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This podcast is brought to you by Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. You'll find a variety of Islamic lectures, conversations, and discussions on topics most important to you. At Yaqeen, we aim to make academic and Islamically-credible scholarship mainstream through accessible resources such as infographics, animations, podcasts, learning materials, and more. Visit www.yaqeeninstitute.org or download the Yaqeen app from the app store to continue dismantling doubts, nurturing conviction, and inspiring contribution, one truth at a time
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“Who Am I To Judge?” Has A Limit | Signs of the Hour Ep. 24 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
The Prophet ﷺ said that someone who witnesses a sin and hates it is like someone who wasn’t there, and someone who wasn’t there but approves of it is like someone who witnessed it. Dr. Omar Suleiman says that …
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The Prophet ﷺ said that someone who witnesses a sin and hates it is like someone who wasn’t there, and someone who wasn’t there but approves of it is like someone who witnessed it. Dr. Omar Suleiman says that hadith reads differently now. You no longer have to be in the room to approve of a sin. You can like it, share it, or laugh at it from anywhere, and every clip and every joke hardens the heart a little more.
In Signs of the Hour Ep. 24, he begins with the narration of a time when zina happens in public and the most righteous person only asks for it to be done out of sight.
He covers Zaynab bint Jahsh’s (ra) question about whether a people can be destroyed while the righteous are still among them, the hadith of trials laid on the heart strand by strand, the ship whose lower deck drilled a hole, and how the decline of Bani Isra’il began when people kept eating with those whose sins they had stopped objecting to.
He ends on why forbidding sin is harder than enjoining good, why it will never cost a person their life or provision, and how to correct someone out of love instead of to shame them.
0:00 - When evil no longer bothers the heart
2:14 - Private righteousness doesn’t protect a society
4:30 - Every clip, every reel, every joke
4:50 - The heart dies when it stops hating evil
6:17 - A standard to know good from evil
8:01 - What the like button is saying
11:23 - Du’a is not a replacement for duty
13:07 - Why forbidding evil is harder
13:36 - A society is judged by what it permits
14:32 - The job description of this ummahWhen To Ignore A Doubt | Anchored Ep. 7 | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
You’re finishing suhoor when it hits you that Fajr may already have come in. Do you stop, or keep eating? The answer goes back to a hadith narrated by the Prophet’s ﷺ grandson, and it doesn’t stop at fasting …
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You’re finishing suhoor when it hits you that Fajr may already have come in. Do you stop, or keep eating? The answer goes back to a hadith narrated by the Prophet’s ﷺ grandson, and it doesn’t stop at fasting. Find out what it says about your prayer, and about the doubts people keep to themselves about Allah.
Hadith 11 of Imam al-Nawawi’s Forty, taught by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy in Anchored Ep. 7.
0:00 - Hasan ibn Ali (ra): The Prophet’s ﷺ “rayhana”
2:10 - Hadith 11: “Leave what makes you doubt for what doesn’t”
3:10 - Aisha (ra)’s advice on patience: “It’s only a few days”
4:50 - When hardship justifies the easier opinion: The 3 conditions
9:25 - Doubts in application: disputes, masjid money, conflicts of interest
11:30 - Doubt in worship: Wudu, salah, fasting, tawaf, forgetting rak’ahs
14:40 - Make your heart like glass, not a sponge
17:25 - Are Shaytan’s whispers to you a sign of your faith?
20:00 - Hanlon’s razor: Don’t assume maliceThe Strongest Sahabi Turned His Strength Against Himself | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
He was the strongest man among the Prophet ﷺ’s Companions. What made Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra) so great wasn’t only his strength, but what he did with it: he turned it against himself first.In this khutbah, Sh …
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He was the strongest man among the Prophet ﷺ’s Companions. What made Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra) so great wasn’t only his strength, but what he did with it: he turned it against himself first.
In this khutbah, Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy walks through stories from the life of Umar (ra) that show strength used for justice and compassion:
The takeaway: find your strength, and use it for Allah's pleasure and to improve the world in the short time we have.
0:00 - Umar ibn al-Khattab (ra): Strength turned inward
1:50 - Justice without favoritism: The whip and the son of Amr ibn al-As (as)
4:20 - No special treatment: His son's camels and the perfume from Bahrayn
7:15 - Strength in compassion
8:00 - The night Umar (ra) cooked for a starving family
12:35 - The crying baby and the stipend for every newborn
16:00 - Finding your strength
17:00 - “O Allah, I am weak, so strengthen me”: Umar (ra)’s first du'a on the pulpit
18:10 - Closing du’aThe Disappearance of Haya (Modesty) | Signs of the Hour Ep. 23 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
The Prophet ﷺ said that when modesty leaves, faith follows. And he reminded us that his ummah will be forgiven except those who publicise their sins: the person Allah covered overnight who wakes up and tells …
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The Prophet ﷺ said that when modesty leaves, faith follows. And he reminded us that his ummah will be forgiven except those who publicise their sins: the person Allah covered overnight who wakes up and tells everyone what he did.
Dr. Omar Suleiman defines haya (modesty) well beyond clothing, using the hadith that true modesty before Allah means guarding the head and what it holds, the stomach and what it takes in, and remembering death.
He separates shame before Allah from shame about the family’s reputation, explains why the Qur’an condemns loving to see immorality spread, and reads the hadith of those “clothed yet naked” as a diagnosis of a whole society: the people who consume it, perform it, fund it and design it, and the trafficking industry that sits behind it.
To learn more, read the paper, “Ḥayāʾ: More Than Just Modesty in Islam” by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy: https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/haya-more-than-just-modesty
0:00 - The loss of haya
2:15 - What true modesty with Allah is
4:51 - Shame for Allah vs. shame for the family
6:49 - Announcing a sin before the digital age
9:07 - When immorality is open
11:24 - Clothed yet naked, as a society
14:30 - The industry behind the industry
15:53 - Which side of it am I on?What You Will Regret At Life’s End, And How To Avoid It | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
Most of us look back on our lives. In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman asks us to look forward too. Allah tells us that on the Day of Judgment our words and deeds will be replayed to us. He also tells us the …
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Most of us look back on our lives. In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman asks us to look forward too. Allah tells us that on the Day of Judgment our words and deeds will be replayed to us. He also tells us the exact words people will use to express their regret.
Since Allah has told us those regrets in advance, we can plan around them. Think about the regrets you don’t want to have, with your prayer, your parents, your marriage and your friendships. Then work backwards and change things while you still can.
0:00 - Your deathbed regrets, today
2:05 - Jeff Bezos’ regret minimization framework
3:51 - Walking the Day of Judgment backwards
9:21 - Starting from Jannat al-Firdaws
11:54 - The Qantarah: Letting grudges go
13:45 - The Sirat: Family ties and trustworthiness
15:15 - The Mizan and the Book of Deeds
18:21 - “My Lord, send me back”
20:34 - Reverse engineer your relationshipsHow Much Divorce Are You Seeing? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 22 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
The Prophet ﷺ said there is no sin more deserving of punishment in this world, on top of what awaits in the next, than oppression and cutting off family ties. Most sins can be expiated by worldly hardship …
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The Prophet ﷺ said there is no sin more deserving of punishment in this world, on top of what awaits in the next, than oppression and cutting off family ties. Most sins can be expiated by worldly hardship. These two are punished in both. Dr. Omar Suleiman reads that as the reason a broken family counts among the signs of the Hour: it does not stay private, and its cost shows up as a lost blessing in health, wealth and every other relationship.
In this episode, Dr. Omar Suleiman separates setting boundaries with someone harmful, which Islam allows, from treating every family discomfort as abuse, which it does not. He goes through the hadith of the man whose relatives kept wronging him, Ibn Mas‘ud’s answer when a storm in Kufa made people think the Hour had come, siblings fighting over an inheritance, signatures used to steal, and why the first thing the devils teach is how to separate a husband and wife. The episode closes on what Madinah was built on.
0:00 - Parents as gates of Jannah
3:18 - Cutting ties is not a private sin
4:18 - Respectful distance is an option
7:03 - Taqwa in marriage, and in divorce
9:07 - Siblings fighting over an inheritance
13:26 - Why households predict doubt
13:33 - Algorithms that divide families
14:38 - What Madinah was built onWhy Your Du’a Isn’t Being Answered | Anchored Ep. 6 | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
“Allah is pure, and He only accepts what is pure.” That one line from Hadith 10 of the 40 Hadith reaches further than most of us expect, into what we earn, what we give and why some prayers seem to go …
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“Allah is pure, and He only accepts what is pure.” That one line from Hadith 10 of the 40 Hadith reaches further than most of us expect, into what we earn, what we give and why some prayers seem to go nowhere.
In this episode, Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy discusses the traveler whose prayer was stopped by unlawful money, why charity can’t clean wealth that was never yours, and how a single date given honestly grows into a mountain. We also look at why admitting a sin can open more for you than a year of good deeds, and why a blocked prayer is never a reason to stop asking.
0:00 - Allah is pure and accepts only what is pure
4:44 - The man whose prayer was not answered
5:52 - Can haram money become charity?
8:19 - Don’t give Allah the leftovers
10:58 - The date that becomes a mountain
14:08 - Good money in the hands of a good person
16:20 - Carcass by night, donkey by day
17:59 - What blocks a du’a
19:21 - Brokenness: why the traveler’s state matters
22:22 - “How could he be answered?” is not “never”
24:39 - The worshipper who fasted 70 weeks
26:38 - The man who held back the rainA Muslim’s Playbook for Using Artificial Intelligence | LATEST Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Artificial intelligence is changing work, school and family life faster than most people can adjust. Many Muslims are left asking whether to embrace it, fear it or avoid it altogether. Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy …
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Artificial intelligence is changing work, school and family life faster than most people can adjust. Many Muslims are left asking whether to embrace it, fear it or avoid it altogether.
Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy presents a five-part guide to using AI as a Muslim, drawn from the reflections of Dr. Hatem El-Haj and built around the word QIBLA.
It starts with setting your direction toward the Hereafter and guarding the inputs that form your identity. From there it covers deciding in advance how much use is too much, and holding firm limits on cheating, on giving up the hard work of learning, and on replacing real friendships with artificial ones. It ends with treating AI as an amanah, a trust and a gift Allah will ask about. That means individuals using it to build a lasting legacy, and the Muslim community making sure it has a seat at the table where this technology is being shaped.
0:00 - Opening
1:21 - How the next 20 years will change more than the last 200
4:47 - Allah destined the AI boom, so don’t panic
6:41 - Q is for Qibla: speed without direction is a curse
10:31 - I is for Input: What is shaping you and your kids
12:13 - B is for Balance: decide how much is too much
13:57 - L is for Limits: learning, relationships and what stays at zero
17:00 - A is for Amanah: AI as a gift you’ll be asked about
18:22 - Why the ummah can’t get locked out of AI
21:02 - Closing du’aWhen Parents Aren’t The Priority Anymore | Signs of the Hour Ep. 21 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
The Prophet ﷺ described a time when a man would bring his friends close and treat his father coldly. A time when a mother is pushed aside because she has nothing left to give. A time when “a slave woman gives …
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The Prophet ﷺ described a time when a man would bring his friends close and treat his father coldly. A time when a mother is pushed aside because she has nothing left to give. A time when “a slave woman gives birth to her master.”
Dr. Omar Suleiman looks at one of the most uncomfortable signs of the Day of Judgment: the breakdown of the family, and how we treat our parents once they seemingly no longer do anything for us.
He explains what these narrations mean (and what they don’t), why being kind to everyone except your own family is a warning sign, and why scholars call elderly parents a person’s first real test of power.
And why did Allah specifically praise Yahya and Isa (peace be upon them) for being dutiful to their parents? The answer says a lot about the times we’re living in…
0:00 - Why this lesson is uncomfortable
1:15 - Important: This never justifies abuse
3:05 - A hadith that connects the dots
4:15 - Obeys his wife, cruel to his mother
6:10 - Advice for couples: your in-laws aren’t the enemy
7:25 - “I don’t need you anymore, dad”
8:45 - “A slave woman gives birth to her master”
11:55 - Towers rise while parents are lowered
12:35 - The first sign of a society’s decay
14:00 - The first test of powerThe 12 Questions The Companions Asked The Prophet ﷺ | Anchored Ep. 5 | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Some hadith are hard to read and understand the first time around. One of them is the authentic narration in Bukhari and Muslim where the Prophet ﷺ says, “I was commanded to fight the people until they testify …
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Some hadith are hard to read and understand the first time around.
One of them is the authentic narration in Bukhari and Muslim where the Prophet ﷺ says, “I was commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no god but Allah.” Read alone, it can sound like an order of endless war against non-Muslims. The scholars who explained it read it a different way. In this hadith, “the people” refers to the pagan Arab tribes who broke treaty after treaty at the end of the Prophet’s ﷺ mission, not to all of humanity. The Qur’an sets peace as the default (“if they incline to peace, incline to it as well”). The Prophet ﷺ made treaties with non-Muslims and lived beside them in Medina. He also said to leave the Abyssinians and the Turks alone as long as they left the Muslims alone. In Islamic law, the justification for war is always protective. Its rules shield non-combatants, women, children, clergy, animals and even trees, and a promise of safety holds even when an eight-year-old gives it.
Hadith 9 of Imam al-Nawawi’s 40 draws our attention to a question: Why does the Prophet ﷺ tell us to avoid what he forbids completely, but to do what he commands “as much as you can”? Avoiding something takes no money and no strength, only will, so it is within everyone’s reach. Plenty of people do good deeds. Staying away from what Allah forbids is what sets a God-conscious person apart. The same hadith warns about questions asked to dodge an obligation, to trip someone up, or to look pious, like the man who asked Ibn ‘Umar about the blood of fleas. In this episode of Anchored: The 40 Hadith for Today’s Muslim, Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy explains what jihad really means in the Islamic tradition, how Islam’s ethics of war compare with other civilizations, and why closing the gap between what you know and what you do matters more than gathering another answer.
0:00 - Hadith 8: “I was commanded to fight the people”
1:11 - Why ignoring a hard hadith makes the doubt worse
7:08 - Does Islam teach peace or war? (Qur’an 8:61)
11:29 - Defensive sometimes, protective always
15:17 - Islamic rules of war: non-combatants, animals, trees
19:00 - Comparing scriptural ethics of war
20:58 - Hadith 9: avoid all of it, do what you can
22:13 - Which matters more, commands or prohibitions?
29:28 - Avoid one haram dollar rather than give $100,000
31:40 - The questions that destroyed earlier nations
36:27 - “Take your what-if and toss it in Yemen”
40:50 - When learning becomes a social currency
43:30 - Bottom line: close the gap between knowing and doingPursue Your Rizq Even With An Axe | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
How much financial pain are you feeling? Lost jobs, shrinking savings, and the shame of not being able to provide. If you aren’t going through it, someone close to you almost certainly is. Allah has promised …
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How much financial pain are you feeling?
Lost jobs, shrinking savings, and the shame of not being able to provide. If you aren’t going through it, someone close to you almost certainly is. Allah has promised every soul its rizq (sustenance). So why does tawakkul (relying on Him) feel so hard when the struggles deepen?
Dr. Omar Suleiman tells a little-known story from the time of the Prophet ﷺ. A man came to him asking for help. The Prophet ﷺ didn’t just hand him charity, but set him on a 15-day action plan to improve his situation. What the man came back with by the end, and the question the Prophet ﷺ asked him, changes how we should think about rizq, dignity, and what we owe each other as an ummah.
And stay for the story of the shaykh who quietly disappeared from his community and turned up somewhere no one expected…
0:00 - “Never have I seen so much financial pain”
2:10 - Your rizq will find you, but there’s more to it
3:35 - A story you can actually relate to
4:55 - “Do you have anything in your house?”
7:00 - The axe the Prophet ﷺ fixed with his own hands
9:00 - Who are you in this story?
10:05 - When your rizq isn’t where you planned
12:15 - The shaykh who disappeared
13:25 - Beyond charity: how a community carries its people
17:05 - Not struggling? This part is for you
19:20 - Your situation today is not your situation tomorrow
21:00 - Closing du’asWhy Is Mass Killing Being Normalized? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 20 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
The Prophet ﷺ said that before the Hour, time would shrink, deeds would shrink, greed would grow and tribulations would spread, and that harj would increase. His Companions (ra) asked what harj was. He answered …
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The Prophet ﷺ said that before the Hour, time would shrink, deeds would shrink, greed would grow and tribulations would spread, and that harj would increase. His Companions (ra) asked what harj was. He answered with one word, twice: killing. In another narration he said a day would come when the killer does not know why he kills and the one killed does not know why he dies.
Dr. Omar Suleiman reads these narrations against a world where killing has become distant and senseless, and where a massacre can arrive as just another update. He explains why a believer cannot get used to mass death, and how two sets of the Prophet’s ﷺ instructions that seem to contradict each other fit together: one for standing against oppression, and one for staying out of a fight when no one can tell who is right.
0:00 - When other people’s lives lose their meaning
2:17 - Harj, an Abyssinian word for blind killing
4:37 - Senseless killing, then and now
7:28 - When two armies of believers fight
10:40 - Refusing to normalize mass death
16:57 - Why oppression must never be normalized
18:37 - When there is no clear oppressor
20:43 - When one side is clearly the aggressor
21:40 - Closing du’aWho Decides What Is Haram? | Anchored Ep. 4 | Hadith #6 and #7 | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
In Hadith 6 of Imam Nawawi’s 40, the Prophet ﷺ said the halal is clear and the haram is clear, and that between them are doubtful matters many people don't know. Whoever stays away from those matters …
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In Hadith 6 of Imam Nawawi’s 40, the Prophet ﷺ said the halal is clear and the haram is clear, and that between them are doubtful matters many people don't know. Whoever stays away from those matters protects their religion. What happens to the one who keeps drifting into them?
Hadith 7 was explained to the Companions in two words in Arabic: The religion is naseeha (sincerity). But, towards who? Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy explains why the word means much more than advice, and how the early Muslims lived it, and how it applies specifically to our relationship with the Qur’an and Muslim leaders.
“Anchored: 40 Hadith for Today’s Muslim” is a new series by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy which draws insights from Imam an-Nawawi (rh)’s collection of 40 hadith and applies them to some of the most pressing questions Muslims face today.
Tune in every Saturday at 9 AM CST/3 PM GMT for a new episode of Anchored!
0:00 - Hadith #6: Halal and haram are clear
10:16 - Why Allah left gray areas on purpose
14:54 - Is the gray area itself haram?
16:34 - “But I have a good heart”
22:17 - When the grey is our own doing
28:19 - Hadith #7: Naseeha (sincerity) toward 5
33:02 - Sincerity to the Qur’an and sincerity to leaders
44:15 - Advice versus exposing someoneHow To Raise Young Muslims in a Land Built Against Them | Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Most people believe what the people around them believe, and Muslim children are no exception. A child who watches a parent jump up from the dinner table because a prayer is about to pass learns that Allah is …
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Most people believe what the people around them believe, and Muslim children are no exception.
A child who watches a parent jump up from the dinner table because a prayer is about to pass learns that Allah is real in that house. A child who watches prayer times come and go learns something too, and eventually concludes that their parents never really believed it either.
Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy talks about how the need to belong is human nature, and that a Muslim community should put it to work for the truth instead of fighting it. The home comes first, because children form their picture of Allah largely from how their parents treat them. The masjid comes next, as the extended family most of us no longer have. Beyond it are neighbours who know you well enough to defend you.
Your children are already deciding what you believe. They are deciding it at prayer time.
0:00 - Why faith, family and fraternity
4:31 - Why children of Muslim immigrants drift from Islam
7:03 - How parents pass faith to their children
9:47 - Where children get their image of God
11:54 - The masjid as the extended family we lost
14:46 - Finding a spouse when Muslims are 1% of the country
17:21 - Why Muslims shouldn’t isolate from their neighbors
18:52 - When the neighbors defend the masjidWhy Modern Life Makes Every Death Feel Sudden | Signs of the Hour Ep. 19 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
Sudden death is a sign of the Hour, and nearly everyone says they would choose it: to go peacefully in their sleep. The pious predecessors wanted an illness first, with time to repent, make their will, and seek …
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Sudden death is a sign of the Hour, and nearly everyone says they would choose it: to go peacefully in their sleep. The pious predecessors wanted an illness first, with time to repent, make their will, and seek forgiveness.
When Aisha (ra) asked the Prophet ﷺ about sudden death, his answer depended on who was dying. Find out what he said in the full episode.
Dr. Omar Suleiman’s answer to a world where death arrives without warning is urgency without panic: hurry to good deeds, visit the graves, and let children witness a janazah.Uthman ibn Talha (ra): The Key Guarded by One Clan for 1,400 Years | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman
For over 1,400 years, one clan has guarded the most important key in history. And ironically, it reached them through a man who once rudely denied the Prophet ﷺ entry into the Ka’bah. But even as his own …
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For over 1,400 years, one clan has guarded the most important key in history. And ironically, it reached them through a man who once rudely denied the Prophet ﷺ entry into the Ka’bah.
But even as his own parents vehemently opposed the Prophet ﷺ, Uthman ibn Talha (ra) inched closer to Islam. His excellent character in escorting a Muslim woman (ra) to safety, and his joining two other great Companions as they finally headed to Medina to accept Islam, became turning points in his life.
And on the day of the Conquest of Mecca, the Prophet ﷺ honored him and his descendants with a duty that remains theirs until today.
0:00 - His name and title of Hajib al-Ka’bah (Custodian of the Ka’bah)
2:18 - A rude comment when the Prophet ﷺ tried to enter the Ka’bah
5:00 - How he escorted Umm Salamah (ra) to safety
10:15 - Losing his father, uncle, and 5 brothers at Uhud
13:21 - His mother’s vow to drink wine from a Muslim’s skull
14:43 - Embracing Islam along with Khalid (ra) and Amr (ra)
15:58 - Receiving the keys to the Ka’bahThe 4 Decrees Written For You In Your Mother’s Womb | Anchored Ep. 3 | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
You were still in your mother’s womb when all of this was already written for you by an angel: your rizq (provision), your lifespan, your deeds, and whether you will be among the blessed or wretched. So does it …
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You were still in your mother’s womb when all of this was already written for you by an angel: your rizq (provision), your lifespan, your deeds, and whether you will be among the blessed or wretched.
So does it matter what you do with your life? Can you still change your destiny? What kind of plot twists might still happen at the end of an apparently good or evil life? And how deep are the risks of getting involved in bid’ah (innovations) in the religion?
“Anchored: 40 Hadith for Today’s Muslim” is a new series by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy which draws insights from Imam an-Nawawi (rh)’s collection of 40 hadith and applies them to some of the most pressing questions Muslims face today.
Tune in every Saturday at 9 AM CST/3 PM GMT for a new episode of Anchored!
Episode 3 covers the 4th and 5th hadiths of Imam an-Nawawi’s collection.
0:00 - Introduction
3:55 - The first half of Hadith 4: What’s written for you in the womb
5:42 - The first 40 days after conception: How the embryo forms
11:35 - Is there tension between Islamic teachings and modern science?
13:03 - Ensoulment: When an embryo becomes a person
16:24 - Can you change your destiny?
22:59 - The second half of Hadith 4: Does destiny disregard your effort?
26:12 - Some of your true colors surface at the moment of death
33:31 - The 4 types of hearts
37:09 - Hadith 5: The importance of avoiding bid’ah (innovation)
41:48 - The definition of bid’ah (innovation)
45:01 - Reasons why bid’ah is dangerousWhy The Prophet ﷺ Told Hosts To Do LESS I LATEST Khutbah by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Hosting guests at home has become rare. Most of us have friends we’ve known for years and never had over. We meet at cafés and restaurants, keep up in the group chat, and save our homes for some day when the …
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Hosting guests at home has become rare. Most of us have friends we’ve known for years and never had over. We meet at cafés and restaurants, keep up in the group chat, and save our homes for some day when the house is clean and there’s time to cook. That day rarely comes.
Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy argues in this khutbah that the feast is part of the problem. When hosting means a week of cooking and a table nobody can finish, the guest feels the weight of it, the host dreads doing it again, and the invitations stop.
The Prophet ﷺ told his Companions not to go to great lengths for guests, and they served what they had.
Your friends came for you. A cup of tea on the floor and one extra dish is enough to keep the door open, and an open door is how friendship, and the faith that grows inside it, reaches your children.
0:00 - The perfection in every word of the Qur’an
2:41 - The first person to host guests at home
4:13 - How we meet each other today
5:35 - Visiting each other is an act of worship
7:30 - How the Prophet ﷺ and Companions hosted
9:19 - It’s your guest’s rizq and your reward
10:12 - How we made hosting a burden
11:33 - Does keeping it simple mean you’re not generous?
13:55 - Complicating visitations breaks us apart
16:10 - Brilliance in how Ibrahim (as) hosted angelsAre You Tired Of Being Here? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 18 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
NOTE: This lecture discusses Islamic teachings about the trials of the end times, including the prophecy that people will wish for death. It is a discussion of Islamic eschatology. Nothing in it is …
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NOTE: This lecture discusses Islamic teachings about the trials of the end times, including the prophecy that people will wish for death. It is a discussion of Islamic eschatology. Nothing in it is encouragement toward self-harm.
If you are struggling with despair, hopelessness, or thoughts of harming yourself, please contact Naseeha Mental Health for free, confidential, faith-sensitive support. Call or text 1-866-627-3342 or visit https://naseeha.org.
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A narration says that before the Hour a man will pass a grave and say, “I wish I were in his place,” and that it will not be out of longing for Allah but out of exhaustion with life.
The emptiness is the sign, not the hardship. What the same tradition carries is the correction: everyone already in a grave would trade everything they owned for one more day to seek Allah’s pleasure.
Dr. Omar Suleiman reflects on what is left when this world is no longer fulfilling. He is explicit that this is a religious diagnosis of one specific cause and not a statement about mental health or why anyone experiences these thoughts.
Find out which wish for death the Prophet ﷺ forbade, which one he allowed, and the du‘a he taught in relation to this:
اللَّهُمَّ أَحْيِنِي مَا كَانَتْ الْحَيَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي وَتَوَفَّنِي إِذَا كَانَتْ الْوَفَاةُ خَيْرًا لِي
Allahumma ahyini ma kanat al-hayatu khayran li, wa tawaffani idha kanat al-wafatu khayran li.
“O Allah, keep me alive so long as life is good for me, and cause me to die if death is better for me.” [Sahih al-Bukhari no. 5671]
0:00 - What’s left when nothing is fulfilling anymore
2:43 - Why disbelief in the Hereafter empties everything
3:47 - What held Ayyub (as) together
4:15 - Why are you wishing for death?
5:42 - Ibn Hajar (rh) on the paradox of wishing for death
9:47 - Fleeing a confusion you cannot correct
11:42 - What Ali (ra) said near the end of his life
15:22 - Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (rh) and the du’a of longing
18:08 - What the dead are wishing for
19:39 - The istikhara parallel
20:14 - When a du’a becomes transgressionAbdullah ibn Sa’d (ra): Why He Embraced Islam Twice | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman
Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh (ra) was honored with writing the revelation down as it came to the Prophet ﷺ. Then he left Islam. He returned to Mecca and claimed he could tamper with or forge the Qur’an …
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Abdullah ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Sarh (ra) was honored with writing the revelation down as it came to the Prophet ﷺ. Then he left Islam.
He returned to Mecca and claimed he could tamper with or forge the Qur’an himself. It was the worst lie one could tell, and Allah (awj) responded in Surah al-An’am, ayah 93. The punishment set for him was severe, even amidst the general amnesty in the conquest of Mecca.
Dr. Omar Suleiman traces how a man whose apostasy was answered by revelation came to command the right wing at the conquest of Egypt, replace Amr ibn al-As (ra) as its governor, and lead the first Muslim campaign west across North Africa.
The record that survives him does not open with the apostasy. It opens with the commander, the leader of armies. Find out what he asked Allah for at the end of his life, and what he was doing at the moment he died.
0:00 - The foster brother of Uthman ibn Affan (ra)
3:59 - Leaving Islam and claiming to tamper with revelation
5:22 - Why Islamophobes misuse weak narrations about the scribes
8:29 - How he was pardoned by the Prophet ﷺ
11:20 - Leading Muslims armies across North Africa
15:47 - The du'a to have Fajr be his last deedThe Prophet ﷺ, An Angel, and An Orientation for the Ummah | Anchored Ep. 2 | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
Manners are not the polish on top of a religion. In the framework Abdullah ibn Mubarak used, faith sits inside five concentric walls. Certainty at the centre, then sincerity, then the obligations, then the …
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Manners are not the polish on top of a religion.
In the framework Abdullah ibn Mubarak used, faith sits inside five concentric walls. Certainty at the centre, then sincerity, then the obligations, then the prophetic practices, and manners as the outermost wall of all. The order matters, because the outermost wall is the one that gets breached first.
Lose your adab and the sunnah starts looking optional; lose the sunnah and the obligations start slipping; lose those and whatever worship is left is self-selected, which means it was never very sincere; and at the end of that sequence a person’s certainty is gone. Nobody experiences this as a collapse. It happens inward, in order, over years.
The practical edge of all this is uncomfortable, and Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy lands it hard at the end. Islam was built on five pillars, which makes those pillars infrastructure rather than decoration. Everything else is finishing work, and finishing work on a structure in shambles is not piety. It is decor.
“Anchored: 40 Hadith for Today’s Muslim” is a new series by Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy which draws insights from Imam an-Nawawi (rh)’s collection of 40 hadith and applies them to some of the most pressing questions Muslims face today.
Tune in every Saturday at 9 AM CST/3 PM GMT for a new episode of Anchored!
Episode 2 covers the second and third hadiths of Imam an-Nawawi’s collection.
0:00 - 4 essential questions: The hadith of Jibril (as)
6:57 - Why the Prophet ﷺ rarely gave long lectures
9:30 - 5 fortresses of faith and adab (manners) as the outer fortress
12:56 - The baseline faith of a Muslim
18:22 - Questions about qadr (destiny)
21:18 - How Islam addresses loneliness
23:52 - The pattern in Yaqeen’s Ramadan series
26:58 - Disrespectful children: Don’t become a sign of the Hour
29:57 - Competing in tall buildings: Turning opportunity into vanity?
34:33 - What the word “deen” really means
36:05 - The 5 pillars of IslamHow Time Is Shrinking | Signs of the Hour Ep. 17 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
A narration says that before the Hour a year will pass like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, and an hour like a burning leaf. Ibn Hajar (rh) gave three reasons for it, and the first was that the …
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A narration says that before the Hour a year will pass like a month, a month like a week, a week like a day, and an hour like a burning leaf. Ibn Hajar (rh) gave three reasons for it, and the first was that the barakah of time had been removed.
Dr. Omar Suleiman on what disappears first when time stops being blessed. Find out what he says the first casualty actually is, and the one thing he guarantees will give time back.
0:00 - When time starts losing barakah
2:43 - A year like a month, an hour like a burning leaf
3:55 - Ibn Hajar (rh)’s first reason: the barakah of time is gone
4:37 - Ibn Hajar’s second reason: time literally shortens
5:25 - Ibn Hajar’s third reason: the abundance of distraction
8:20 - Extravagance, or vehicles replacing the animal altogether
9:54 - The man on the camel getting ahead of everybody
11:35 - The guarantee: Worship expands time
13:45 - What barakah in a day actually means9/11 Anniversary: Who Taught You To Hate?
Six months after 9/11, 25% of Americans said Islam encourages violence more than other religions. 25 years later, that number is 51%.The hostility did not fade with time. It grew. And it grew in a country where …
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Six months after 9/11, 25% of Americans said Islam encourages violence more than other religions. 25 years later, that number is 51%.
The hostility did not fade with time. It grew. And it grew in a country where Muslims buried their own dead from that day, where Muslim first responders ran toward the towers, and where a generation has now spent its entire life answering for a crime committed by 19 strangers.
On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, Sh. Omar Suleiman takes the question America asked in 2001 and turns it in the other direction. Why do they hate us? Who taught you to hate?
This khutbah sits with collective blame and what the Qur'an says about it. Allah tells us that no soul carries the burden of another (Surah al-An'am, 6:164). He commands justice even toward people who despise us: “Do not let the hatred of a people lead you away from justice. Be just. That is closer to taqwa.” (Surah al-Ma'idah, 5:8).
For Muslims who have never known an America before the Patriot Act, the watchlist, and the secondary screening line at the airport, this is a khutbah about where the hate actually came from, who has profited from keeping it alive, and why the enemy you were handed may not be your enemy at all.Clear Intentions In A Chaotic World | Anchored Ep. 1
Should you seek Islamic knowledge? Work for Big Tech? Get involved in politics? Make hijrah? Use AI? These are some of the complicated questions that shape the decisions Muslims have to make every day, as …
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Should you seek Islamic knowledge? Work for Big Tech? Get involved in politics? Make hijrah? Use AI?
These are some of the complicated questions that shape the decisions Muslims have to make every day, as students, professionals, parents, community members, and even in their personal worship.
And answering them starts with reflecting on the foundation of everything we do in life: intention (niyyah).
After introducing us to the great scholar Imam an-Nawawi (rh), Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy explains what every Muslim must know about intention.How To Fix Your Life | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
What does it take to really fix a broken heart, relationship, and community? Are we making du’a to Allah to fix our lives, while neglecting the actions He wants us to take because they are uncomfortable? It’s …
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What does it take to really fix a broken heart, relationship, and community?
Are we making du’a to Allah to fix our lives, while neglecting the actions He wants us to take because they are uncomfortable?
It’s easy to skip to the conclusion that your situation isn’t fixable. It’s more difficult, but honest, to remember that nothing fixes itself.
Dr. Omar Suleiman explains the power Allah has given us to work to fix our problems, while always trusting Him with the best outcome. And he reminds us of the true cost of leaving our relationships broken.
0:00 - The Strangers: Those who fix what others corrupted
3:40 - A powerful statement of Shu’ayb (as) on islah (fixing things)
5:20 - Marriage: If they both want it fixed, Allah gives tawfiq
10:15 - Do you think Allah can free Palestine but can’t change your spouse?
12:30 - Al-Hadi and Al-Jabbar: Allah mends what you can’t
14:05 - What Umar (ra) on making du’a for rizq
16:30 - The Prophet ﷺ’s 3 du’as and our responsibility
19:30 - Turning to Allah with broken pieces
21:45 - The cost of leaving things broken
24:40 - Closing du’aAbdullah ibn Abi Umayyah (ra): He Shouted Over the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman
He mocked the Prophet ﷺ publicly for years, shouted him down at his dying uncle's bedside, and died a martyr fighting for him. Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah (ra) believed long before he ever came forward …
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He mocked the Prophet ﷺ publicly for years, shouted him down at his dying uncle's bedside, and died a martyr fighting for him. Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah (ra) believed long before he ever came forward, certain he was beyond forgiving. He was turned away once. Find out what his sister said that changed it.
Watch a previous episode of The Firsts to learn more about Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith (ra): https://yqn.io/52wq
00:00 - Why the redemption stories get harder from here
02:10 - Who Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah (ra) was
05:33 - The mockery that has an ayah about it
07:08 - The deathbed of Abu Talib
11:21 - "I don't think Muhammad ﷺ will accept me"
14:13 - Umm Salama (ra) intercedes for her brother
17:10 - How Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah (ra) died
17:55 - The son Umm Salama (ra) raisedIs Any Income Actually Halal Anymore? | Signs of the Hour Ep. 15 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
The Prophet ﷺ said he did not fear poverty for this ummah. He feared wealth, and he feared what abundance without barakah does to a community. A man would be handed a hundred dinars and still not be satisfied …
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The Prophet ﷺ said he did not fear poverty for this ummah. He feared wealth, and he feared what abundance without barakah does to a community. A man would be handed a hundred dinars and still not be satisfied. People would stop asking where their money came from. One companion walked away from wealth that was even 10% doubtful. Find out why.
Dr. Omar Suleiman traces the hadith of the end times about wealth in Signs of the Hour Ep. 15: greed placed in the hearts, the collapse of the question of halal income, and the narration that no one will be left untouched by riba.
0:00 - Why the Prophet ﷺ feared wealth more than poverty
5:04 - Wealth was never condemned
7:03 - A man with 100 dinars is unsatisfied
8:11 - Why gratitude increases wealth and ingratitude shrinks it
10:02 - Stinginess isn’t only with money
12:38 - Two kinds of haram wealth
15:16 - How haram income starves the soul
18:52 - Zakat as purification, and the spiritual question it raises
20:17 - When no one will escape the dust of riba
21:24 - Fear Allah as much as you canStruggling, In Debt, and Trusting Allah | Khutbah by Sh. Elshinawy
Imam Ahmad (rh)’s best mornings, he said, were when they told him there was no flour left in the house. An empty shelf reminded him Who had been filling it every other day of his life.Most of us run that …
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Imam Ahmad (rh)’s best mornings, he said, were when they told him there was no flour left in the house. An empty shelf reminded him Who had been filling it every other day of his life.
Most of us run that instinct in reverse. The bank balance drops and we quietly conclude that Allah is withholding out of displeasure.
What must we remember about our rizq when it seems to stop flowing? How can Muslims reframe financial anxiety, job loss, and deepening debt as opportunities? And what does tawakkul and trusting that Allah is Ar-Razzaq really mean?
00:00 Living life assuming the best of Allah
04:24 Finances can test our trust in Allah
06:24 When Allah withholds, it's for your own good
07:51 Your rizq will always find you
11:09 Don't cut corners seeking provision
11:56 The story of Ibn Aqil (rh) and the pouch of gold
14:14 Allah is Ar-Razzaq, The Ever-Providing
19:06 Closing reflection and du'aAging Parents, Growing Kids & "Inshallah Next Year" | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
You may still be alive tomorrow, but this version of your life won’t be.Your body will change. Your circumstances will change. Your children will grow older. Your parents may not always be here. The person …
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You may still be alive tomorrow, but this version of your life won’t be.
Your body will change. Your circumstances will change. Your children will grow older. Your parents may not always be here. The person waiting for your apology may eventually stop waiting.
So what happens to all the good we keep telling ourselves we’ll do later?
The call we keep meaning to make. The apology we keep putting off. The time we assume we’ll have with our parents and children. The charity we tell ourselves we’ll give tomorrow.
The Qur’an preserves the plea of someone who ran out of time:
“My Lord, if only You would delay me for a little while, I would give in charity and be among the righteous.” — (Surah Al-Munafiqun, Verse 10)
But the delay never comes.
This isn’t simply a warning about dying suddenly. It’s a reminder that some of the good we postpone depends on having the right person, the right moment, or the right opportunity still in front of us.
In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman reflects on time, aging parents, growing children, unfinished apologies, and the opportunities for goodness we assume will still be there tomorrow.
What have you been putting off because you assume you’ll have more time?Dajjal's Rebrand Has Already Started | Signs of the Hour Ep. 14 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
Shaytan never told Adam and Hawwa (as) to disobey Allah. He told them the forbidden tree was something else: shajarat al-khuld, the tree of eternal life. A good tree.The command never changed. Only the name …
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Shaytan never told Adam and Hawwa (as) to disobey Allah. He told them the forbidden tree was something else: shajarat al-khuld, the tree of eternal life. A good tree.
The command never changed. Only the name did. The Prophet ﷺ warned that this technique would come back at the end of time as one of the signs of the Hour, and it's stranger than it first sounds. It isn't about a generation that stops believing in halal and haram. It's about a generation that keeps both categories perfectly intact and quietly moves things between them. People from this ummah will drink khamr, he ﷺ said, and call it by another name.
Imam al-Ghazali (rh) mapped the same move through the diseases of the heart centuries before anyone said the word “rebrand”. Greed is renamed as ambition. Arrogance has been renamed to confidence. Cutting off your family answers to protecting your peace.
Dajjal is the end of this road, not the beginning of it. He'll rebrand Jannah as the Fire and kufr as imaan. A world that's spent generations learning to accept renamed evil is already rehearsed for him.
Name every major sin you can think of, then ask which ones already answer to something softer. That's the exercise Dr. Omar Suleiman puts to the room, and it's worth doing before you press play.
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