Yaqeen Podcast

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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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Tuesday · 15 min
How 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 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 means
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Saturday · 25 min
9/11 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 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.
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Saturday · 41 min
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 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.
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September 5 · 26 min
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 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’a
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September 1 · 19 min
Abdullah 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, 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) raised
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September 1 · 22 min
Is 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. 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 can
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August 28 · 18 min
Struggling, 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 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'a
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August 27 · 19 min
Aging 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 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?
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August 25 · 25 min
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 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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August 20 · 28 min
Why Your Attention is Worth More Than You Think & Who’s Buying It | Focal Point | Imam Tom Facchine
Our attention has become one of the world's most valuable commodities—and we're paying for it in ways we rarely notice. In this Focal Point, Imam Tom Facchine explores how the attention economy grew from a simple business model into an industry built to capture our focus, shape our habits, and keep us distracted. More importantly, he asks what all of this means for Muslims trying to live with presence, purpose, and khushoo'. This episode looks beyond social media addiction to the deeper spiritual consequences of living in an age of constant distraction.
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August 20 · 19 min
"My Dream is to Make Gaza Proud." | Gaza Diaries | Renad Attalah and Dr. Omar Suleiman
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.
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August 18 · 29 min
A Beautiful Masjid With Empty Rows | Signs of the Hour Ep. 13 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
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.
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August 15 · 22 min
Are You Too Sensitive? | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
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.
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August 10 · 16 min
Safwan ibn al-Mu’attal (ra): Slandered for Helping A Woman | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman
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.
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August 7 · 21 min
Priorities Under Pressure | Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
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.
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August 6 · 50 min
7 Ways Islam Dealt with Slavery (And Why It Matters Today) | Sh. Mohammad Elshinawy
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
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August 3 · 16 min
Mistah ibn Uthatha (ra): Is Forgiving Family More Difficult? | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman
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.
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July 31 · 25 min
When Your Sin Reaches The Land and Sea | Khutbah by Sh. Ibrahim Hindy
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.
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July 30 · 18 min
The “Approval” Idol | Signs of the Hour Ep. 12 | Dr. Omar Suleiman
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.
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July 29 · 9 min
3 Rules for Calling People Out the Islamic Way | Imam Tom Weekly
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
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