easygoing, and willing to let things go. This doesn’t mean tolerating abuse, ignoring oppression, or refusing to set necessary boundaries. It means learning to distinguish between genuine harm and the ordinary friction of living with imperfect people.

In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman explores what Islam teaches us about sensitivity, boundaries, forgiveness, and the forgotten strength of overlooking—and asks us to consider whether we’ve made ourselves too quick to take offense, cut people off, and slow to forgive.

Safwan ibn al-Muattal (ra) was a Bedouin warrior from Banu Sulaym, trusted with the most exposed job in the army: staying behind everyone else to make sure no one got left in the desert. When he found the wife of the Prophet ﷺ alone and asleep, left behind by accident, he said exactly one sentence the entire journey back to Medina.

That silence should have protected him. Instead, it became the center of one of the most damaging rumors in early Islamic history, and he was never even asked to defend himself before it spread.

What the Prophet ﷺ said about him, and what he let Safwan (ra) do to the man who started the rumor, is not what you'd expect.

Discover the story of the companion history almost left out of his own scandal, the cost of being slandered while doing exactly the right thing, and what the Prophet ﷺ's response teaches about restoring a man's honor without ever needing him to ask for it.

A tension has opened up in Muslim communities: Is it right to talk about salah, hijab, or personal worship while Gaza is under siege and Al-Aqsa remains under occupation? One camp says centering these "smaller" matters right now is a distraction. Another says losing sight of them in the name of bigger issues comes at its own cost.

In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman directly addresses the hierarchy of priorities in Islam, and where both camps may be missing something the other has right. The aim isn't to pick a side, but to reconcile what preservation of faith and standing for justice actually require of a Muslim in this moment.

There's a version of history where slavery just sort of ends, where enough people had a change of heart and the world moved on. That's not what happened. Every legal and religious system on earth treated it as permanent, inevitable, untouchable—except one.

In this episode, Shaykh Mohammad Elshinawy traces how Islamic law approached slavery from its very first rulings, why total abolition wasn't immediate, and how the religion built a structure that made the institution's disappearance a matter of time.

This episode covers:

— Slavery before Islam, and why almost every civilization had it

— What the Bible and Roman law actually permitted regarding slaves

— The Quranic pathways out of bondage and who was obligated to fund them

— What the Prophet ﷺ's final words reveal about his priorities

— How a single marriage freed an entire tribe

A Companion who fought beside the Prophet ﷺ at Badr helped spread the worst slander in Islamic history. Mistah ibn Uthatha (ra),  relative of Abu Bakr (ra) was flogged for his role in the slander of Aisha (ra), and the verse of the Qur’an that reversed Abu Bakr's vow to cut him off.

Dr. Omar Suleiman walks through who Mistah was, his lineage, his nickname, his standing as one of the first Muhajireen and a veteran of Uhud and Khaybar,and how Surah An-Nur 24:22 directly overturned Abu Bakr's private vow to stop supporting him.

A scholar of the Salaf spent time in prison, and he knew exactly why. Forty years earlier, he'd insulted someone with a single word, and he traced his own hardship straight back to that moment.

From a hadith describing a black spot that appears on the heart with every sin, to a hafidh who forgot the entire Qur'an except one verse, to the red and orange skies that covered Toronto this July, this khutbah moves through what actually happens when a person sins, and why the effects never simply stay in the past.

In this khutbah, Shaykh Ibrahim Hindy examines the consequences of sin: how it clouds the heart, how it steals knowledge, how it drains the sweetness from what's halal, and why istighfar is the only thing strong enough to undo it.

Will Islam one day look unrecognizable, the way other major religions have? The Prophet ﷺ left his ummah a stark warning: don't follow previous nations into a lizard's hole. It's a call to hold firm to your faith, even when the crowd moves elsewhere. 

In this episode, Dr. Omar Suleiman talks about the 10 patterns that led other religions astray and what every Muslim needs to watch for today. 

The Companions of the Prophet (s) welcomed correction because they cared more about being right with God than being right in the room. Somewhere along the way, we lost that instinct and replaced it with defensiveness when we’re corrected and ego when we’re correcting. 

In this Snapshot, Imam Tom Facchine breaks down how to hold people accountable without letting it tip into ego, and why Islam has always demanded truth over comfort.

This episode covers:
 — Why taking correction personally is a spiritual red flag
 — How identity-first thinking replaces truth-first thinking
 — The Qur'anic test for figuring out what's actually true
 — What Malcolm X's life shows us about the courage to change your mind