OnePath Podcast

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The official podcast of OnePath Network. Your go-to stop for all things Islamic. Kamal Saleh as your host, catches up with key Muslim figures to dicuss anything and everything related to Muslims in the modern age such as family, lifestyle, community, politics and practicing Islam as a whole. Join in our discussion with guests from several walks of life in their spiritual journey.

  1. 6d ago

    The Forgotten Story of the Muslims of South Africa | Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan

    Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan is one of South Africa's most prominent Islamic scholars, serving as imam and Director of Dar al-Turāth al-Islāmi (DTI) and co-founder of the Maḥabbah Foundation. A hafidh and Mufti on the Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa, he trained under some of the most respected names in the Islamic tradition, including Habib Umar bin Hafiz and Shaykh Muhammad Taha Karan. His scholarship bridges the deep roots of South African Islam — a community shaped by centuries of history and forged through the trials of apartheid — with the classical learning of Yemen's scholarly tradition. Today he is a leading voice on dawah, Islamic jurisprudence, and preparing the next generation of Muslims to navigate a rapidly changing world. Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan traces Cape Town's Muslim community from its origins with exiled scholars like Shehu Yusuf, who led resistance against the Dutch East India Company before being brought to the Cape in chains, through three centuries of colonial rule and apartheid, to today. He describes how weekly dhikr gatherings functioned as a community-wide parenting system that held families and faith together under persecution, and reflects on the largely untold role Muslims played resisting apartheid alongside Mandela. He shares his own story growing up in South Africa as the son of a well-known rugby player, and how his path led him to Yemen to study under Habib Umar bin Hafiz and Shaykh Muhammad Taha Karan — including what that experience taught him about staying high-spirited through hardship. Returning home, he speaks to the real challenges of applying what he learned abroad in a South African context, what makes a dawah project actually succeed, and the difference between preaching Islam and living it so that character alone becomes the invitation. Support the show

    The Forgotten Story of the Muslims of South Africa | Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan
  2. Apr 29

    The War On Kids in the Modern Muslim Family

    In this reminder, Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy addresses one of the most urgent crises facing Muslim families today: why parenting has become so hard, and what the Prophet's model offers as a way through. Why did raising children feel natural across every civilisation in history, and why does it feel almost impossible now? Sheikh Elshinawy traces the collapse back to the Industrial Revolution, the dismantling of village life, and the rise of peer orientation, showing how forces largely outside the family's control have quietly severed the bond between parents and children. And he explains why no technique, workshop, or parenting book can substitute for what was lost. At the heart of this talk is a prophetic framework built on three pillars: expressed compassion, reasonable expectations, and early empowerment. Drawing on the story of Yusuf, the hadith of Abu Omar and the pet bird, and a striking confrontation between the Prophet and a Bedouin father who had never kissed his ten sons, Sheikh Elshinawy shows that what keeps children oriented to their parents is not discipline, but warmth. Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy graduated in English Literature from Brooklyn College and in Islamic Studies from Mishkah University. He serves as the Religious Director of Jesus Son of Mary Mosque in Pennsylvania, Research Fellow at Yaqeen Institute, and Instructor at Mishkah University. His work spans Islamic theology, contemporary Muslim family life, and applied prophetic ethics. Support the show

    The War On Kids in the Modern Muslim Family

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The official podcast of OnePath Network. Your go-to stop for all things Islamic. Kamal Saleh as your host, catches up with key Muslim figures to dicuss anything and everything related to Muslims in the modern age such as family, lifestyle, community, politics and practicing Islam as a whole. Join in our discussion with guests from several walks of life in their spiritual journey.

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