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Free Islamic courses as an audiobook podcast: the Qur’an and its tafsir, the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), his Companions, faith, fiqh, marriage and more. Each episode is one full lesson from Islam Academy, where every course is free to read, listen to and track at islam.academy.

  1. Episode 1

    How the Qur'an Was Revealed and Compiled | Foundations of Islam, Part 1

    Why the Qurʾān is a recital before it is a book, and why that matters for a people who had no book at all. The cave on the mountain of light and the first word, iqraʾ; the themes of the Meccan years; memorisation as the primary means of preservation; and the collection under Abū Bakr and the standardisation under ʿUthmān. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-1-how-the-quran-was-revealed-and-compiled/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:17 In the Name of Allah2:59 A People With No Book5:36 A Boy Born in Mecca7:15 The Cave on the Mountain of Light10:41 Read in the Name of Your Lord12:12 Khadījah and Waraqah14:35 The First to Believe15:37 He Makes Us Look Stupid17:08 Thrownness19:49 The First Thirteen Years21:39 If God Is Unknowable, How Is God Known?23:24 The World That Comes After25:26 Surrendering the Desire for Linearity27:42 The Last Moment29:26 A People Who Memorised31:35 The One Who Preserves It33:21 The Flight to Medina36:14 The Battle of Yamāmah and the First Collection37:56 Two Witnesses for Every Piece39:42 The Standardisation Under ʿUthmān41:54 Protected by Recitation, Not by the Page44:05 What Exists Today45:47 The Plural of the One Who Exalts Himself47:33 The Leaves That Went Missing48:14 Whether the Descriptions of Paradise Are Literal49:49 The Deliberate Mistake51:31 How Many Know the Entire Qurʾān53:55 The Seven Variants All courses: islam.academy/courses · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

  2. Episode 2

    The Pillars of Practice, Part 1 | Foundations of Islam, Part 2

    Why a tradition should be allowed to speak for itself before its practitioners are judged, and what the Qurʾān means by Islam: all creation in submission, the religion of Abraham and Isaac, the religion perfected in the Prophet Muhammad, and the surrender that is death. The hadith of Gabriel and the five pillars; the shahādah as witnessing; prayer as burning, connection and submission; and the five daily prayers read from sunset, dawn, and the shadow of a stick at the meridian. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-2-pillars-of-practice-part-1/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:17 Letting the Tradition Speak for Itself3:28 The Debt of Submission5:49 All of Creation Is in Submission8:04 The Religion of Isaac and Abraham12:47 He Gave Up the Ghost15:17 An Unbroken Chain18:52 Tell Me About Islam22:39 What Prayer Means26:28 The Muslim in the Normative Sense29:14 Human Beings Are Asleep33:13 Five Prayers in a Day35:58 The Night and the Dawn38:54 Watching the Gods Play Chess41:31 The Stick and the Shadow43:28 How Your Lord Moves the Shadow46:51 The Seasons of a Life All courses: islam.academy/courses · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

  3. Episode 3

    The Pillars of Practice, Part 2 | Foundations of Islam, Part 3

    The prayer as an act of the body, and the creatures that know their own praise; the ablution, the rights of women in Muslim law, and the cosmology of right and left. Then zakāt as the purification of wealth and the right of the poor, with its eight recipients; the fast of Ramadan and who is excused from it; and the Hajj, where humanity strips itself of every distinction and stands equal before God. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-3-pillars-of-practice-part-2/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:17 Every Creature Knows Its Prayer2:19 The Body in Worship3:49 Measuring the Sun With the Body5:28 Even the Thief Had Honour7:24 Women and the Mosque9:47 What a Woman Is Owed in Muslim Law13:11 Purification With Water and Earth15:17 The Time of Personal Purification17:10 Right and Left19:04 South Over North20:43 Why Am I a Muslim?22:52 What We Know Why and What We Do Not26:25 The Purification of Wealth29:15 Planetary Boat People30:53 Those Closest to You Are Most Worthy33:34 Standing Wealth, Not Income36:33 Grain, Livestock and Meat39:01 Buried Wealth41:42 The Eight Recipients44:41 Taxes and the Laws of the Land46:57 Going Out Against the Ruler48:43 Sugar and Water Cost More Than Oil51:36 The Month of Ramadan53:23 Who Is Excused From Fasting57:30 The Month in Which the Qurʾān Was Sent Down1:01:38 For Whoever Is Able to Make the Journey1:05:46 Stripped of Social Status1:08:46 The Plain of ʿArafāt1:13:24 Shayṭān and the Manipulators1:16:50 Beware of Extremes All courses: islam.academy/courses · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

  4. Episode 4

    The Articles of Faith, Part 1 | Foundations of Islam, Part 4

    The hadith of Jibrīl gives four dimensions within Islam, and īmān is the vertical one: the word itself means to make oneself safe and secure. What lā ilāha illallāh negates before it affirms; the books as reminders and the messengers as wakeful beings; kufr as truth-concealing; mercy and wrath as God's immanence and transcendence; and the three selves, the angels, and qadar as a measuring out. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-4-articles-of-faith-part-1/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:17 Four Dimensions Within Islam3:26 The Vertical Dimension7:03 To Make Oneself Safe and Secure10:21 Each Breath Is an Exposure to Death12:03 There Is No God but God14:58 Negation Precedes Affirmation18:32 What Do You Mean by God?21:25 The Books Are Reminders24:23 Four Books26:44 Truth Concealing29:08 The Light Is Better Over Here31:12 A Forty-Sixth Part of Prophecy33:52 The Messengers Are Wakeful Beings36:07 Transcendence and Immanence39:10 The Womb, Nearness and Distance42:36 Until You Are Like This44:50 The Semantic Field of the Nafs47:18 The Three Selves51:42 The Fire Is Surrounded by Desirable Things55:42 Angels of Pure Light57:59 Prophets and Messengers1:00:18 Qadar, a Measuring Out All courses: islam.academy/courses · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

  5. Episode 5

    The Articles of Faith, Part 2 | Foundations of Islam, Part 5

    Why qadr is the most misunderstood concept in the tradition, and why khayr and sharr are abundance and want before they are good and evil. Then a long digression into the Sharīʿah — the five things it preserves, what a fatwā actually is, lineage, honour and inheritance — and the stages of the afterlife, from the grave to the scales and the bridge. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-5-articles-of-faith-part-2/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:17 What an Intention Is1:02 Abundance and Want3:49 One Person's Evil Is Another Person's Good6:32 A Fatwā Is a Legal Opinion11:07 Four Witnesses12:16 The Five Things the Sharīʿah Preserves14:53 No Adoption, and the Name16:11 The Woman Who Asked to Be Purified18:23 Not Being Alone, and the Preservation of Honour20:55 Inheritance Is Fixed23:58 A Good Action Is a Harmonic Action25:32 The Scorpion and the Frog27:05 Boundaries and the One Who Splits Them28:19 Impulse and Transgression31:30 No One Gets There Without Their Actions32:35 The Day the Debts Fall Due34:40 The Lowest Level36:03 The Need for More Stimulation39:05 The Seven Stages of a Life41:39 What Happens at Death43:59 Returned to the Earth46:43 The Grave and the Questioning47:34 The Two Blowings48:53 When the Excuses Are Lame50:52 The Scales and the Bridge52:51 The Carrot and the Cat55:34 Silence as Contentment56:43 Doing It Over and Over58:30 Who Forgives59:52 Slandering a Prophet1:02:25 Muslims and Islam Are Not the Same Thing All courses: islam.academy/courses · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

  6. Episode 6

    The Concept of Iḥsān | Foundations of Islam, Part 6

    Islam, īmān and iḥsān as three dimensions of one hadith, with time as the fourth. Why the post-colonial Muslim world fixed on the outward dimension alone, from Napoleon in Egypt to the Marxists of the 1970s who became the Islamists of the 1980s. Then iḥsān itself: worship as if one sees God, shame before God rather than before society, the human drive to make beautiful, and the traditional West African text on repentance, guarding the limbs, the diseases of the heart and their fountainhead, and the stations that end in love. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-6-the-concept-of-ihsan/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:17 Four Dimensions in One Hadith3:20 Napoleon Reaches Egypt6:53 The Reformers10:44 The Failure of Political Islam13:34 When Socialism Fails16:06 The Great Danger of Religion Is Religiosity19:46 To Wear Wool21:58 Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures24:05 To Make Beautiful27:11 Allah Loves the Beauty Makers31:11 The Coke Can in the Creek33:05 Repentance36:42 The Heart Is Like a City40:17 You Are What You Eat43:52 Showing Off and Envy47:13 Vanity and the Worship of Youth49:10 Diseases the Heart Does Not Feel50:53 Love of Leadership and Procrastination53:39 Love of This World55:35 A Mentor Who Knows the Path57:55 The Stations of Certainty1:00:35 Freedom From and Freedom To All courses: islam.academy/courses · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

  7. Episode 7

    Signs of the Last Day | Foundations of Islam, Part 7

    Why the Qurʾān uses history without being a history book, and what the hour means against the other Arabic words for time. The prophets as a challenge to the mega machine, the signs already fulfilled and those still intensifying, the meanings of Dajjāl drawn from the classical dictionaries, and the choice to remain people of hope. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-7-signs-of-the-last-day/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:17 The Qurʾān Is Not a History Book2:15 The Hour, and the Words for Time4:16 Shutting Down the Mega Machine6:02 Only Twelve People in China8:03 The First Sign of the End11:14 The Slave Girl Will Give Birth to Her Mistress12:44 Paradise at the Feet of the Mothers14:27 The Rebellion That Was Not There16:16 The Reign of Quantity17:54 Three Kinds of Sign19:02 The Signs That Keep Intensifying20:43 Where the Signs Are Found21:35 The Meaning of Dajjāl22:54 The Imposter Christ26:33 The All-Seeing Eye28:55 The Second Coming30:08 Barefooted Herdsmen Building Towers32:24 Each Generation a Watered-Down Version36:00 Reading the Sun for the Prayer Times37:04 Words With Stereotypes Attached39:26 Opportunity and Crisis41:22 Go Back Where You Came From43:43 Majesty and Beauty All courses: islam.academy/courses · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

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Free Islamic courses as an audiobook podcast: the Qur’an and its tafsir, the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), his Companions, faith, fiqh, marriage and more. Each episode is one full lesson from Islam Academy, where every course is free to read, listen to and track at islam.academy.

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