Yaqeen Podcast

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 hear...

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...

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 pleasur...

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...

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,...

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...

“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 ho...

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...

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 l...

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 peopl...

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...

"Does Islam permit a man to hit his wife?" Islam condemns domestic violence, and a woman is never required to stay silent in the face of abuse. So how do we make sense of Quran 4:34, the verse Muslim women often wrestle with? Yaqeen scholar Dr. Tesneem Alkiek and host Cadar Mohamud start with a key principle in the Islamic legal tradition: marriage never erased a woman’s independent lega...

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...

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 w...

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 tal...

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...

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 Compani...

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...

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...

"The angels curse her until morning." Yaqeen scholar Dr. Tesneem Alkiek and host Cadar Mohamud discuss a hadith that has been used to make Muslim women feel that intimacy is a debt they owe rather than something mutually built. Dr. Alkiek reads the narration alongside the tradition's own record of a wife's sexual rights, including the case of Abu al-Darda (ra) and the men calle...

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....

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...

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 o...

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 guara...

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...