Zaytuna Ramadan Podcast

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Join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Our Ramadan podcast highlights the applicability of Islam’s vast spiritual tradition and offers reliable companionship in your journey through this blessed month.

  1. 05/05/2021

    The Divine Summons to Taqwa 3: Insights from the Qur’an by Shaykh Faraz Khan

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Today’s episode is by Shaykh Faraz Khan, who teaches credal and natural theology as well as logic and prophetic biography at Zaytuna College. What does it mean to develop taqwa -piety rooted in God-consciousness? Shaykh Faraz Khan explores diseases of the heart, which can prevent us from developing taqwa, and the steps we can take to overcome them.

    12 min

  2. 05/04/2021

    The Divine Summons to Taqwa 2: Insights from the Qur’an by Shaykh Faraz Khan

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Today’s episode is by Shaykh Faraz Khan teaches Credal and Natural theology along with logic and prophetic biography at Zaytuna College Inculcating taqwa - piety rooted in God-consciousness, is a specific aim of devotion during the sacred month of Ramadan, yet many diseases of the heart prevent one from doing so. In this episode, Shaykh Faraz discusses verses from the Qur’an and sayings from the Islamic tradition that highlight barriers to increasing taqwa.

    11 min

  3. 05/03/2021

    The Divine Summons to Taqwa 1: Insights from the Qur’an by Shaykh Faraz Khan

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Today’s episode is by Shaykh Faraz Khan teaches Credal and Natural theology along with logic and prophetic biography at Zaytuna College Learn what obstacles prevent the heart from attaining taqwa, piety rooted in God-consciousness, and how to overcome them in this episode with Shaykh Faraz.

    16 min

  4. 04/30/2021

    Stewardship, A Qur'anic Journey 3: How to Live Like Stewards of Allah by Dawood Yasin

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Today’s episode is by Imam Dawood Yasin who is Director of Student Life & Instructor of Experiential Learning at Zaytuna College. What kinds of virtuous actions can we perform as stewards? In this episode, Imam Dawood discusses how we can be stewards in the Qur’anic sense by emulating models from the past and inculcating their virtues.

    12 min

  5. 04/29/2021

    Stewardship, A Qur'anic Journey 2: "What Do Stewards Do?" by Imam Dawood Yasin

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Today’s episode is by Imam Dawood Yasin who is Director of Student Life & Instructor of Experiential Learning at Zaytuna College. The Qur'an outlines the foundational functions of stewards through the example of past prophets. In this episode, Imam Dawood teaches us about the actions of these stewards in their engagement with the world around them.

    15 min

  6. 04/28/2021

    Stewardship, A Qur'anic Journey 1: "Who Are the Stewards?" by Imam Dawood Yasin

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Today’s episode is by Imam Dawood Yasin who is Director of Student Life & Instructor of Experiential Learning at Zaytuna College. "And mention when your Lord said to the angels, 'Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive steward (khalifa)' " (2:30). Who are these successive stewards and how does God address them? In this episode, Imam Dawood examines the Qur’anic injunction of stewardship and upon whom it falls.

    13 min

  7. 04/27/2021

    Recovery from the Seemingly Irrecoverable by Heba El-Haddad

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition.  The experience of pain and trauma can greatly distort our view of life—but can trials also offer benefit? Research indicates that a lack of adversity can weaken people by making them less resilient. Heba El-Haddad explores the benefits of tribulation in the Islamic tradition and how hardship can connect us to meaning and reinforce our resilience.

    15 min

  8. 04/26/2021

    Feeling Good About Our Virtue by Heba El-Haddad

    Assalamu alaikum. Welcome to the Zaytuna College Ramadan Podcast. During this blessed month, we invite you to join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition.  Steadfastness in the path of virtue is often threatened by our pride in our actions. Heba El-Haddad discusses the importance of restraint in the life of a believer. Hear about practical steps we can take to avoid licentiousness and self-righteousness and remain anchored in an ethic of humility.

    13 min
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Join the faculty, staff, and guests of Zaytuna College as they reflect upon timeless reminders from the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition. Our Ramadan podcast highlights the applicability of Islam’s vast spiritual tradition and offers reliable companionship in your journey through this blessed month.

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