The Ansari Podcast

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...

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 ultim...

The AUDIO IS FIXED*** 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...

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 J...

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...

On this episode of The Ansari Podcast, Mahmoud Elansary and Mufti Muhammed Ibn Muneer discuss why is Weed haram? How about before prayer? How about Alcohol. Why is that haram, even if it's in heaven? Why can't I have sex outside of marriage? It's an act of love and not violence, so is Islam against love Is it haram to masturbate? What about without porn? Why can't Muslim women marry...

*SORRY ABOUT THE SOUND QUALITY, WILL BE FIXED SOON IA* The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Holly Mara, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss why Holly decided to go into the film and arts industry. Especially since she is a minority in being a white American Hijabi Muslim woman. Holly speaks on the false narrative and fake bad reputation Islam has, even though when she discovered Islam it was nothing l...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Board Member Raheela Ahmed discuss Raheela's childhood and what led her to where she is today as a Muslim woman in America. They discuss the difficulties her immigrant father went through and the obstacles she had to face to become the first hijabi elected official in Maryland. They discuss how they personally deal with "Islamophobia" and what it is like be...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Professor Sahar Aziz discuss how the American government treated Muslims and reacted to the attack on 9/11. They talk about how the U.S government used 9/11 as an excuse to expand their power and abuse it on Muslims, knowing there would be no repercussions. They talk about how the government was able to do whatever they wanted to Muslims because Muslim Amer...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Saad Abbasi, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss the psychology behind one of the many reasons why Muslim Americans drink alcohol. They discuss Muslim Americans wanting to fit in, Muslim Americans wanting to be cool and Muslim Americans drinking in order to be cool. They discuss how some Muslims smoke weed, party and have sex. And Mahmoud Elansary gives his own per...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and 2 of his highschool/college bestfriends talk about what God and religion has menat to them historically, how they feel about God and religion now. They ponder over the creation of God and who is God, how many Gods and religions are there and how to choose. What logic and knowledge mean to God and how important they are and the analogy of a ballroom as life....

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Amal Kassir, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss Amals personal experience growing as a Muslim, Syrian, white American. Her experience being raised a Muslim in this country, how her mother converted, how she found God(Allah), she felt she had no purpose even after success, she questioned Gods will and existence, her struggle with faith and Islam. The moment she tur...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Dr. Sahar Khamis, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss how the internet has both united and disunited Muslims, the world needs more intellectual maturity, the Muslim middle ground is no where to be found online, silent majority of Muslims need to speak up, moderate Muslims don't feel like getting in online dialogues, Muslims not longer get information from scholars...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary, Ozzi, and Japheth. 3 bestfriends discuss Ozzi's recent conversion to Islam from Catholicism, why he made the change to Islam, what he loves about Islam, his relationship with God, being grateful to God, God speaking to us, peoples egos stopping them from the truth, Muslims would not be Muslims if they werent born into it. Mahmoud doubts he'd find Islam on his...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Muhammed Ali, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss how Islam will answer the ethical questions of the future, involving things happening now like sex robots, robots who claim to be Muslim, Robots that gain sentience, what is sentience? Dubai releasing an artificial fatua service, what sentience would do to the God argument. What knowledge is and what wisdom is. What...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary talks about Ramadan and the mentality Mahmoud enters Ramadan with, he talks about Eid, he talks about Kyrie becoming Muslim. He talks about Stephen Jackson becoming Muslim, and Muslim celebrities, and what Islam means to Mahmoud personally and his mentality on God and religion.   #ramadan #kyrie #muslim #Islam  #stephenjackson #God #Allah #kyrieirving

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Joshua Salaam, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss the relationship between immigrant Muslims and African American Muslims in the United States. They discuss how racism is a global phenomenon, Adam being a black man, Satan being the originator of racism, how Prophet Muhammed PBUH dealt with racial issues, if there is a way to integrate now, the trauma behind having...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and his boys Qadir and Max, discuss whether God really exists, how you can find God through science, philosophy and other disciplines. Their views on religion and Christianity, their personal experience with religion and God. What it takes to make it in heaven, whether you have to be a Muslim or not. The origin of purgatory and the Catholic Pope. The crusades a...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Bayadir, 2 Muslim Americans discuss speak on her experience as a black Muslim in America, racism and Islamophobia, how one should treat those who hate them and their faith and race. Whether a person should be kind or agressive in the face of hatred. Bayadirs experience being a minority and the Islamophobic scenarios shes been in. Bayadir opens up about her...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary, Qadir and Karim, 3 Muslim Americans, discuss the understanding in America that you're either religious or believe in Science, how the Quran mentions the Big Bang, how God in the Quran commands you to question, how the universe is expanding, how the solar system and gravity work. The squad talks on multiple scientific miracles in the Quran. And their own person...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Jennah Khafeed, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss dealing with who they are as American Muslims and their Identity crisis. They slightly discuss the N-word and black relations in America. They dig deep into Jennahs own personal journey and they speak about Halima Aden and her experience in the modeling industry, the struggle of wearing the hijab as Muslim woman i...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Adnan Aziz, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss the enigma of a person William Wesley is and how he made his way to the top in a very unorthodox manner. Being kind and helping others, exactly what Islam teaches, allowed William Wesley to be one of the most powerful men in the NBA. Discuss how Salman Khan, also a Muslim American, whom Adnan has met and spoke too, ca...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Ghonva Ghauri, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss physical and mental abuse, the rhetoric of what makes a good Muslim girl, why when Muslims do an evil act, Islam is deemed as evil as well. How common domestic abuse is in Muslim communities and in America. The stigmas behind mental health and being strong. What a Model Minority means and the history behind how ara...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Haris Tarin, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss America pre and post 9/11 and why young Muslims, western Muslims, and Muslim Americans are running away from mosques and islamic institutions. They discuss gender roles in Muslim environments, how women are treated and what the women's section looks like in mosques. And the failure of Muslim institutions to be up to...

The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Soloin, 2 young Muslim Americans, discuss not liking Ramadan and Islam growing up, as well as the difficulty praying 5 times a day. But how the discipline and Islam has helped them tremendously through their lives. They discuss their relationship with their parents and how its influenced their view on Islam and on the world around them.  Discuss the ar...