Sep 25

"If You Pay Me A Million A Month, I Won't Stay" | Mawlana Khalil Hendricks | ROOTED Ep. 10

Mawlana Khalil Hendricks left a corporate career in Johannesburg for Syria on the strength of an ayah that would not leave him alone: people who meet the angels having wronged themselves, and whose excuse is that they were made weak in the place where they were. He came back and built, with Mu'allimah Radia Bawa Hendricks, a set of institutions that now runs from a Sunday class for adults who cannot read the Qur'an to a school of 240 students. This sitting is about what it costs to stay, and what isnad means once you stop being the student. 00:00 If you pay me a million a month 00:42 Mawlana Khalil Hendricks 02:43 A world I did not know 06:05 The first trip lands 09:01 One day I will read the Ihya in Arabic 10:03 The verse that haunted him 12:38 Syria before the war 14:47 What was lost, and what it cost 19:19 Coming back, and what had changed 21:20 Some people are so poor, the only thing they have is money 24:07 Marriage, and a new era of study 29:29 Encountering Mawlana Taha Karaan's manhaj 31:42 The scholar is the prisoner of the evidence 33:12 The counsel he kept giving 36:49 The bridging is the difficult part 40:27 Mizan, and the Qur'an without a filter 46:45 Itikaf, and the third space 52:23 InLight, and asking what they needed 1:01:56 GoodTree began at home 1:09:47 An environment steeped in kufr 1:13:46 Like an ice block in the sun 1:16:59 Sitting inside the transmission 1:18:07 Isnad is the grounding of who you are 1:21:10 Money, assets, and standing on your own 1:24:09 Let us turn every house of Allah into a school 1:25:05 AI, universities, and the value of school 1:30:11 Isnad is also what you build 1:32:55 Recognition is from Allah HIS WORK Mizan Institute https://mizan.co.za GoodTree Quranic School https://goodtree.co.za Zahraa Institute https://zahraa.co.za InLight Foundation https://inlight.org.za ROOTED Every episode https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf_aPJtuAk9c Website https://isnadacademy.com Join our school community https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about Support our work https://payf.st/sfr4x Podcast https://redcircle.com/shows/isnad-academy

Sep 21

"We Resisted When It Wasn't Fashionable" | Prof. Farid Esack on the Struggle Years (Part 2)

"We resisted at a time when it was not fashionable." Everybody claims the struggle afterwards; very few were in it. In the second sitting of this series, Shaykh Irshaad Sedick takes up the story where Part 1 left off: Farid Esack comes home from eight years in the madrasas of Karachi to a country about to catch fire. He joins the Muslim Judicial Council and drafts its constitution. He helps found the Call of Islam. He throws in his lot with the UDF — and answers the scholars of the time who said Muslims have no business in politics, and the movement men who said an alliance with non-Muslims dilutes the din. At the centre of the episode is a story he tells here in full for the first time: the Salt River janaza of Ebrahim Carelse, a bystander shot by police in 1985. Ten thousand people marched under State of Emergency regulations, a crowd turned on a policeman, and a young mawlana threw himself over the man's body — and then had to decide whether to get up. Then 1994, the Commission for Gender Equality, and in 2018 the Order of Luthuli — and what a boy from Bontheuwel says to himself when a president hangs a medal around his neck. This episode contains testimony about police violence, torture and mob violence during apartheid. It is told plainly and without graphic detail, but some listeners may find it distressing. Shaykh Irshaad and Professor Esack come from different worlds of learning and do not agree on everything. You do not have to agree with a man on everything to sit with him and honour what he has carried. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:55 Introduction 2:11 Coming home to a country about to catch fire 9:52 Inside the MJC, and drafting its constitution 17:28 Shaykh Nazim, and how we remember people 21:23 Were the ulama divided about politics? 33:34 "Muslims don't get involved in politics" 37:40 Was there a moment you crossed over? 41:30 Why found the Call of Islam 45:42 What did the struggle actually cost? 51:32 The Salt River janaza of Ebrahim Carelse 1:17:23 1994: Commissioner for Gender Equality 1:20:13 The Order of Luthuli, 2018 1:26:15 "I do believe that I am a miracle" 1:31:15 Why he finds it hard to make du'a 1:34:07 Closing, and what comes in Part 3 ABOUT THE GUEST Professor Farid Esack is a South African scholar of Islam, a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, and one of the most widely read Muslim academic voices from this country. He served the Muslim Judicial Council, co-founded the Call of Islam, was Commissioner for Gender Equality in the democratic South Africa, and in 2018 received the Order of Luthuli in Silver. ABOUT THE HOST Shaykh Irshaad Sedick is a Cape Town–based Islamic scholar in the Shafi'i school, a hadith student, and the founder of Isnad Academy. He teaches full-time with SeekersGuidance. Isnad Academy connects the global Muslim community to authenticated Islamic scholarship — live teaching, recorded courses, and conversations like this one. #FaridEsack #IslamInSouthAfrica #IsnadAcademy #CapeTown #Apartheid #CallOfIslam #UDF #MuslimJudicialCouncil

Sep 18

She Qualified in Damascus Through Dua | Shaykhah Ruqayyah Samsodien | Rooted Ep 9

Shaykhah Ruqayyah Samsodien flew to Damascus at eighteen and hung a sign around her neck in the dormitory that read, in bubble letters, "I don't speak English" — so that nobody would speak to her in it, and she would be forced into Arabic. She came home an alimah. In this episode of ROOTED, Shaykh Irshaad Sedick sits with one of the very few fully qualified female scholars in South Africa: a hafizah at thirteen, the only girl in a full-time class at a time when that was not done; a graduate of Abu al-Nur and of al-Fath University in Damascus, where she sat before Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti (Allah have mercy on him) and Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi; a student of Shaykh Abu al-Hasan Muhy al-Din al-Kurdi, from whom she took her ijazah in the Quran directly; and today the director of Baseerah Institute in Cape Town. We trace the whole road: her mother's dua in 1984 for a child who would carry the Quran; the afternoon in 1996 when Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Booley called her parents in; fifteen juz in the first year; Damascus, the dormitory, the matrons, and a wish made as a child at the grave of Abu al-Darda (Allah be pleased with him) that was answered on a cobblestone road; being called in to the Muslim Judicial Council before coming home and told not to try to change Cape Town in one go; and the Mauritanian mahdarah that now sits with her students in Arabic. Her chain, from Al-Tanzil's Database of Sanad Holders, is drawn on screen: from Ibrahim al-Ubaydi down through the Hulwanis and Shaykhah Anisah Mayyas to her. And the line the episode closes on, to every girl who never thought this was open to her: "But now the road is open. We have paved the way. It's now only for you to take it, in sha Allah." ROOTED is Isnad Academy's interview series on how authentic Islamic knowledge is transmitted — teacher to student, in an unbroken chain back to the Prophet ﷺ — and why that matters in an age of unvetted online content. ▶ Join our school community: https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about ▶ Support our work: https://payf.st/sfr4x ▶ Podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/isnad-academy ▶ ROOTED, the full series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf_aPJtuAk9c ▶ Website: https://isnadacademy.com CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open — "I don't speak English" 0:26 Salam, and who she is 3:18 Shaykhah or Muallimah? The title question 5:18 Her mother's dua, 1984 5:54 The afternoon Shaykh Booley called her parents in 8:32 The only girl in a full-time class 12:25 Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf Booley 17:30 Fifteen juz, and the simplicity of that time 21:12 Damascus at eighteen — and the sign around her neck 22:52 Fusha, ammiyyah, and learning to speak 24:32 al-Fath University, and Shaykh al-Buti 31:56 Abu al-Darda and the cobblestone road 34:16 Damascus now, and what the people need 43:16 The dorm, the matrons, the discipline 45:27 "You're the only one who knows who they are" 47:30 Called in to the MJC before coming home 49:20 The ijazah, from Shaykh Muhy al-Din al-Kurdi 50:30 Jamiyyat al-Qurra and Dar al-Naim 51:20 Shaykh al-Mishri and the Mauritanian mahdarah 53:00 Baseerah Institute 56:50 What the women are studying now 59:10 Islamia, the imtihan, and the overseas option 1:02:30 What is being lost 1:07:30 Her ijazat and her shuyukh 1:09:10 The Damascus teachers 1:10:30 Sayyid Ahmad al-Kaf and the Yemeni line 1:11:30 Shaykh Hasan al-Khadim 1:14:26 Taking directly from the scholars 1:16:12 The noor that comes with it 1:20:15 To the girl who never thought she could 1:21:20 Imam Shafi'i: "he narrated to us" 1:22:30 "Now the road is open" Terms explained on screen: hifz, huffaz, juz, ijazah, isnad, sanad, qurra, tajwid, fusha, ammiyyah, nahw, sarf, muallimah, shaykhah, alimah, mahdarah, talaqqi, takhrij, amanah ilmiyyah, and more. Sources shown on screen: Al-Tanzil Institute, Database of Sanad Holders: Cape Town (10th print, 2021), p.62 and p.216; Imam Shafi'i's verse as given by Ibn Kathir in al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya. #Rooted #IsnadAcademy #Isnad #CapeTown #Damascus #Ulama #FemaleScholars #IslamicScholarship #Hifz #Ijazah #BaseerahInstitute #Syria #Mauritania

Sep 11

One of the Shortest Chains to Sahih al-Bukhari in the World | Mawlana Ashraf Lamara | Rooted Ep. 8

Mawlana Ashraf Lamara holds one of the shortest chains of transmission to Sahih al-Bukhari in the world — four links to Shah Waliullah al-Dihlawi — and until last year almost nobody outside a handful of scholars knew it. In this episode of Rooted, Shaykh Irshaad Sedick sits with one of Cape Town's senior ulama: a founding teacher of Qaasimul Uloom, who has taught there since its first day in 1998; former imam of Lost City (Tafelsig) and Montrose Park in Mitchells Plain; founder of the Darul Furqan hifz programme; and a student of the legendary Mawlana Qasim Sema of Darul Uloom Newcastle. We trace the whole journey: a Tabligh household in Hanover Park, memorising Qur'an at Mia's Farm at thirteen, Darul Uloom Newcastle in 1987, the teachers who shaped him, the Dawrah year, and how Mawlana Sema's Bukhari teacher at Dabhel — a scholar already in his nineties — handed down a chain that runs through Fadl al-Rahman Ganj Muradabadi, the last living student of Shah Abdul Aziz. Both of Mawlana Sema's sanads appear on screen, read from his own handwriting and from Mawlana Lamara's ijazah. And the reason it matters now, in his words: "Today it's not about what is being said. Today you have to focus on who said it. Seeing is no more believing — and hearing has always been deceiving." Rooted is Isnad Academy's interview series on how authentic Islamic knowledge is transmitted — teacher to student, in an unbroken chain back to the Prophet ﷺ — and why that matters in an age of unvetted online content. ▶ Join our school community: [https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about] Support our work: [https://payf.st/sfr4x] Podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/isnad-academy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf_aPJtuAk9c Key terms explained on screen in this episode: sanad, isnad, samāʿ, ijāzah, ʿuluww al-isnād (the "high" chain), Dawrat al-Hadith, Dars-e-Nizami, takrār and mutālaʿah, and more. Sources shown on screen: Mawlana Qasim Sema's handwritten sanad (Darul Uloom Newcastle); the Qaasimul Uloom ijazah for the narration of Sahih al-Bukhari (2024); Sahih al-Bukhari 71; al-Baqarah 2:132. #Rooted #IsnadAcademy #Isnad #Hadith #SahihBukhari #CapeTown #Ulama #IslamicScholarship #QaasimulUloom #DarulUloomNewcastle 0:00 Seeing is no more believing 0:26 Welcome — one of our senior ulama 1:27 The seed: a Tabligh home in Hanover Park 5:24 Mia's Farm at thirteen 8:03 Arriving at Darul Uloom Newcastle 9:51 A naughty boy, a serious student 13:24 Mawlana Sema and the teachers who shaped him 15:58 The Dawrah year: reading the Six Books 21:11 The shortest sanad to Sahih al-Bukhari 28:00 Passing the sanad on: England, Karabogha, Peshawar 30:53 A year in Jamaat, then home 34:18 Founding Qaasimul Uloom 37:10 What to expect when you walk in 40:29 What is isnad — and why it matters in the age of AI 43:26 Students, phones and lost istiʿdād 46:48 What gives him hope 49:05 Advice to young ulama: find a mentor 51:35 Darul Furqan: sixteen years without a hafiz 55:02 A final word to the Ummah 58:35 Closing du'a

Sep 4

“You Don’t Worship the Teacher” | Mawlana Zakariyah Philander | ROOTED Ep. 7

When I was eleven years old, I walked into an afternoon madrasa in Retreat, and the man at the front of that room was the first qualified Islamic scholar I ever had as a teacher. He is the reason I wanted to become an alim. He is the reason I found Darun Na’im. And when I wanted to leave school in Grade 10 to study full-time, he and my father sat down together and decided I would finish school first. In this episode of ROOTED, I sit across from my own teacher, Mawlana Zakariyah Philander, and ask him for the whole journey. He tells it plainly: walking to the masjid in a kufi as a teenager while his friends went to school, and the neighbours asking what he thought he was doing. Every application to Medina, Makkah and Malaysia coming back closed. Resigning his job, fixing the radiator on his Honda, driving 1,500 kilometres alone to Darul Uloom Newcastle — and being turned away at the door, twice, before they let him in. Six years later, he took his sanad of Bukhari from the same man who turned him away. Then, the part that matters most to this series. What a teacher carries that a page cannot. Why the tradition insists you sit at someone’s feet. What the student who understood none of it still walks away with. And why, in his words, you must never make an idol of the man who taught you. ROOTED is the Isnad Academy series where we sit with the scholars of South Africa and trace how knowledge actually travelled — from a teacher, to a student, to you. — CHAPTERS — 0:00 The athar of the exchange 0:28 Welcome: a link in my own chain 4:03 Retreat: a madrasa before there was a masjid 7:16 His father, and his first teacher 8:15 Was there a moment you decided? 10:38 Walking to the masjid in a kufi 14:25 The gems who told us there was more 17:42 His teachers, one by one 21:47 Medina, Makkah, Malaysia: every door closed 23:03 Leaving the job, driving to Newcastle 24:40 And he dismissed the letter 27:24 Deoband: humility before knowledge 30:04 The dawra, and what it does to a person 32:20 Teachers who disagreed with each other 34:29 How he came to Darun Naim 40:44 You have to be able to teach children 43:34 Darun Naim when it was a novel idea 52:39 Where the contextual reading came from 57:46 Guardrails for a young scholar 1:04:14 What the communities taught him 1:12:59 Two kinds of scholar 1:14:32 Learning from a screen: what is lost 1:18:20 A transference of light 1:24:44 Never make an idol of a teacher 1:30:34 The tradition and the academy 1:38:59 What does a grounded scholar have to fear? 1:44:45 To an eleven-year-old walking in 1:46:31 Consumer, or architect 1:51:04 Where to find him — MAWLANA ZAKARIYAH PHILANDER — Author of The Story of the Qur’an: Recounting the First 13 Years of Revelation. Khatib, Masjid, corner Victoria Road and 7th Avenue, Grassy Park. Equilibrium Elementary — equilibriumelementary.com — ISNAD ACADEMY — Join our school community: [https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about] Support our work: [https://payf.st/sfr4x] Podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/isnad-academy Hosted by Shaykh Irshaad Sedick. #ROOTED #IsnadAcademy #IslamicScholarship #CapeTown #Isnad

Sep 4

A Child of the Jamaat | Prof. Farid Esack on Being a Muslim in South Africa (Part 1)

Long before he was a professor, before the struggle, before the academy — Farid Esack was a boy in Bontheuwel raised by a single mother, and a child of the Tablighi Jamaat. In this first sitting of a new series from Isnad Academy, Shaykh Irshaad Sedick sits with Professor Farid Esack — his own Master's supervisor — to trace a life: the Group Areas Act and a move from Wynberg, a mother who stood at the window until her last son came home, the Jamaat that saw value in people the world had written off, the years in the madrasa in Karachi, and what a classically trained student carries into the modern academy. This is not a debate. It is a sitting about life and what it means to be a Muslim in South Africa. We speak plainly in this conversation about the tension between the traditional madrasa and the Western academy — including Professor Esack's own striking words about it. Shaykh Irshaad and Professor Esack come from different worlds of learning and do not agree on everything. You do not have to agree with a man on everything to sit with him, to learn from his life, and to honour what he has carried. ⚠️ PART 2 is coming: the return to South Africa, his years in the Muslim Judicial Council, the Call of Islam and the UDF struggle years, and the open letter to the Palestinian people that today stands painted across the separation wall. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 0:29 Introduction 2:13 South African Muslim, or Muslim in South Africa? 7:59 Bontheuwel — and "that must be Upper Bontheuwel" 8:41 Weinberg, the Group Areas Act, and the move to Bontheuwel 13:16 A mother, six boys, and the window 15:48 The debt to women you can never repay 20:03 A child of the Tablighi Jamaat 25:59 "Join the Tabligh, see the Republic" 28:39 The adab of the Jamaat: a grain of rice, and shura 33:18 Returning to the markas where nobody knows him 36:14 How the Jamaat sent him to Pakistan 42:07 Entering the Darul Uloom in Karachi 47:34 The dandruff story, and how we judge people 52:34 What the madrasa years left him 57:02 Knowledge is sacred: paper, marginalia, and awe 1:00:31 "Are you schizophrenic, or a munafiq?" 1:01:30 The academy and the tradition: what each gets wrong 1:07:24 The problem with the maqasid turn 1:08:58 Senior scholars in Istanbul say the same 1:09:31 Closing, and what comes in Part 2 ABOUT THE GUEST Professor Farid Esack is a South African scholar of Islam, a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, and one of the most widely read Muslim academic voices from this country. Formed in the Tablighi Jamaat and trained in the dars-i-nizami in Karachi before completing his doctoral work abroad, he served the Muslim Judicial Council and later held national office in the democratic South Africa. ABOUT THE HOST Shaykh Irshaad Sedick is a Cape Town–based Islamic scholar in the Shafi'i school, a hadith specialist, and the founder of Isnad Academy. He teaches full-time with SeekersGuidance. JOIN OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY → [https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about] SUPPORT OUR WORK → [https://payf.st/sfr4x] Isnad Academy connects the global Muslim community to authenticated Islamic scholarship — live teaching, recorded courses, and conversations like this one. #FaridEsack #IslamInSouthAfrica #IsnadAcademy #CapeTown #TablighiJamaat #IslamicScholarship

Aug 28

He Knew Every Hafiz in Cape Town | Imam Fuad Samaai | Rooted Ep. 6

In the 1960s, thirty-four men in the whole of Cape Town carried the Quran in their hearts, and Imam Fuad Samaai knew every one of them by name. “The chain is made in the maktab, or it is not made at all.” In 1973 he was one of eight students in the first intake of South Africa’s first Darul Uloom, in Newcastle. There, Mawlana Qasim Sema (Allah have mercy on him) gave him the instruction that set the course of his life: the chain of transmission (isnad) begins in the maktab, the children’s Quran school, so give your life to that. Fifty years later, two thousand children and dozens of teachers sit in his care. In this episode of Rooted, Shaykh Irshaad Sedick asks him the question few have asked: Did it work? And does a chain of transmission still mean anything in a world where anyone with a phone can claim to know? What follows is living memory, the huffaz of District Six and the respect they showed one another, Imaam Naeim Moerat (Allah have mercy on him) still teaching children at his bedside at ninety-four, the majlis of Shaykh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda (Allah have mercy on him), and the friendship of Mufti Taha Karaan (Allah have mercy on him), whose students he addresses directly at the close. If this conversation benefits you, share it with someone who needs it. Join our school community: [https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about] Support our work: [https://payf.st/sfr4x] Chapters: 0:00 The Attitude We Teach Our Children 0:38 Thirty-Four Huffaz — Meet Imam Fuad Samaai 2:47 Does the Chain Still Mean Anything? 3:14 Newcastle, and Mawlana Qasim Sema's Instruction 7:24 "Like a Washing Machine" — What a Darul Uloom Is For 11:27 The Huffaz of 1960s Cape Town 14:22 Hifz Then and Now — the Missing Link 21:09 When a Hafiz Walked into a Room 23:58 Imaam Naeim Moerat — Seventy Years of Teaching 31:07 Newcastle 1973 — the Treasure Lesson 35:02 The Mufti's Method — Fatwas and Memory 44:39 Four to Six Hours of Reading, Every Day 45:47 The Barakah of a Physical Kitab 49:56 The Maktab Mission, Fifty Years On 55:49 One Syllabus for Twelve Towns 59:23 Do We Value Islamic Education? 1:02:17 The Finance Trap and the Teacher's Sacrifice 1:11:51 The Names History Must Remember 1:24:45 In the Majlis of the Great Ulama 1:31:03 Mufti Taha Karaan and Advice to His Students 1:41:33 Become a Uniting Force — At Least Teach Rooted is the interview series of Isnad Academy. Its premise is simple: authentic Islamic knowledge is carried by an unbroken chain, from teacher to student, back to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace). #Rooted #IsnadAcademy #CapeTown Learn authentic islam from qualified scholars: https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about Rooted podcast, Isnad Academy, Imam Fuad Samaai, Shaykh Irshaad Sedick, Cape Town huffaz, maktab education, madrasah, Darul Uloom Newcastle, Mawlana Qasim Sema, Mufti Taha Karaan, isnad, hifz, Quran memorisation, Islamic scholarship South Africa, Cape Town ulama

Aug 21

He Left a Maths Career for the Deen | Mawlana Zakariyya Harnekar | ROOTED Ep. 5

He had top marks, a UCT mathematics degree, and lucrative bursary offers on the table — a clear road to actuarial science and comfortable money. He walked away from all of it, into the Darul Uloom of Mufti Taha Karaan (Allah have mercy on him), and says he would make that decision "every single day of my life again." In this episode of ROOTED, Shaykh Irshaad Sedick sits down with his former student, travel companion, and close friend Mawlana Zakariyya Harnekar — graduate of Dar al-Ulum al-Arabiyyah al-Islamiyyah, MJC executive and fatwa department researcher, and teacher at the Qurani Institute and Mizan Institute — for a conversation inside the chain: what it costs to choose ilm over income, who Mufti Taha Karaan was when the cameras were off, and what it takes to carry a teacher's legacy. ROOTED traces the chains that connect our community to the Prophet ﷺ — because knowledge without isnad is information; knowledge through isnad is inheritance. 🎓 JOIN THE ISNAD ACADEMY COMMUNITY (FREE): [https://www.skool.com/isnad-academy-7659/about] Membership is free and includes our free Umrah course. You will also be able to purchase the Blissful Bonds premarital course. 🤲 Support this work: [https://payf.st/sfr4x] Subscribe, and share this episode with one person who needs it. Make dua for us. Institutions mentioned: Darun Naim - darun-naim.co.za Mizan Institute — mizan.co.za Kurani Institute — kurani.org.za Dar al-Ulum al-Arabiyyah al-Islamiyyah (DUAI) — duai.org.za SeekersGuidance — seekersguidance.org 00:00 "I would make that decision every single day" 00:15 Welcome to ROOTED: a conversation inside the chain 03:09 The road not taken: a maths degree or the deen 08:34 What the Darun Na'im years do to a person 10:49 His mother's advice: university first 14:34 His father's advice: shoulder the responsibility 16:40 Choosing maths & stats — and the MSA years 18:20 Arriving in Strand: meeting Mufti Taha Karaan 21:51 The Pelican Park walk: "You only start learning when you start teaching" 24:59 "I don't feel like I gave up anything" 28:27 Join the Isnad Academy community 28:58 Does the maths ever leave you? Logic and usul al-fiqh 32:20 What really happens inside an Islamic seminary 35:22 Mufti Taha Karaan: the man behind the mind 44:50 The Goudini dictation story 49:32 Weeping over the names of Badr 51:32 Carrying the legacy after his passing 58:30 Teaching Qur'an to dentists and grandmothers 59:51 Inside the MJC 01:05:05 Women, youth, and identity 01:07:08 His primary concerns for the Ummah 01:12:12 Advice to a matric student: deen or degree? 01:14:25 Where to start studying in Cape Town 01:17:39 Closing duas

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"We Resisted When It Wasn't Fashionable" | Prof. Farid Esack on the Struggle Years (Part 2)

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"If You Pay Me A Million A Month, I Won't Stay" | Mawlana Khalil Hendricks | ROOTED Ep. 10

"We Resisted When It Wasn't Fashionable" | Prof. Farid Esack on the Struggle Years (Part 2)

She Qualified in Damascus Through Dua | Shaykhah Ruqayyah Samsodien | Rooted Ep 9

One of the Shortest Chains to Sahih al-Bukhari in the World | Mawlana Ashraf Lamara | Rooted Ep. 8

“You Don’t Worship the Teacher” | Mawlana Zakariyah Philander | ROOTED Ep. 7

A Child of the Jamaat | Prof. Farid Esack on Being a Muslim in South Africa (Part 1)

He Knew Every Hafiz in Cape Town | Imam Fuad Samaai | Rooted Ep. 6

He Left a Maths Career for the Deen | Mawlana Zakariyya Harnekar | ROOTED Ep. 5

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